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Thanks! She has suddenly 'woken' up in the last hour... has been running around and playing...and eating her dry food. Its been a long time since I have had an 8 week old pup! might be a different story for us tonight by the sounds of it! lol

Hi! Picked up our new Cavalier pup at 8 weeks yeasterday! I have a 2.5yr old Ridgy x who we began training the moment we got him, he was very food driven so quite easy! Now this gorgeous girl... doesn't seem to be driven by anything except sleep ATM? I've been taking her out for the toilet, with no accidents inside today. Last night she slept in her own in the living room where my boy sleeps. I woke at 4.30 in a panic that she hadn't woken. She was sound asleep, had been to the toilet on her puppy pad but that was it. She woke as I appraosched her, took her out for a wee and she went back I. Her pen, a little whimper and that was it. She is happy to lay and sleep on the grass.. and doesn't seem to need to follow us around. I know she will grow up and 'wake up" but what do I do in the mean time?

Thank you thank you!!!

Wow! Thank you so much for your replies! unfortunately the breeder is too far away, and in the other direction to which we are traveling to take pup back during our holidays. I wasn't planning on have the dogs together when they aren't supervised. My boy is outside when we are out, but I'm looking into some kind of pen to put pup in inside when we aren't home. Any suggestions there? I think we will get her at 8 weeks - and I'll be sure to leave our sitter with strict instructions! If I'm not confident I'd probably be able to find someone else to help me out I guess and have the two dogs in seperate houses. The breeder is lovely, but I know she has several cavs and several larger breed dogs so might not have lots of time for pup - although I know she will be safe!

Hi, We have a cavalier girl coming to us at either 8 weeks or 14 weeks... here being the reason.. we have a beautiful 2yr old dexsexed male Ridgeback x and we are going away for 10 days when our new pup would be about 12 weeks old. I have a great house sitter (studying vet science!) who will be here all of time except maybe 2 or 3 days where she will need to be at uni all day... So we originally asked the breeder to hold the pup until we got back from holidays (at 14 weeks)... but now I'm thinking she would be ok with our friend and we should get her at 8 weeks. We have 2 kids (5 & 7) and I work 3 days a week and hubby works full time... thoughts?