Puppy Routine

Put your own wake-up time and your puppy's age in, and this builds the day around them — meals, the window after each one, and the overnight stretch a puppy that age can actually hold.

Your dog's own two numbers

Everything above runs on averages. The two figures that actually decide your week are how long your puppy takes after waking and after eating — and those are facts about one dog, not about puppies. If you have watched closely enough to know them, put them in and the whole day above rebuilds around them.

Blank means "not yet", which is the honest answer in week one. Finding these two numbers takes a couple of weeks of watching what actually follows every nap and every meal — and noticing it at 3am, on the fourth night, is exactly when nobody is watching. That watching is the whole job the app does.

Why the day is shaped like this

The gaps come from what just happened, not from the hour on the clock. Waking is the sharpest signal at about ten minutes; a meal runs about twenty-five, a drink about twenty, hard play about fifteen. The familiar "one hour per month of age" rule describes a sleeping puppy in a crate — awake and drinking, plan for roughly 60% of it.

What this cannot do

It cannot tell you your own dog's two numbers. Every figure it starts from is an average across puppies, and an average is a fact about a population — it says nothing about whether yours is quick after a nap or slow after dinner. A printed timetable usually stops working somewhere in week two for exactly this reason: by then the puppy has a rhythm, and it is not the one on the page.

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