So now we just cleared night three with Bailey. I read some great information here about teething and about soaking a wet washcloth with chicken broth and freezing it. Bailey had cried through the first hour and I gave up on the crate.
Last night I used the frozen washcloth with the chicken broth and made sure she pottyed outside with number one - took up the water one hour before bedtime moved the kennel away from the bedroom - and Bailey slept through the night. She was very happy this morning and pottyed first thing outside and was awake when I went to get her. I love the website dogdailystar.com !!
Relieved!
Glad to meet Bailey!
It sounds like Thelma is doing great. She has a busy active life I tried the gentle leader and it does help but it was annoying to me for some reason. I guess I like a sleep lead that I can just stick on them and go. I use a rope kind.
As far as getting her to walk on the leash without pulling. She won't pull on her own but she does pull when she is "competing" with Katniss to be in front. BUT if I give her a tug she'll slow down for a small while and then she starts pulling again.
So I just keep tugging and occasionally I'll give her a treat on the left side next to my knee to remind her to stay there.
I also learned "easy" and "hurry" in Kat's class and I taught peaches that. It is so easy to do just run and say hurry and slow down and say easy. They pick it up fast. So when she is pulling sometimes I say easy and she'll slow wayyyy down.
I agree, it is annoying with the pulling but I'm sure eventually they will do better.
Oh btw how many teeth are falling out? I noticed that Peaches has lost a lot of teeth and she has a mouth full of holes! She never went through any crazy chewing phase so I just happened to look in her mouth and there were all the holes! Maybe (hopefully not though) She'll chew more when the molars are coming in?
she also just got super affectionate with us. Like getting all in our faces to give snuggles. We love it!
Shelby, we actually pulled one of Thelma Lou's teeth yesterday. We were looking in there and half a dozen or so were just hanging all wonky so we decided to see if one would come out. Sure enough, right into my hand. Then that afternoon we noticed she had lost a few more. Not the infamous canines yet-the vet says closer to 8 months for those?
Here's the picture of the day, taken after her tutoring session. We had a good lesson today-worked on greeting people when they come to the door. She did well at the time, but our neighbor kid just came over and she was like, forget that good behavior stuff! I've got to jump on him and I'm POSITIVE he wants to pet me! :-/ Baby steps.....
Just got back from a trip to snow country with my girls. Hanna got a chance to play in the snow and visit the facility that my mother lives in to see all of the residents. She did great on the 20 hour drive up and back.
Took her to the vets yesterday for her 16 week parvo booster. She was 27.4 lb. She is doing well with her training but with the trip, we have had a setback as far as the housebreaking. It feels like we are starting over.
This is our wee golden nugget, Dug, just a few days ago. He carries 1/2 lb garbanzo beans in each side of his pack, and as he grows, I will work up to a little more weight. A week ago today, at his last vet app, he was 36 lbs and noted as being healthy. He's very smart and sweet, but can be rather testy at times, but he's still just 18 weeks old (in 3 days). We're working with him in regards to him displaying aggression over chew treats~ the lady who teaches obedience class has been such a blessing with this and gave us excellent guidance and support. He attends obedience classes once per week, he's the largest pup in the class, and is liked very much by everyone, humans and dogs. Dug and I take long, daily walks. My other half and I are not morning people, so it came as a pleasant surprise when Dug started sleeping as late as 9am instead of 6:30'ish, a few times he even slept until 10, and once 10:45am! I kept checking to make sure he was still breathing, like a panicked new mother. He's such a wee wiggle butt whenever he see's someone, and he's a regular at our local Home Depot, where everyone knows his name and the female staff there rush over to shower him with affection.
What a cutie pie!
What a relief to hear that other October babes are having house breaking issues too! Bailey is being a bit of challenge too. A sneak! I turn my head and there's a wet spot on the carpet! Dang it! Two steps forward and one tinkle spot back!
Otherwise we are making huge training steps forward. Bailey is totally getting it. We are working towards Bailey being my new service dog.
She is so smart!
We play games like putting a ball under bowls and she has to find it. What fun!
Hanna doesn't even have the decency to wait until I turn my back. She will squat and pee if I am looking right at her.
I think that the travel was a great experience in socialization for her, but it set me back in the housebreaking department.
I only got her at 12 weeks and at 14 weeks we headed out for a 20 hour drive to Maine. While in Maine, we did stay with my brother but we also took her from house to house. She was rarely alone and not really given the opportunity to have accidents. Once we got back it took a week just to get back to normal. So, here we are at square one. She has it kinda backwards though. She will pee in the house and then go to the door. :doh:
It is a good thing she is so cute.
I have enrolled her in the star puppy class. She starts next week. I wish that I could have gotten her in earlier but our trip prevented that.
