Something new every day for puppies!

Something New Every Day for Puppies-3.pdf

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(Complied by Laura Kathryn, ShilohShepherd.co on 8-22-25)

Always have your puppy under supervision when they are playing with, or chewing on any of these items. If anything gets destroyed or chewed, remove it from your puppy. Puppies don't know what they should not swallow.

• Music Mat

• Sit N Spin

• Baby slide

• Crackle toys

• Squeaky toys

• Plush toys

• Walk on grass

• Walk on tin foil

• Play in kiddie pool

• Bubbles

• Cold toys (Teething)

• Paper towel rolls

• Empty box

• Mirror

• Yoga block

• Walk on gravel

• Introduce bumper bed mat

• Grooming tools in box

• Stand on grooming table and eat treats

• Be brushed with puppy brush

• Show stack and eat baby food / yogurt to hold still

• Walk on carpet

• Walk on tile

• Introduce puppy mush

• Have friends come to visit

• Have trusted adult dog of friends visit

• Meet a cat (if applicable)

• Listen to classical music

• Listen to Puppy sounds CD

• Introduce small tunnel

• Puppy playmat with dangling toys

• Play with a ball that rolls (beach ball or something light)

• Introduce dremel (just hearing seeing, touching toes with dremel off)

• Introduce actually dremeling toenails (8 weeks)

• Clip nails

• Ball pit

• Car rides

• Walk up and down steps

• Loud noise - ie lawn mower

• Moving objects - car, bicycle

• Meet other animals (goats, rats, horses, etc.)

• Watch kids jump on a trampoline

• Play in a dry bathtub

• See or go in a Tent

• Plastic milk bottles

• Large bubble wrap (before they are big enough to eat it)

• Toddler picnic table

• Hanging stuffed animal (that they cannot get stuck on).

• Whistles for noise making (not to play with).

• Change of environment - move to a new pen or visit new areas of the house

• Vacuum cleaner

• Lawn mower

• Broom

• Washing machine

• Various food puzzle toys

• Empty plastic bottles and cans in a ball pit

• Skateboard or toy that moves if they get on it

• Wobble disc

• Sound toys

• Electric toothbrush to simulate being clippered/groomed

• Banging pots/pans

• TV on various channels

• Different kinds of music

• Turning on ceiling fan/window fan

• Plastic bags, like the Walmart kind that blow in the wind 

• Children of all ages.

• A fan on the floor outside of the pen blowing in. Ideally one that turns on and off on it's own so it just starts and stops. 

• Helium balloons attached to toys they can pick up or just a few feet over their heads again with a fan or something to make them move.

• Hair dryer, aluminum cans, umbrella, wearing a ball cap/hat, sunglasses, cane, crutches, walker, foam mats, ex-pens laid out flat…tarp my fences so the wind blows making them flutter and make noise.

• Bamboo chimes hung from top of something with a roof, canning jars lids hung like a necklace, Fisher Price toddler slide or piano keyboard on wheels that plays music, teeter totter,. We also turned a cyclone fencing dog kennel on it's side, door up, to put the cyclone surface for them to walk over. Or use an expen. When upright, hang stuff from it and they can use it like a big tunnel and raceway

• Pups have a blast playing in an empty dog food bag. Start them out by tossing a handful of kibble back in. When the boldest one started making crunching noises from in it, the rest followed quickly.

• Musical instruments!

• Shaking out a plastic trash bag/plastic bag noise.