What more should I be doing to entertain and tire out my puppy?!

[3AndADog]

She’s a lovely natured 5 month cockerpoo, seems quite easy to train and has some really lovely days, but other days (like today) she just can’t calm down and I am doubting whether she’s getting enough stimulation/sleep/training.

Today we went for a 30 min off lead cliff walk after school run. Then she slept 1.5 hours in her crate while I did supermarket. Then we played for half hour in garden practised some tricks and recall, and I filled a cardboard box with loads of paper and treats and she demolished that. Then I scatter fed her her lunch in the garden. Curled up for an hours nap on the sofa. Played with my mum in the garden while I picked up the kids. Came in the car with me to kids activities and we had a slow amble on a training lead through a field for 30 mins while the DC were dancing. Came home and she’s just not stopped tearing around the kitchen and lounge for last hour and half. Jumping up at counters, jumped up when my MILcame in, zoomies round the kitchen table, stealing cutlery from the kitchen table, scavenging the builders rubbish in the garden and scaring the life out of me with what she finds and tries to eat - it’s just insane. Some days she’ll just settle and sleep off a walk. Days like today I wonder what we’re doing wrong. I know she probably needed more sleep but unless I sit and hold a chew in her mouth and stroke her for half an hour she hasn’t been able to settle.

Is this an ok sort of day, activity wise?

@KurtWilde

He also shows impressive bladder-holding skills when he realises the alternative is going out in the rain

Yep that too, which is particularly clever as other more inopportune times displays the bladder of a 6 week old pup 😂

I'm so glad it's not just mine!

He's a beagle and can run for ages with his pals but take him out in the rain and you'd think he was being tortured

@icedcoffees my eldest dog is 5 and he's a very big rugged boy but if you saw him tiptoeing over puddles so he doesn't get his toes wet.. 😂

@icedcoffees

She sounds hugely overstimulated.

Puppies need around 18-20 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period, and it doesn't sound like she's getting anywhere near that much.

Was coming on to say just this. Sounds over stimulated and nowhere near enough sleep

FrangipaniDog is 3 and just like a small child, if he is over tired, over stimulated or hungry he's a little shit 😂

@FrangipaniBlue

FrangipaniDog is 3 and just like a small child, if he is over tired, over stimulated or hungry he's a little shit 😂

😂

OP I think your answer is somewhere along the lines of you don't need to do more in terms of exercise etc, you need to work on teaching Ddog to be calmer and encourage her/him to sleep more so as to not get wired.

[quote KurtWilde]@icedcoffees my eldest dog is 5 and he's a very big rugged boy but if you saw him tiptoeing over puddles so he doesn't get his toes wet.. 😂[/quote]
Oh yep, mine does this too

The DRAMA this morning when the puddle was the same size as the path and he actually had to walk through it, lol.

We are very novice owners of a 6 month old rescue pup and I think we have realised that he is worse behaved if he doesn't get enough naps or even too long a walk.

In the week when DH is wfh and rest of the family are out he has 2 long naps morning and afternoon after 2x 30-40 min walks but at the weekend he was super badly behaved in the evening zooming around, chewing stuff up, jumping up, mouthing us and we realised it was because everyone was home and he hadn't had a proper rest. He had a longer walk, more playtime and we thought that would be good but it was the opposite.

We decided to put him in his crate with a chew and he calmed himself down and had a long nap. I think he is like my son as a toddler in that he wants all the stimulation goi g but doesn't know when to stop or when he is tired.