Supplies To Prepare For Your Klee Kai Dog

It’s important that puppies have a variety of different textured toys to chew on, or they might start chewing on your furniture, clothes, accessible body parts, etc.

We recommend:

• Safety chew Bully Stick Holder 10% Off with Code "KIKA10"
• Outward Hound Fishing Pole ***Our Fav***
• Kong
• Nylabone puppy Chew
• Kong Bear
• Lamb chop plush
• N-Bone Teething Rings
• Himalayan Dog Chews
• Chuckit! Indoor Ball
• Snuggle sheep
• Bully Stick
• Rawhide

Your Klee Kai puppy needs a leash so that you can take them on walks and train them! We recommend a variety of leashes for training in and out of the home. For training puppies outside, a thin martingale-style leash works best. A slip leash is also an option, and a good one if you are getting your pup out quickly for potty training! For walks we use martingale-style or show-style collars with nylon leashes. Your puppy is going to weigh under 5 pounds, typically, so a heavy leash isn’t necessary.

We use:

Martingale Leash

Slip Leash

4-6 Nylon Leash (3/5" thick)

3' Leather Training Leash 

You may want to wait until you get your puppy home to order a name tag so that you can have their microchip information put on the tag along with their name.

We send our puppies with a small blanket that smells like our home and litter-mates for something familiar. You can purchase new puppy blankets or baby blankets when you would like something new.

Klee Kai puppies love to play with their food and water bowls and carry them and their contents all over your home. You can curb this behavior by using bowls that don’t have a lip so they have nothing to grasp. We love these bowls:

Yeti bowls

Additionally, if they gobble their food too quickly, you may want to purchase a slow feeder bowl for them so that they don’t have digestive problems:

Slow Feeder Bowl

Kong Wobbler

Your puppy will at some point, no matter how well you adhere to a potty schedule, have an accident in your house. When they do, it’s important to use an enzymatic cleaner that gets all of the odor out as well as removes the stain. Your Klee Kai dog’s sense of smell is extremely keen, and they will pee in that area again and again if they can smell urine there. Make it easy on yourself by using one of these products:

Natures Miracle

Roxie Stain and Odor Eliminator

We recommend a variety of brushes and have created a YouTube video and a page on grooming them for you! Double-coated dogs should be groomed regularly to maintain a healthy coat. Never use a Furminator style tool on your Klee Kai dog, as it will damage their coat. When they are blowing their coats, which happens twice a year, they will require extra grooming at those times.

These are the brushes we use:

• Basic Two-Sided Pin Brush

• Andis Pet Steel Comb

• Evolution Grooming Undercoat Rake with Rotating Teeth

• Kong Zoom Groom

• Grooming Table

• No Sit Grooming Restraint

• Grooming Glove

• Slicker Brush

We’re big fans of inexpensive bedding for the puppy’s crate. Some, but not all, Klee Kai dogs decide that the crate bedding is a toy to rip and shred apart, so we don’t recommend spending a lot on the crate bedding.

We like this Basic Pet Bedding for the crate 

For a dog bed, we like a Simple Dog Bed.

As you might imagine, puppies have accidents in their bed, so a washable one is important. Just about anything soft and comfortable can be used as a dog bed, too: pillows, towels, blankets, sheets.

Gates are useful to keep your puppy out of some areas of the house. Remember that your Klee Kai dog is intelligent and creative, and will climb over gates that give them the means to. Get a gate that is at least 28” tall with vertical bars so that they cannot climb it. A baby gate is fine; you don’t have to get a dog-specific one, though you certainly may.

Playpens cordon off areas of the house or yard to give your Klee Kai dog room to romp and play. They are wonderful for giving your dog plenty of room without them being in your space all the time. 

We love this particular Exercise Pen & Gate combo. It sticks to the wall, has vertical bars, can be configured into many different shapes, and has a gate with a locking latch. It’s very sturdy and we love it. Additionally, most puppies can not squeeze throughn the bars. All of the ones on Amazon and Petsmart are too big and your puppy will escape!

We also use the baby gate from this same company through Petco. It has close together bars and is extra tall so you can continue to use when your puppy is all grown up Puppy Gate

Want to carry your puppy with you in any easy, compact way? A puppy backpack is the key. Here are a couple of options:

Front facing backpack

Rear backpack