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Puppies can pee when they get excited, so it might have been that she was excited about having company. It could also be a dominance thing. If it continues and she is peeing frequently in inappropriate places, you should check that it's not a UTI...And if you puppy is really young and still working on potty training basics it might not be any of those things. Your sister's foot might have just been in the wrong place at thye wrong time 

Like I said in your other thread, you can use pretty much any stuffed animal frozen. Penny particularly liked the petstages cool teething stick and cool teether cause she likes toys with stringy bits the best, but really any stuffy cause soak up water and be frozen.

Some of the things I would make sure to ask about: *temperature control
*amount of space and if there are seperate play yards
*number of employees and how they interact with dogs
*what they do when there is an issue
*if they are crated (it's typical for them to be crated during lunch hour) and what size the crates are
*If there is always water available and if it's uindoors what do they do if theres an accident
*DO they do dog interviews to prevent aggressive dogs from being there?

I would also just basically go on my gut feeling about the overall feel of the place, the cleanliness, and the personality of the staff

Congrats!

I like the paw tracks toys by mammoth pet - they are made of real tire and pretty much indestructable .

I also really like treat dispensing toys - they keep the pups entertained in a way other than chewing

Penny's favorites are probably things she can shred though 

As everyone has already said, the prong collar doesn't hurt and is a good training tool that keeps you both safe by reducing pulling. But I have a warning: in my experience prongs can pop open when you are walking a dog. It happened 2-3 times with Zoey (and she wasn't even pulling when it happened if I remember correctly). The first time the people at the pet store told us we had weakened the links because we would use random links to open it so you should always open it from the end link. So we bought a whole new collar and were really careful about opening and closing it, then it still happened. So we stopped using it with Zoey. We haven't used it on Penny because she's just a puppy, but if we do in the future I will use a back-up collar in case it opens.

Congrats on the new pup!