Puppy Parents
A Puppy Home-Study Guide
Sixteen lessons to a calm, confident puppy — written for the fortnight after you bring them home. No class to book, no schedule to rearrange.
For anyone with a new puppy who wants a calm, confident dog, and doesn’t want to rearrange their week around a class.
Every new puppy comes with the same fortnight: chewed skirting boards, a toilet routine you can’t predict yet, and eleven different opinions from eleven different people about how to fix it. Puppy classes help, but they run on someone else’s schedule, in a room full of distractions, for an hour a week. Everything else is on you.
Puppy Parents is what you’d actually want in that gap. Sixteen lessons, in the order that makes sense, written the way a friend who’s already been through it would explain things, not the way a manual would. No padding to make a course look bigger than it is.
What’s inside
- Sixteen core lessons across five stages: Foundations, Everyday Manners, Games & Core Skills, Out and About, and Calm & Independence
- Three bonus “party trick” lessons: spin, paw, and play dead
- A troubleshooting section in every lesson, for when it doesn’t go to plan, because it won’t, and that’s normal
- A clear “you’ll know it’s ready when” checkpoint for each one, so you’re not guessing when to move on
- A graduation checklist and a printable certificate at the end
- Delivered as an instant PDF download. Yours to keep, no login, no subscription
Who it’s for
- First-time puppy owners who want real structure without booking onto a formal class
- Anyone whose week genuinely can’t fit a fixed class time
- People who’d rather read something once and keep it to hand than sit through a video series
Worth knowing
A puppy showing real fear or aggression needs a qualified behaviourist, not a PDF, and the guide says so wherever it’s relevant. This is for everyday training, not a substitute for professional help when something’s genuinely wrong.
Worked through properly, your puppy sits, waits, walks on a loose lead, and comes back when you call them — roughly the same timeframe an in-person course would take, minus the drive there and back.