Dh and I overslept this morning and left Monty in the care of the dds

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I came down to wee on the carpet, in his crate, on the sofa and a poo on the bed in his crate.

Dd1 did tell me not to worry about his breakfast though as she'd fed him. She put it in his bowl so it covered the bottom, boiled the kettle, let it cool for a few minutes and given it to him. She was very pleased with herself so I told her well done. Then I worked out that he'd had twice as much as he should have done. No wonder he went out and did a massive poo on the garden.

Apparently he likes jumping off their laps from the sofa to the floor. Was doing this this morning. Bit worried now. He's a lab and he shouldn't be putting any kind of pressure on his joints at this age. Have explained this to them, as much as an eight year old and six year old can understand.

Must not oversleep in future. Ever.

Monty is looking gorgeous OP. He's grown!

Agree with most people, um no an 8yo cannot safely boil a kettle, and no way should they have been left alone with a dog!

What a gorgeous pup! None of mine were ever fully house trained until around the 5 month mark. Sounds like a morning in our house when the dc were younger.

He has grown! He's much bigger than when we brought him home just two weeks ago.

My alarm is set for the morning.

He's lovely. I want one!

On the subject of toilet training dogs, we had one dog that only weed inside on the first night we brought her home and never after that and never once pooed inside the house, however, that dog was a Border Collie who trained us so we cannot claim any special powers or genius in the dog toilet training department.

Most of the other dogs we've had have taken between 2 weeks and a month depending on the breed with the odd accident thereafter.

This is one of those threads where everyone in RL would be gobsmacked outraged etc but it's ok on MN the same goes for feeding your kids petit filous and sausage rolls etc wrong on MN fine in RL glad butterflies is with me on this one too bringing some of the RL reaction onto MN

At least I know all about pet insurance.

He is gorgeous MsAdorabelle.

I read this by mistake but delighted I have, I use the children as an alarm and sleep through as many snoozes as they give me... Sometimes they bring me a hot drink and cold sandwhich as my 8 year old makes a fine coffee and the toddler loves spreading jam. Our old ridgeback used to keep an eye on them and had much better bowel control than any of them happily.

Monty looks adorable and the children sound fab, but if concerned by the health and safety issues you have been alerted to please send him over asap:)

I can assure you myusername... That my children have never eaten a sausage roll or a petit filous (though their aptitude with the kettle does allow for the odd pot noodle).

Blimey, should know better by now than to enter a thread about dogs, they always bring out the crazies

I've never had MNHQ comment on one of my threads before. I'm honoured.

I did my "housekeeping" Brownie badge (does that even still exist?) circa 1969, when I was 7. It included making tea using, y'know, a kettle. And handwashing a pair of socks; I did my baby sisters.

It didn't include housetraining puppies though.

I have housetrained two dogs, one a 16 week terrier mongrel, who got the idea within a fortnight or so, t'other a 3yo outdoor collie, who learned even faster. But when my bitch had pups, the one we took longest to rehome was 12 wo and not fully trained when he went to his new home.

I have to say he doesn't often pee indoors and it's the first time he's pooed on his bed. Dh thinks it's because the dds went downstairs before us - unusually - and couldn't open the back door and so couldn't let him out once he woke up. Why they just didn't come and wake us up I don't know.

butterfly you did get the bit where I said he's a ten week old puppy? If he's going to savage my children to death it's going to take him a looong time.

whathaveilost don't worry, you weren't the derailer, you were derailed too.

Your house sounds normal. My dd2 is 6 and makes tea (boiling water tap) and scrambled eggs, dd1 is 10 and can fry bacon. I'm normally around for most of it but if I slept in and they made their own breakfast I wouldn't bat an eyelid. Our puppy wasn't house trained by 10 weeks, and certainly bolted for the back doors every morning for a wee until she was many months old, and I've never met one that was....

I don't think I've seen your name on my threads before.

Oh sorry...is this a new MN rule? You can only post on threads where the op recognises your name....

OMG...if the kids had been bitten by this dog, you would all be jumping up & down & admonishing the op for leaving them alone...yet because it didn't happen, you are jumping all over those who dared to suggest that puppies & children don't mix!

I don't agree that it is bad parenting that op overslept...on a weekend my girls are up at 6am & that is well before we wake up. They manage, they are still alive & are very sensible, so not likely to get hurt. The worse thing they do is have chocolate for breakfast & watch crappy children's TV!

I do however, disagree with the tone of some posts that suggest, just because people were concerned re dog biting etc, they got called perfect etc. That's just rude & unnecessary! As for calling those with differing opinions, idiots....grow up!

And correcting spelling..just don't.

10 week old puppy, people, not a Siberian tiger. Such hysteria< clutches pearls >

I'm not sure if there's much overlap between the OP's 'real life' and some of the outraged posters

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differentnameforthis I've been on here a lot lately. A lot. I have talked about the loss of my old dog. I have met many lovely MNers and had many lovely chats. I have posted about Monty and lots of people have responded. I have not seen that poster before, she clearly knows nothing about my situation, if she did she would not have jumped to daft conclusions and instigated a bun fight. It is hysterical to suggest that two grown children are in any danger from a ten week old puppy.

our dog used to sleep on my bed at night. unsupervised. And I used to take her for walks. alone. but only after I'd made my parents a cup of tea. ;) the fact I was never savaged or taken into care is clearly a miracle. honestly I have never encountered the hysteria over children and dogs anywhere else but on mn.

And setting an alarm to be up before the children? what kind of masochist does that?

You lucky family having a puppy!

wannaBe I feel the same as you. I have found that some of the attitudes on here towards dogs are nothing like my experience in RL.

I've had cats sleeping on my bed from a young age, walked other people's dogs as we didn't have one, and my dogs sleep on the bed now when they can get away with it. As soon as my boys are capable of picking up dog poo and recall I will let them walk my dogs.

To be fair I'd be telling the DC that while it was nice that they tried maybe if it happens again they should wake somebody up instead...but given the OP was hardly boasting about it, I'm not sure it's exactly a huge deal.

Oh and current dog took a very long two months to house train.