The New Puppy Plan — Your First Year, Organised (Printable PDF)

One ordered plan, not 40 tabs.

Bringing a puppy home is the moment a hundred well-meaning websites are open at the same time, none of them agreeing, and the puppy is chewing the corner of the sofa. The New Puppy Plan does one thing: it puts the whole first year in order, and gives you somewhere to write things down.

Twelve months, in dependency order — before-arrival, week 1, weeks 2–4, weeks 5–16, then month by month to a year. Puppy-proofing room by room. A day-one shopping list split from the buy-later list, so you do not spend the whole year on the first afternoon. House-training and crate logs designed around the pattern, not the individual entries. Alone-time practice — the page most owners skip and the one that saves you a year of separation-anxiety misery. Feeding and growth. Vet, vaccination, parasite and grooming records that your vet fills in. Socialisation: 100 things by 100 days across people, sounds, surfaces and situations. The first five cues with a six-week practice tracker. Surviving the 3am nights. And the adolescence chapter — the phase where trained puppies apparently forget everything, the one most owners are not warned about.

This kit organises. It does not diagnose. There are no vaccine schedules, no dosages, no ages for procedures, no breed health claims and no invented prices — those are decisions for your own vet and your own shops, and every relevant page is designed to be filled in from what they tell you.

Guidance, not gospel — this is a practical organisation tool, not legal, tax, medical, or religious authority.

Drafted with AI assistance and then reviewed and curated by a real person who's been through it.

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WHAT'S INSIDE (23 pages, A4 — prints fine on US Letter)

• Cover + how to use this kit

• Master timeline: before-arrival → week 16

• Master timeline: months 4 → 12 (incl. 12-month review)

• Puppy-proofing, room by room

• Questions for the breeder or shelter + choosing a vet

• Day-one shopping list + first-year expense tracker

• House-training log (with the pattern method)

• Crate training + alone-time practice pages

• Feeding, food-change and growth tracker

• Vet, vaccination, parasite and grooming records

• Socialisation — 100 things by 100 days

• The first five cues + practice tracker

• Surviving the 3am nights

• Adolescence, explained (months 6–18)

• Your puppy's story — notes and milestones page

Personal use only. Please don't redistribute or resell.

Questions? Reach us at calmkitco.com.