Both of the new puppy owner's threads have zombie alerts on them so I thought I'd start my own as I feel a bit overwhelmed!
DPup arrived yesterday, she is a sprocker, 9w today (will upload pic from my mobile in a bit). She is very sweet and quite bright. Can already master stairs no problems. She is very affectionate and particularly likes sleeping on my feet. She is happy to go into her crate for a lie down and slept relatively well in it last night with DH sleeping on the bedroom floor right next to her. Whined until about 1.30am in the crate next to our bed then was taken outside then slept until about 4, whined, outside and then slept til 7ish. So I guess that's going well provided DH is happy to stay sleeping on the bedroom floor...
I'm not sure toilet training is going very well though. The breeder had the pups toileting well on newspaper but we've just had accidents so far and I'm not sure she's peed outside at all. She pooed in her crate earlier when I was having a shower and trod it all over the place so had to be showered down! We have been taking her outside a LOT, probably more like every 30-45 mins rather than an hour and we have a put a piece of newspaper outside but she doesn't seem to be interested. I've read and re-read The Perfect Puppy and a million and one different things online all of which agree that repeatedly taking her outside is the way forward. I just need to give it time right? The weather is decent enough so I guess I could just stay outside with her. We haven't yet had the chance to vociferously praise her for toileting outside because she hadn't done it!
There seems to be a lingering smell of puppy poo too I suspect isn't good. Not sure if there is some on me, some on her still or a hidden poo.
Can anyone offer me any reassurance, advice or calming thoughts please?
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rockybalboa · 20/06/2015 12:16
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