Here are some helpful ideas on how to prepare your home for your new little arrival.

Taking a puppy away from its mother and litter mates is a fairly stressful period for your new puppy. So we want to make this transition as less stressful as possible for your puppy.

1. A few days before you are due to bring your puppy home from the breeder. Take an old towel, small blanket or jumper to the breeder, and ask if they would mind letting the pups sleep with it for a few days. This will place familiar scent on it, so when you bring your puppy home, his bed will smell familiar for the first couple of days settling in.
2. Purchase a puppy pen or large wire dog crate for your puppy, and set it up where your puppy will be living for the first few weeks.
3. Purchase some good strong play toys. For example treat balls, squeaky toys, and some chews such as rawhide.
4. Make sure you have suitable feeding and drinking bowls
5. A small puppy collar and lead - for lead training in a few weeks
6. Good quality puppy food. I am one that feels we should try to stay away from corn or grain based dog food. Check the list of ingredients on the puppy/dog food package you are considering purchasing. If in the ingredients list, it shows either corn, wheat or grain products listed first, then think about not purchasing that brand. My suggestion is select a brand that shows meat products listed first.
7. A good quality dog bed to place in its pen. Or old blanket/towels to place in its crate. If crate training your puppy, you will find for a little while your puppy will probably urinate during the night, until it can hold on throughout the night. To make it easier for you in this situation, I suggest to use old towels that can be easily washed each morning, and replaced. Your puppy will not like emptying where it sleeps, and thererfor will quickly learn to hold on during the night.

I'll update this page over the next couple of days, as I find the time. Please bare with me.