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I think that's one of my biggest fears - what if it does? My neighbour had a dog that barked every single minute the owner was out, for it's whole 15 year life, so I keep thinking if I don't somehow teach her to NOT bark when she wants something, she'll keep on doing it.

I recently researched all the insurances companies and ended up with PetPlan based on the "lifetime" cover vs "one year" cover for conditions. Everyone else seems to be underwitten by Holland whereas I think PetPlan are Allianz.

Ah, I'm still exhausted! 4am seems to be the regular wake-up time now, and the past few days she's screamed/barked/cried loudly, even after I've given her a bone to keep her amused. I've never heard of a Pug ignoring a lamb shank in favour of having a tantrum! I said a very sincere (but silent) apology to the neighbours this morning before putting a pillow over my head and going back to sleep, but she worked herself up so much she started to sound like she was choking (and she's not a very snorty pug, she only gets snuffly when shes over-excited). When I got up she was happy to sit at my feet and nom on her bone, or run around the lounge room with it, but not if she was behind her baby-gates or in her crate. I know she's a velcro dog but 4am is not a good time to be screaming the house down, it's not so good for my sanity lol especially not when we meet other pugs out on our walk and they tell us how good their 7 month old is, she just sits quietly until they come get her up in the morning.

90% of the time people ask if they can touch/cuddle/play with my pup and I never say no. They usually say how cute she is and move on, it's the ones who want to stop and chat about the pup that bothers me. Especially if I'm at a cafe having lunch/etc with someone, I think it's rude for someone to interrupt and it falls more into the "don't be overly familiar with strangers" than dog etiquette but it's still an invasion.

The RSPCA can choose to fine you if your dog is injured in an accident and was unrestrained, but the only actual law that exists for car restraints is in the back of utes (NSW, anyway). I understand why people spread the word that it's against the law, but it's still annoying when people misquote things constantly.

Poor little guy! Love the pink bandage though, he suits pink.

I have a Max, which is a very common human name for dogs except she's a girl, not a boy. Whenever I said "her name is Max" people go "oh, Maxine" and it drives me nuts. If her name was Maxine, I would have introduced her as Maxine! She's Max, just Max. Most of the dogs I know from the park have human names - Jack, Audrey, Cruz (ok, that's borderline human!), Tyler, Ace, Ollie. I don't think it's uncommon, but I love the stories people often have for why they named their dog what they did.

I do take her out regularly, and she usually pees when I do (she knows the "bathroom" command), but then will do tiny wees in the house randomly, even 15 minutes after being outside. She likes peeing near my mum, as though she's saying "I peed, aren't you proud of me?" I wonder if it's because she gets lots of praise when she does pee outside, that she thinks she should get praise whenever she pees. She doesn't get anything when she pees in the house, no negative voices, I just silently clean it up. The only time she will happily be alone outside, or anywhere, is if she has food (ie: bones, or a kong) to focus on. Once the food is finished and she realises she's alone, she cries and barks and whines (loudly!). I leave her, and eventually she might wear herself out and fall asleep (like, an hour or two later). She's the poster child for a velcro dog ;)

Hah, my pup now doesn't bite when I have the water spray in my hand. But if I'm sprayless it's game on. Must find something to squirt with that she can't see. And people say Pugs don't learn things quickly! She learns what she wants lol

My pup doesn't poo on the pads either, she only wees. I don't mind so much, as long as she poops outside somewhere, but if it bothers you try leaving some poop on the pad to encourage her, and lots of praise and happy noises if/when she actually does poop on the pad. I know now my pups routine with pooping and take her outside accordingly, so maybe if you notice a pattern (ie: every morning on wake-up, after dinner, before bed) take him out and waitwaitwait until he goes. Take a book, do whatever you have to do, but don't go inside until he does his business. Then lots of praise and treats. dogmad: I'd love to know more about your toilet training method as I'm struggling with my 14 week old. She's on canine country white mix, chicken necks and fresh fruit & veggies (carrots/pears/cucumber as snacks) as well as some yoghurt sometimes. She's walked once a day, sometimes twice but as the sun comes up later and later it's more like once a day. She's also started "tantrum toileting" so when she doesn't get her own way, she looks at me and pees on the floor. Or poops outside my door if I've closed her out to get dressed etc. Little brat! lol However, when I take her out of the crate at night to wee, we go straight outside and she goes on command, she just hardly ever goes outside on her own any other time.

