Puppy Survival Thread: Surviving into Summer 2022

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Discussion of all things puppy, highlights and pitfalls, good times and bad, successes and failures

Previous thread here

www.mumsnet.com/talk/the_doghouse/4496297-Puppy-Survival-Thread-muddy-footprints-into-Spring-2022

Teenagers also welcome

I'm going away for a conference for 6 days next week. Hope pup copes ok without me.

She's been quite quiet inside the house the past couple of days, might be coming into season again. We're hoping it is as then can get some stuff planned. It's over 6 months since her first one so should be due soon. Then we'll have to start making some decisions about spaying...

@Foxgloveleaf yup, they smell. That's why the dogs go nuts for them!

Our pup loves primula! We also use liver cake cubes that we keep in the freezer. And pedigree Tasty Minis and treats we get with our dog food.

Those pedigree tasty minis mine loves too! The cube ones particularly. I am a mean mum and cut them up smaller though

I also like these fish4dogs treats

www.fish4dogs.com/salmon-bites

A lot of treats often say only feed 1/2 a day, these seem like more realistic quantities for training!

I have a poorly pup today, he woke up at 1am and had horrific D&V and by 6am was totally wiped out and could barely stand…… He’s at the vets on a drip and will be there overnight - they think it’s a horrid gastro infection so he’s on two types of ABs. Probably he’s eaten something yuck 🙄 It was so awful seeing him so poorly so quickly and the house feels empty without him 😢

And a reminder to make me glad we have insurance, vet bill is £1.5k already!!

Oh no @Autumn101 I hope it's a quick recovery. These things always seem to happen out of hours £££

Aww @Autumn101 must feel horrible without him. Hope he's ok. My springer, years ago, dug a corn cob wedge from god knows where and ££££later...!!

Oh no, @Autumn101 ! Poor pup.

Argh poor pup @Autumn101 hope all is ok today. They're little sods aren't they?

@GuyFawkesDay total little sods who we happen to love ridiculous amounts 😂
Waiting to hear how he is this morning and whether he’s well enough to come home 🤞🤞

@Autumn101 Hope he's home safe and sound today! Poor pup :(

@Autumn101 poor pup 😢 hope he’s better soon. The vet bill is horrific, how is it that expensive already 😳

Back home and a very happy waggy pup. A concoction of drugs to take and needs to take it easy for a few days - that will be a mission 😂

@Foxgloveleaf crazy how it just adds up and as it was a weekend it was more expensive. 24 hours on a drip, IV drugs, overnight care, blood tests etc

It’s mental.

@Autumn101 Glad Autumn pup is home and well again.

Hi, I have just discovered these threads as I have a new cocker spaniel puppy (13 weeks today). We're 4 days in and yesterday I genuinely questioned what on earth I had done. I spent the day with puppy blues almost crying as I watched training videos on YouTube. The sleep deprivation caught me off guard the most and I think that made everything feel worse. Although looking at some forums I think actually she is fine, she sleeps in her crate really well and I take her for a wee at 2am and then we get up at 6am. I am just not used to doing that and the first couple of nights I was really paranoid about whether she was ok so I didn't really sleep (she was fine!)

I have spent my whole life with dogs so I thought I knew what it would be like. This is my first dog of my (and DH) own and it's fair to say I actually didn't have a clue what it would be like!

Anyway, I sorted myself out yesterday afternoon, took as much onboard from the videos as I could (there is soooo much to know!) and now feel entirely different. Today as been brilliant so far and I feel like I am now so much more in tune with what pup is going to do next. We can start going on walks on Saturday, and we have been on socialisation trips out in the car and also carrying her around the local area to see lots of different things.
She is completely gorgeous and fun and cuddly, and is now sound asleep in her bed :)

Tomorrow I may feel entirely different, but today at least is a good day.

@Isthislife awww let's see her !

My cocker spaniel is 13 weeks old next Saturday and I've had her for almost 4 weeks. I have had puppies before, 3 in total, it a long long time ago!

I'm fortunate that I work from home but as I also mostly live alone all care is down to me which has felt a little overwhelming at times!

We've got a good routine going and the toilet accidents have been entirely down to me, so I feel we are doing well. I can't get over how much she's grown in such a short time!!

Our first walk is Wednesday - well my son thinks tomorrow, we're not agreeing 🤣 the vet said one week after the vaccination she had last Wednesday.

@Isthislife - I had major puppy blues when we first got our pup. There were a good few weeks were I seriously regretted it. She's now 6 months old and such a wee dote. Very chilled out 99% of the time.

Glad pup is home and better @Autumn101

Last walk for me with my pup this morning until next Sunday. Hope she doesn't miss me too much.

I'm really regretting getting a puppy. Quite honestly if someone lovely came and said I'll give your puppy a good home if hand her over.
She is 14 weeks cocker. I've never had a puppy but had rescue dogs and we have two other dogs. Nothing has been as hard as this. Puppy won't leave the other two dogs alone, it's very stressful and logistically challenging (she is a pleasure otherwise really) . Massive regret I'm hanging on to the hope it gets easier.

Puppies are little demons. There's a reason they're so bloody cute because otherwise nobody would put up with them!

Mine (also cocker) was a bitey nightmare. He was a bugger for nipping the kids and clothes, cried for me constantly if he couldn't get to me and I felt the same.

He's definitely increased my grey hairs but the last few months he's definitely turned a corner and there's far more maturity and less teenage twattery going on.

He's my bestie now, the little arsehole!!

Oh he is lovely! What a smiley face
I really hope I can say we turned a corner as I feel like this is not enjoyable at all. I also feel guilty for not really liking her and putting our other dogs through this.
I'm getting a lot of 'oh, I could've told you a cocker would be really hard work'. Which frankly makes it worse!

Here she is looking like butter wouldn't melt!

This afternoon she finally started going to the back door to show me she wanted to go out. That feels like major progress!

Sounds like things are going really well with your pup. Enjoy your first walk together!