Puppy: The First 90 Days

What it is

The first 90 days shape how your puppy sees the world. They are also busy, tiring and full of small decisions. This system gives you a week-by-week plan and a place to record what is working. It is not a list of tips: it is a workbook that calculates, with a guide, printables and a worked example.

How it works

Six steps, always in the same order and the same colour across the workbook, the guide and the printables: settle, routine, cues, socialise, health and review.

1. Fill in once the birth date, the arrival date and your vet.
2. The 13-Week Plan marks the current week and shows what to practise and what milestone to aim for.
3. Log each short training session (minutes, tries, successes). The workbook works out the success rate and tells you which cues are reliable.
4. Tick 44 socialisation experiences with your puppy's reaction; the Dashboard flags any scared reactions.
5. The Health Calendar counts due dates from the birth date, so you can record the ones your vet sets.
6. The Daily Log records toilet successes outside and accidents inside, sleep and weight, and the Dashboard shows how they change week by week.

What makes it different

• Twelve basic cues explained step by step, with the status of each (not started, learning, reliable at home, reliable outside).
• Measurable house-training: see accidents fall and successes rise.
• A worked example of five weeks with a fictional puppy.
• Calculations are visible formulas, no macros: they behave the same in Excel, LibreOffice and Google Sheets.
• Protected sheets so formulas cannot be deleted by accident.

What it is not

A diary and a plan. It is not veterinary advice: your vet decides vaccines, treatments and when your puppy can go out. The ages in the health calendar are only an example to adjust to your vet's schedule. For fear, aggression, separation distress or any health worry, ask your vet or a qualified, reward-based trainer. It makes no promise about behaviour.