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• #6052
Make sure you and whoever else walks the pup are really consistent with the training. Using exactly the same commands and rewards every single time, regardless of who's doing the training. It made loads of difference when we got Crumpet, loads quicker.
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• #6053
Thanks, will bear it in mind. Have ordered the book.
Helps that my missus has had the same book recommended I think.
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• #6054
I'd like to introduce the forum to Snoopy.
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• #6055
Congrats!
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• #6056
Lovely and clearly at that fall sleep anywhere stage!
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• #6057
Snoop Dog to his mates? Cracking little fella, but he'll wake up soon...
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• #6058
He's been awake lots. Loves to play and also snuggle.
He's a smart little chap so going to be a challenge.
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• #6059
Awesome!
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• #6060
Night 1 as expected. Did not want to go in crate to sleep. Lots of sitting with but not engaging through the night.
He's bloody awesome though.
Not sure this is the best weekend for me to go to the peaks for the weekend and leave my wife alone with him
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• #6061
Looking after our neighbour's dog for a few days while they're away - lovely little border terrier. A bit needy when indoors, really good with other dogs, energetic, good recall.
Issue is, in 2 years of living next door, I have never once seen them walk the poor lad, other than a couple of times when we've gone out as families. I'm told they get a dog walker in at lunchtimes, but have never seen it. They certainly never take him out morning or evening. And we've only got small gardens round here.
Mrs really doesn't like the dog, Mr plans on giving him back to his ex when they emigrate in a year or so. They only keep him because their 16-yr old is supposedly so bonded to him - but she never leaves her room and the dog's not allowed upstairs, so how that works I don't know. No wonder he's needy - he's never exercised and gets treated like inconvenient furniture - it's a wonder he's as well-behaved as he is.
tl;dr - people don't deserve dogs
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• #6062
I dont understand folk this, if peanut isnt walked twice a day unless its raining. He is the unlimited pain in the backside plus a walk I treat as his time to fuck about and smell the planet like he does.
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• #6063
Struggling with our new pup as I was away for a few days and my wife has decided that night times are "let him cry it out".
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• #6064
Are you talking about barking?
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• #6065
I think Easy Peasy Puppy Squeezy by Steve Mann covered this, suggesting it was a bit of an old- school approach. Shout if you don't have this book and I'll try and dig out that section.
It's a hard one, I'd argue crying it out doesn't necessarily make for a happy puppy and you could take a more positive reinforcement/ease them in approach.
We slept on a blow-up mattress next to ours for that initial period. Could have probably pulled away quicker but similarly we had differences in opinion.
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• #6066
What's the current setup? You got the pup in a crate overnight?
Edit – just read your earlier posts. We didn't do it, but I think in the Steve Mann book you have them in with you initially (in a crate, same room as you) and move them further away as time goes on.
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• #6067
This is what I've been suggesting to my wife but not getting anywhere. She's decided old school or bust. I just think that's setting us up to fail.
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• #6068
Cry it out with children doesn’t mean “break them”. It means let them cry, see if they settle themselves, if it escalates or stays the same go back in and reset.
In dog related stories it took nearly a month of getting my dog into her crate and sleeping without getting upset. It took my wife to say “enough” and put the dog to bed. It went to bed that night and that was that.
We had a pre season and a season and the dog needed reassurance but went back in when settled.
We’re on holiday now and she’s out of her crate and I’m sleeping on the sofa while she sleeps on the floor. Hoping it’ll go back to normal when we get back.Given my kids still (!) need reassurance at night and almost always need someone to help settle them (13 &7) or visit us in the middle of the night, this seems normal.
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• #6069
I found with ours that we had to do the training in stages. When we first got her she was pretty stressed at the change, and 'proper' training (including separation at night) had little effect as she just became distressed. We had to use the first couple of months to build the relationship/connection and get her comfortable in our house. We'd generally sleep in the same room.
Once she started being settling in, she also started responding to us more, and training got better. We stopped sleeping in the same room, and focused on teaching her to settle herself. At some point here we did start leaving her to cry herself out (or tell her in no uncertain terms to go to bed and shush), but by this point we were dealing with her wanting to be around us, rather than needing to be, and she would settle.
It's a process, and what works can change. It's just finding the best way on a given night/week/month.
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• #6070
First full day "working" from home and managing Snoopy, it's certainly more fun than the millions of tea/coffee breaks I usually have.
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• #6071
Very cute
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• #6072
three weeks till new (first) dog day. Yikes.
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• #6073
Stock up on sleep!
Congratulations.
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• #6074
What are you getting?
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• #6075
I left Dolly asleep in the summerhouse and went out for a ride. Came home to find Dolly sat on a now very dead pigeon eating it’s head. Cue me chasing Dolly round the garden trying to get it off her. Oh what larks!
Enjoying the Flohmarkt and begging for treats. Cola is to try and cure my hangover
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