Puppy Survival Thread Part 5!

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Continuing Bitey's thread once more

The thread to be, where puppies grow and we meet new doggie parenting challenges every day.

PerfectPup (hah!) has an upper respiratory tract infection. Glad my gut feeling was to get her checked out. I didn't know that dogs can get colds (which vet said is more or less what is is like!). Wish whoever passed it to us had been more careful 😠

Awww poor thing. Is it a wait and see or did they give you some medication.

Poor thing.

Indy very chewy today. He's eaten the wallpaper off the wall! I've no idea how im going to sort that out

Wallpaper?
Wolfie ate a wall!!
Still sore footed. Now looking at an exclusion diet in the new year. This could get complicated and expensive.

What on earth goes through their minds? Hmmm I just fancy eating a bit of wall/wallpaper today yum

Teething! She mainly thought. "Oweeee. Must CHEW!!!!"

Blimey! Wall is worse! He isn't interested in the filled bones or yaks something or other expensive chew. He does like the cows tails but the smell makes me want to vom.

She mainly chews nylabone or actual bones now! Better than a sister of hers who ate the kitchen!

Eeek re the chewing!! Bulls pizzle a fave in our house...they do smell though. Bitey we have antibiotics as v often a bacterial element apparently. Hopefully she'll be much better soon 🤞🏻

Hope she does feel better. Not managed to find pizzle. Dehydrated some lung yesterday though!!

Tried Nylabones. He wasn't fussed. Need something to replace my ankle in his mouth at the moment too.

We have chickens feet, pigs ears, rabbit ears (complete with fur) and raw chicken wings for cheques. She loves them all

Stuffed Kong
Frozen carrot
Ice cubes work too!
Knot ripped strands of tea towels together

Thank god BiteyDog doesn't chew much as we have had to throw out all the food chew treats as his stomach didn't agree with them. We just use deer antlers now.

Perfectly hope the antibiotics do the trick.

Wolfie sorry to hear the foot is still sore.

I'll give those a go too. See if he likes any of them.

Can I join? This rather lovely soul joined us today. We’ve had dogs before but never a puppy so this is new to us. So far we’ve had one wee and poo outside and one wee inside so not too bad!

Hi bean, everyone's welcome here

First stupids question then? We have a crate and pup has happily slept in it today. Do I leave water in it at night?

Yes. They should have access to water 24/7.

Lots of people advocate water at all times including the crate. Mine never did but then he never drank when he came out of the crate so clearly not thirsty.

If you do leave water you can get crate bowl holders which means they won't tip over which look good.

Welcome Bean and pup.

Bluepuppy is indifferent to the antler I bought him but loves to chew on his goat horn and hooves. I’ve been doing frozen Kongs as it’s summer here at the moment.

blue I wish it was the summer here. BiteyDogs paws stink of mud and I am fed up of having to wash his legs after each walk. As for my kitchen floor....

I am fed up of having to wash his legs after each walk

Same here. It's straight into the shower for Elfpup as he is plastered. It didn't help yesterday when we found ourselves in a foul mix of cow slurry and mud. it must have been 8" deep and Elfpup is barely 12" tall. That was the worst yet. Unfortunately the tarmac paths around here have been over run with cyclists and are really quite dangerous.

Elphame it's grim isn't it. At times like this I sometime think I should have got a breed that would be happy with simple pavement walks rather than one that likes to skid along the mud chasing balls