puppy

I Bought the Wrong Crate Twice and It Cost Me 150 Dollars. One Divider Panel Fixes It.

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When we brought our first puppy home, the crates were the thing I got confidently, expensively wrong twice. First crate: too small for an adult Lab, useless in five months. Replacement crate with room to grow, no divider: she had a bed, a bathroom, and a chew-toy warehouse in there, and potty training quietly reset … Read more

I Added Up My Puppy’s First Year and It Came to 1,300 Dollars. Here Is the Breakdown.

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When we brought our puppy home in March, I told myself the shelter fee was the big cost and everything after would be pocket change. Then I actually wrote it down. Kibble. A crate. A checkerboard of pee pads that ended up in the trash by the hundreds. An enzymatic cleaner for the weeks when … Read more

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