08/11/2026
💥10 BEST THINGS TO DO WITH A PUPPY💥
Do These And You'll Have A Ronaldo Dog (the one Everyone Wants but doesn’t want to do the work for!)
1 NORMALISATION
Make everything normal! Noise and people and traffic and life! Stop rewarding them for nothin! Stop reassuring them for nothing. Stop thinking they can’t cope or are anxious - it’s you thats anxious!!! You’re teaching them life is scary!!
Teach them everything is normal!
2 CRATE TRAIN PROPERLY
Not as punishment. As a safe den. Crate for restorative sleep, rest, decompress. It stops toilet accidents, stops chewing, stops 3am chaos. It also means your dog is safe when you're out and safe at the vets. A crate-trained dog is a confident dog.
3 TEACH NEUTRALITY WITH EXPOSURE
Don't let everyone touch your puppy…Let your puppy WATCH the world. Sit on a bench outside Tesco. Watch buses, bikes, kids, dogs go past. When they’re with you they need to learn to ignore dogs!
4 - SOCIALISING
Don’t micro manage their socialising with other dogs - go to organised puppy play dates with other pups and let them play and learn through interaction with their own species!! They don’t need an anxious over stimulated human attached to them teaching them to play like a kid!!
5 RECALL GAMEs
Best game in the world. Say their name, when they look YES, reward. Hide in the house, call them with recall command (cone, here etc) party when they find you. Recall in the garden with high value treats. Make coming back to you the BEST thing ever. If you only train one thing, train recall every opportunity
6 HANDLING PRACTICE
Touch ears, paws, mouth, tail every day. Gently. Calmly. Reward for staying still. This is what makes vet visits, grooming, nail clips and emergencies easy. 2 minutes a day now saves you a wrestling match later.
7 TEACH AN OFF SWITCH WITH FOOD or CHEWS
Give them a chew, a stuffed Kong, a snuffle mat in their crate or on their place bed. Teach them to entertain THEMSELVES. A puppy that can chew calmly on its own is not a puppy that's demanding attention from you 24/7. Independence is a gift you’ll want!!
8 PLAY WITH RULES
Tug is brilliant….But tug with rules is better. Tug, sit, wait, leave it, drop sit again. Play teaches impulse control, grip, drive and how to turn off. If your puppy can't stop playing when you ask, you don't have a game, you have a problem.
9 EXPOSE THEM TO NOISES &SURFACES
Hoover,Washing machine, children’s noise on YouTube low volume. Walk on grass, gravel, wet pavement, wooden floors, lino etc New surfaces, new sounds with no reassurance and fuss means a confident adult dog that isn't scared of its own shadow.
10 BE BORING AT HOME
This is the secret no one tells you. Your house should be boring. No constant fussing. No chasing. No winding them up. Calm house for a calm dog. Save the excitement for training and walks. If your puppy is wild indoors, it's because YOU made indoors exciting!!
Do the boring basics brilliantly. Every day. No days off.
