My beloved 13-year-old dog died a few weeks ago. I’m heartbroken. I realized very quickly I needed another dog, so I got a puppy of the same Yorkie breed. He is absolutely precious. But of course, raising a three-month-old puppy takes a lot of energy, made more difficult when you’re already exhausted from grief and the fight for life that preceded it.
I’ve been scouring the internet for blog posts that would offer helpful suggestions—not just for how to raise a puppy, but also how to keep my sanity in the process. I’ve only found one article that’s truly helpful. That makes me think there’s an open opportunity for you to blog about this topic, to reassure and guide pet parents like me.
Here are some of the questions I’d like a blog article to answer:
- How can I keep the puppy contained in a specific location to minimize potty accidents, have access to food, water, toys, and space to play, in a way that I could take a quick nap or get a few things done without constant monitoring?
- If I assemble a gated play area indoors, how do I keep him from thinking it’s also a potty area? I don’t want to use pee pads because he is learning to go outside, not inside.
- Should I leave food out all the time, or limit it to certain times?
- Should I take him outside at the same times every day? Or should I base the schedule on how and what he is doing?
- Should nap time and play time be on a consistent schedule or varied, based on his energy and mine?
- Suggestions for how I can maintain my sanity and self-care while raising a puppy?
- Recommendations for keeping puppy occupied in healthy activities during the day—and when he needs to rest?
- Best ways for me to get some quiet time while keeping him safe and on a good puppy schedule?
- What should play time look like or include, outdoors and indoors?
- What breakthroughs can I look forward to at four months? Five months? Six months? Puppy parents need the encouragement to know easier times are on the horizon and life won’t always feel this way.
- How to weave my working schedule around puppy’s schedule, to ease back into working from home?
- How and when to give puppy more roaming space indoors without having potty training setbacks?
- How to get an evening out with friends without messing up puppy’s daily routine?
- Anything geared toward helping a puppy pet parent keep up with their own self-care, which too easily falls by the wayside when focusing on a puppy’s every need?
Those are just some of the key questions I was hoping to find answered as I searched online. I can’t be the only puppy parent who is asking, which tells me this is a great blog topic for pet care providers. You can create a listicle blog post that provides helpful information along those lines for puppy pet parents.
At the end of your article, you can include a call-to-action, giving a simple explanation of how you can help and how your readers can reach you. Inevitably, they will need professional pet services in some regard, and they will trust you—your blog article will show them you understand their needs.
As I mentioned, I found only one helpful article in my online search. If you’re inspired to write an article for surviving puppyhood, I encourage you to publish it on your pet care services blog. Please send me the link. I’d love to read it.
Janet Eriksson 