I've been having trouble finding advice that's geared towards pups in cities rather than suburbs. I feel like a lot of what's taken for granted in the suburbs doesn't commonly exist in big cities, which makes it tricky to figure out the right puppy raising approaches. (ie yards, personal cars, and training clubs are uncommon or nonexistent in big cities.)
I'd love to hear any tidbits you have on helping a pup understand how to live in a big city.
Items I'm especially interested in:
How to make the puppy comfortable on the bus, including getting on and off the bus stairs. (When my Odin was smaller it was easy enough to carry him on and off, but now that he's 5 months, pretty soon he will be too big for that.) Also, keeping puppy calm when the bus gets a little crowded. There must be some sort of trick for this, since the majority of bus dogs seem to be pretty big, and relaxed, but I'm not sure what if anything their owner did to get them to be such good four legged bus riders.
Getting puppy to settle down in an Uber/Lyft, and not chew on anything. I assume at somepoint we should transition from regular Uber to an Uber XL, but at what pup age/size to do the transition? And is a floor towel really needed? Do you always ask the driver ahead of time if they take dogs?
Pee Pad training. (My pup is great about using his pee pad when he's in his pen, but when he's outside of his pen it never occurs to him to go back to the pen for pee time. Not a big deal during the day time, when he gets taken for walks frequently, but an issue at night when its not safe/feasible to go outside.)
Or anything else that you can think of where the right advice for urban pups is significantly different than it is for suburban pups.
I'd love to hear any tidbits you have on helping a pup understand how to live in a big city.
Items I'm especially interested in:
How to make the puppy comfortable on the bus, including getting on and off the bus stairs. (When my Odin was smaller it was easy enough to carry him on and off, but now that he's 5 months, pretty soon he will be too big for that.) Also, keeping puppy calm when the bus gets a little crowded. There must be some sort of trick for this, since the majority of bus dogs seem to be pretty big, and relaxed, but I'm not sure what if anything their owner did to get them to be such good four legged bus riders.
Getting puppy to settle down in an Uber/Lyft, and not chew on anything. I assume at somepoint we should transition from regular Uber to an Uber XL, but at what pup age/size to do the transition? And is a floor towel really needed? Do you always ask the driver ahead of time if they take dogs?
Pee Pad training. (My pup is great about using his pee pad when he's in his pen, but when he's outside of his pen it never occurs to him to go back to the pen for pee time. Not a big deal during the day time, when he gets taken for walks frequently, but an issue at night when its not safe/feasible to go outside.)
Or anything else that you can think of where the right advice for urban pups is significantly different than it is for suburban pups.