Preparing for first night with a pup.

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Hi, we are picking up our Border terrier pup next sunday and want to be prepared.
I have bought a ticking clock (supposed to remind pup of mums heartbeat?) hot water bottle and cosy bed, are there any other things that would help her settle in? I wondered about taking a blanket to be put in with the pups and their mum before we pick her up, then put it into her bed when we get her home (like you put something of mums in the cot of a non sleeping baby to help settle (not that this ever helped with ds)) but Dp seemed to think this would make the pup more unsettled as she would be able to smell mum but not see her.
Feel like I am awaiting the arrival of a new baby so excited but at the same time anxious about getting it all wrong.
Thanks.

Ahh good luck!

My border terrier pup is 19 weeks now. I was really anxious about the first night but we popped him in his crate at bedtime, he flopped in the corner and we never heard another peep.

I think he cried once about 10 days in but he was already dry at night then and had done a wee.

We didn't do anything special other than make crate cosy with vetbed and blankets.

Aww hope ours is like yours, only just got Ds sleeping through until after 5 am after 18 months so not looking forward to sleepless nights again..
Must be crazy but I am sure she will be worth it.

She will be. Mine is a lazy lump who even has to be woken up when we lie in until 9 am! Even then it is a case of a wee, breakfast and back on the sofa!

Hello, we pick up our Springer puppy on Sunday. Congratulations. It is like preparing for a new baby isn't it?

We are doing the things you state, ours will have something from his Mum. It has also been suggested to have something of ours too that we have maybe slept in. We are probably going to sleep either downstairs with him for a few nights and gradually withdraw or let him sleep on the landing with our bedroom door open. Either way, in a crate.

Our breeder also suggested putting cardboard on the floor of the crate for warmth and accidents! (he will have a bed too, there will just be space I think at least initially) but that might be just us, their litter have been used to cardboard on the floor in the area of the house they have been in.

Have you got a name sorted?

Haven't got a name sorted yet, we are surprising Dd with the puppy for christmas so will let her choose the name.
Have you got a name for your pup yet? We were thinking of a springer but two friends of ours have borders and they are such a lovely breed.
Before I get the 'a dog is for life not for christmas' I fully agree with this and we have certainly not walked into this without lots of thought and discussion. she has been begging for one for 6 years but although we have always wanted a dog we have never been in the right situation to commit to one, no garden, I was working and studying so out of the house too much,new baby, moving house etc but we have a bigger house now with a back garden and I am a sahm at the moment so we have told her we will get a puppy in the spring but are surprising her a little bit earlier. Can not wait to see her face.

The boarder terriers I have known, are the quieter, less manic, breed of small terrier. Also coat more easy care, than the others, so a good choice.
Remember that at 3 months they start teething, and must have chewy toys, and by 6 months they should have all their adult teeth. Your main task at first will be toilet training - getting them house trained. There will be accidents as a small puppy, but never shout or smack them. At 4 weeks, when they start walking, they always move away from their sleeping place to do it , and breeders usually put newspaper down in that place. It is a natural instinct to not want to foul their bed.
Good luck

He's called Harry, which is what the breeder named him, but it suits him to be honest so it's stuck

Do tell us how DD reacts. How lovely!

You won't get any comment from me, I am sure you have thought it through and done the appropriate research, being on here shows you care! That's your business anyway, you might get asked by other folk why you didn't get a rescue though

My Border has been really easier to toilet train too. We stuck to the consistant trips to the garden (whatever the weather!) and no comment on accidents and he has reliably asked to go out without accidents from 12 weeks.

Puppy class trainer has commented he's a very typical terrier...very intelligent and picks things up extremely quickly but he's also very confident and gung ho about things (eg he hurled himself into the first water filled ditch he ever saw for a swim!). He thinks he is 10 dogs. Though I have clucker trained him to do lots at home he won't even sit in puppy class! He does the canine "I'm here world...let me at it!" and goes hyper. He is in the 'big personality/boisterous camp' at puppy class (and sadly is the ringleader!).

clicker not clucker!

We picked up our lovely girl last Thursday, Cairn Terrier. We did have a blanket slept on from mum, hot water bottle and a comfy bed. We started as we meant to go on, so kept her in her crate and blocked the kitchen doorway so she could get out for a wee if she needed to. She cried all night. I had ear plugs in and we stuck with it, this has paid dividends as she goes to bed quite nicely now after only a small protest. On reflection though I wonder if she may have been a bit hungry, we had given her a dinner but she was all out of sorts with the excitement of the day and although we offered her a snack before bedtime she might have been better off having a fuller tummy.

Also check out where your new pup is going for a wee, our girl was used to a large crate at night and toileted at one end of it, our crate is considerably smaller and we have caught her a few times going in to have a wee. Just a matter of retraining and catching her in time or shutting the gate. Good luck! It has been a great week so far.

Hi.
Picked our little lady up on Sunday. The plan was that she would stay at fil's unti xmas morning but he had things to sort out at the last minute so pup had to stay at my mum's. Very grateful they looked after her but found out they let her sleep on their bed not in the crate.
Dd was so happy on xmas morning and is doing a great job of looking after her. Just struggling to get her to sleep in her crate. She is very whiney in there and woke us up every hour last night. Not sure if this is because she slepped on mums bed for two nights or if she would have done this anyway, hope she settles soon, only just got ds sleeping through after 18 months.