That’s his lure you in face
Yes fingers crossed Monday for the float to come off. When the stitches are removed it should be able to go!
He’s doing good in himself thank you bothExtremely frustrated though at being in his cage
He’s doing quite a bit of crying/barking when in there because he knows if he starts creating one of us will get him out. I’m afraid today though he just had to take it as I was snowed under in the office. His paddy eventually stopped when he realised I wasn’t going to get him out.
We had some snow yesterday and he was trying to pile it up on the grass and was rather giddy but could not play because he was on the lead. Poor lad!
Harry is doing okHe had to stay in today as it was treacherous under foot with the ice. Some of the snow had slightly melted but then it froze overnight so everywhere was like an ice rink
No way could we risk taking them down the field. He wasn’t happy but it was the safer option.
That’s his lure you in face
Yes fingers crossed Monday for the float to come off. When the stitches are removed it should be able to go!
He’s doing good in himself thank you both
We had some snow yesterday and he was trying to pile it up on the grass and was rather giddy but could not play because he was on the lead. Poor lad!
Harry is doing ok
Awww the poor boys! It's for their own good though.
And of course no puppy would be happy being confined to a crate but it looks like he's grown quite a bit and might be about to outgrow it?
Also, I am sure you know this, but even though it's hard especially when your baby is hurt, I recommend keeping up that tough love thing a bit hah and/or maybe when he is feeling better practice some crate games or something, unless he's already normally good in there and just full of beans from being cooped up? Perfectly normal. But what you did today, ignoring him, and also only letting him out when he's quiet and sitting nicely is a good thing to learn. You are doing great with him but trust me, you don't want a spoiled brat LOL
Not that he's gonna be one or that by letting out when he cries cause he's sick and you feel bad is a bad thing cause it's not and I'd do the same but i wouldn't make it a habit.
I only say this because when Gator was a puppy, he would cry and cry. We never crated him but he HATED being alone. So anyway, he would cry and at first we tried doing what they say you are supposed to, ignore him, but he was so loud and it was so sad. So then we all started taking turns sleeping with him. We'd come and sleep on the couch in the porch room, where he slept. Eventually we took an old mattress down and slept on that lol
And even when he got older, he's always slept in my dad's bed.
Well now he can't be alone lol
And he demands attention. He'll lay in the hall sometimes and just grumble and grumble till you cave and pet him. It's actually pretty cute but ANNOYING when you are trying to do something important. Cause eventually he barks now.
And if he's in a room and you're petting him and you stop, he throws his head back like "what the heck" LOL
And sometimes when my dad travels, he will lay downstairs and bark all night. Seriously. One time he was still going at 5 or 6am.
And he has especially bad separation anxiety from my brother. He lives down the street now but if he comes over and he's outside and Gator isn't allowed, ohhhh he loses it lol
Now, this isn't to scare you, and it's also due to bad training and rewarding the behavior (hes so cute we usually cave and pet him or come down and yell at him to shut up, which is still attention) and we never socialized him, and he's not really a very confident dog to begin with and I think has anxiety. And he's actually gotten a lot better. We got him a dog bed at our dump (transfer station) a few months ago. They have a free area to take stuff. It's a really good LL Bean one with the bolsters on the sides and he LOVES it plus his hip has gotten worse so he can't jump up on the bed anymore so he's been sleeping on his own bed at night now. So he naturally has a bit more separation so now when my dad travels, he usually doesn't do the barking anymore and just sleeps on his dog bed.
But he still can't be alone cause we ruined him. Not that you're ruining Keeper by any means, you are doing great, just a cautionary tale of having a spoiled brat LOL
Oh and lately when I watch TV he has to be in the same room and usually lies on the couch or by my feet. Now, he's not technically allowed in the living room but he's such a brat and eats everything, paces around the house, cries and barks, etc. Until i cave. I actually now wonder if he does that on purpose... he's a very smart dog. He could easily be a brat on command if it got him what he wanted lol but once in the living room, he passes out on the couch and goes into a deep sleep ha
And oddly this is only at night, during the day he is fine on the bed. Maybe cause his bed is in the hall near the kitchen and everyone passes by him all day?
Cause I suppose this could also be his breed. He is half black Lab and half Great Pyrenees. So we are kind of his flock and I think he likes keeping tabs on us. Plus being very family oriented dogs. So we might not have entirely ruined him as much as breed but it certainly didn't help lol
I think he's also going deaf.
And he has calmed down a lot. He's a lot better behaved, listens better, calmer, etc. Now at alnost 6 (in March) than he was as a pup ha
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He was flailing and throwing himself around in there that in the end I took the teddy from him. He’s the same with chew toys and we keep swoppping them so he does not get bored with the same thing all the time. For now I have held off with ACP tablets for him but it’s very tempting...... 
I had hoped that having their shoes taken off might settle them down a bit, but Rebel clearly wasn't feeling unhappy being barefoot or was too excited to be aware of it. Of course their shoes have been off for a month now so they have acclimatised a little. When they first had them taken off, you could tell they were a bit sore, even just in the yard and stable.
Hope he continues to do well!
