🐾 Start Here
Your launchpad for the Puppy Portal.
This is where you’ll find the big picture of what shapes your puppy’s behaviour, plus simple prevention strategies to help you get ahead of common challenges.
Puppyhood can feel overwhelming, but starting here will give you a clear sense of direction and set you up for success.
🎥 Puppy Timeline: What Shapes Behaviour
A big-picture look at the four main influences on your pup: genetics, early development, environment, and learning. Understanding these factors will help you make sense of why your puppy behaves the way they do.
🧬 Breed Traits & Genetics
Dogs were bred for a reason — and those instincts don’t just disappear in a pet home.
In this video, you’ll learn how breed tendencies influence behaviour, why outlets matter, and what this means for mixed breeds and doodles too.
🤰🏼 Whelping Conditions & Early Environment
The first weeks of life set the stage for how puppies experience the world.
Overcrowding, noise, lack of resources, or overhandling can all leave lasting marks. This video explores why those unseen early experiences matter — and how they shape the dogs we bring home.
🧠 Learning & Associations
Even young puppies are constantly making connections. Every experience — good or bad — shapes how they feel and act in the future.
👪 Parental Temperament & Maternal Stress
A mother dog’s stress and temperament can shape her puppies long before they’re born.
This video explains how early in-utero experiences influence confidence, resilience, and sensitivity later on.
🍼 Early Socialization (8–16 weeks)
This is the critical period when puppies are most open to new experiences.
A lack of safe, positive exposure here can lead to fearfulness later on.
Essential behaviours every dog should learn—because they make everything else easier.
These are your go-to training tools: things like Touch, Check-In, Name Response, Mat Work, and Engagement Games. They’re simple to teach, practical to use, and form the foundation for real-life behaviour change.
📆 Puppy Development Stages: What to Expect as They Grow
Puppies change fast—and each stage brings new opportunities and challenges. This guide helps you understand the critical periods of development so you can support your puppy’s growth, prevent setbacks, and build a confident, well-adjusted dog.
Growing Up Puppy
💤 Sleep & Rest
Puppies need 18–20 hours of sleep a day to grow healthy and happy. In this quick guide, we bust the “keep them busy” myth and explain how short sleep cycles, naps, and natural rhythms keep your puppy’s brain and body in balance.
😨 Fear Guide: Helping Your Puppy Feel Safe
Fear left unchecked can grow into lifelong challenges. This guide shows you how to recognize early signs of fear, respond with confidence, and create positive experiences—preventing fear issues before they take hold.
📅 Everyday Habits: Setting Up for Success
The little things you do every day add up fast. This guide helps you build simple, sustainable routines that support your puppy’s well-being, prevent problem behaviours, and make training easier from the start.
Downloads & Training Tools
✨ Practice Makes Progress: Building Skills Step by Step
Training isn’t about perfection—it’s about steady, consistent practice. This guide shows you how to celebrate small wins, keep sessions manageable, and build your puppy’s skills over time without pressure.
🍖 Canine Nutrition & Behaviour Guide
Good food fuels good behaviour. This guide covers the essentials of feeding your puppy well—from choosing the right food to supporting growth, digestion, and long-term health. Set your puppy up for success with a strong foundation that starts in the bowl.
🧩 Daily Enrichment Checklist: Simple Activities for a Happier Puppy
A tired puppy isn’t always a happy puppy—but a fulfilled one is. This checklist gives you quick, easy ideas to meet your pup’s mental, physical, and emotional needs each day, helping prevent problem behaviours before they start.
Puppy Training Made Simple
Building skills, shaping behaviour, and setting realistic goals. It’s not about —it’s about progress, practice, and most importantly, having fun with your puppy.
📹 Real-Life Example: Building Confidence in New Situations When your puppy encounters something unfamiliar, how you respond can shape how they handle the world for life. In this video you’ll see how patience, observation, and positive reinforcement help a dog work through uncertainty—building resilience, trust, and curiosity for future experiences.
✋ “Touch” Target
This quick, confidence-building game teaches your puppy to touch your hand with their nose — the perfect foundation for recall, leash skills, and engagement on walks. Plus, it helps your pup learn that checking in with you always leads to good things!
⏱ Short Sessions, Big Results
Short sessions mean training your puppy in quick, fun bursts instead of long lessons that can tire them out. When we keep training brief and spread it out through the day, we give their growing brain time to process and store new skills — especially during naps and overnight sleep.
🍼 “The Name Game”
Your puppy’s name should be the best sound they ever hear!
This simple game teaches your pup that their name means something good is coming — attention, treats, or play. It’s the foundation of all communication and makes future training so much easier.
Download The Name Game Guide here
Quick Enrichment Ideas For Your Puppy
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Simple activities that support confidence, problem-solving, and calmer behaviour as your pup explores the world.