There's this stuff, or what about this stuff?
What about this stuff or this stuff?
Or what are you going to need for your new puppy? Now,
if you're looking forward to this,
then this video is perfect for you.
We're going to talk about the 10 things you'll need before you bring your puppy
home. So,
Kayl and I have gone shopping today and I brought a camera and a studio light.
I mean, who does that,
but it's to bring you guys along and show you exactly what you're going to need.
I'm Ken Steepe, I'm Kayl McCann, welcome back to McCann Dogs,
bringing a new puppy home can be really overwhelming.
So it's important to have all the right things,
to make sure that that transition of bringing that new puppy into your house is
really smooth.
There's going to be certain items that are going to make life easier.
There's also going to be certain items that are going to be helpful in
entertaining the puppy.
There's going to be certain items that are helpful for tiring the puppy out and
for training.
And we're going to make sure we set you up with all the right stuff to make sure
you are set.
One of the first things we want you to think about is some type of collar for
your puppy. Now we have a couple of recommendations.
And one of the things that we would suggest that you go for is a buckle type of
attachment, rather than a snap.
We have found these to be a little bit safer because they're less likely to
break apart or suddenly become undone.
I would recommend something that you can get that adjusts with your puppy
though, so that as they get bigger,
you can make sure that that collar is fit well.
Just to remind you about the fit, when you do have it around the puppy snack,
you want it snug enough that you can just fit two fingers between their neck and
the collar and because your puppy is going to grow like a weed,
you're going to want to put your hands in that collar and check it every single
day to make sure that it's well fit.
But then it's also comfortable at the same time.
Now at type of collar that we want you to avoid is anything like this that has
any type of chain or you know, choking hazard.
We don't really want to be using these types of things with our baby puppies.
This is also really dangerous.
If your pop used to get this caught on something that would obviously be unsafe.
So it's really important that you have a well fit collar and you stick to
something that's nice and flat around their neck to ensure you have great
control, but you're also keeping your puppy safe. Next,
we're going to talk about leashes.
And this is actually a really important one because there's a couple different
types of leashes that we suggest that you get first things versus what I might
puppy is inside the house.
I'm going to have some type of house line or leash attached to them all of the
time, every moment they're out of their creating,
I'm going to have something attached,
but they need to make sure that I have something that's relatively inexpensive
that you know, can get beat up a little bit.
And I would choose something like this,
just maybe like a long nylon or rope type leash with a well
designed clip at the end, something like this, like the handle.
I would actually cut this right off of my leash,
so that as my dogs pulling it around the house,
it's less likely to get caught on things.
This is gonna allow me to have a lot of brake control and we have lots of videos
that talks specifically about how to use these house lines to ensure that you
have great control. So this is definitely a must.
The other thing that I would suggest you have is something like this.
This is a really long line.
This is something that I would use for outside when I'm having potty breaks or
play time outside. I would never have my puppy completely off leash. Again,
we don't have control yet.
We have to do over all of our training and I want to make sure that my puppies,
so something like this, this is
my meters 30 feet along my, my meter math there. Wasn't so good, 30 feet long.
And I'm, again, I wouldn't bring this insight.
It's probably going to get dirty and gunky outside,
but you can transfer them between your house line and your long line all day
long as you go in and outside.
The last thing that I was thinking about is some type of nice leash for your
training. And then eventually when you're ready and working on some walking.
So we really like leather leashes.
We find it's a lot nicer to hold in our hands, six feet.
It's a good length to go forward.
Because it it's really helpful for a lot of the trainings we do.
But I want to advise you that something I'm like,
this is not something that I would let the dog wear all of the time in the
house.
They could probably lie down into this pretty easily and you don't want to be
buying them over and over again yet.
The thing that we're going to give you a suggestion about is we don't actually
suggest that you do a lot of things walking with your puppy. When they're young,
we really believe that it's important to teach them how to walk,
how to actually do the behavior first, before we expose them to, you know,
people passing by and trucks driving by.
And some of those scarier things that maybe are a little bit overwhelming to a
puppy who has had not a lot of experience or very little training.
So this is something that you're going to use pretty infrequently.
Your dog is quite young. This and this are going to get a whole lot of love.
