Puppy Support Group 2

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A continuation of this:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_doghouse/3600375-Young-Puppy-Support-Group

All age of puppies (and owners ) welcome

Please can somebody tell me about Kongs, our poor deprived pup doesn't have one - and I'm sure he'd love one! What do you do with them/put in them?

We put in a bit of my pups dry food at the bottom, some frankfurter sausage in the middle and then seal with dairylea. I freeze it for a bit too as mine likes the cold and also takes her longer to lick out the dairylea! I've heard of frozen mash banana and the proper kong stuff too

Similar to @Fizzwigady. Just be careful if you are using human food to fill or seal the kong. Make sure it doesn’t contain anything harmful to dogs - stuff like onion or garlic, or powdered seasoning versions of either. It is in loads of stuff and is poisonous to dogs, so double check the ingredients before you feed it.

Fab, thanks!!

My pup just doesn't get the Kong she just ignores it 😃

@Ledkr it took mine a few goes. She didn’t get what she was meant to do with it.
She really enjoys it now, but only if it’s easy
And the stuffing is exciting enough

..also she comes to me quite regularly for help with it too
She’s just lazy

Bad few days with shark pup. Lots of biting, lunging and growling. I’m so fed up of it. When does this stage end? She’s 14 weeks, we’ve had her for 5 weeks and I’m miserable.

Ive no as my pup is so tiny that all those behaviours don't have as much impact as a big dog.
I know I felt terrible a few weeks ago when she wouldn't potty train and really regretted getting her..
Have you had a training session yet and asked advice? I find the face book page helpful too.

That sounds shit, @CockerShark . No helpful advice, just &

Hi, name changed to join as with my other posts its outing. I hope you dint mind me joining.

Here I go again, current cocker is 3.5 years. Puppy rescue, light of my life. So well behaved. And on saturday......we get another rescue cocker puppy.

Excited and nervous. Both me and dp are off from friday for 2 weeks. I work during the day and he works late evenings. I am an early rise so will be up from 5am with her every day until 8am. Dp gets in at 3am gets up from sleep around 9-10am. Will get up at 9 while the puppy settles in.

My friend has my other if we have to go out for long periods and will have this one.

It's only been 3.5 years but seems like a lifetime ago. Need to go back and read all the books again

We’ve had one session and the next one is tomorrow. I’ve text the trainer and he says to go early to have a chat. I think a lot of it is playing but it hurts and it’s getting really miserable now. She’s with my mum in the day and I don’t think she does to much with her so she’s just a ball of energy when we get her back.

My female puppy has just learned to hump today.
And now it’s her best thing ever

No idea how to stop it or why it’s happening
She’s only 11 weeks!!

@Snufflesdog my 3.5 year old female cocker, still humps. She has a duck toy that is on the receiving end of it. We refer to it as her Friend with Benefits. she only humps that now, so it's a more committed relationship 😂

From what I read its quite normal and can be for many reasons. Over excitement, dominance, because they enjoy it etc.

@CockerShark the only thing that worked with ours (who is 3.5) was helping and then ignoring. The kids would retreat to the sofa (she is small for her breed so couldnt get up) and we would all ignore her. Often ended up with us all on the sofa, with out feet up. After a few minutes she would go off and find a toy. When she had calmed down, we would play again.

We tried not to put her in her crate, because we were told to not use it as punishment. But sometimes she just need shutting away if she wouldnt calm.

She is now 3.5. Great with the kids. Never mouths them or growls or anything. She is actually very calm for a cocker.

With the incoming pup, I do worry that a big part of it of her responding to our techniques was luck and down to her personality. Panicking these things wonr work so well, with the new girl.

I remember feeling really down. Only a couple of minutes of play, then everyone trying to ignore her. It took about 2 weeks of this.

CockerShark mine seemed to change around the 5 months mark. I distinctly remember thinking 'thank god'.

