Chaos to Calmish

Having a new puppy is a fantastic, happy, scary, frustrating, exciting, amusing, annoying time that will change your life upside down. You'll get lots of advice from everyone you meet. All well-meaning and all different. You'll have devoured loads of books about how to raise a puppy. But the often conflicting advice can leave you more confused than ever. We all wrestle with the reality. It's nice to have great information to hand. But it doesn't always help with some of the problems you'll be wrestling with, such as when to move your pup's crate out of the bedroom, or how to clean runny poo off your sheepskin rug, or whether that plant your puppy has just chewed to bits is poisonous or not. This short book is the honest, contemporaneous diary of the first year of my pesky puppy's life. The aim is to show, warts and all, what life with a new puppy is like. At various points I've added notes about the lessons I leaned so you won't make the same mistakes I did. Life with a new puppy is day to day chaos. I hope this book helps you realise that you can eventually achieve calm - or at least calmish.