What does a Puppy need?
Puppy Check List, items to buy a new puppy.
Before you bring your new puppy home, you should puppy-proof your home. Making your home puppy-proof safe is an essential task to make sure your dog doesn’t get into any danger or injure themselves. Everything is game for a new puppy, put yourself in their paws. What is this item, let's chew it and see what happens? DON’T let this happen.
Below are some ideas of items to buy a new puppy and make your home and garden safe.
It is essential to give your puppy boundaries. They will appreciate this and also keep them safe. A stair/door gate will help keep them safe from entering rooms and or stairs when you are not around. Putting away things you don’t want to be chewed like handbags and shoes is also important for the safety of your puppy and unwanted damage to your items.
Similar to the stairs gate, having a puppy pen is flexible to move around the home and section areas off both in the home and outside. Personally, these have been a great help and we have three in our home.
These cages are very versatile and have 8 sections that can be moved around to the shape of your area both in the home and garden.
Your dog needs to have its own house within your home. This will become their safe area and will retreat here during the day, and sleep there during the night. Train your puppy to love his new home, the rewards will be for both of you and very welcome. Make sure this is big enough to grow into but not too large. They are options to have a divider in to reduce the size and expand during the growth of your puppy.
If your puppy cage is in one room, but your puppy will spend time in another room during the day or evening, you may find a cosy dog bed is just the treat for daytime lounging. We all like something to be cosy in when we are having a snooze.
Your puppy will be attracted to your fire and fireplace. A full guard around the whole fireplace or just a guard in front of the fire is essential to avoid a puppy going for the coals or touching the hot fire.
Don't leave anything on the fire hearth like candles. It is not the puppy's fault he will go and pick them up, you are setting up the puppy to fail and possibly hurt themselves.
If you intend your puppy to spend ANY time in the kitchen or areas where you do not want them to go into your cupboards then think about fitting cupboard locks, especially in the kitchen just like you would with a baby or young child.
Your puppy will be very nosey and want to explore all the areas you go in, especially if one of the cupboards has its treats and food in.
Don't let your puppy be exposed to cables within the home. Again exposed or untidy cables will be a draw for your puppy to go and play with them, this could lead to potentially severe consequences for your puppy.
One idea is to block them off to avoid getting to cables, or even use a cable tray to tidy them up and keep them safe.
Keep an eye on your puppy whilst you are out or even upstairs busy. This versatile standalone CCTV is so easy to set up, plug in the mains and connect to your Wi-Fi and watch on your phone.
Most cameras come with rotational 360 Coverage Viewing, Motion Detection,2-Way Audio, Night Vision and some work with Alexa.
There are many other essentials you should consider, too. If you live in a place where you are going to struggle to toilet train your puppy outside you need to think of puppy pads. Old towels are good to capture the odd accident in the home, but if you live in an apartment and 5 flights of stairs to get outside, you are going to need more than old towels.
There are numerous other items you need to consider, and I have listed them below with links to Amazon if you wanted to look at them in more detail. Rember, the more prepared you are, the easier it will be once you pick up your new bundle of fun. Also, look at our website for more tips and ideas.
Puppy food, take a look at our blog on the best puppy food, here.
Update: 02.08.2023
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