To think that taking the seventh pup in a litter of 7 was going to be easy

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96hrs in and our amazing 10 week old cocker spaniel puppy is feisty, fearless and worryingly, full on. I’m suspecting she was the last girl standing because she was so over-the-top. Has anyone had a wild, chew-tastic puppy that calmed down or is this the beginning of a very spirited relationship. So far she’s chewing cables, carpets, oak furniture and my 12 year old senior spaniel who is in the huff. I’m prepared to go the extra mile with training and exercise but please tell me it will work out fine ...

Sounds normal.
Get some bitter Apple or cherry spray to deter chewing of stuff you want to keep, and try to tire it out/ give lots of chews and stimulating toys.
My Collie pup.enjoyed those food distribution toys. I'd put her dinner in that and leave her to it for half an hour

They just get worse don't they? Haha! We've got a Whippet pup she's about 16 weeks now and a totally nut job, she's SO fast and jumps, chews, bites everything!
I gave a nylabone to chew, tennis ball and a Teddy. Our puppy also likes teatowels so I gave her one and she takes it in her crate to lay with and chew. If I go out I make sure she toilets first then I crate her. I'm never usually gone more than 2 hours! I also contain her behind a baby gate in the kitchen as we have a fairly large kitchen which leads to the garden. That's been quite handy with toilet training aswell as the kitchen floor is easier to clean. I put a couple of pads by the back door just incase,she's getting the hang of it now. Maybe you could pop up a gate? Keep in kitchen or large room with her crate?
Good luck

I really felt I aged 10 years in my (Border Terrier) puppy’s first six months

She did eventually calm down, though, and the chewing does stop :)

She’s gone now - died last year, and I miss her every day. Enjoy your lovely wee pup

Crate train. I had to make mine rest, they hated it but were worn out and wouldn’t stop-two together (I know all about littermate syndrome, it’s my 2nd pair)

10 weeks is quite late to get a puppy which isn’t a miniature. Has she been socialised with other dogs/people? Wrong time of year, but holding her outside a supermarket gets you loads of people to say a gentle hello without overwhelming her. Pets at Home is also useful. Any new experiences totally wore out mine, visits to the yard, short car journeys to the supermarket while someone stayed in the car with them. People coming to the house was another exhausting experience!

As she’s a small breed, you could carry her everywhere for new experiences.

I've got no advice..... I came home tonight to a ballistics grade kevlar unchewable indestructible bed torn to shreds.

I am clearly failing at this parent of a puppy malarkey (DickheadDog is 14 months )

Sorry to hear about your border terrier, Lovely. My fear is that I have Prevegen4U’s kind of dog.
I gave her the frozen Kong but she didn’t fathom out the contents so maybe there’s hope.
Three poos outside but she ate her one. I’m borrowing a dog carrier to fast forward those tiring new experiences and may take her to the school gates to meet people. Another ten days before 12 week injection. Thank you for all the tips- I’m doing my best to follow

Oh no Frangipan

Oh my god she’s gorgeous

Sounds like a perfectly normal 10 week old pup to me. I found ours chilled out hugely at about 5 months and then more at about 7 months. Sorry, I know that seems a while off!!

DMongrelpup is 4 months now. Chewing collar, lego, new skirting boards, standard lamp cable, furniture, books, hairbrushes, parquet floor. Took him into dog-friendly office, he and a partner pup in crime chewed the material off the sofa, three brand new reams of paper and took the internet out.
It is calming down now, slightly.

Mine was a bitey, chewing, gnawing loon. She chewed through a wall, ripped the edging off the anti slip mats in the kitchen, made us all bleed and ripped holes in clothes.
Now she can just about be arsed to chew her dinner.
It passes. All the hard work now will mean you end up with the most amazing companion.
And or even . Definitely.

Ah wujawujawujawuja awh what a cutie.

Soak an old tea towel, tie a knot in it and freeze it - brilliant for hot teething gums. Also old plastic bottles (without caps) are great toys as long as you have earplugs and no neighbours...

I was about to say YABVU for not posting a photo and then I saw you had and now I'm in loooooovvvvvveeeeee

Our golden retriever lady was second last left in the litter ,along with her sister and they were so timid and she has remained mostly the same .She nearly broke me with the constant weeing everywhere at the start but now at 3 years old she is a dream.

