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Kind Puppy Friend by Renee Patience, a Paws Academy Junior book. Colourful cover with a boy, a girl and Sully the puppy colouring on a rainbow rug.

Kind Puppy Friend

A Paws Academy Junior colouring and activity book for children aged 4 to 10

Children and a new puppy in the same house can be lovely, and it can also go wrong quickly. Puppies nip and jump, children squeal and run, and before long nobody's enjoying it, because the children simply don't know the puppy rules yet and nobody has shown them in a way that sticks.

Kind Puppy Friend teaches them while they colour. Each of the 17 lessons has a short page to read together and a big picture of Sully, the Paws Academy puppy, and every picture shows the right way to do it, so colouring it in helps the rule stick. Then there are 40 puzzle pages for rainy days, car trips and quiet times while the puppy naps.

Teach your children to be a kind puppy friend. Colouring, lessons, games and puzzles that teach children aged 4 to 10 how to be safe and gentle with your puppy.

I've been training dogs for over 30 years, and the families who do best are the ones where the children know a few simple rules from day one, so I made this book to teach those rules in a way children actually enjoy.

Inside the book: 92 pages, 17 lessons, 40 puzzles. Print as many times as you like: a promise page, a 4-week chart, a certificate and a fridge poster of the puppy rules.

What's inside

  • 17 lessons in three parts: meet your puppy, being a kind puppy friend, and helping with training

  • A big colouring page for every lesson, with girls and boys all the way through

  • Reading a puppy's body: happy, worried and needing a break

  • The safety rules: let puppy come to you, hugs are for teddies, four paws on the floor, and leave him in peace when he's sleeping or eating

  • What to do when puppy gets nippy, and the Statue Game for jumping up

  • Jobs children can help with: the calm treasure hunt, tidy-up hero, toilet spotting and puppy's day

  • Four of every puzzle: mazes, word searches, dot-to-dots, spot the difference, count the toys, feelings matches, quizzes, and dream and design pages

  • A short note for grown-ups on every lesson, and all the answers at the back

What's inside Kind Puppy Friend: three real pages from the book.

Pages to print and keep

  • My Kind Puppy Friend promise

  • A 4-week kind friend chart

  • A Kind Puppy Friend certificate

  • A fridge poster of the 8 puppy rules

  • A toilet spotter chart

Why this book is different

  • Every picture shows the safe way to do it, so colouring in teaches the rule too

  • The rules match what I teach families in Puppy Club and in The Modern Guide to Dogs and Babies

  • It's clear all the way through that a grown-up is there whenever children and the puppy are together

  • Sully, the Paws Academy puppy, is on every colouring page

  • You can print it as many times as you like, so brothers, sisters and friends can all have a go

Who it's for

Families with a new puppy and children aged 4 to 10, families getting a puppy soon who want the children ready for day one, and grandparents with a puppy and visiting grandchildren.

About the author: Renee Patience with her boxer Kookie. Qualified behaviourist and founder of Paws Academy Dog Training & Behaviour, Mayo. Over 30 years training dogs, Dog Trainer of the Year 2025 at the National Ireland Pet Awards, competed at Crufts and Olympia.

What you get

A 92-page A4 PDF, emailed to you straight after checkout. Print it at home, in black and white, as many times as you like for the children in your family.

For children aged 7 and up

Sully's Puppy Quest is my online game course for children. They help Sully the puppy through his first year over 8 levels and 24 short games, with a real-life mission to do with your own puppy (and you right beside them) and a certificate with their name on it for every level they finish. See Sully's Puppy Quest.

Kind Puppy Friend

€9.99Price
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