On Friday we collected a new puppy.
She's a 9 week old cavapoo - a poodle and king Charles spaniel cross. She has more of the traits of a poodle. She's as bright as a button.
When we went to view her, there were a few of the litter left and a striking pewter coloured pooch was all over me but this tiny teddy-bear brown puppy with a white "mask" on her face - was besotted with Mrs Z and visa-versa.
We picked her up and drove 2 hours home. She was in a dog crate and Mrs Z sat next to her. There was not a whimper all the way home.
We carried her in to the house in her car crate and opened it up. She stayed there for a few hours despite placing food and drink just outside the crate. When she finally ventured out, she hid at the side of the sofa.
Saturday was totally different. She has been cuddling with Mrs Z and showing off some tricks that she knows. Miss Z drove along from Hampshire to visit and pupster took to her instantly.
Pupster has been playing fetch, trying to remove socks, puppy biting (stops instantly when we say "ouch"). She is very active now.
She is extremely affectionate and warmly greets all visitors. She is also confident and obedient and unlike previous pooch is not fussy food wise.
Potty training wise - she's almost there 8/10 times she has used the puppy mats.
There are a couple of little problems - her separation anxiety kicks in from about 20 seconds. She also howls / cries at night in her crate - so any tips re this would be much appreciated.
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There are three known strategies, all of them mostly work.
1/ The brutal option, ignore the noise, it does stop eventually
2/ The temporary camp bed next to the crate, moving it further away each night, takes about 7 nights.
3/ The large cuddly toy in the crate.
Good to see you are using crate training.
Lost my older girl last month. So eyeing my cage currently resting in the shed, wondering what to fill it with. Fancy a Goldie/Border collie X
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Lost my older girl last month. So eyeing my cage currently resting in the shed, wondering what to fill it with. Fancy a Goldie/Border collie X
We have Blodwen our Bearded Collie father Border collie mother and beware what you wish for. She'll be 10 on the 1st of May and still needs LOTS of excercise and stimulation.
We are not the owners.. we ARE the sheep...
Very affectionate and welcoming to all.
Howled like a banshee in the back of the car in her cage when leaving the farm in mid wales. (we got her at 12 weeks old. We thought before that was too early.
Not happy in the cage at home, but she soon cured us of that!
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>> We have Blodwen our Bearded Collie father Border collie mother and beware what you wish
>> for. She'll be 10 on the 1st of May and still needs LOTS of excercise
>> and stimulation.
Fully aware of the traits of such a x breed, and is under consideration for my dog sport hobbies, KC and FCI obedience, and Agility, hence the "sparky" requirement. My young working goldie is, errr, "keen"
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Blodwen waiting for me to go and pick up the stick she brought back so far...
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Hot (warm) water bottle in the crate?
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>>She also howls / cries at night in her crate - so any tips re this would be much appreciated.
If you want to train her, ignore her.
If you want her to train you, move her to your bedroom (as most dog owners seem to do nowadays).
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I have been guilty of this with all of my Cockers. When I got my first Cocker Spaniel over fifty years ago he was left in his basket in the kitchen when I went to bed. He howled and threw himself at the door and eventually I went downstairs and brought him to bed.
The came thing happened the next night and so he came to bed with me for the rest of his life.
Consequently, all of my Cockers have slept in my bedroom as do my present two.
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>> If you want to train her, ignore her.
>> If you want her to train you, move her to your bedroom (as most dog
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Fully agree, I will NOT have a dog in the bedroom.
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>> Fully agree, I will NOT have a dog in the bedroom.
All of my dogs have always been banned from bedrooms under all circumstances.
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Having been owned by 8 dogs, I would go along with bathtub's suggestion.
Hot water bottle could get chewed :(
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Hmm! Personally hate crates, our dogs, currently 10 year old jug and a 16 month old parsons terrier sleep on the end of the bed, there pack animals and need the company of others, our two, and I'm obviously biased are cleaner and more hygienic than a few humans I've meet.
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>> Hmm! Personally hate crates, our dogs, currently 10 year old jug and a 16 month
>> old parsons terrier sleep on the end of the bed,
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What about when you want "Thingy"?
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He kicks the wife out for 20 minutes :-)
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>> >> Hmm! Personally hate crates, our dogs, currently 10 year old jug and a 16
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There politely asked to leave the room for a couple of minutes :)
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>> >> What about when you want "Thingy"?
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>> There politely asked to leave the room for a couple of minutes :)
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That long? :-D
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I cured our Springer by lying next to him and going...."Shhhhhhhh" for about 10 mins, worked like a dream, even at the ripe old age 12 it still soothed him. The current Cocker responds to it, when on my lap. Separation anxiety is difficult...the fostered Cocker was pretty bad, Archie doesnt give a fig and goes to his crate when I put my jacket on abnd wave the car keys, which he hates....!
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No dogs in the ground floor bedroom he understands this. He loves his cage, it's left open all day and night - he retires there at 11.00pm....
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The fabric car crate went back in to the car this evening and a metal crate was erected and fitted with a plastic floor and really nice soft bed.
Puppster was introduced to the crate and began to shake uncontrollably and howled. She was clearly terrified.
We had to get the car crate back from the car, but it's too small to be a permanent solution.
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So its not being crated thats an issue, just the new one. You need to train it, treats inside, cuddly toy, play wityh a toy or treats just outside the cage, lure the pup with treats to oput its head in. Gently gently bit by bit.
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Our Springer joined my old Working Cocker. The Working Cocker was re-homed in 2008 at 18 months. He'd rarely been in a car and hardly ever been for a walk on a lead. He took to his crate straight away and took to walking reasonably on a lead quite quickly. In Nov 2011 he was joined by the Springer who was a pup. One of the first nights the pup was put in the crate with no issues. He was shut in, I got sick of the howling and went down to do the "shhhhhhhh" thing, I opened the crate and let him out for a pee. When I came back to the house, WC was in the crate ad the pup was on the WC's bed. And thus it remained. Crate was put away and they slept on their separate beds. I forget how easy the Springer was to live with. No seprartion anxiety, no destruction when he he grew up ! Morphed himself to our lifestyle...
I was a bit worried about them loose in the car and got a bespoke wooden crate for Mrs RP's Mini Clubvan.(made by a local proper countryman, with gun dogs) - eventually this was morphed to proper bespoke TransK9 crates, bought and sold for various BMWs and Volvos. We ended up with a single K9 crate specific fit for the Audi. The current dog won't go in the car let alone the crate ! That was bought second hand for a hefty price but still cheaper than new, flogged it a few months ago for the same as we paid for it.
The dog will sort itself out and will do what it feels happy with and hopefully bring joy to your life. As Humph said many years ago about his dog....they are (generally) simple souls.
Good to see you back Zippy
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oh....! The WC slept soundly from day 2. We later found he had a big interest in hot water botltes and er....ticking bedisde clocks. An old hand told me he'd probably had these as a comfort when a pup. He said ir was that the HWB simulated his mother's bpdy and a muffled tcking clock her heartbeat. He was a wonderfull dog and I really miss him. After 18 months with us Archie the current WC has developed into a fantastic dog, beautiful nature and a cuddle monster. He steals slippers and shoes (off my foot once) is razor blade sharp, and distantly related to Alf...
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RP.
Would that be Alf who emailed me when I started volunteering at CA?
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