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🚀 Start with the Free BEST Vet Program
Everything your clinic needs to help puppy clients get off to a great start.
Most veterinarians already understand the importance of Behavior, Education, Socialization & Training (BEST). We've gathered our free continuing education, client handouts, and puppy resources into one program, making it easy to give every new puppy client the right information at the right time.
📄 Give Every Puppy Client This Info
Free Puppy Pamphlets
You don't need to become a dog trainer to make an enormous difference. Give new puppy clients our free Puppy Training & Socialization pamphlet. It covers the essentials and connects them to free books and video instruction from Dr. Ian Dunbar.
🧭 Help Your Clients Find a Puppy Class
A good puppy class is one of the best things you can recommend to new puppy owners.
Puppies need opportunities to socialize and play with other puppies in a safe, supervised environment. Help your clients get started early by referring them to our International Puppy Class Directory, where they can search for puppy classes in their area.
🎓 Practical Behavior Information for Veterinary Practitioners
A 6-hour veterinary behavior seminar by Dr. Ian Dunbar, approved for CE credit by AAVSB RACE.
Learn the practical, time-sensitive behavior information every veterinarian should know—from puppy socialization and bite inhibition to housetraining, home-alone problems, fear and aggression.
Free with enrollment in the BEST Vet Program.
🌎 Explore More Free Puppy Training Resources
📝 Blog
Browse hundreds of free articles on puppy/dog training, behavior, and socialization.
🎙️ iWoofs Podcasts
Listen to Dr. Ian Dunbar discuss puppy training, behavior problems, and other doggy topics with Kelly and Jamie Dunbar.
▶️ YouTube
Watch free training demonstrations, tips, and lectures from Dr. Ian Dunbar and the Dunbar Academy team.
🧰 Free Puppy Training Tools
✋ Teach Your Puppy to Love Being Handled
Help your clients teach their new pups to love being held and handled at home, so they don't mind being restrained and examined when they come into your clinic.
🚨 Predict and Prevent Dog Bites
Help your clients recognize common dog-bite triggers and prevent fear and defensiveness before they escalate.
If your clients introduce their new pups to lots of new and unfamiliar people, the pups will be much more comfortable around you and your staff, and that will continue into adolescence and adulthood.
The right tools make it much easier and more enjoyable for people to train their puppies, assuming they know what to do with them!
🐶 Every Puppy Deserves a Great Start
Veterinarians have a unique opportunity to reach puppy owners at exactly the right time. By encouraging safe early socialization and sharing trustworthy training resources during those first puppy visits, you can help prevent predictable behavior and temperament problems before they begin—and help more puppies grow into friendly, confident, happy dogs.
About Dr. Ian Dunbar
Dr. Ian Dunbar is a veterinarian, animal behaviorist, dog trainer, and pioneer of modern puppy training and socialization. He trained as a veterinarian at the Royal Veterinary College in London, conducted animal behavior research at UC Berkeley, and founded SIRIUS Puppy Training and the Association of Professional Dog Trainers. For more than four decades, his work has emphasized the vital role veterinarians can play in promoting puppies’ behavioral as well as physical health.