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Build Your Puppy’s Health From the Beginning

A practical guide to feeding and supporting puppies in alignment with their evolutionary biology — laying strong foundations for long-term health.
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Available as the Puppy Wellness Manual or the complete Puppy Wellness Program (including 1:1 support and bonus resources).

The early months of a puppy’s life shape their metabolic resilience, immune capacity, musculoskeletal development, and long-term health trajectory.

What you feed.
How you support detoxification.
How you reduce inflammatory load.
How you guide growth.

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These are not small decisions. They are foundational ones.

Inside the Puppy Wellness Program

Nutrition & Growth

  • Species-appropriate feeding principles

  • Real food foundations

  • Growth-stage meal planning

  • Meeting AAFCO minimums naturally

  • DIY calcium support

 

Practical Implementation

  • Feeding calculations

  • Transition guidelines

  • Hygiene protocols

  • Batch prep systems

 

Beyond Diet

  • Toxic load reduction

  • Water quality

  • Environmental exposures

  • Stress management

  • Dental foundations

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Built from clinical practice

I’m Ruth Hatten — animal naturopath, pet nutritionist,

and former lawyer with over a decade of experience supporting companion animals.

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In clinical practice, I repeatedly see adult dogs struggling with digestive instability, allergic disease, orthopaedic stress, chronic inflammation, behavioural dysregulation, and immune sensitivity.  Many of these patterns are influenced by early-life nutrition, toxic burden, and growth-stage imbalances.

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The Puppy Wellness Program was created to help guardians establish strong metabolic foundations, appropriate mineral balance, informed decision-making, and long-term physiological resilience.

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This is not trend-based feeding advice. It is structured, evidence-informed guidance grounded in lived clinical experience.

Choose your level of support

The Puppy Wellness Manual

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For guardians who want a structured, evidence-informed guide to raising their puppy with confidence.

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Includes:

✔ Clear feeding principles aligned with evolutionary biology
✔ Growth-stage nutritional calculations
✔ Mineral balance guidance
✔ Practical hygiene and meal preparation frameworks
✔ Strategies for reducing toxic burden from the start

 

This is your comprehensive, self-paced foundation.

The Complete Puppy Wellness Program

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For guardians who want deeper clarity, personalised direction, and early-stage precision.

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Includes everything in the Manual, plus:

✔ A 30-minute 1:1 video consultation
✔ The Real Food Diet for Dogs eBook
✔ The Guide to Natural Parasite Prevention
✔ Tailored guidance based on your puppy’s breed, size, and growth stage

 

This is the full foundation — structured, personalised, and preventative.

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The kind of dog your puppy becomes is not accidental.

Resilience is built quietly — in daily rhythms, mineral balance, nervous system stability, and intelligent restraint around what the body does not need.

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Health is not created through intensity.
It is created through appropriate inputs, physiological respect, and long-term thinking.

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When foundations are set well, the body does not need to fight so hard later.

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This is not about perfection.
It is about direction.

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A steady, informed start.
Fewer corrections required down the track.

A dog whose system learns to regulate rather than compensate.

 

That is the work.

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And that is what this program is designed to help you build.

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