My gf and I had discussed the idea of a new dog in the household. Our two dogs are 6 and 7 years of age, and a younger companion seemed like a good idea. So I surprised her with this lil girl. Both of our current dogs, as well as many prior dogs have been adults.
We have the puppy book written by Monks (that’s as good as I can describe the book, but I’m sure there aren’t many that fit that description) as well as a few others.
So far, she has been in our home 24 hours and has zero accidents! Not bad for 8 weeks.
As much as I am against breeding in general, the people that produced this puppy have already scheduled the parents for spay/neuter. They have done a great job for the pup’s first 8 weeks.
See this is the reason I’m really happy Mr.Moon doesn’t read here. He’s already hinting that a 3rd dog would be a good idea. I love our two but there is already almost no room for me in our bed
Well, in these days of carbon offsets…I just got a call from my gf. She feels way better after calling in a donation to the shelter Ella (our big dog) came from.
And I just completed scheduling Kali for her booster vaccine and spay.
You know how when a puppy is all laid out on your stomach and chest and just kind of in-between awake and asleep, and they just lay their muzzle out straight and just kind of…sigh, like they’re exactly in the place they absolutely want to be?
I miss that so much. Adult dogs (or at least our adult dog) don’t seem to do that.
I like how in the first pic the big dogs are all “wandering the yard. our yard. may be people here, may be not. we don’t care.” and the puppy is all “HELLO! I WANT TO WATCH YOU! WHAT IS THAT THING YOUR HOLDING UP?! I LOVE YOU! HELLO!”
Maybe you need a pit bull! Simone does that all the time, and she’ll be 4 some time this summer.
Praise, praise, praise when she does! And get back up and take her out every time you start to feel comfortable. Those are the two great rules of housetraining.
Also, an hour per month of age. It’s a decent guage of how long she’ll be able to hold it. I know Daisy started getting through the night without having to be taken out at shudder 2AM at about 8 months. Luckily, for me, we got her at 14 weeks, so it was really only about 4 1/2-5 months that we had to get up in the middle of the night. Shorter than for an actual child, anyway!
Can’t a girl get some privacy? I love that look on her face.
I’ve heard that larger breeds are easier to housebreak. When we first got Sadie, at 8 weeks, my husband would take her outside first thing in the a.m. – he wouldn’t even bother to put any clothes on. Sadie would wake him up with a lick, and he’d grab her and run downstairs and out to the yard. Good thing we don’t have close neighbors, and good thing it wasn’t winter.
I still look back on those 5 or 6 months as the months of hell. All I really remember of that whole time period is standing with a flashlight in the backyard begging Daisy to do her thing so I could go back into the warm house and sleep.
