orloffer's Spoo Puppy thread! 🐩

[black_cat]

Here are some poodle pictures taken yesterday!
She likes going outside, and seems to especially like to chew on oak leaves, acorn caps, twigs, grass, pebbles, and ornamental cherries. I can't tell whether she will actually swallow them, so I try to remove them from her mouth. They are pretty much unavoidable in the backyard, so I am not sure how to stop her. We also need to start working on separation training, because when awake she starts whining even if someone is 5 feet away from her exercise pen.

If she whines and you go over to her, you’re directly teaching that whining=attention. Have a Kong with food in her exercise pen and sit in the room but not right next to the exercise pen. when she wakes up and whines, ignore her until she refocuses on the kong, THEN go over once she’s focused on that. It’ll teach her that whining won’t work. You don’t want an adult dog whining all the time.

When she is not whining, though, she is the cutest thing! I tried working with her on eye contact and settling on her bed today. She will already lie down and be calm on her bed. Good puppy! But I can't seem to lure her into a down on any other surface. She just stands up and follows my hand with her head. Any advice? Should I just keep working on settling on the bed first?

I taught sit first, then very, very slowly, letting his nose stay with it, brought my hand down and toward me until he went down.

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Awwww
How much does she weigh? How old is she?

 

[NatJ]

If she whines and you go over to her, you’re directly teaching that whining=attention. Have a Kong with food in her exercise pen and sit in the room but not right next to the exercise pen. when she wakes up and whines, ignore her until she refocuses on the kong, THEN go over once she’s focused on that. It’ll teach her that whining won’t work. You don’t want an adult dog whining all the time.

Yes, but you also have to balance it with housebreaking the puppy.

If she wakes up and needs to go outside, and you ignore the whining, you end up with what happened the first evening: puppy pooped indoors.

(For me, housebreaking is more important than almost anything else a dog can learn.)

 

[black_cat]

Yes, but you also have to balance it with housebreaking the puppy.

If she wakes up and needs to go outside, and you ignore the whining, you end up with what happened the first evening: puppy pooped indoors.

(For me, housebreaking is more important than almost anything else a dog can learn.)

That is a good point.

Maybe try staying near while she's sleeping and going in the pen when she's going to wake up, then taking her out and putting to pee and putting her back in with the kong after?

 

[EverythingDucks]

What I've found works well for potty training, is keeping a notebook and writing down every time she eats with the time, and everytime she goes potty. That way you can get an idea of how long it takes for her to have to poop or pee after eating, or how often she needs to go outside. That way you can set times and take her outside before she even knows she needs to pee, therefore preventing any whining or accidents.

 

[orloffer]

Tessa has been very calm and sleepy today. She has a tiny bit more freedom in the house (she now gets to sleep on the couch if she wants to, and be in my mostly puppy-proofed bedroom). She has spent most of the day so far sleeping on the couch. I have to monitor her closely, though, because once she wakes up the couch cover and blanket become chew toys... and unfortunately she has also started to think her plastic exercise pen is a great chew toy....

 

[black_cat]

Tessa has been very calm and sleepy today. She has a tiny bit more freedom in the house (she now gets to sleep on the couch if she wants to, and be in my mostly puppy-proofed bedroom). She has spent most of the day so far sleeping on the couch. I have to monitor her closely, though, because once she wakes up the couch cover and blanket become chew toys... and unfortunately she has also started to think her plastic exercise pen is a great chew toy....

What we do with Finn is when he's chewing on something bad, we say 'No!" basically stick a chew toy into his mouth, and praise when he refocuses on it

 

[orloffer]

What we do with Finn is when he's chewing on something bad, we say 'No!" basically stick a chew toy into his mouth, and praise when he refocuses on it

That sometimes works for me, but usually after a few seconds she drops the toy and goes back to chewing on the bad thing (in this case, the exercise pen).

Tessa has been very calm and sleepy today. She has a tiny bit more freedom in the house (she now gets to sleep on the couch if she wants to, and be in my mostly puppy-proofed bedroom). She has spent most of the day so far sleeping on the couch. I have to monitor her closely, though, because once she wakes up the couch cover and blanket become chew toys... and unfortunately she has also started to think her plastic exercise pen is a great chew toy....

Tessa's calmness is really nice. Our household is disturbingly chaotic at intervals, but as long as a calm person is near her, she doesn't seem stressed by the upset.

 

[orloffer]

We are thinking about getting Tessa a cute dog ID tag. Which one do you all think is best?
#1. Symmetrical flower pattern:

#2 Lavender pattern:

#3 Flowers with bee pattern:

#4 Piney mountains with stars:

They are all so nice! (They can each come in any of the metal types and a variety of fonts).

 

[SpotTheCat]

We are thinking about getting Tessa a cute dog ID tag. Which one do you all think is best?
#1. Symmetrical flower pattern:View attachment 2654317

#2 Lavender pattern:View attachment 2654318

#3 Flowers with bee pattern:View attachment 2654319

#4 Piney mountains with stars:View attachment 2654320

They are all so nice! (They can each come in any of the metal types and a variety of fonts).

I really like the first one

 

[black_cat]

We are thinking about getting Tessa a cute dog ID tag. Which one do you all think is best?
#1. Symmetrical flower pattern:View attachment 2654317

#2 Lavender pattern:View attachment 2654318

#3 Flowers with bee pattern:View attachment 2654319

#4 Piney mountains with stars:View attachment 2654320

They are all so nice! (They can each come in any of the metal types and a variety of fonts).

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