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The Sixteen Weeks
The complete method

The puppy months,written down.

Sixty-four steps. Night one to the first lead.

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The sixteen weeks, laid out

Find the week you are in.

Nothing here happens on a date. These are the weeks each thing usually lands in, and the module that covers it. Vaccination timing and when he may be on the ground in public are your vet's answers, not ours.

  1. Week 8

    Night one

    He has never slept alone in his life. Where the crate goes on the first night decides the next three weeks.

    The Night And The Floor →

  2. Weeks 8–10

    The floor

    Out every forty minutes, written down. House training is arithmetic, not a lesson he learns.

    The Night And The Floor →

  3. Weeks 8–12

    The window

    The most receptive weeks he will ever have. Distance and food, not contact and crowds.

    The Sixteen Weeks →

  4. From week 9

    Forty seconds

    Alone-time starts while nothing is wrong. Forty seconds a day now is worth months later.

    Alone In The Kitchen →

  5. Weeks 10–16

    The biting

    Needle teeth and marks on your hands. Developmental, not aggression, and it peaks before it ends.

    The Biting Weeks →

  6. Weeks 11–14

    Collar, then lead

    Four new things introduced one at a time, in ninety-second pieces, with the street last.

    The First Lead →

  7. Weeks 13–16

    The first street

    Twenty metres at the quietest hour of the day, and home while he is still relaxed.

    The First Lead →

  8. All sixteen

    The record

    Two minutes an evening. The holes in his socialisation become visible while there is still time to fill them.

    The Puppy Logbook →

What you get out of it

The Sixteen Weeks gives you this.

A room with a door, never confinement. Done wrong it takes months to undo.

Why the advice does not help

You were told to socialise him. Nobody told you what that means.

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How a step is written

One step, one page, and what it looks like when it worked

Night one

It Will Be Loud

  • Crate beside your bed, not in another room
  • Out once in the night for the toilet, no play, no talking
  • The crying is normal and it is not manipulation
  • Three to five nights for most puppies
Time —First week

Week 3 home

Distance, Not Immersion

  • Far enough that he can look and still take food
  • If he will not eat, you are too close — that is the whole gauge
  • Thirty seconds of calm looking beats five minutes of being handled
  • Quality, not a checklist of a hundred strangers
Time 10 minWeeks 3–12

Week 6 home

The Floor, Finally

  • Out on waking, eating, playing, and every forty minutes
  • Same door, same spot, same word, marker the instant he finishes
  • Accidents cleaned with no word and no reaction at all
  • Written on the fridge, never remembered
Time all dayWeeks 1–8

Sixty-one more steps across the first night, the floor, the crate, the biting, the window, handling and the first lead.

The method, in pictures

What it looks like in a kitchen.

The crate, over ten days
The crate, over ten daysA room with a door, never confinement. Done wrong it takes months to undo.
The hand that goes still
The hand that goes stillSnatching it away makes it the best toy in the house.
Distance, not immersion
Distance, not immersionFar enough that he still takes food. That is the whole gauge.
A young puppy lying down, looking at the camera

What you walk away with

Sixteen weeks from now: a puppy who sleeps, goes outside, and has met the world at a distance he could handle.

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The sixteen weeks

What the method covers

Week three home: the socialisation list, and the distance that decides whether it counts as an exposure or an ordeal.
An actual page from the PDF, at full size
  • Night one — why it is loud whatever you do, and the three things that help
  • Week 1 — the toilet schedule that goes on the fridge rather than in your memory
  • Week 2 — the crate built as a room with a door, over ten days
  • Week 3 — socialisation measured in distance, with the gauge on every page
  • Week 6 — the biting weeks, which frighten people and are entirely normal
  • Week 10 — handling paws, ears and mouth, so the vet table is not the first time
  • Week 14 — the first lead, the first street, and what the window leaves behind

What you get

A complete method in PDF, for the months that are happening now

Sixty-four steps across seven chapters — the first night, the floor, the crate, the window, the biting, handling and the first lead.

  • 64 stepsEach on its own page
  • 16 weeksNight one onwards
  • 7 chaptersThe night to the lead
  • Instant accessThe moment you buy
  • A toilet schedule laid out to print and put on the fridge
  • Socialisation measured in distance, with the gauge stated
  • The crate built over ten days as a room, never as confinement
  • An honest page on what the window is and what it is not
Snatching it away makes it the best toy in the house.

Why this one

Written for somebody holding a puppy right now

Not for a trainer, and not for next year.

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The ebook

The Sixteen Weeks

The whole of a puppy's first months home. Sixty-four steps, seven chapters, written for a first-timer.

$17

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Instant digital download. One-time payment of $17, billed securely by Digistore24. Educational material about raising a puppy. This is not veterinary advice. Vaccination timing and health questions are for your vet, and real aggression or intense fear is for a veterinary behaviourist in person.

Questions

My puppy is already fourteen weeks. Is it too late?

No. The window narrows rather than closing on a date, and chapter five says exactly what changes and what to do about it. Anyone telling you it is over is selling fear.

When can he meet other dogs or walk outside?

That is a vaccination question and it belongs with your vet. The method covers what to do with whatever answer they give you, including how to socialise safely before then.

He bites constantly. Is something wrong?

Puppy mouthing is normal and developmental. Chapter six is devoted to it. If an adult dog bites, that is a veterinary behaviourist, not a book.

Is crate training cruel?

The method builds it as a room with a door over ten days, never as confinement, and says plainly when a crate is not the right choice for a particular household.

I have never had a dog before.

That is who this was written for. Nothing assumes previous experience and nothing assumes you own any equipment beyond a lead and a bowl.

What exactly do I receive?

One PDF, 6 × 9 inches, sixty-four steps across seven chapters, sized to read on a phone at three in the morning. Emailed the moment you buy.

What if it is not for me?

Work the first fortnight. If it is not what you expected, write within 60 days and you get your money back in full.

Sixteen weeks, happening now

Cheap to decide this month. Expensive to undo next year.

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This is educational material about raising and training a puppy. It is not veterinary advice, not a behavioural diagnosis, and not a treatment for any condition. Vaccination timing, when it is safe to walk in public, and anything concerning your puppy's body are questions for your vet. Real aggression, intense fear and any sudden change in behaviour belong with a veterinarian or a qualified veterinary behaviourist in person. Puppies are individuals and no method guarantees a result.