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Puppy Survival Thread: surviving into 2022

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LadyCatStark · 12/01/2022 16:18

The other thread is full and I can’t see a new one! Hope it’s OK to start one. I’m actually barely surviving puppyhood, actually teenagerhood, this week 🤬😡😭.

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Blahblahblah40 · 07/02/2022 11:08

@tizwozliz do you have fields near you for hire? Up here we have a few people who have safe enclosed spaces they hire out by the hour that dogs can run around safely off the lead.

ABitBesottedWithMyDog · 07/02/2022 11:10

That's really tough.

tizwozliz · 07/02/2022 11:20

We've hired out a field a few times already, most recently on Friday. Saturday she had two on lead walks, yesterday she had a longer on lead walk in private woodland. She's used to lots more running about in the woods though.

Blahblahblah40 · 07/02/2022 11:22

Poor pup

Autumn101 · 07/02/2022 11:33

How about any National Trust places? We have one near us that is quiet during the week and only on lead dogs

tizwozliz · 07/02/2022 11:39

The nearest NT place is only a very small area where dogs need to be on lead round the cafe, next nearest is always busy (they have a dog cafe!) and again, only small part of it is on lead only.

tizwozliz · 07/02/2022 11:44

It's great normally, we have lots of quiet places to go where she can be off lead for most of the walk, but they're also places where other dogs are going to be off lead so I don't feel it's fair to take her there even on lead.

Goawayangryman · 07/02/2022 14:06

I think you might end up like a doggy equivalent of the pied piper if you took her to a national trust place with other dogs :) It's really tough, poor little doggo, hopefully it will be over soon!

Aria20 · 07/02/2022 15:58

@tizwozliz what about a garden centre or high street where dogs will be on lead. That's what I did. We didn't go to any fields or woods as didn't want to be accosted by offlead dogs!

TerrierOrTerror · 07/02/2022 16:09

@tizwozliz we did carparks (shopping centres, retail parks, hospital) and also found cemeteries pretty good as they are all strictly on-lead only near here. Industrial estates also good, particularly on weekends as largely empty from traffic so could use the long line.

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LadyCatStark · 07/02/2022 16:44

Does anyone else’s dog have more fun the more minging the weather?? 😂

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Goawayangryman · 07/02/2022 17:48

@LadyCatStark yes of course. If it's horizontal rain and really muddy AND really cold, mine goes bananas. I reckon it's because she runs really hot and has a super-thick coat. Minging weather means less risk of overheating. One old chap I meet on my walks regularly tells me his dog is the same and has far more energy in the cold.

sandwiches77 · 07/02/2022 18:12

Anyone's puppy detecting hormone changes/periods? periods all over the place sandwichpup sniffing my doo-dah Blush when I have my period and jumping up and biting me more

SirChenjins · 07/02/2022 19:05

Hi h yes - ChenPup is very good at period detecting! Blush

I’m not speaking to him tonight. While I was cooking the dinner (after letting him out for a wee which he did) he took himself off to the big coir mat thing we have by the front door in the hall and did several big squishy poos all over it. We only discovered this when DD and DS2 came home, opened the door and stepped in it. Have you ever tried getting trampled dog poo out of a coir mat? Let me tell you, it’s not easy. The whole thing is going to have to come up and replaced with wood to match the rest of the downstairs. Great.

Aria20 · 07/02/2022 20:02

@SirChenjins oh no what a nightmare for you! I remember once my son forgot to shut the door to the hallway and pup got upstairs and did several mushy poos all over the cream carpet in my bedroom and on the landing, she'd then walked in it on her way back down leaving poo paw prints on the stairs and back into the front room! We were in the kitchen at the time and none the wiser until I could smell poo and saw the paw prints and followed the trail! Oh my god it stank and I had to get the vax out of the loft and clean the carpet several times, open the windows etc!

SirChenjins · 07/02/2022 20:11

Oh no!!! 😲😲 what a nightmare, that sounds awful. You have my utmost sympathies. CP hasn’t pooed inside for weeks now, no idea what made him go there tonight. Oh well, onwards and upwards. DS1 and his girlfriend are taking him tonight and keeping him all day tomorrow, I’m very grateful for a bit of a break actually. Does anyone else feel it’s a bit relentless?

ABitBesottedWithMyDog · 07/02/2022 20:33

@SirChenjins ugh nightmare.

We have an old old carpet (just got this house) and an old old lounge suite (inherited). I'd be in tears if it was anything I actually liked that the pup was chewing up and pooing on.

GuyFawkesDay · 07/02/2022 20:47

Oh flip what a nightmare!

I'll make you feel better with the story of my friend who has a French bulldog puppy, now dog. He had the trots, unbeknownst to them. And the robot hoover spread it all over the downstairs. Thankfully it was wood but she didn't know whether to chuck the robot vac, clean it and where to start!!!

Mine is more energetic in the cold but he's a floofball. And he also seems to like getting his fur blown up the wrong way in the wind!!

Blahblahblah40 · 07/02/2022 20:50

@SirChenjins oh gosh poor you. I have a metre strip of carpet tile at my back door for muddy feet and I’m dreading the day he gets the 💩💩💩 have kept spares tucked away incase replacement is required!

@Aria20 nooooooooooooooo

SirChenjins · 07/02/2022 21:23

@GuyFawkesDay

Oh flip what a nightmare!

I'll make you feel better with the story of my friend who has a French bulldog puppy, now dog. He had the trots, unbeknownst to them. And the robot hoover spread it all over the downstairs. Thankfully it was wood but she didn't know whether to chuck the robot vac, clean it and where to start!!!

Mine is more energetic in the cold but he's a floofball. And he also seems to like getting his fur blown up the wrong way in the wind!!

I know it wasn’t funny for your friend at the time but oh my goodness GrinGrin I’ve just read that out to DH and the pair of us were in fits of laughter Grin Your poor friend!!
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LadyCatStark · 07/02/2022 21:25

@GuyFawkesDay our friends had the same experience but they have a collie 🤢.

We’ve had a very windy couple of days and Billy has had the best time zooming around in it 😂. He’s started asking for a walk by putting his paw on me and jerking his head towards the door. As someone who spends most of my working life working with children who are non-verbal, it amazes me how well he can communicate with no words 🥰.

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Aria20 · 08/02/2022 07:50

@GuyFawkesDay ewww what a gross thing. I think if I had a robot vac dog would be scared of it, she doesn't mind normal hoovers at all but she is very suspicious of things like remote control cars that appear to have a mind of their own!

GuyFawkesDay · 08/02/2022 09:18

Mine is scared of the hoover. If I want him to calm down I vac. He slinks off to his crate and looks forlornly out. Mops, however, are fair game and surely just toys?

Off to doggy walking meadow in a few minutes. FawkesPup is just having a powernap so he can really run round like a loon whilst he's there 🙄

Am hoping he will have a bloody good kip afterwards whilst I wash all the mingy dog stuff in my new dog washing bag to stop his hair getting all over the bloody washing machine

tizwozliz · 08/02/2022 09:27

Ada is pretty much the same, I wouldn't say she's scared just wary and she'll take herself off somewhere else if the hoover is on. She used to think the brush was a great game, but since we gave her a spare broom head as a toy it's now possible to sweep with her in the same room!

ABitBesottedWithMyDog · 08/02/2022 09:44

Puppy gets to the highest point, which is the back of the armchair in the lounge, to avoid the hoover. An improvement on our last dog, who used to attack it ferociously when it was going!