Our pup arrives in two weeks, and I am trying to plan ahead. He will be 8 weeks. Background: I have bought DPup a crate for night time. He will be used to the crate a little when he arrives. I am trying to make sure any all contact with the cat is supervised (cat is a grumpy arse sometimes). We're going to keep DPup downstairs to give the cat somewhere to escape and set up a stairgate as well to hopefully keep the pup downstairs.
What do people do at night...? Is it best to get up at set intervals or best to leave them through the night from the start? If the former, how do you know when to change when you get up?
And then in the morning... At the moment, we all get up, get showered, then come downstairs for breakfast. Cat also then has his breakfast. Do I get up to take the puppy out first thing, then come back upstairs to have a shower etc leaving the pup downstairs when he has only just seen me again or do everything upstairs leaving the puppy to cross his legs whilst he waits for us to come down?
Guessing the pup will be desperate for his breakfast as well at that point. Will it put the cat's nose out of joint even further to be fed after the pup...? Poor cat is already often last on the list.
Really confused about both these things. It's been a fair while since either of us have had a dog so any advice very much appreciated! Any tips on introducing them would be amazing as well.