Puppy Schedule Template: A Daily Routine (Free, Printable)
Free printable puppy schedule: a full day of potty breaks, meals, naps, play and training, plus a potty log. Built for 8 to 16 week old puppies.
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PUPPY SCHEDULE: [PUPPY NAME] Age: ______ weeks ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DAILY ROUTINE (adjust times to suit) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ _______ Wake up, straight outside for potty _______ Breakfast, then potty _______ Play and short training (5 min) _______ Nap in crate or pen _______ Potty break _______ Lunch, then potty _______ Nap _______ Potty, play, socialisation outing _______ Afternoon meal, then potty _______ Nap _______ Family time, gentle play, handling practice _______ Last potty _______ Bedtime in crate Night: potty break at _______ (if needed) Rule: potty after every nap, meal and play session. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THIS WEEK'S GOALS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Training: ______________________ New people, sounds or places: ______________________ Handling: ______________________ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ POTTY LOG ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Time Pee Poo Accident (where) Who _______ [ ] [ ] ______________ ____ _______ [ ] [ ] ______________ ____ _______ [ ] [ ] ______________ ____ _______ [ ] [ ] ______________ ____ _______ [ ] [ ] ______________ ____ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HEALTH DATES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Next vaccination: ____________ Worming: ____________ Flea treatment: ____________ Vet: ______________________ Phone: ______________________
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Quick Answer
A puppy schedule plans the whole day around potty breaks, three or four small meals, lots of naps, short play and training sessions, with a log of every toilet trip so you can see the pattern and prevent accidents.
What Is a Puppy Schedule?
Young puppies sleep a lot, often 18 hours or more a day, and need the toilet far more often than people expect: after waking, after eating, after play, and every hour or two in between. A written schedule makes house-training faster because everyone in the home takes the puppy out at the same moments.
The routine below suits a puppy of roughly 8 to 16 weeks. A common rule of thumb is that a puppy can hold it for about one hour per month of age, up to around eight hours, but every puppy is different. Shift the times to fit your day, keep training sessions to a few minutes, and speak to your vet about the vaccination schedule before your puppy goes out in public places.
When Do You Need This?
What to Include
1. Routine
- Wake-up and bedtime
- Potty breaks
- Three or four meals
- Naps in a crate or pen
2. Learning
- Short training sessions
- Socialisation goals for the week
- Handling practice (paws, ears, teeth)
3. Tracking
- Potty log with times
- Accidents and where
- Vaccination and worming dates
Frequently Asked Questions
How often does a puppy need to go out?+
Very often at first: as soon as they wake, after eating, after play, and roughly every one to two hours while awake. Many young puppies also need one toilet trip during the night.
How much should a puppy sleep?+
Puppies commonly sleep 18 to 20 hours a day. Planned naps in a crate or pen help prevent overtired, bitey behaviour.
When can my puppy go for walks?+
It depends on your puppy's vaccination schedule and local disease risk. Ask your vet when it's safe to walk in public places. Until then you can carry your puppy out to see the world.
