You need to perform your own due diligence when you find a breeder you are interested in. Like every other industry, there are scammers, liars, and truth-ben...

We cycle the food of our dogs and recommend that most families do the same, providing there’s no veterinary reason not to. Food rotation provides them with v...

Anyone who has spent more than five minutes talking to us knows that we are big proponents of puppy parental responsibility—we all need to take responsibilit...

As your puppy grows, you will need to increase his food. The best way to know when to increase his food is to run your hands down his ribs every day. You wan...

Puppies are often in contact with the ground, have sensitive skin, and don’t have fully developed immune systems. For some, this can be a recipe for a puppy ...

Female puppies can exhibit a clear or creamy vaginal discharge or have sticky or dirty hair around their vulva. You may notice them licking excessively. This...

An umbilical hernia is an opening in the muscle under the skin where the umbilical cord was. We breed no dogs known or suspected to have a genetic predisposi...

Puppies are like kids, they can get several conditions that need attention but aren’t anything to panic over. One of those is UTIs. UTIs are common in puppie...

Clicker training is strongly based in behavioral science and is known as a form of “operant conditioning.” The point of this section isn’t to go into the det...

We had initially titled this post “Unwanted Chewing” but chewing is such a natural activity for a dog we didn’t want the title to color how we talk about chew...

Here is our suggested schedule for minimum training and socialization for your puppy. If you are an overachiever, there’s a whole world of things you can do w...

It’s not unusual for growing puppies to have low-grade (1 or 2 on a scale of 6) murmurs. Most puppy murmurs are innocent and not indicative of disease and si...

We support the recommendation from the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) that “due to the varied incidence and severity of disease processes, th...

A good breeder will start teaching your puppy to have fun and positive interactions with a veterinarian, and also to tolerate restraint. Even if your puppy h...

Bloat is an immediate medical emergency for a dog. A dog with bloat will first show signs after eating or drinking, which will cause their stomach to swell. ...

The inner ears of puppies aren’t fully developed. If your puppy starts to salivate or even vomit in the car, place the crate as low and as much in the center...

You’ll want to learn the signs of stress in your dog so you can support her if she isn’t feeling comfortable. Provide support without coddling her. You want ...

Impulse control is the ability to control thoughts and behaviors in a way that allows good decision making. We expect this of all well-adjusted humans, and w...

The cost of veterinary care is approaching the cost of human health care—it can get expensive. Unless you are prepared to spend several thousand dollars to c...