Puppies - By Category
Puppies For Beginners
A new puppy brings joy, frustration, and lots of questions--find your answers here! These articles help you figure out if you're ready for a puppy, and how to find your perfect match. Topics covered include the pros and cons of boy or girl, purebred or mix, small-to-large, grooming and exercise demands, and cost involved. You'll also learn what kinds of puppies do best if you work long hours or are retired, rent an apartment, own a house or farm, or have existing pets and/or kids.
Finding A Puppy
Puppy sources offer everything from high-cost purebreds to "free" mixed mutts. They come from high-dollar breeders, rescues and shelters, backyard "whoops" litters, pet stores and puppy mills. These articles explain how to tell a good puppy source and the most popular places to look for the type of puppy you want. You'll also find tips and how-to advice about evaluating puppy personality and health status, to ensure your pick of the litter becomes the dog of your dreams.
Bringing Puppy Home
There's lots to consider before bringing your puppy home. These articles explain what pet supplies you'll need: food, bowls, crate, bed, leash and collar, grooming supplies toys and more. Fun articles help you choose the ideal puppy name, including how professional breeders name pups. Find tips how to puppy proof the home and yard to keep the baby safe, how to establish "rules of the house," and ways to address the needs of resident pets.
Puppy Home Care
Learn how to provide the best puppy care with these home care articles. Topics include what and when to feed, exercise recommendations by age and breed, and how to care for puppy coat, ears, eyes, teeth and nails. Special care for orphan pups, puppy fostering advice, first aid information, and "natural" health care is here. Articles also explain how to travel with--or without--your puppy, and cover boarding kennels, pet sitters, doggy daycare, and travel by car and plane.
Health & Vet Care
This section explains how to find a veterinarian, and veterinary health care your puppy needs. Topics include puppy surgery like spay/neuter, cropping and docking, dental care, and microchipping. You'll find answers about normal puppy health, common puppy diseases and conditions with nursing care and first-aid tips, and recommended preventive care like vaccinations, deworming, and parasite treatments to keep your puppy in tip-top health.
Puppy Training
Puppies need proper training to become wonderful companions. These articles explain how to train puppies, what training equipment you need, and where to find dog training classes. Topics include clicker training, crate training, house training, and basic puppy manners including many obedience commands. You'll learn how to introduce your new puppy to resident pets, children and strangers, and puppy socialization articles offer tips that can prevent behavior problems.
Behavior Problems
Common puppy behavior problems--barking, biting, chasing, chewing, digging, wetting--are explained, with how-to solutions. Articles help owners recognize and understand both normal and problem puppy behaviors, and where to find behavior help. Topics also cover how puppies think, and ways they communicate with each other and owners, using body language and vocal signals.
Play, Games & Sports
These articles explain how puppies play, favorite puppy games, and fun puppy activities you can enjoy with your puppy. Topics include canine sports, dog shows, and performance trials like agility, flyball, tracking, herding, doggy dancing and more.
Toys & Supplies
People spend millions of dollars each year on their pets. These reviews and articles will help you make informed choices about puppy products, puppy books, puppy toys, and training tools for your new puppy.
Puppy Pictures
View all these cute, funny, mischievous puppy pictures and share your own puppy pictures in this image gallery about all-things-puppies. You'll find galleries of puppies by breed, playing with other pets, playing with toys, playing with you, and other puppy-licious picture categories.
Puppy Loves & Brags
Nothing beats a puppy for love--and here's where you can tell the world. Share stories about your puppy loves and brags, including benchmark firsts in your puppy's life. Tell why your puppy is TOPS in the love department, how smart s/he is, how you both overcame a health/behavior challenge, and brag on the little one's awards and more. Describe "gotcha day" stories of your puppy's adoption, share foster success stories, and rave about a wonderful veterinarian, shelter, rescue or breeder.