Free Printables for Rescue Dog Adopters

These four page spreads come straight from Welcome Home, Rescue Dog: An Interactive Guide & Keepsake Journal. Use them with your own dog or share them with the adopters, fosters, and clients you work with.

1) HEARTS Can Help You Decide
Weighing a new collar, toy, class or activity? Six questions help you see whether it’s a beneficial choice for your dog, and weigh the pros and cons.

2) Being a Detective
When your dog’s behavior puzzles or frustrates you, these questions help you identify the unmet need that might be driving it and find your next steps.

3) Track Your Dog’s Day
A simple daily log for the basics (meals, water, sleep, and toilet breaks) and the enrichment activities that help your dog stay emotionally balanced and thrive.

4) 5-Minute Lessons
Short, fun practice sessions build skills and teamwork. This chart shows you the basics of reward-based training and gives you space to track and mark a star each time you practice.

Each of these pages is free to print and share if you keep each page whole with the credit line intact and don’t charge for it. Full terms of use are below.

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“Packed with helpful tips for creating a loving human-canine dynamic…” Kirkus Reviews

“These pages will hold your hand through the process, gently easing you into life with your new best friend.” Justine Schuurmans, LFDM, CPDT-KA, founder of The Family Dog, creator of the Dial Method.

“Excels as a ‘baby book’ for new rescues… a source of fond memories for years to come.” James Bojaciuk, IndieReader (IR Approved)

Terms of use

1. The downloadable pages

Selected pages from Welcome Home, Rescue Dog are offered here as free downloads for adopters, shelters, rescues, fosters, and trainers. They are free to download, print, and share. Please:

Keep them whole. No cropping, editing, or added logos, and please leave the credit line at the bottom of each page intact — that line is how the next person finds the book.

Don’t charge for them. They should always be given away free. No selling, no including them in paid packets or products, and no reprinting in books or magazines without checking with me first.

Ask if you’re unsure. Translating a page, adapting one for your organization, printing a large batch for an event — all of these are usually fine, and I’d like to hear about them. Email info [at] primavistapress [dot] com.

2. Everything else

All other content is reserved. This includes the text and illustrations of Welcome Home, Rescue Dog, the cover and interior design, the HEARTS framework, and all material on this website that is not offered as a free download.

Reproduction, adaptation, excerpting, or redistribution of this material requires written permission, with the ordinary exception of brief quotation in a review, article, or classroom discussion with attribution to the book and author.

3. AI and automated systems

No part of Welcome Home, Rescue Dog — text or illustrations, in whole or in part — may be used to train, fine-tune, or otherwise develop any artificial intelligence system, or ingested into any such system, without written permission. This applies equally to the free downloadable pages.

4. Anything not covered here

If a use isn’t addressed on this page, please assume it requires written permission and ask. Requests are welcome and usually answered quickly — write to info [at] primavistapress [dot] com.

I’m particularly glad to hear from shelters, rescues, trainers, veterinary practices, and educators about using this material with the people you serve.

5. Housekeeping

These terms may be updated as needed; please check this page before beginning any project involving this material. The terms in effect when you downloaded a page continue to apply to that copy.

Not enforcing any term on one occasion doesn’t waive the right to enforce it later.