The first 30 days with your new dog

One thing a day, none of them big. Print it and tick them off. Back to the kit

Day 1One room to startOne room, their bed, fresh water, and a quiet house. Let your new dog come to you.
Day 2Their nameSay your new dog often and warmly, so it comes to mean good things are about to happen.
Day 3The first-night soundThe calm player, on low, in the room where your new dog sleeps.
Day 4The shape of their dayWrite down when your new dog eats, sleeps, plays and goes out. It is the sheet everyone who helps will need.
Day 5The same routeA short walk the same way each day, so the street becomes theirs.
Day 6Walk and weatherCheck the sky, the heat and the cold before the evening walk.
Day 7The first visitorOne friend, sitting down, calm. Let your new dog do the approaching.
Day 8The tagTheir name and your phone number on the collar, and the collar checked for fit.
Day 9The microchipRegister it in your name, with your phone number and address, and set the yearly reminder.
Day 10Three photos that would find themIn good light, from the side and the front, saved where you can find them fast.
Day 11The emergency cardFill it in with your numbers and theirs; one by the door, one in your wallet.
Day 12The numbers, before you need themYour vet's number and the nearest 24-hour clinic's, saved in your phone and on the card.
Day 13Their papers in one placeThe adoption or breeder papers, the chip number and every visit record, in one folder.
Day 14The licenseCheck whether your city or county needs one, and when it is due.
Day 15The sitter sheetStart it now, while the routine is fresh, for whoever helps next.
Day 16An hour aloneLeave, come back, no fuss on the way out or the way in.
Day 17A few minutes with a brushShort, and over before your new dog minds. The same time each day helps.
Day 18The carA short ride that ends somewhere good, so the back seat is not only for appointments.
Day 19A rainy day gameA game indoors: a towel, a treat under a cup, a hunt around one room.
Day 20The night walkLights on you both, and the same route as the morning.
Day 21Three weeksWrite one line about what has changed since day one. You will want it later.
Day 22Their breedWhat the breed was made for, and what that means at home.
Day 23Fireworks and stormsKnow the dates and the forecast. The calm player has a playlist for noisy nights.
Day 24Their ageWhere your new dog is in life, in human years, by the calculator.
Day 25Your new dog's resumeA page about them for a sitter, a landlord or a daycare.
Day 26The announcementA card with their name and face, for the people who asked.
Day 27A picture on the wallYour new dog's breed in one of our eight designs, with their name under it, made to order.
Day 28Gotcha dayPut the day your new dog came home into the countdown, for next year.
Day 29Where they sleep nowProbably not where you planned. Note it; it is theirs now.
Day 30One monthThe first month in one card, to share with the people who asked.