Now, one of the reasons why Ken and I came in here today is we're actually going
camping this weekend. And we actually like to go paddle boarding with the dog.
So I wanted to get some type of water toy that we could retrieve in the water.
And this one looks pretty good.
I think it's gonna last a long time and they'll be able to see it in the water,
which will be awesome.
But I actually wanted to draw your attention to this particular aisle.
This is a very confusing aisle,
and it's also a very appealing aisle because there are toys everywhere,
but what's really cool about this is that we actually have two different styles
of toys. And this is exactly what we wanted to talk to you about over here.
We have a whole bunch of fun together. Squeaky toys, all kinds of fun things.
This side of the aisle is what we would deem as interactive toys.
So these types of toys are things that we would definitely have for our puppies,
but we wouldn't give our dogs free range to play with them all of the time.
If my dog was to lie down and start chewing on this rope,
they could very easily start to ingest these strings and they could probably
hurt her themselves often when they get toys,
this fuzz lasts about 15 seconds and it would be demolished.
So these are things that I would play with with my puppy. I would play retrieve.
I would play tug. I definitely get something like this.
And I'm going to tell you a little secret.
I will tell you the type of toy I would get.
I would probably get something like this or this it's a little bit softer and
smaller. I like little I like the toy to be really cool,
easy for the puppy to grab onto because it really ignites their play drive.
I actually would never buy something like this for my puppy. It's too hard.
It's not appealing to chew.
I want something that's soft that I can really engage in play.
So something like this would probably be better or even softer than that.
And then over here on this aisle, this is a really important aisle.
And you need to make sure you spend a lot of time here.
These are what we call chew toys.
So these are the types of toys and bones and stuff that I would leave out for my
puppy or having their crate all of the time.
My dogs even into adulthood have access to these types of bones all
the time in their crate. When they're out,
we actually have a basket in our living room that all the bones and those types
of things live.
So the dogs can grab them whenever they want to come a little closer here,
something like this is a really common thing that people will get.
It's got a couple different types of bones. This is okay if you have a really,
really baby puppy, but as your dog starts to get older,
there's a couple of things wrong with this. Number one, they're very,
very small in size, which means they could probably ingest them really easily.
This one, and this one are this one's edible.
So it will be gone in about five minutes.
And this one is gummy and big chunks can come off that one.
So this is actually not something that Ken and I would really advise.
I would toss these two and I would give my puppy this one only,
this is a crowd favorite of our dogs.
I usually get bigger sizes than what we need,
so the puppies can hold on to them. And am I correct to them without any issue?
This one's flavored, which is actually great.
And we really liked this product Nylabone because it lasts a really long time.
But there's lots of great options out here.
What's really important is that when you allow your dogs to chew on bones,
initially you need to,
to watch your puppy really closely to ensure that they're not taking big chunks
off and it's not going to be dangerous to them.
We choose these styles of bones because as they chew only tiny little pieces,
come off,
that if the dogs ingest it to complete non-issue I will be honest though,
that many faculties,
if you just take this out of the package and pass it to your puppy,
they're like, Oh, that's kind of boring.
So you can make these more appealing by the flavored ones.
You can put holes in it and add peanut butter.
Our favorite thing to do is to give it to an older dog and let them chew it for
a few weeks and then give it to the puppy.
That's always more fun when an adult dogs had at first,
but something like this is much safer to have for your puppy.
The other item we really like is a Kong,
which I will show you it's in a different aisle, but again, these are two toys.
They can have access to these types of things provided that they're the right
selection for your puppy. Over here are more interactive toys. Get them,
play with them, but then put them away.
So your puppy can't have access to them unless you supervising, Hey,
let's talk Kong's. These are really important things to have for puppies.
It is one of the best pacifiers that you can get for puppy to keep yourself a
little sane. This was a greatly great item to use.
When you're introducing your crate to your puppy,
you can put all kinds of delicious things in here. Peanut butter, you name it.
It's really, really good. I want to teach you a little bit about it though.
The cons that are like the baby blue and the pink collar,
these are designed for puppies, but smaller puppies that aren't really heavy to.
Whereas these are a much lighter type of rubber.
