Your Complete Puppy Guide

Veterinarian and behaviorist Ian Dunbar explains what to do before bringing a puppy home. It covers choosing the right dog, the developmental deadlines for housetraining, socialization, and bite inhibition, and how to find a good puppy class.

Ian Dunbar

The follow-up to Before You Get Your Puppy, focused on the first months at home. Ian Dunbar gives step-by-step plans for errorless housetraining, chew toy training, home alone training, socialization, and bite inhibition.

Ian Dunbar

A week-by-week puppy class manual built on positive reinforcement. It covers reward markers, targeting, sit, down, and stand, plus chewing, exercise, socialization, and how to prevent aggression.

Norma Jeanne Laurette

A step-by-step guide to raising a well-behaved puppy from day one. It covers potty training, crate training, socializing with new people, places, and dogs, handling, and how to deal with play biting.

Unleashed Unlimited

An animal welfare guide to settling a new dog or puppy into your home. It covers identification, first health checks, diet, toilet training, settling puppies at night, dogs and children, and how to read dog body language.

RSPCA