Sleeps all night from 11 till 7 when my husband gets up and lazes around most of the day too. No interest in walks and uses to get extremely stressed by them as she was nervous of everything. Gets on great with other dogs and loves to play with our chickens .She gets the zoomies every so often and runs around the garden like a mad thing and she can be a bit bouncy and boisterous when we have visitors but calms quickly.I remind myself daily as to how lucky we are with her especially when I read some stories on here about puppies and dogs

I'm a bit mad, I like the naughty ones. It'll be fine, she sounds lovely and full of character. I didn't get to pick my 10 week old rough collie puppy, the breeder (very wisely chose). I ended up with a boy puppy who was nosier than his siblings and could scare off his mad, naughty sister with a stare. I wouldn't change him for the world.

I had a cocker and she never calmed down bless her.

Oh, grate some courgette on her food, she won't eat her poos but she will still eat her food. My breeder gave me that handy tip, as some of the puppies were eating each others poos.

Have a look at clicker training, she isn’t too young to start and tiring her out mentally as well as physically will be good for her. She is gorgeous. I am very envious.

I've only had one pup in all my years who didn't chew madly for first 12 months. And then stop overnight.
Our old collie ate a couch , coffee table and bookcase, my carefully hidden wedding shoes!
The only non destructo pup I ever raised is my current little poodle/mutt/terrier/spaniel cross rescue pup.
I highly recommend crate training which I only cottoned onto later in life but it's a game changer for me.
I've also found every pup of every breed has been a nutter until it turns two.
Maybe that's just me???

My son has an adorable cocker spaniel, a year old last week. Gorgeous dog, ridiculously friendly but, OMG, what a loon! Chewing isn't so bad now, but all the cushions pulled off the sofa and chairs in an instant, a shredded tissue floating in gentle clouds over them. Soft toys are all his and he will search the house for them.

He is obedient to a point. Fantastic at 'sit', 'down' and will sit with a bit of chicken on his nose until told he can have it. But, recall is zero and he has a strong instinct to follow scent trails ... and keep following them!

Love, love him visiting but no way could I live with him. I usually go for a lie-down when he goes home

Yours is equally gorgeous OP. Get booked in for training classes as soon as she has had her vacs, and, if you can then keep going, don't think one short puppy-socialisation course will be enough. All dogs are happier trained well and using their brains, it will tire her as much as a long walk.

Ddog who has sadly now passed chewed and ate everything.

Nothing was sacred (including a George III miniature gateleg table with ivory castors and inlaid and barley twist legs worth around £2000. It was the only thing that was worth anything in our house.)

She ate our kitchen, walls, skirting boards shoes

One time I came downstairs and went into the living room where in my very early morning brain fog I thought the roof had collapsed and it had been snowing heavily and the snow was knee deep in the living room.

It did then occur to me that if our roof had collapsed the snow would have to come through the ceiling and then the floor of the bedroom above.

Ddog looked very pleased with herself.

She had ripped open the sofa and that white fluffy wrapping that they use in upholstery she had pulled out of the sofa one bite at a time and this is what I thought was knee deep snow

I loved her very much but she did do some major damage.

My pup just turned a year. So much calmer than those first few months. Think he drove the kids mad because they didn’t remember the hard work stage with our older dog - but I was expecting it lol. He’s a ‘teenager’ now and has new issues but he getting much more cuddly now.

Sounds normal. My nearly 13 year old still has her crazy moments...

She's gorgeous, same colour as mine. She did us a favour when she was young and chewed up the kitchen lino. I can't remember how long the truly naughty phase lasted but it's only now she's getting old that the moments of madness are really reducing.

More bed destruction, newspaper shredding happening here but about to have puppy food lunch with grated courgette. Dog papoose is here but it’s so cold to touch I’ll need to warm it up before she tries it for size. Ordered tiny Equafleece tankini as three days of continued minus temperatures so for now she can have my painting fleece as a coat.
Oliversmum and cantfind you are describing what I think may have landed here. Dog is going for Aunt Lily’s oak dining room furniture which is easily 100 yrs old but my pride and joy. She attacked two Ikea Storm paper floor lamps before bedtime which are now upstairs.
All advice being taken