And if you give this to an adult dog or a powerful chewer, they will wreck it.
So be careful about the lighter pink and the lighter blue collars you're going
to want to go for red or a black calm. They come in a bunch of different sizes.
Come on. How adorable is that? That is the cutest. Oh my God.
There's an even cuter one.
Get out that is the cutest Kong on the planet. That is adorable.
I've never seen that before. Anyways, red, black red is your average one.
It usually is pretty good. We have red ones that are with our dogs.
We don't have much of a problem. We do have a black lab though,
who is a very powerful tour. So we have a big black Kong for hers. And again,
they have a little hole in them. You can pack them full of all kinds of goodies,
super great way to pacify them in their crate.
Or if you just want them to lay on a dog bed beside you,
we definitely would get one of these before bringing the puppy home.
And it was some, it would be something that we would introduce right away.
Whoa.
Now here's an interesting flavor poutine.
Now this row is pretty appealing to Ken peanut butter crunch, peanut butter,
banana and poutine are like the three favorite things in the entire world.
Not dog cookies, food, human food. That's for sure.
But I want to just draw your attention to it.
A couple of different types of treats out there now. Yeah.
These have really cool flavors for sure.
But these actually aren't really ideal for training.
So we actually have a couple of different types of treats.
We have treats that we would use for like going in their crate at night or
coming in from, you know, going outside to potty.
We would use maybe more crunchier treats like this,
but I wouldn't train my puppy with this. The cookies are too big.
They're too hard to break apart too hard for the dog to chew.
You're going to want to use something as a little easier,
and I'll show you that in a second stuff like this is great just to have a
little containers around the house so that you can randomly reward,
but try not to use things like this for actually teaching your dog brand new
things, tricks and obedience skills. So for training treats,
you're going to want to use something that is really small in size so that you
can cut small in size.
So that they're about the size of a raisin or half a reason.
If you have a really small dog and it needs to be semi moist,
easy for your puppy to chew.
It's also a really good idea to get a bunch of different flavors because you
have to figure out what your puppy loves, what they find high value,
what maybe they're so,
so about so that you can utilize that in your training sessions.
Now I have a couple of favorites that I use.
I really like these types of treats here. They're super, super moist.
They tear into little pieces and I would tear them up before training so that I
was prepared to go. So this is a crowd favorite.
These treats here are my youngest dog. Beelines absolute favorite treats.
And it's nice cause there's not a lot of extra ingredients in it.
So it's fairly healthy. You also could go with the making your own treat option.
We have a really good recipe that we share with our students called tuna treats.
And I don't think I've ever met a dog that does not like it.
So we'll make sure we share that link with you. For sure.
Let's talk about dog beds. Now.
It's definitely something that you're going to want to get for your puppy,
but we're going to give you a couple of tips about bedding that you should get,
and then you shouldn't get at the same time. Now, first things first,
we actually don't put bedding in our puppies crate.
When we first bring them home for a couple of reasons,
we find a lot of the times it can lead to a couple house training issues where
the puppies can go to the washroom on the bedding and then push it off to the
side and they learn to have accidents in their crate.
So we would take the bedding out for that reason.
The second thing you need be careful of is some puppies will actually chew in
ingest their betting. Something like this could be potentially dangerous,
super comfy, super soft, adorable. However,
puppies would have a total heyday ripping this apart. So this is awesome.
You know, Ken and I actually have these exact beds for our dogs,
but they're adults. They're chewing phases over what I would recommend you do.
So is get some type of bed that you can start to do your dog to lie down and
relax on outside of their crate. So as they get older,
you can sort of wean off of the crate in some circumstances and teach your dog
to lay calmly with you and your family watches TV, or, you know,
you're eating dinner.
Something like this would be really good or even this would be even better
because it's a nice, heavy, durable bed. Oh my gosh, it's super heavy actually.
But this would be awesome because you can put it down.
You can train your dog to go on and lie down,
and it's a great way to teach your dog to be calm and you can start this type of
stuff right from the first day that you bring them home,
just using a bit of treats.
Now you're definitely going to want to get a crate for your dog.
And there's a couple of things, again,
that you need to know about crate training. Number one is the size.