So the 5-6 months was nice and I started to think I had done the right thing but then at 6 months he started to hit the teenage phase which was difficult but in a different way (at least no teeth).

They don't call cockers cockerdiles for nothing

Our pup is nearly 15 weeks now, he’s still very bitey and growls a lot but I can see at times now when he’s wanting to bite he’s opening him mouth wide and making funny noises but not actually biting down, it’s as if he’s desperate to do it but he’s trying to control himself (clutching a straws here!) he’s still a bugger with the kids though but then they encourage it and I end up shouting at them-stop lying on the floor with him and he won’t bite your ears!!!!!

Cocker, the biting for us peaked around 12-13 weeks. We used timeouts from then onwards and the biting dramatically reduced. Pup is now 21 weeks old and the biting has pretty much stopped. Occasionally he will bite but as soon as we say ‘no biting’ he stops. Hang in there.

I bought a separate pen for timeouts because I was worried he would start to hate his crate. It has been a pain having another bulky item around but it has done the trick.

Hi all just checking in, I do feel like we're coming out the other side of the worst of the puppy behaviour now. Dpup is 6 and a half months, we've had no toilet accidents for nearly a month now so hoping that's it. I still wouldn't trust him 100% but I have noticed that he can seemingly hold it if he has to!

The biting is definitely better, he will still sometimes nip my dd if she gets him too excited when they're playing. I blame that on her though as she does wind him up 🙄

Other issues now though are him taking a huge dislike a French bulldogs after an unfortunate incident where one rolled him over. It's really annoying as up until then he had been fine with other dogs, it's something I need to work on as we use a dog walker so chances are she may have a frenchie with her at some point.

I've also noticed he needs quite a lot of exercise now, I knew he would being a terrier but find myself wishing away the winter as hate taking him out in the cold and dark!!

He's been fine with the Christmas tree though!! Not paid it any attention at all, he did discover some present labels last night and I walked into the living room to find sticky labels stuck all over him 😳🤣

Oh and we can now leave him for 3 hours, a couple of times he's been left from 10am-12.30 the dog walker then takes him out until 2.30ish and then he's left again until my dd gets in from school at 3.45.

He was fine, he tends to sleep in the morning anyway and after a long walk he's knackered again.

Look at mine with her teddy 😍

Hi, we recently got a new puppy. He's 12 weeks now, has been pretty good on the mats at home. Has settled in well. Sleeps through the night, wakes up to pee and takes himself to his mat without waking us and pops back to his bed. (Not sure if this is a good or bad thing?)

He was allowed out yesterday for his first walk. He is really tiny, (a chihuahua/pomeranian cross) I have a harness for him instead of a collar. He's not too enamoured with it, but isn't desperately try to get it off either. On his first walk he was pretty scared of the noises around, especially traffic. Some points he sat and refused to walk.

Is there anything I can do to make him less fearful or will it come with getting used to being outside more?

Outrun yes keep going out with him, little and often. He's bound to feel a bit overwhelmed at times but the more you go out with him the more confident he will get. My puppy did the sit down thing on walks for ages, it was very annoying!! The advice I was given was 'don't drag don't bribe' if the puppy is walking nicely and looking up to you then reward with a treat. Quite often though I would just pick him up, walk a bit and then put him down to try again.

He's 6 months now and walks beautifully on the lead.

Did you socialise him outside in your arms (so he saw and heard traffic) before he was walked, @Outnumb3red?

My boy isn’t ready to be walked outside yet but all the advice I’ve seen says to sit quietly with them by noisy roads/bin lorries/whatever is outside that freaks them out and give them a steady stream of treats, so they associate it with good things. Have him on your lap/in your arms for this if need be. The big wide world is daunting, it must be especially so for a tiny breed puppy. Those first few lead walks will take a bit of confidence building. Treats, praise and patience. As for stopping on walks, can he be coaxed (bribed) with treats to walk on?

@Ledkr, she’s a little cutie

Ah! Ignore me on the bribes then