Bringing Baby Home......
Your home will be a very strange place to your new puppy.
He is a baby, of course he will be afraid.
Nothing is the same.
The air smells different, the house is different everything.
Be patient.
Consider what you were doing at his age and stop expecting
more from your baby than he can possibly give you.
Till now he probably would have been in a group setting and will find the first
few weeks to be strange and very scary.
Patience!!
I have found that by keeping the baby close to the bed at night I can comfort him when he wakes up in the night, scared and not understanding where he is, without having to walk across the house.
A crate next to the bed for just a week or two is usually enough
to get him through ( with out you loosing too much sleep).
It is not the way everyone does it....but... I will take puppy out to toilet
right before I go to bed and he will stay crated all night.
He must go out the very minute you are up in the morning.
Yes he will poop in his crate over night but only for a short while.
IF you take him straight out with out letting his little feet touch the floor then the second
he gets out side he will go!
I do this for a number of reasons.
If you get up in the middle of the night to take him out, you are teaching him that
you enjoy getting up at 3am and playing with him.
Also it is really dark and cold at 3am and it is not only hard to see your
little puppy in the dark but also very easy for you to NOT see and possible
predotors or other dangers.
I prefer cleaning up poop to the unpleasent alternatives.
TEETHING...........next.
He is a baby, of course he will be afraid.
Nothing is the same.
The air smells different, the house is different everything.
Be patient.
Consider what you were doing at his age and stop expecting
more from your baby than he can possibly give you.
Till now he probably would have been in a group setting and will find the first
few weeks to be strange and very scary.
Patience!!
I have found that by keeping the baby close to the bed at night I can comfort him when he wakes up in the night, scared and not understanding where he is, without having to walk across the house.
A crate next to the bed for just a week or two is usually enough
to get him through ( with out you loosing too much sleep).
It is not the way everyone does it....but... I will take puppy out to toilet
right before I go to bed and he will stay crated all night.
He must go out the very minute you are up in the morning.
Yes he will poop in his crate over night but only for a short while.
IF you take him straight out with out letting his little feet touch the floor then the second
he gets out side he will go!
I do this for a number of reasons.
If you get up in the middle of the night to take him out, you are teaching him that
you enjoy getting up at 3am and playing with him.
Also it is really dark and cold at 3am and it is not only hard to see your
little puppy in the dark but also very easy for you to NOT see and possible
predotors or other dangers.
I prefer cleaning up poop to the unpleasent alternatives.
TEETHING...........next.