You need to make sure that you get a size that's appropriate for your puppy to
be able to stand up, lie down, turn around and lay down with their legs,
stretched out easily and comfortably,
but you actually don't want it much bigger than that because if puppies have a
space that's too big, we do find they're more prone to having accidents.
Think about getting a crate that's well sized.
If you want to end up only buying one by the crate that you're going to need
when your puppy's full grown, and then you can, you know,
buy a partition or get one that has a barricade in it that can grow with your
puppy. As they get bigger.
I personally like to buy a couple of different types of crates and one of my
favorite it's something like this, a little plastic crate.
And this is great because it sort of has a nice den feeling to the puppy.
And it's got a little carrier thing on the top so we can move
it from our bedroom to the downstairs, in and out of the car pretty easily.
And I have enough dog friends that I usually can just,
we just swap crates around,
making sure we always have the proper size for our puppy,
but then you want to work your way up to getting something that's, you know,
properly sized that you can use for a long time.
It really doesn't matter whether you use a plastic crate or a wire crate what's
most important is the size of it. And the quality of it.
You may find that your dog has preference of one over the other candidate.
I find our dogs seem to like the plastic shell crates a little bit more.
I think it's a closed in more den-like feeling, but it's really up to you.
The next thing we're going to talk about is a food and water dish. And this one,
you can definitely be a little bit more creative,
but it will give you a couple of tips that we've learned. And over the years,
in terms of what types of bowls to use that make life a little bit more
convenient.
Definitely at least something like this that has like a nonslip thing on the
bottom is helpful. If you're going to be feeding them, you know,
in the kitchen or something like that. However,
something that we really urge you to do is get used to feeding your puppy,
their meals in their crate. And I would say for the first year of our puppies,
we feed almost all of the meals unless we're hand feeding and training in our
puppies, crate. And what starts to happen is a few weeks of practicing this.
You'll start to put the food in the bowl and the puppies will actually start
racing to their crate without being asked because they have such a positive
association.
So that's where I would suggest that you do the feeding in your crate.
When it comes to water,
you probably should have access to water all of the times to make sure you do
get some type of water bowl that that you can put out for your dog,
that they can have access to all the time.
I am going to show you a really important thing that we always get for puppies
though, that make things really exciting. And it's in a special aisle this way,
you can actually get dishes that all on attached to your puppy's crate door,
that your puppy can't use as a little swimming pool inside their crates.
So my dogs always get these. I like things like this.
It's called the coop-cup and it actually sits on the window or of the door of
your crate. And my puppies have outsmarted me. So I actually will zip tie this.
I sound like a crazy person right now.
I zip tie this to the doors so they can't get it out.
Something like this is really good too,
because you can actually screw it to the door.
And then you can just pull this the bowl in and out.
I'll feed my dog in these as well.
And then I'll put water in there when they're how's training in their crate
training has come along a little bit more.
And that way they do have access to their water all of the time.
And then as they're adults, we always make sure they have access to water,
fresh water all of the time. But we typically use these coop cups.
I also like it too,
because it gives them more area to sleep in the crate as well.
So something like this as a super handy trick,
especially if you have a water loving dog. Now, when you bring your puppy home,
it's likely that your breeder is going to send you with some type of food that
they've been eating up until the point that you bringing him home.
You're going to have to decide whether you want to continue with that brand of
food or whether you want to switch to something else.
But it is important that if you are going to switch that you do it very
gradually and a good tip is to take their old food and take their new food and
mix it one to ones. You have half old food,
half new food and feed them that for about a week or so.
And then start to lower the amount of old food that you give until their bellies
are more comfortable with ever whatever new brand that you're using.
It is a really good idea to do that switch very gradually.
So you don't have puppies that have have upset stomachs,
or maybe are a little bit not interested in the new food that you're going to
try.
And then the last thing that you're going to need for your puppy is some type of
training plan because training can start the moment you bring them home.
Now we have an awesome video, all about a puppy training schedule by age,
and you can see that by clicking this card right here.
Now you want to train with us, check out the link below.
We have a great program called Puppy Essentials,
where you can actually get daily support from the McCann instructors.
We want to wish you the best of luck with your brand new puppy.
And on that note, I'm Kayl, happy training.