My 14 week old has decided that feet are chew toys, especially when they are walking! I have some lovely bruises from where she grabbed me, and have taken to walking around the house with a spray-bottle because it's the only thing that stops her. Even when she does it in the dark and gets stepped on, it doesn't bother her (black puppy chasing feet + no lights on = not a good combo!) and she keeps going back for more.

My pug pretty much loves everything except lettuce and cucumber. I think they are too watery/tasteless for her because if I dip cucumber into peanut butter she will eat it lol I usually take a carrot out with us if I go to a cafe or something and she will quietly sit under the table and munch away. People are usually amazed that she's eating a carrot and it makes me wonder if people don't generally feed their dogs veggies or fruit?

Yesterday morning she woke at 2.30am and didn't want go back to sleep but after taking her out to pee I put her back in the crate and let her cry it out, which she did for about an hour. Quiet for about 30 mins then started again about 4am. Took her out and put her in the kitchen with her pigs ear, and although she cried a fair bit, she did eventually calm down after about half an hour. This morning - 3.30am pee break turned into her refusing to go back into the crate. I put her in the kitchen with a pigs ear and she cried for a few minutes but not long at all. For the first time in 6 weeks my alarm went off at 6am!!! She was still asleep! I was worried that she wasn't making any noise so crept out to the kitchen and she didn't wake up until I opened the baby-gate. She was fast asleep on her back, in her bed (not the crate, but the soft bed she has in the kitchen). So cute. Maybe I do need to try having her sleep in the kitchen instead of the crate. I just was so keen on having her crate-trained so when she stays at my partners place (or anywhere else) we can take her crate and she will be able to sleep without issues.

When I got her I started her in a pen, but it lasted only a few days before she learnt how to make the whole thing collapse around her by throwing herself at it so we went to just the crate. It is hard with so much different advice, but I figure I'll keep trying things until something seems to work for her. She was exhausted last night, we had puppy pre-school and she ran around terrorising al lthe big dogs so I thought she'd sleep well. She slept until 3.30am when she needed a wee, so I took her out to wee. She went back to bed and woke up at 4.30 and wouldn't go back to sleep. I put her in the kitchen with a pigs ear but she wasn't interested in it, she much prefered to scream and cry.

My pup's favourite chew toys are the non-bone shaped ones. She prefers flat things she can chew on, or soft/squeaky toys (which she shreds and uses as chew toys lol) She's also big on munching rope toys. But get a variety of toys and see which ones she gravitates towards, then stock up on those ones!

Yep, I experimented for a while because she natually falls asleep at my feet around 9pm, so I thought trying to keep her awake and playing for at least another hour or so would extend her sleep time. But nope, she still got up at the same time! Once we were out at puppy pre-school and went for dinner with some friends after, so she didn't get to bed until around 11pm, but still woke at the same time. I have no problem with her being consistent at 5am, but with it slipping to 4am it worries me that soon it will start slipping earlier than 4am!

