Until today, she has never been alone. She slept in a heap of warm siblings, woke to their movement, learned the world's first rules from her mother and littermates, and measured safety by physical contact. A new home, however kind, removes all of that in a single car journey, and adds a building full of unfamiliar smells, surfaces and giants who speak a language she does not know. The first days are therefore not about training or socialisation targets. They are about replacing, patiently, the security she has lost, until the new home generates some of its own.
Keep Her World Small and Predictable
Limit her early territory to a room or two where the household actually lives, rather than giving her the run of the house. A small world is learnable: she can map where her bed is, where the door to the garden is, and where her people sit, and mapping produces confidence. Set her bed in a defined sleeping place with sides she can lean against, some puppies settle better in a crate used purely as an open den, and place it where she can see and hear household life without being in the middle of its traffic.
Run a simple rhythm from the first morning: wake, garden, meal, play, garden, sleep, repeated with minor variations. Puppies need a great deal of sleep, and overtired puppies look wired rather than tired, so protect naps as firmly as you schedule meals. Feed the food she was already eating, in the amounts her breeder used, and change diets only gradually and later; her digestion does not need novelty this week. Visitors should be few, quiet and seated for the first days, letting her approach rather than passing her from lap to lap.
Answer the Night-Time Loss Directly
Night is when the litter's absence is total, and her crying then is grief and cold as much as anything else. Sleep near her for the first nights, on a camp bed or with her sleeping place beside yours, so she can hear breathing and settle against a presence. Warmth helps replicate the pile: a safely warmed pad or wrapped warm water bottle under part of her bedding gives her something warm to lean into, and the blanket that came home with her, carrying her mother's and siblings' smell, belongs in her bed unwashed for as long as it stays hygienic. A soft toy large enough to curl against gives her body something to contact.
Respond to crying with quiet proximity rather than a party: a low voice, a hand rested near her, a boring toilet trip if she may need one, then back to darkness. Over the first week, as the room and routine become familiar, most puppies cry less and sleep longer, and you can gradually move her sleeping place towards its permanent position, a short distance at a time.
Build Confidence in Small, Successful Doses
Let her explore at her pace, following you rather than being carried into new rooms, and let her retreat to her bed whenever she chooses; retreat is how puppies process. Handle her briefly and kindly every day, paws, ears, mouth and collar, paired with food, so the handling she will meet at the vet and groomer is ordinary from the start. Beyond her name, toilet trips and coming when called for something pleasant, formal training can wait until she is eating, sleeping and playing like a puppy who lives here. Watch the basics meanwhile: a puppy who will not eat across a day, is listless rather than sleepy, or has persistent diarrhoea or vomiting needs her vet promptly, not a settling-in explanation.
The rota feels calmer when Care Teams, opened inside KinsLe, shows who handled her last meal, garden trip and settle-down, with each completed duty timestamped.