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How to Welcome a New Puppy

By Jo • Jan 4th, 2008 • Category: Ask Jo's Training Tips and Advice

Jo, we’re picking up a puppy this weekend!! :) , and we were looking for a listing of tips and items that we should buy before bringing him home.

Jo:

Congratulations!

Great things to have: a crate and crate pad; a kong and other safe chew toys like nylabones; a good healthy dog food and healthy training treats; a flat buckle collar and regular leash; an enzyme-removing cleaner like Nature’s Miracle or Foster/Smith Stain-away; food and water bowls (stainless steel is easiest to clean and safe — plastic can leach into food/water and cause allergic reactions and ceramic can break).

If this is your first puppy, or even the first puppy you’ve had in a long time, pick up a copy of The Urban Puppy Toolkit — one of the absolute BEST kits for new puppy owners I’ve ever seen! you can get one here, if the pet stores in your area doesn’t carry it:
http://www.petexpertise.com/WiggleBums

Another great book is Dr. Ian Dunbar’s Before You Get Your Puppy, which he has now made available for FREE on his Sirius training website: http://www.siriuspup.com/beforebook.html

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