Tassie Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 All puppies should enjoy such "meanness" :laugh: And nothing like a bit of mind boggling to make for good tired puppers :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheridan Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 They didn't wake up until nearly 8.00! No brushing yet. Maybe I'll be mean just before bedtime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdierikx Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Pickles says she's sorry, but couldn't help it... she has so much naughty to share... T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheridan Posted August 3, 2015 Author Share Posted August 3, 2015 Puppy report: don't know why Bunny is weeing inside. Not all the time but after she's been out or done a wee and often just inside the door when the door is open. Roo is like most boys; when something takes hold in his little brain it sticks. He is tapping on the back door to go out, good boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdierikx Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I had a pup that did that... her name was Rebel... lol! They will stop doing it in their own time... T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheridan Posted August 4, 2015 Author Share Posted August 4, 2015 Roo and his lead training! At 4 months he's incredibly strong so walking on a loose lead is imperative. He is okay when there's no smells to be had but gee, there's so many good smells! He pulls a lot and food is not always a distraction. Any tips? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdierikx Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 I used to let my male Rotti sniff and pee at his own leisure for the first 50m of our walks... let him get the first burst of excitement out of his system... T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheridan Posted August 4, 2015 Author Share Posted August 4, 2015 Did you let him pull, though? I have no issue with the sniffing it's the pulling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdierikx Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 He'd pull to get to the spots he wanted to sniff and/or pee on... lol! Once we'd gotten about 50m, it was all business to proper walking. I used a check chain early in the piece to signal him that it's time to walk nicely now... T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheridan Posted August 5, 2015 Author Share Posted August 5, 2015 Today's walk was pretty good. I gave him his head for about half then started shoving food into his mouth every few metres. For the majority of the walk back he was entirely loose lead. Still with the food but progress! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdierikx Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Well done Sheridan! He'll love his walks more if he's allowed to check out some smells and the like for a little bit of the first part... I did find that mine settled down after the initial excitement of being out and about in the big wide world with all the new smells and such... T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seren Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Hi Sheridan, All I can say is Go for it.... when I got my Holly 2 years ago we had already planned on getting another pup and had tracked one down but further away than we expected... I let Holly settle in for 10 days then we went and picked up Lace... Travelling home at first we had them in separate crates but they cried to be together so much we stopped and put them in the same crate... they curled up together immediately and went to sleep until we got home. They were never parted - even when they were desexed the vet laughed that she ended up putting them into the same cage until pickup time as they just wanted to curl up together. I found that potty training 2 of them was no different to training one.. they were probably a bit quicker... (I have had many other pups over the years)... Sadly we had a farm accident when they were 14 months old and we lost little Lace. Holly was inconsolable... and so was I.. So for Holly's sake we bought another puppy... a 9 week old boy ... Holly has such an amazing temprement she took to Harry straight away and mothered him... I am so relieved that I took that plunge and got another puppy after losing Lace... it helped us heal in a sort of a fashion but I will never get over losing Lace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheridan Posted August 6, 2015 Author Share Posted August 6, 2015 Sounds lovely, Seren. I must get the video up of Roo dancing in his sleep. Such funny. We went different ways on our walks last night and they weren't quite sure about any of it. But even when giving him his head, Roo was fairly loose on lead. Bunny pulls as we turn into our street and I think it's because she can hear Roo barking in his crate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdierikx Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Sounds like they are getting the idea now Sheridan... well done! T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheridan Posted August 9, 2015 Author Share Posted August 9, 2015 Our outing today wasn't fabulous. Bunny threw up a lot in the car despite the car sickness tablet. Plus she decided to bark madly at every dog she saw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdierikx Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 I used to skip any meal due before a car trip to reduce vom bombs... T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheridan Posted August 10, 2015 Author Share Posted August 10, 2015 Yep, no food aside from the tiny bit of cheese with thr tablet. She threw up loads and loads of bile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuralPug Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Car sick puppies sometimes will get better if their travelling arrangement is altered - for instance, if they are on a crate in the back seat, try and see if they do not get sick if in a (small) crate in the passenger footwell or anywhere else on the floor. That is somehow due to change in the nature of vibrations. Others may do better if they can see the horizon, which may mean raising their crate on a box or something so that they can see out of the window (not just sky) OR if they can already see the horizon and are sick, then perhaps cover their crate with a cloth so that they cannot see. That has something to do with neural processing of vision and perceived motion. Experiment a little, you might get lucky. She MIGHT grow out of it even if you take no action, but it's probably best to try different things in the hope that one will work so that she doesn't come to have a mental association that car ride = upset tummy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdierikx Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Have you tried peppermint oil on her collar? Just a drop is enough... just make sure it doesn't come into contact with her puppy skin while wet. T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheridan Posted August 11, 2015 Author Share Posted August 11, 2015 I haven't tried that, T. Will have to get some from the market on the weekend. I gave her a car sickness tablet tonight and fed a ginger biscuit. She had some drool but no vomit. We'll be doing lots of car not scary stuff, too, but she has to travel to training twice a week so she will have to get better soon. Plus we have a big trip coming up in a month! I am getting.a Blackhound double crate for the boot. Need to find a solution soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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