Bell training? I need to learn how to do this. Where and how?
I started to look for it and saw that you used a cat toy. I'm working on the word 'touch' and 'outside' but it seems that I'm talking to a blank wall at this point.
hints? What did you do? Thanks so much for anything that would help me~
I put some bells on some ribbon and hung them on the door. Then every we took her out, we would ring the bells. Then we showed her how to hit them with her nose. She picked it up within 2-3 days. She does sometimes ring them when she just wants to go outside, but we can usually figure out the difference between her needing to go or her just wanting to go out.
Sheldon will be 6 months old on September 7 and he was a bell trained puppy.
We had Christmas bells on our front door and he used to ring them whenever he
needed to go out. Then he started to ring them all the time so we took them away.
So be careful once the pup is bell trained I don't know how you break the habit if
he continues to ring the bell all the time to go outside.
Well. This morning - Bailey went out and did her business - then came in and I was on the 'puter checking email and Bailey was looking out the window - then I heard 'scratch scratch' on the window -lo and behold it's it's my lil' rascal Bailey wanting out!
I think this is the first step to wanting to be let out to potty - at least I will use this scratch scratch to make it the first step without using a bell - teehehee!
I like to think this is a smart girl - now Allie just stands there and and waits for me to let her out.
Libby is so pretty. She reminds me of my Milla. She's only 3 weeks younger, but I'm looking at the size difference and wondering if she's going to be that big in 3 weeks. Lol.
I havent weighed Libby recently but I think shes around 38 or 39 lbs. She definitely has been slowing down recently in growth, but yeah... these growth spurts are making her so long and lean!!! LOL
Hanna won't be 5 months till the end of the month but here are some recent photos. It is very hard to get a photo of her without her big sister and best friend, Alli. Alli is almost 8 months.
Thanks for the compliments for Libby. I wasnt expected such a pretty golden, because her mom and dad didn't look like show dogs by any means. I picked her litter because of the mom's sweet docile temperament and because its not everyday you can get a golden around here. But I think she must have gotten both of her parent's best traits.
I could be biased....
But I think all our pups could be show pups!!
Here are some photos of Hanna's first day at star puppy class. She has a new friend. He is a Bernese Mountain Dog and his name is Odie. They had a great time tonight.
Here are some photos of Hanna's first day at star puppy class. She has a new friend. He is a Bernese Mountain Dog and his name is Odie. They had a great time tonight.
The funniest part of their encounter was that he was a male and she has never met a male dog before. She spent a lot of time underneath him checking out his parts.
Hi all with October pups!
I've started letting Bailey out of her crate withOUT her leash on her - I know more brave!
She has been being better about her potty habits and I have keeping her entertained with ice cubes and carrots so I know where she is and she will stay in one place for more than 30 - no 1 second!
HAHA - the one thing I find hilarious is TV - I DVR the show "Smash" and Bailey will watch it with me. I mean really WATCH it with me. She stares at it! It's so funny. Does anyone else's pup watch TV the same way? It seems Bailey loves TV and seems to love the commercials with either dogs and/or cats too. Really cute to watch except when she starts to bark at the TV.
awwww that is sweet about Bailey watching TV. Once in a blue moon I'll catch them watching but for the most part the girls are super interested in the TV.
Peaches is doing great. She hasn't had a potty accident in two weeks and we got past a storm Tuesday with no accident! She doesn't have any accidents unless there is a storm, which there has been one every week She won't pee when its raining. So this was a big hurdle to get over!!
She has been out of the crate sleeping with us for 3 weeks now. She is amazing, and will lick us when she needs to pee during the night. usually she doesn't have to pee but occasionally she will. We also have been giving her a little more freedom as she earns it. Her recall and self control has gotten 100% better. Its not perfect but it is so much improved, it is definitely more right than wrong.
She finished puppy kindergarten and is enrolled to start the big class at the end of this month. Currently we are going to field training with Katniss and Peaches is getting exposed to hunt and field. She won't pick up the birds yet, though, ha ha.
She has gotten extremely loving and has so many cute little things she does. I can't believe what a sweet girl she is and how smart and well behaved. I couldn't ask for any better.
Today we got a few shots out in the day training. A profile shot of Peaches and a bird shot of Katniss. It was a gorgeous day!
Have you tried filling her water bowl with ice cubes?
Its crazy how much Milla loves ice. I cant use the ice/water despenser on the fridge without her running up and waiting for some. I started to take a big cup and fill it with ice and dump it in her bowl. She LOVES it. She takes a couple across the room and chews on them, then goes back for more. The only problem is that it always looks like she's been swimming in her dish its such a mess around it. Oh well, its worth it
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