Guides
Short, practical answers, grouped by app
Each of our apps comes with guides on the problem it solves, with the sources we used.
Puppy Potty Training Schedule by Age (8 Weeks to 6 Months)
A puppy potty training schedule by age: how often to take your puppy out at 8 weeks, 12 weeks and beyond, a sample day, and the night-time routine.
How Often Do Puppies Pee? A Guide by Age
How often puppies pee at 8 weeks, 10 weeks, 3 months and 4 months, what is normal, and the signs that are worth a call to the vet.
How Long Does It Take to Potty Train a Puppy?
Most puppies are reliably house trained between 4 and 6 months. The timeline by age, what speeds it up, what slows it down, and whether 7 days is realistic.
When Do Puppies Sleep Through the Night?
Most puppies sleep through the night by about 4 months. The timeline, a bedtime routine that gets you there, and what to do when your puppy cries at night.
How to Stop a Puppy Peeing in the House
Seven steps to stop a puppy peeing in the house: supervision, a schedule, rewards, proper cleaning, and when accidents mean something medical.
Crate Training a Puppy: A Step-by-Step Guide
How to crate train a puppy step by step: choosing the right crate, the first introductions, how long a puppy can stay in a crate, and what to do if she pees in it.
Puppy Crying at Night: Why It Happens and How to Settle Her
Why puppies cry at night, how to tell a toilet cry from a lonely one, how long to leave her, and the bedtime routine that makes the crying stop sooner.
Puppy Feeding Schedule by Age: How Often and When
How often to feed a puppy at every age, meal times that fit the potty schedule, when to drop from four meals to three, and how soon after eating she needs out.
Puppy Daily Schedule: A Day That Actually Works
A full day with a puppy, hour by hour: meals, naps, potty breaks, training and crate time, with versions for 8 weeks, 12 weeks and 4 months.
How to Stop a Puppy Biting: What Works and What Backfires
Why puppies bite, the response that teaches bite inhibition, the mistakes that make it worse, teething relief, and what to do when nothing seems to work.
How Do Chess Pieces Move? Every Piece, Explained
What every chess piece does, in order of how often it catches people out: the knight, the pawn and its two odd rules, the bishop, rook, queen and king.
How to Play Chess: the Rules in Plain English
Setting up the board, who moves first, check, checkmate and stalemate, and the three special moves that trip beginners up: castling, en passant and promotion.
Chess Tactics for Beginners: Forks, Pins and Skewers
The three tactics that win most beginner games, what each one looks like on the board, the pieces that are best at them, and how to spot them coming.
Checkmate Patterns Every Beginner Should Know
Back rank, smothered mate, the two rook ladder, Scholar’s mate and the king and queen finish: the shapes that end most games, and how to avoid them.