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It took my wife about 8 years to talk me into getting a dog. Finally cracked. I like dogs but also know how busy we are. Should be interesting.
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Awesome! The suggestion would just be to go outside with him frequently. Like every 30 min to start. Don’t come in until he goes. Remove water from the equation 2 hours before you want to go to bed. Gradually increase the time in between trips outside.
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Yeah, this is good. Consistency is key... Do the hard work for the first 6 months and coast on easy street after that.
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#1 mistake people make is giving too much freedom too soon.
With mine, I used a playpen that attached to his crate. Make sure you get a divider, either one that the crate came with or a cardboard box or something. At first, they should only have enough room to stand up and turn around, and that's it.
Even when you start letting him out of that playpen at times, don't give him full run of the house right away. Only allow him access to one room at a time, or even just part of a room. The area that they see as their 'den' where they shouldn't do their business expands gradually.
Figure on one hour per month of age as the maximum time they can hold it. When you take him out, as soon as he's done doing his business, give him pets, good boys, and a treat. I used these treats when I was training mine. Really, it's good to have some small treats that you can keep in your pocket at all times.
HomeGoods, Marshall's, and TJ Maxx are good for cheap pet supplies, and of course there's always Amazon and Chewy.
Zak George is a dog trainer on YouTube with tons of great videos. In particular, he's got a video series called The Dog Training Experience where he himself got a new puppy. It starts from day one when he brought the new puppy home and goes through all of the training - and setbacks - he went through when training his new dog until it was like a year old, so you can follow along as your dog gets older.
With mine, I used a playpen that attached to his crate. Make sure you get a divider, either one that the crate came with or a cardboard box or something. At first, they should only have enough room to stand up and turn around, and that's it.
Even when you start letting him out of that playpen at times, don't give him full run of the house right away. Only allow him access to one room at a time, or even just part of a room. The area that they see as their 'den' where they shouldn't do their business expands gradually.
Figure on one hour per month of age as the maximum time they can hold it. When you take him out, as soon as he's done doing his business, give him pets, good boys, and a treat. I used these treats when I was training mine. Really, it's good to have some small treats that you can keep in your pocket at all times.
HomeGoods, Marshall's, and TJ Maxx are good for cheap pet supplies, and of course there's always Amazon and Chewy.
Zak George is a dog trainer on YouTube with tons of great videos. In particular, he's got a video series called The Dog Training Experience where he himself got a new puppy. It starts from day one when he brought the new puppy home and goes through all of the training - and setbacks - he went through when training his new dog until it was like a year old, so you can follow along as your dog gets older.
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FWIW our last dog named gus turned out to be a psychotic head case and got a bullet. Thoughts n prayers
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I had somebody use the analogy of "would you let a toddler just roam the house free?"
I am a fan of this guy... He is a former police dog handler. Now he charges 10k for you to send your dog to him and train him for 4 weeks. He is a balance trainer not a positive only. So the fact he has like 100 youtube videos I take that all in.
I also agree with if you buy a big crate for its adult size make sure you shrink it by a divider, box, etc.... Just enough space for it to turn around and lay down. Other wise you will see the dog pee and poop in a corner and lay on the other side. Then once it does that it will associate it with going to the bathroom in the crate and it is harder to break.
Also, if it cries in the crate be careful not to positively reward it by giving it attention.
I also am a believer that in the crate you need to teach crate manners. It is the easiest spot to start to teach a stay and free command.
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They are all psychos good luck
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We did divide the crate to make it smaller. He's about 2 months old so every 2 hours seems to track.
Last night was his first night at the house and honestly it was a lot like a baby. We kept the crate in our room and I took him out at 9 PM and then he slept in the crate until 11, then 1:30, 4 and then about 6:15 he was up for the day.. Every time he'd whine a little, My wife or I would take him outside, do his business and then he'd go back to his crate and sleep. He just wanted to make sure someone was in there with him when he'd go back in the crate and then he'd fall asleep.
My worry is today, I'm out of the house, wife and kids are there and he's going have too much freedom.
Last night was his first night at the house and honestly it was a lot like a baby. We kept the crate in our room and I took him out at 9 PM and then he slept in the crate until 11, then 1:30, 4 and then about 6:15 he was up for the day.. Every time he'd whine a little, My wife or I would take him outside, do his business and then he'd go back to his crate and sleep. He just wanted to make sure someone was in there with him when he'd go back in the crate and then he'd fall asleep.
My worry is today, I'm out of the house, wife and kids are there and he's going have too much freedom.
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I highly recommend this stuffed animal: Stuffed animal with heartbeat . We used to foster a lot of puppies where I used to live and it was a game changer for bed time.
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Highly recommend “Place” training. It’s relatively easy to train, and it’s made this whole puppy thing 100x easier, whenever he’s getting in the way, too wound up or I just need to keep him calm I just say “Place” and he hops up on this little platform in the corner of our kitchen and won’t leave it until I say “Okay”.
Then once he had that down, I can point at any space (I.e a seat in my truck, a towel in the duck blind, a bench at the dog park, my tailgate) and say “Place” and he sits his happy ass down there until I release him.
I’d never heard of it until I started training the pup I got a couple months ago and now it feels like I found some ultimate dog hack
Then once he had that down, I can point at any space (I.e a seat in my truck, a towel in the duck blind, a bench at the dog park, my tailgate) and say “Place” and he sits his happy ass down there until I release him.
I’d never heard of it until I started training the pup I got a couple months ago and now it feels like I found some ultimate dog hack
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Why not just get 2 dogs.
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Sometimes we had had multiple puppies but it really varied.
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Might as well buy a boat and post your SSN in the internet since you're in a making terrible decisions mood
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I got lucky with mine. I'd put his crate next to my bed, and he had no trouble sleeping at night even when I first got him at 7 weeks old. Only problem was that he consistently wanted to get up right at the crack of dawn, lol. Ended up partly covering his crate with a blanket so that the sun wouldn't shine in on him until later in the morning.
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He was a pandemic pup, I wasn't doing any shooting when he was a puppy. These days, though, he's a total attention whore and often won't shut up and let me work during a shoot. Or he'll start whining when I'm trying to snuggle with someone, like dude, do you mind, you are totally killing the mood here, lol. In hindsight, I kinda wish I'd had more chance to have people over when he was a puppy, just to get him more used to it.
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Based on some of the pictures I wouldn't be shocked if he was in some of the shoots.
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