Source: imagen4 The first weeks with a puppy are rarely as romantic as Instagram suggests. In this world, you will find what you really need: criteria for reputable breeders and the right dog training school for puppies. We take the sensitive socialisation phase seriously without tipping into panic-mongering. If you become suspicious about designer dogs, TikTok puppy sales or dubious online providers, that is good. Here you get the arguments with which you can substantiate your gut feeling, without wagging a finger.
Before Moving In
Choosing a puppy correctly means: not buying the cutest photo. We show you how to recognise reputable sources and which providers you can cross off immediately.
Buying a Dog & Breeders A puppy brings at least a year of everyday chaos, two to three years of intensive training – and potentially 12 to … Buying a Dog & Breeders You are standing in the puppy run and they are all cute. Choosing rationally is still necessary: Buying a Dog & Breeders A puppy turns your home and daily routine upside down. Without preparation, avoidable problems arise: Buying a Dog & Breeders The demand for dogs has been high for years – and with it, the market surrounding breeding, sales and online trade is … Buying a Dog & Breeders In times of social media, puppies are increasingly used as content objects: staged cutely, for clicks and likes.
Buying a Puppy: Recognising Reputable Breeders
Choosing a puppy: breed, character, health
Puppy Preparation: Checklist for Your Home
Pet Market and Responsibility: Puppy Trade, Breeding for Harmful Traits (Qualzucht) & Reputable Providers
Do Not Show Off Puppies – Why Raising Them Is Not Content
The First Weeks
The first nights are tough. You will learn what is normal, what you can do and what you should better leave alone. Plus the sensitive phase between week 3 and 12: What does not happen now, you only make up with effort.
Training & Behaviour The first 12 weeks are neurologically decisive. What your puppy experiences as normal during this time, it will later classify as safe. Buying a Dog & Breeders The first 12 weeks determine whether a dog later reacts fearfully or calmly to environmental stimuli. Training & Behaviour The first weeks with a puppy are not the time for precise obedience commands. Nutrition In the first 12 months of life, a puppy multiplies its birth weight by up to one hundred times. One hundred times. Nutrition Your dog is not the same for its whole life – at least not from a nutritional physiology perspective.
Puppy Socialisation – Sensitive Phase 3–12 Weeks
Puppy Development: Socialisation, First Nights
First Signals for Puppies: Week 8–12 Training
Puppy Feeding: Nutrition in the First 12 Months
Dog food by life stage: puppy, adult, senior
From Puppy to Adolescent Dog
From week 16 onwards, a lot changes. Choosing the right puppy class, consolidating first signals, getting through training frustration: The transition into the adolescent dog phase is its own topic complex and is often underestimated.
Training & Behaviour The first 16 weeks with a puppy lay the emotional foundation for the dog’s entire life. Training & Behaviour A good puppy course provides socialisation, basic training without pressure and genuine advice for you as the owner.
Puppy training: Getting the first weeks right
Puppy course: Choosing the right dog training school
Where to go from here
As soon as your puppy has moved in, the world Settling In becomes important for you. There you will find how to create stability even after the first weeks, whether with a puppy, a rescue dog or a second dog. If you have several dogs in the household or are planning to, the world Multi-Dog Households bundles what actually changes everyday life.
Concrete tools on rundum.dog: The life phase Puppy accompanies the first year step by step. You practise first signals with the exercises, you find the puppy class via the dog training schools near you, and technical terms are clarified in the wiki.