Puppy support group 3

[Girliefriendlikespuppies]

A thread for all new puppy owners for support and understanding!!

My puppy is now 7 months and has hit the teens 😒🤪😳😫 stay with me fellow puppy owners - I need you!!!

[Juanbablo]

Girlie he's a Jack Russell. Maybe it's a terrier thing? Although my Nan's JRT wolfs her food down in seconds.

[heatseeker14]

@Girliefriendlikespuppies & @Juanbablo, your pups are so adorable. 😍 Here is my little shadow. 😄

[Girliefriendlikespuppies]

Juan mine is half jrt (and half yorkie) it's definitely a terrier thing. We had a yorkie growing up who was a nightmare for fussiness and my dad's jrt only eats once a day when he's starving!

Love the pics 😍

[Outtheforest]

I forgot all about these threads but for those that remember my sickly rescue from thread 2 he is now 9 months old, gaining weight and has been given the all clear by the vet. Unfortunately for him his reward is hes now healthy enough to have his balls off.
Hes definitely going through teenage phase but is a sweetie when he isn't being selectively deaf about chasing the chickens

[heatseeker14]

I’m glad to hear your pup is doing well @Outtheforest. I remember you posting about how poorly he was. Good to hear he is back to full health.
Dpup has been really full on today. He has had two walks, most of it off lead with a bit of ball play. Played fetch with him in the house. Has had his treat ball, Kong and snuffle mat. Kids blew dog friendly bubbles with him. In and out of the garden like a blue-arsed fly. Scrounging in the kitchen whilst I was prepping dinner. In the end I told him to pack it in, and now he is now snoozing on the floor instead of the brand new bed I bought him! 🙄😂

[BiteyMcBiteFace]

Lovely pup photos

@Outtheforest So glad to hear your pup is doing well, even if the chicken aren't happy about it I remember your posts when he was very poorly.

@lazzaroo Our lab pup is 9 months and can still get OTT and mouthy (especially with DH) when overtired or overstimulated. I try and fit some time in the day when there's nothing for Biteypup to do than nap. If she thinks I'm up to anything at all, she wants to be part of it - even if it's as mundane as emptying the bin I will use a house line still in the evening if I know she's had a busy day and she might start getting mouthy and jumping about on people on the sofa. It makes it so much easier to deal with her without manhandling her.

[BiteyMcBiteFace]

This is a recent photo of Biteypup in full adolescent mode

[heatseeker14]

@BiteyMcBiteFace, she looks like she is full of beans! 😁 Love it when dogs pull crazy faces. When my pup is in full crazy mode he wriggles on his back and pulls a funny, toothy clenched grin. Reminds me of the Ridley Scott film Aliens! 😂

His hormones have now properly kicked in. Bought him a new bed the other day. He hasn’t slept in it once, but he has been humping it a lot. 🙄 If I throw a toy for him, he will fetch it a couple of times then he will furiously bonk his bed. This seems to only happen in the evening at the moment. I know we shouldn’t laugh, but yesterday we were literally crying with laughter because he looked so funny. So determined and was literally beaming with happiness afterwards. 🤣 Today I have my serious head on and need to make sure I try to prevent it becoming a habit. Think we will get him castrated soon. Planned to wait until he was 9 months old, but I’m not so sure now. We delayed getting him done because I was worried about it affecting his growth. I think he has stopped growing now, but I have read that neutering can fix a dog at a mental age. Is there any truth to this? I obviously don’t want him stuck in teenage mode for a long time haha.

[Girliefriendlikespuppies]

Heat I've been told it can cause a few problems getting them done young including making them more anxious. I think we'll wait until he's at least a year... out boy has one of dds old soft toys that he likes to take off for some serious bonking 😳

[Fizzlestix]

Our vet said for our girl that we should do her before first season. Basically the reduction in types of cancer outweighs the increase chance of anxiety / other issues in his opinion
We’ve not booked anything yet though. And I know lots of people disagree with him. He’s encouraged we do our own research and see what we think
I don’t even know when we should expect her first season

We thought getting a girl would mean no bonking, but since we picked her up at 8 weeks old, she’s always been a bit partial to a particular fluffy bed or a foot...

[heatseeker14]

@Girliefriendlikespuppies and @Fizzlestix, it’s good to know I’m not the only one with a frisky puppy! I had to remove the new bed in the end. He never slept in the blasted thing anyway. 🙄 He tried bonking my arm instead, but I politely declined his advances. 😂
He has had the zoomies on and off the last few days. Charging around the garden like a mad thing. Seems restless and bored, even though he has had plenty of exercise and brain games. Had to make a point of ignoring him a fair bit today to get him to relax.

[ValedictoryMessage]

I'm ready to hand mine back to the breeder ... if the rest of the family would let me.

Seems to suffer from intense FOMO and the hour of being an absolute terror in the morning makes it impossible to do anything else. 12 weeks.

[heatseeker14]

Sorry to hear you’re having a tough time, @ValedictoryMessage. It is overwhelming when they are very small. My puppy would want to follow me everywhere. He cried when I popped upstairs for a few minutes. He came to the toilet with me. I found it intense and very intrusive. 😄 He is now 7 months old and so much better. I found ignoring him and flitting about worked. He mostly gets the message now. Still follows me it’s just not as intense!

[ValedictoryMessage]

I keep thinking she’ll be better by Christmas....

[Fizzlestix]

I should maybe be in the adolescent group now, I’m not sure
She’s 5 months and Im just wondering if anyone’s experienced the same thing..
We have a perfectly house trained dog through the day.
But at night, about once or twice a week she has an accident in her bed.
I don’t know when it happens, but she wakes up about 2-3 hours earlier than she normally does and doesn’t seem keen to go near it.

Everything I’m reading says it’s a medical issue like incontinence or uti And dogs should absolutely not want to go in their beds.

But most nights she can hold it for 12+ hours (her choice)
And if she wakes up and cries we never leave her there, it’s just as long as it takes someone to get to her (less than a minute - and I know she can normally hold it that long as other nights even if she sleeps for 10-12 hours, if I gave her the option of then snuggling in my bed or going outside she’d hold it!)

Do I need to be worried? Google says yes but I think the dryness all the other nights and during the day says it’s not incontinence or uti?!

[Nojeansplease]

Let me start by saying I’m far from a doomsday prepper
Even Italians are able to go food shopping still and in wuhan they’re having food delivered, so I’m not worried for us,
But the supermarkets round here don’t really do much, if any, puppy food.
So I’m going to stock up on that in case we get sick and can’t go out.

Is anyone else doing any other covid prep for your puppies? We have a lively little one and if we can’t do the walks and exercise dpup is accustomed to, He may be unbearable to live with...especially if we’re sick!
May have to buy a few new toys to hold back!