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!st Night with a puppy
Anticipatiing our first night with a puppy I suspect it will be hard
for it missing its Mom and siblings. We plan to put it in our family room and I thought I'd spend some time with it to avoid the crying but my wife thinks I'm spoiling it and it will want company every night . Am I being too soft headed ? Love to hear any comments on your 1st night with your puppies. |
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On Mon, 30 May 2005 23:10:17 -0400 Chief Tecumseh whittled these words:
Anticipatiing our first night with a puppy I suspect it will be hard for it missing its Mom and siblings. We plan to put it in our family room and I thought I'd spend some time with it to avoid the crying but my wife thinks I'm spoiling it and it will want company every night . Am I being too soft headed ? Love to hear any comments on your 1st night with your puppies. Providing what the puppy needs will not be "spoiling" it. It would be instinctive for the pupy to be very frightened if left alone. A reasonable set up is to have one crate in your bedroom next to the bed and a second crate in whatever room you spend the most time in. The puppy goes in the crate and you dangle a hand or soemthing in its vicinity so that it knows it is not alone. Raising a puppy in this way does not create dependence later. It creates confidence that it will be protected and kept safe and thus more likely to be independent later. As the puppy matures it can adjust to a bed on the floor. Very often at the dog approaches maturity it will take up the habit of sleeping in a place of protection e.g. across the front door, or across the top of the stairs. This would often be at 18 months to two years although mental maturity varies quite a bit, -- Diane Blackman http://dog-play.com/ http://dogplay.com/Shop/ |
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Chief Tecumseh said in rec.pets.dogs.breeds:
Anticipatiing our first night with a puppy I suspect it will be hard for it missing its Mom and siblings. We plan to put it in our family room and I thought I'd spend some time with it to avoid the crying but my wife thinks I'm spoiling it and it will want company every night . Am I being too soft headed ? Heh. Soft *hearted*. Actually, I'd go one further and keep the puppy in your bedroom in her crate - this serves a number of purposes, the most important of which is bonding time. As a bonus, you'll be there to hear her fuss when she needs to pee (guaranteed to be at 2am) and get a good start on her housetraining. Love to hear any comments on your 1st night with your puppies. After making the mistake 16 years ago of confining my new puppy to a different room at night (but only her first night), I've never isolated a new-to-me dog again, nor will advise it. BTW, you didn't respond to posts in your similar, earlier, thread. You'll find that you get more fleshed-out responses when you provide feedback to the advice you've requested. -- --Matt. Rocky's a Dog. |
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On Mon, 30 May 2005 23:10:17 -0400, Chief Tecumseh
wrote: Anticipatiing our first night with a puppy I suspect it will be hard for it missing its Mom and siblings. We plan to put it in our family room and I thought I'd spend some time with it to avoid the crying but my wife thinks I'm spoiling it and it will want company every night . Am I being too soft headed ? Love to hear any comments on your 1st night with your puppies. Around here, puppies spend their first night in a crate next to my bed. They "graduate" to the whole bedroom, where they sleep every night for the rest of their lives. -- Janet B www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/bestfr...bedience/album |
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"Rocky" wrote in message ... Heh. Soft *hearted*. Actually, I'd go one further and keep the puppy in your bedroom in her crate - this serves a number of purposes, the most important of which is bonding time. As a bonus, you'll be there to hear her fuss when she needs to pee (guaranteed to be at 2am) and get a good start on her housetraining. Since Bodhi has taken over the spot between my bed & the wall (leftover from where his puppy crate was kept), I will be trying to rearrange my bedroom these days. And Coda sleeps on the bed most nights, or the couch near the door other nights... I've been trying to make a space for a new crate... I don't keep crates in the house now, since the boys are grown, responsible and get along wonderfully, but it's a must-have for baby puppies! Shelly (Making room for a potential New Addition this coming fall--just waiting to hear that the breeding took!) & The Boys |
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Chief Tecumseh wrote in
: Anticipatiing our first night with a puppy I suspect it will be hard for it missing its Mom and siblings. We plan to put it in our family room and I thought I'd spend some time with it to avoid the crying but my wife thinks I'm spoiling it and it will want company every night . Am I being too soft headed ? Love to hear any comments on your 1st night with your puppies. One thing that is handy to do (whether you put the crate in your room or somewhere else) is to take a pop bottle (1L or 2L), fill it with hot water and wrap it in one of your t-shirts, then put it in the corner of the cage. Make sure that the t-shirt is thick enough that the outside is warm (not hot). I know that it worked for Moogli when we had him as a puppy. We would change it every time that I took him out for a walk. I would have to second (or is it third or fourth...) the recommendations to have the puppy in the bedroom with you. It will be able to smell you and hear you, which will give it a great deal of comfort. -- Marcel and Moogli http://mudbunny.blogspot.com/ |
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Thanks all for your responses. My wife still doesn't agree. So we
are going to take it to the Judge in the case that's the breeder. On 31 May 2005 14:10:42 GMT, Marcel Beaudoin wrote: Chief Tecumseh wrote in : Anticipatiing our first night with a puppy I suspect it will be hard for it missing its Mom and siblings. We plan to put it in our family room and I thought I'd spend some time with it to avoid the crying but my wife thinks I'm spoiling it and it will want company every night . Am I being too soft headed ? Love to hear any comments on your 1st night with your puppies. One thing that is handy to do (whether you put the crate in your room or somewhere else) is to take a pop bottle (1L or 2L), fill it with hot water and wrap it in one of your t-shirts, then put it in the corner of the cage. Make sure that the t-shirt is thick enough that the outside is warm (not hot). I know that it worked for Moogli when we had him as a puppy. We would change it every time that I took him out for a walk. I would have to second (or is it third or fourth...) the recommendations to have the puppy in the bedroom with you. It will be able to smell you and hear you, which will give it a great deal of comfort. |
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Chief Tecumseh said in rec.pets.dogs.breeds:
Thanks all for your responses. My wife still doesn't agree. So we are going to take it to the Judge in the case that's the breeder. You should consider that this maybe isn't the right time to get a dog. -- --Matt. Rocky's a Dog. |
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