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That's what I'm hoping! I've had her for around 6 weeks (got her when she was 8 weeks)

Yep, I cover her crate with towels so she can't see out, I discovered early on that she went to sleep much quicker if she couldn't tell if I was in the room or not. She gets all her meals in her crate and willingly runs in when she sees her bowl, but I don't shut the door. Should I try shutting her in while she eats? When do I let her out, because she often needs to go bathroom soon after eating. That's my opinion too. I only worry she will physically hurt herself by bashing at the wire, or that my neigbours will report me for animal cruelty because she sounds like she's being seriously hurt! Sometimes she also works herself up so much that she will puke and that worries me

Thanks Kasey, I saw you linked to this post over in the Pug forum. I find a lot of people say "oh, she's a pug so you just have to live with it because they are stubborn and hard to train", but she's been really good at learning certain things so I don't buy into the sterotypical "untrainanable" thing people keep sprouting at me. I won't put her into my bed to sleep, she's velcro'ish enough as it is, I don't need her even MORE attached lol

This is what I do, I watch TV and watch the sun-rise (probably won't be so much fun in winter lol). It's not the 5am I'm worried about, it's the fact that it seems to slowly be getting earlier and earlier (today was 4.20, yesterday was 4.30, the day before was 4.00, the day before 4.45, one other day was 5, another one 4, etc) whereas until then she had been consistently 5am, even when we were away and in a different house for a week over christmas with her routine all messed up!

I do, sometimes I put her into the kitchen which is puppy proofed/baby-gated and is her room whenever she's left alone during the day. She will cry the same as if she's in her crate, but sometimes if I give her treats (ie: pigs ear) she will munch for about 10 minutes before starting the screaming again. Yep, I have, and no it doesn't unfortunatly. It is high, it's a loft bed! Which is why Puppy doesn't go on it, there is no way for her to get up/down on her own and if she fell it would do massive damage to her.

Puppy does not sleep on the bed for logistical reasons (my bed is 6 feet from the floor, if she jumped/fell off it wouldn't be pretty), but I don't believe that giving her what she wants now and trying to re-train her to something different later would be very helpful? Plus, she doesn't want to sleep when she wakes up, she wants to play.

My pup is 14 weeks old (female pug) and ever since day 1 in my house she's woken up at 5am on the dot (her little internal alarm clock is amazingly accurate!). 5am is annoyingly early, but I've adapted my schedule to her wake-up time and it's all good. However, the last week or so she's decided 4am is an even better time to wake up! 4am is not such a good time to wake up and I refuse to let her get up at that time. She's crated for sleep and doesn't have an issue with it. She goes in without a fuss as long as she's tired and ready for sleep, cries to be let out to pee and goes straight back in when she's done. Sometimes she wakes up twice a night to pee, sometimes once and sometimes not at all. But when she decides she's awake and doesn't want to sleep anymore, she goes nuts. She cries and barks and makes noises like she's being strangled. She also bashes herself against the wire and door of the crate and scratches/paws/chews on the wire. At 4am this isn't so good. She will go on like that for hours if I don't take her out and I don't think it's healthy for her (or me, or the neighbours)for her to be that worked up for so long. When I take her out I make her "sit/stay" for about a minute still in the crate before releasing her, sort of on the thought that she might not associate feral crying with being let out. She rarely goes in the crate apart from night time sleep (she doesn't voluntarily go in there to nap during the day), and occasionally I'll put her in when I need to get something done and not have her underfoot (I needed to mop the floor yesterday, so she went in the crate) but she does the same thing - desperate crying/bashing at the wires. Even if I put her in there with treats (yesterday it was a pigs ear) she ignores it in favour of crying. So, the TL;DR version: I need help getting her to settle down in her crate - especially when she wakes up at 4 in the morning and wants to get out. I've done the "rewarding her every time she's quiet" thing, but she's often actually NEVER quiet (unless she's asleep) so that gets frustrating and tedious. It's not really just the crate she does this in, it happens if she's baby-gated in the kitchen too (or really anywhere she doesn't want to be!), and it doesn't matter if she can see me or not, she still does it. So, uh, help? I've searched and looked through heaps of posts here already but didn't really find anything that helped.

He's adorable, how old is he now? I have a 12 week old black female, Max, and her nickname is demon puppy so I totally understand the devilishness that comes with the blacks :D