New Puppy - what to do overnight

[Wobblyhousebuyer]

Hey everyone, we are soon to welcome our first puppy, but I'm still confused about what to do overnight! Am I setting an alarm, am I sleeping downstairs, am I going to her when she whines, or am leaving her with a puppy pad in her crate to use?! These are all things I've read or been advised and I just dont know what I really should be doing to establish a good routine to build on to get her toilet trained. Any help greatly received. She will be 8 weeks when we get her. Thanks

I agree with @QueenOfToast that you should join Dog Training and Support on Facebook. It’s run by dog behaviourists and they use tried and tested methods. The idea is to follow their advice and it will work.

Can’t recommend highly enough.

I play with mouths as well - it's a good way to stop the puppy nipping. Anytime teeth touch me, my fingers go in and have a little play. A lot of people have issues with puppy teeth, but I never have. Give them bones to chew on and handle mouths when they get mouthy and that seems to stop the teeth.

@Wobblyhousebuyer if she's anything like my westie pup, she'll be a little dervish. He was wild. Running like a maniac of a morning. Me and the cocker would shelter on the couch. He'd go for a nap under the couch from around 11-2 - we were VERY careful not to wake him. Then be boisterous all afternoon. He was just so utterly perfect (and still is).

I crated my pups downstairs where I couldn’t hear them. I did go down halfway through the night to let them out for a wee. And up early to get them out again and start the day. Once they were reliably house trained they still had crates but they were not locked in to them, they had the run of the kitchen/family room. Once we moved it was not possible to keep them downstairs but most of my friends do not let their dogs up to the bedrooms and the dogs seem fine.
My dogs were happy and also never had separation anxiety.

I’m just here for the picture.

Thank you everyone for your advice! I'm not keen to allow her upstairs, but will see how it goes, I'll probably be back saying she sleeps perfectly cuddled up on our bed! Here is a pic of the gorgeous girl...

So first night with mine he slept on one sofa and I slept on the other. He slept from 10:30 pm to 6:30 am. So the next night I put him in his crate and I slept upstairs. Crate had a crate cover. I got up at 6am and he was still asleep. No barking or mess.

He loves his crate, happily goes in it at night and lies down straight away. He’s only 12 weeks so I’m hoping he continues to love it. He puts himself in it if he thinks it’s got too late!

Aww!!! It will be hard but like everything else you'll find your own way. It takes a toll on your emotions and you like me might want to 'accidentally on purpose' leave the door open for her to run away and find a new family - but then all of a sudden you're communicating via just eyebrows and it's the best thing it really is. She's gorgeous 😊

No puppy pads! Ever! Our pup was trained in a few days as we were really hot on toilet training. Crate should be space for bed only. They won't wee on bed so cry to get out at night. My husband slept next to crate for few nights.

One piece of advice only -

Dog Training Advice and Support group on Facebook (the original authentic one that’s NOT a discussion group) - and read the guides. All the guides but especially the Puppy guide.

You’ll soon realise how much of the popular dog advice floating around (such as “start as you mean to go on”, “use puppy pads”, “leave them to cry it out”) is all blooming wrong.

Well,of course, the doggy is absolutely gorgeous
.there are no rights and wrongs,as you see on here, everyone is different..I forgot to mention socialising,my veg of 25 years plus, said he didn't care what I did or didn't do, but socialising was a priority. We live near the beach, previous dogs were terrified. The last 2 were popped in a back pack on our fronts and carried around, the beach,parks,roads,nearby town now allows them in shops before they had had their injections. The theory was ask people to stroke the puppy, we never needed to ask. Get them used to sights,sounds.

My vet!! Blasted interference from phone.