Puppy Survival Thread - June/July

[MrsHerculePoirot]

Discussion of all things puppy...

Old thread here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_doghouse/4234193-puppy-survival-thread-may?msgid=108567452

Bought dried sprats for wolfpup yesterday. He seems to love them. Me not so much. Man they stink

@Wolfcub I looked at them the other day and thought no I don't think I can bare the smell

Spudpup did not like the car, so we didn’t go to the pet shop. We had a nice trip to the school gates (in my arms), lots of fuss, then we sat on the tailgate together and watched the world go by, and ate some treats (well, he did). Then we came home. Planning to have some more boot-based world watching sessions on the drive, and make the school run a regular trip as it’s very short and is a fairly benign destination, and we can sit in the car park and just see what’s occurring in the world.

I went to the shop on my own while DH held the fort (Spudpup was out for the count anyway) and got the bits I needed. So was able to start crate training as I have some nice chewy dried chicken strips which he can have in there. He’s meant to have lunch at 12, but he’s falling asleep and has had a chicken strip fairly recently, so I’ll give it to him when he wakes up.

@Wolfcub we tried sprats with Nordpup for the first time this week...she would sell her soul for them! Great for recall.

@ChubbyLittleManInACampervan that is hilarious re the voice mimicking! Can you gate the stairs? We've had to. What breed is she?

Just a word of warning on the sprats- my boy loves them too and I threw them around with gay abandon. I think I overdid it a bit as he had a fairly spectacular stomach explosion! Just be aware they are quite rich. Now I am a little more sparing with them!

Oh god Billy would go insane for sprats 🙈 he wolfs down his sardines once a week!

I can't cope with anything smelly! I have such a sensitive nose. The amount of treats we've bought online for MaeDog and had to bin... the absolute worst was a pizzle... I read on here dogs love them so ordered them. I was nearly sick

@MeredithMae I've bought a pizzle and trachea but saving them for when DH is back in the office as he can't even handle cows ear smell!

[quote Nordstrom]@Wolfcub we tried sprats with Nordpup for the first time this week...she would sell her soul for them! Great for recall.[/quote]
I'm not sure I could cope with carrying them out on walks. All the cats in a 3 mile radius would follow me like the pied piper

@Nordstrom she’s a mongrel, about 75% deerhound though, with some greyhound mixed in, so looks mainly like a deerhound pup (deerhound pups are so goofy with their over sized paws 😁), yes I am looking at a stair gate

And also a pond gate

As today she ran around like a loon and fell into our muddy pond and went under, jumped out again like a mini Loch Ness monster and ran around the house covered in mud

It’s chaos here

Yes they do hum! As do pizzles...but so worth it as it allowed me to have a peaceful (quick) bite of lunch outside a cafe yesterday 😬

I was saying to DH - the pizzle is like the puppy equivalent of an iPad.

@Nordstrom

I was saying to DH - the pizzle is like the puppy equivalent of an iPad.

Haha this is true.

Is anyone allowed to join?

Our 11 week old show cocker came home on Monday.

He's been a (sort of) dream so far although I don't have a clue what I'm doing!

All welcome here!

Welcome @puginamug . My goodness what a beautiful coat your puppy has! 😍

He's very handsome

He's gorgeous @puginamug.

I think the biggest reason for being on this thread is all the cute puppy photos. Plus the good advice about all sorts of issues of course. But mostly cute puppy photos.

Ours is a little chap.

He comes home 1st August so going to join the next thread.

Name wise so far we have:

Murphy (cos he looks like a pint)
Dexter
Hamish
Fergus
Ziggy
Eddie

I like Hamish. It suits him.

I quite like Hamish. Dh was trying to get us to call AwesomePup Hamish, or Humphrey. Dd2 vetoed both of those though, as sounding too "old man"

I like Hamish too.

Spudpup is stretched out on the rug, he looks like he’s been here forever. He was a bit nonplussed today because I had a little weep about dear old Spuddog. I told him it’s because I just wished I could have both of them with me.

He’s a sweet pup though. Clever little cookie too. We’ve had no accidents indoors today (just one near miss, but I saved it!).

@Spudlet sorry I can’t remember what breed your puppy is, mine is a lab and he always sleeps as though he’s been running and just flopped over 😂 mind you that might be because he does a lot of running (and woofing) in his sleep!

He’s a lab too! So funny, aren’t they?

Been up with him since 5,50 but he was clean and dry overnight and clearly desperate to go, so that’s fine… I then weakened and look where he is 😳

I’m going to be that person squashed flat under a gigantic ‘lapdog’, aren’t I…

I regret nothing