Good Dog is on a mission to educate the public, support dog breeders, and promote canine health so we can give our dogs the world they deserve.
Good Dog is on a mission to educate the public, support dog breeders, and promote canine health so we can give our dogs the world they deserve.
These courses are for educational and informational purposes only and are not a substitute for professional veterinary advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your veterinarian before making decisions about your dog's health, including administering supplements, changing their diet, or implementing training techniques that could affect their wellbeing.
Good Dog is on a mission to educate the public, support dog breeders, and promote canine health so we can give our dogs the world they deserve.
In this module, we will focus on the early stages that puppies go through and what we should do with them when. Understanding these stages is important so we know what to do with our pups when. Doing too little or too much during a stage can have lifelong implications for our puppies, while doing the right things at the right time will set them up for success.
Canine development is broken eight stages, from birth to old age. In this course, We’ll be covering the first three since these are the times that our pups are with us:
In future classes like Savvy Socialization, we combine the Transition and beginning Sensitive period into the Early Sensitive Period.
Get started by downloading and printing the Puppy Rearing Study Guides, Part 1 and Part 2, watch the videos, and take the quiz. Don’t forget to go through the Additional Resources for additional videos and tools you can use with your pups.
First, please take a moment to give us some feedback through the mid-course survey.
This video will introduce you to Transformational Puppy Rearing, our puppy-raising program that takes advantage of key aspects of canine development to make each pup the best it can be — confident, stable, healthy, and happy.
In this next video, we talk about how to apply Transformational Puppy Rearing to three important periods in your puppies’ lives, the Neonatal, Transition, and Sensitive periods.
Consider using Early Scent Introduction (ESI) and Early Neurological Stimulation (ENS), also known as Biosensor, during your pups’ first days to develop their brains and bodies.
During the Transition period, consider introducing an Adventure Box to your litter and, if you have very stable adult dogs, introduction your pups to play through interactions with adult dogs. If you don’t have other dogs, your dam will most likely start playing with her pups in a few weeks so don’t worry.
Between 5 and 8 weeks, one of your goals should be to provide enriching environments for your pups. The videos below show examples of what you might do.
Join for free access to Good Dog Breeding Foundations ($245 value)
8 hand-selected courses to help you get ready to breed:
Using pedigrees to produce better dogs
Evaluating your puppies
Basic dog contracts & more!
Becoming a member of Good Dog was the best thing to happen to our program! Even as experienced breeders, the education, legal resources and litter management system Good Dog provides, give us the support we need for the future.
– Alana & Kelly Curry, Good Breeder, Puppies Unleashed