Puppy First Weeks

The first weeks of owning a new puppy are very important to how they will react later in life. Puppies need to be shown straight away what's acceptable and what's not.

Puppies will always want to play and you will also want to play with your puppy in return, but make sure you don't let your dog get away with too much just because they're young and cute. If you let your puppy get away with murder, before you know it your harmless puppy will be a vicious unruly dog that's hard to train in no time.

Note that you should only corretct your dog for issues unrelated to toilet training. Many puppies will have troubles with house training to begin because they don't yet have full bowel control so punishing your dog because of this would be a mistake, but keep a close eye on how long it persists and try and get them used to eliminating on a similar surface each time, and correcting them when they don't.