How big will that little thing get?
Weigh your puppy, pick the breed, and watch the whole first year draw itself. Free, instant, built on published veterinary growth charts.
Same chair. It fills up faster than you think. Slide the months and watch your puppy grow into it.
Every stage has a job
Catch each one in its window and it never becomes a problem. The cards below are the whole first year at a glance.
The socialization window
The brain files new things as normal or scary, then mostly closes the file. One new surface, sound and person at a time, every day.
House rules
Housetraining timing, teeth-end-fun, the crate as a calm place, and the first recall deposits.
Teething and the brave-scared weeks
Adult teeth cut through and a sudden spooky phase is normal. Frozen chews, patience, distance, pay the brave steps.
Adolescence
Recall wobbles, hormones rise, growth plates stay open. Long line back on, tiny sessions, no pavement marathons.
The young adult
Impulse control graduates: doors, mats, leave-it, loose leash. Proof everything in three new places.
The right training at the right week, in your inbox
You just saw the year ahead. The Journey walks it with you: when the socialization window is closing, when teething peaks, when the teenage recall wobble hits, the guide for that exact stage lands in your inbox. Timed to your puppy's age, not a course calendar.
- Six stages, from the socialization window to the calm adult dog, each with the week's jobs spelled out.
- Built from AVSAB and AAHA veterinary behavior guidance, sources cited in every issue.
- Cancel in one click. 7-day money-back guarantee: reply to any email and we refund you, no forms.
Month to month, stop whenever the two of you are done.
Less than one drop-in puppy class, for the whole year of them.
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Your puppy's first year
Stage guides land when your dog reaches them. No filler weeks, no course calendar, no logins: it reads like a note from a good trainer who knows exactly how old your dog is.
The Puppy Handbook
You get one first year with them, no do-overs, and it decides the dog beside you for the next decade. The Handbook is how you get it right: every stage, written plainly from AVSAB and AAHA veterinary guidance, with the checklists you will actually open at 7am with a puppy chewing your slipper.
- The calm, friendly dog strangers compliment is built in weeks 8 to 16. The socialization chapter walks you through the one window that never reopens.
- Sleep through the phases that scare new owners: teething, the sudden spooky weeks, the teenage recall wobble, each explained before it happens so it never feels like your fault.
- The red-flags list that tells you when to call the vet instead of the internet at 2am.
- Housetraining, crate, first recall: checklists that turn the science into a Tuesday morning routine.
- No subscription. You buy the book, you own the book.
7-day money-back guarantee: one email and we refund you, no forms.
This week's numbers
Feeding, this week
Rough starting point from body weight and age. Brands differ a lot: the bag's feeding table and your vet outrank this board.
Buy once, buy adult-size
Sized from the full-grown estimate so you only buy the crate once. Links open Amazon; as an Amazon Associate, PuppyGauge earns from qualifying purchases.
How we estimate (the fine print on the chart)
Growth curves per size class are calibrated to published veterinary growth standards: the WALTHAM puppy growth charts (Salt et al., PLOS ONE 2017, evidence-based growth standards for dogs by size) and the AAHA Canine Life Stage Guidelines (2019). Your puppy's projection blends the weigh-in you entered with the typical adult range for the breed. A mixed breed gets a band, not a promise. Estimates get tighter after 16 weeks, and none of this is veterinary advice: your vet outranks this page, every time.
Revision 1.0 · August 2026 · PuppyGauge