Printable New Puppy Checklist (Free PDF)
What to buy, book and agree on before a puppy comes home, and what the first week actually looks like once it does.
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Six sections and 46 printed items, arranged in the order a new owner meets them. Equipment covers the crate, bedding, collar, harness, long line and bowls. Food and feeding covers keeping the breeder's food for the first week, an airtight bin, training treats and chews. Vet and health covers the first appointment, the vaccination record, worming, microchip registration and insurance. Every section ends with a blank line, because every dog arrives with something the list did not predict.
The last two sections are the ones people forget. Puppy-proofing walks the house: cables, cleaning products, houseplants, a bin with a lid, a stair gate, the garden fence. "The first week, day by day" turns the first seven days into tasks — a quiet house on day one, the crate shown and left open, out to the toilet every hour and after every meal, sleeping within earshot, and writing down meals, toilet trips and sleep so you can see the pattern forming.
Two write-in boxes sit at the foot of the page: one for vet, microchip and insurance details, one for notes. The puppy's name, breed, homecoming day, both boxes, the blank lines and every checkbox are PDF form fields, so you can fill it in on screen and print a copy for the fridge, or print it blank and tick with a pen. One page, US Letter or A4.
