I started compiling this list for my puppy buyers, but realised that it would probably be of use to other people intending on adding a puppy to their lives soon. I have tried to narrow this list down to the resources that I genuinely think are the best. I understand that many people are strapped for time, so I’ve included, in bold, my favourite of the resources listed. This means that, if you can’t read all of these links, then just accessing the first one would be my recommendation.
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Books
Before You Get Your Puppy (free download!) by Dr Ian Dunbar
After You Get Your Puppy (free download!) by Dr Ian Dunbar
The Perfect Puppy in 7 Days by Dr Sophia Yin
The Perfect Puppy by Gwen Bailey
First Call for Dogs by Dr Alex Hynes
Preparing for a Puppy
The Best Resource: How to Take Care of a Puppy: Bringing a Puppy Home (video)
Puppy’s First Week at Home (8-9 Weeks)
Choosing an Effective and Humane Collar
Toilet Training
The Best Resource: Dog Training: House Training a Puppy
The Best Way to Clean a Dog Pee Stain (this is important, as dogs will return to the smell of their urine to go again!)
Dog Training: House training a puppy or rescue dog
How to Potty Train a Puppy – How to House Train Your Dog (video)
An Introduction to Housetraining a Puppy (video)
House Training a Puppy – Common Mistakes (video)
Housetraining from Dr Ian Dunbar
How to potty train your puppy the clicker way
Long Term Confinement Area for Puppies (video)
Top 20 Reasons Confinement Training with Puppies Works (video)
Crate Training
The Best Resource: How to Crate Train a Puppy – Crate Traning a Puppy
Positive House Training with a Crate (video)
How to train puppies: How to crate train your puppy (video)
Introduce Your Dog to Their Crate (video)
Socialising
The Best Resource: Puppy Socialisation Checklist (from Some Thoughts About Dogs!)
Socializing a Puppy video series with Victoria Stilwell
Part 1: Meeting Other Pups | Part 2: Meeting Adult Dogs | Part 3: Meeting People
A Canine Stress Dictionary (I share this because you need to identify your puppy’s stress while socialising)
Seven Common Stress Signals (as above!)
Dr Sophia Yin’s Puppy Socialization Checklist (PDF file to download)
Familiarizing a puppy to surfaces and heights
Puppy Mouthing
The Best Resource: Puppy Mouthing (video) with Victoria Stillwell
How to Stop Puppy Biting: Training Puppies Not to Bite (video)
How to train your puppy not to bite (video)
Handling Training
The Best Resource: Tucker is trained to have his nails trimmed (video) – Many of the videos below show a similar process for training other day-to-day activities.
Familiarizing Your Puppy to Touch (video) with Victoria Stilwell
Is this puppy naughty? (vide0)
Dog Training: Grooming (video)
Ear Treatment Training for Dogs (video)
Training a Dog to Accept a Kennel Cough Vaccine (video)
How to get your dog used to a harness (video)
Self Control
The Best Resource: Teaching Anti-Counter Surfing (video)
How to stop leash biting (video)
Teaching the ‘Leave It’ Cue (video) with Victoria Stilwell
Impulse Control with Food (video) with Victoria Stilwell
Impulse Control with Toys (video) with Victoria Stilwell
Taking Treats Gently (video) with Victoria Stilwell
Teach Your Dog…
The Best Resource: The Training Levels (it’s very texted based but very worth it!)
Teach Your Dog to Stay at the Door (video) with Victoria Stilwell
Four feet on the floor: Jumping up behaviour in dogs and puppies (video)
Teaching a dog to ‘take it’ and ‘drop it’ (video) with Victoria Stilwell
Loose Leash Walking – How to train your dog not to pull (video)
Come When Called video series from Victoria Stilwell: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Teach Your Puppy to go to Bed on Cue (video) with Victoria Stilwell
Teach a Puppy to Lie Down (video) with Victoria Stilwell
Recall: Calling Your Dog to Come
Learning the Stay Cue (video) with Victoria Stilwell
Teaching your Dog to Stay (video)
Teaching a Puppy to Sit (video) with Victoria Stilwell
How to Train a Puppy to Sit (video)
Aggression Issues
The Best Resource: Prevent Your Dog From Food Guarding (video) with Victoria Stilwell
The Second Best Resource: Getting Rid of the Growl
Counter-Conditioning a Dog to Blowing in Its Face (video) from Dr Sophia Yin
Food Bowl and Hand Feeding Exercises
Dog Aggression Causes and Treatment
Creating a resource guarding issue
Problems
The Best Resource: How to train your dog to be left alone (video)
How puppies become anxious home alone dogs
Going down stairs is scary (video)
Keep a Dog Calm During Thunderstorms (video) with Victoria Stilwell
The Down & Dirty on Humping: Sex, Status and Beyond
Chewing and Destruction
The Best Resource: Errorless Chewtoy-Training
Children and Dogs
The Best Resource: Everything from DogGoneSafe.com
My dog growled at my child – now what?
Are you guilty of PASSIVE supervision?
Dog and baby safety – The dog and baby connection program (podcast)
Setting Dog and Baby Up for Success! (webinar)
Preparing for the Scary Monster
Dog Safety: What to Teach Your Kids (webinar)
Dog Behavior Continuum (diagram)
How to bite proof your puppy (text with complimentary video)
Parents – Get Involved! Educate yourselves and your kids; train your dogs; keep everyone safe (includes webinar links)
Tip of the day: Teach Kids to Be a Tree
How to love your dog – believe it or not!
Good dogs bite, too: Why you need to understand the bite threshold model
Greeting Dogs: Dos and Don’ts (diagram)
Introducing dog to baby… Welcome home webinar (webinar)
Tip of the Day: Learn to tell the tale from the tail
Tip of the day: Get off your bike if dog chases you
Stop puppy from biting (food guarding)
Should you share that cute dog and baby photo?
Teaching toddlers to “respect” the family dog
Mental Enrichment and Games
The Best Resource: Teach Your Dog Proper Tug of War (video) with Victoria Stilwell
Mental Enrichment with Hide and Seek (video) with Victoria Stilwell
Mental Enrichment with Toys and Games (video) with Victoria Stilwell
Philosophical Resources
The Best Resource: Dog Training with Positive Reinforcement (video) from Victoria Stilwell.
Rewarding a dog with food (video) from Victoria Stilwell
What is clicker training? (video)
Discipline for Your Dog (video) from Victoria Stilwell
Clicker Training (video) from Victoria Stilwell
Effective Dog Training (video) from Victoria Stilwell
The Macho Myth (video) from Dr Ian Dunbar
Positive vs. Punitive Dog Training (video) from Victoria Stilwell
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Love your list and know firsthand how much work and research it takes to put together something like this.
Just one thing ….what about understanding body language with that award winning DVD, “Language of Dogs” by that incredibly brilliant trainer in the U.S…what’s her name again? Sarah something I think? (Very big grin)
Ha, thanks Sarah. Yes, your DVD is good too! I learnt so much from it.
Thankyou for linking me to this page via my blog! It was really helpful and I am looking forward to reading them all!
Glad you think it’s useful, Emily! I was a bit worried about spamming, but I put heaps of time into making this resource, so I may as well share it, right?
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This is gold!
I have referred so many people to this list after having learned so much from it myself.
Thank you for putting this together and keeping it up-to-date with all the best resources out there.
Could you add namingdogs.com to your list of resources for a dog names website :)?