I haven’t trained one in 5 years. I just got one on Saturday. It’s so needy! WoW will have to be on a back burner for a while.
I have a Siberian Husky, they were easy for me to train with routines and crate training. This one though is a small dog mix (spaniel x poodle) supposed to only get to about 15lbs. She just wants to follow me, be in my lap etc. It’s weird. Might have to learn to play with a dog in my lap lol…
2 years ago we got a puppy for the first time ever. We are fosters with the humane society and have them before for a few weeks, but this time decided to keep one.
Man, they are a lot of work! It’s worth it in the end, and I love our dog, but to be honest I’m not sure I’d want to go through the puppy stage again.
I play WoW all day with a chihuahua in my shirt.
She takes off when I launch Overwatch though, she recognizes the startup sound and knows I’m going to be raging soon.
I felt that way initially too. I sadly had to say goodbye to one of my huskies last month. I think this new puppy is making me miss her even more, miss having a dog that’s trained and everything. But my other husky seemed a bit too lonely, bored, didn’t know what to do with herself.
Now she is still not sure, she wants to play with the pup so it’s small and she isn’t quite sure how to. But I see tail wagging, she checks on it if it whines etc I think in time it’ll work out and they’ll be buddies. If this puppy can be trained to bond more to my other dog, and less into me. She seems a bit at risk of having separation anxiety right now, so I am trying to have her nap in a room alone multiple times a day to learn it’s okay to be alone. My huskies used to be good because they had eachother so I could leave them for a while and not worry.
congrats on the puppy! they’re adoreable
but you couldn’t pay me to raise another one haha I’m all about the adult dogs at this point
Poodles and poodle mixes are just like that. But they’re also hella smart.
So yeah. Baby is gonna be smart and clingy to their favorites.
If I could go back in time right when I got my Boxer and give myself 2 pieces of advice, I would say no human food, and crate train.
Good luck and have fun with your new companion.
Yeah I guess that’s where it’s so different. Huskies are smart but so stubborn they act dumb. Call them? Nah they wont come. Tell them to do something? They will think about it, and maybe do what you told them. But they love routines and do well adapting to your life style.
I am trying to get other people in my house to spend time with the pup, but people in my house are always off doing their own things. I have agoraphobia so I don’t really leave the house, so I am the one with all the free time to train and such. And then since it’s with me all day and sleeping in my room they tend to wanna be with just me, and nobody else is good enough.
I will say though she’ll hopefully be the protective one. Someone knocks at my door my husky just stares at them, doesn’t even let me know.
I’ve lost enough shoes to not do that again
Congrats on the new fur kid! They are a LOT of work, love and attention. But it’s totally worth it. I had a black lab, cocker spaniel mix for 17.5 years. That dog was ridiculously intelligent. She could open and close doors, turn on lights, manipulate water faucets, was absolutely the best hunting dog/retriever I ever trained. She could put up a hunt for 16 hours straight 5am-9pm, field or water, didn’t matter. Pheasant, duck, turkey, rabbit… she’d mastered any game I asked her to.
She -LOVED- sitting in the front seat of our car so she could analyze driving and traffic patterns. I swear she had it figured out, she just lacked the correct appendages and height to successfully carjack our vehicles.
That dog would constantly huff at me like I was an idiot. She was always outsmarting me. She’d intentionally escape our backyard so she could run to the front door and sit outside and bark at me to prove her victory. She acted like this was her universe and the rest of us were just put here to pay her homage & throw the ball.
You are now a keeper of furry chaos. May the odds be ever in your favor.
Throw. The. Ball.
Yeah huskies are one of those breeds where if they are bored, they are gonna run circles around you. Herding dogs too are like that since they’re heckin smart.
Reminds me of an uber driver that had a puppy so he just brought it to work with him so it could socialize with customers. ( I mean cmon that’s also easy tips / ratings etc etc if you have a cute puppy for folks to snuggle )
This is why I’m now into cats… I loved my GSD but when he was teething he chewed a corner off my wood bed frame… He ate at LEAST four pairs of shoes, and lord knows how many undies. Once I got him trained he was great, but… uh… yeah never again.
Was about to get pissy but then I remembered my last dog was a basset hound and it took me over a year to potty train lmao.
Gsd was my introduction to dogs after being a lifelong cat owner growing up.
After a break in we got the shepherd and the puppy stage was crazy. My ankles took a beating, some of my clothes got holes in em and some of our wooden bookshelves and one wall got nibbled on.
Oh hey, turns out my dog loved spicy food after we tried the common tips of curry/hot sauce to dissuade the destructive behaviour.
Also tried crate training but after like a year she started to call out all night long and my partner got sick of being kept awake and made the decision that our dog is a bed sleeping dog. She’s been curled up on her own personal pillow (she needs one because we have one, so she should too) at the bottom of our bed for 3 years now.
Pretty chill now and follows us around even if it’s a trip from bed to bathroom but the first year or two were… Something.
Bassets are just one of those “head empty. only love” breeds lol.
Well that or they just turn into a hoover vacuum and try to find any crumb of people food in the carpet they can get lol
God yes… I was a kid in school and he’d get lonely for me when I was gone. I had a waterbed at the time… I ended up having to get a new frame because he totally destroyed that one corner. After I got home he’d never leave my side, and once I started working I ended up having to take him out to my grandpas farm. He just couldn’t deal with me being gone so much.
One thing I forgot to mention. I’m not pro-Facebook, but I did find their Canine Enrichment groups a huuuuuuuuuuuge help for keeping my babies busy. There were great, cheap ideas there all the time.
Lick mats, snuffle toys, interactive slow feeders. Some you could make yourself, some you buy. All have to be used with supervision, but again. The amount of stuff I found there to keep my pup occuppied was amazing.
Why are there no puppy pictures in this thread?
I have 2 goldens raised from pups. It is well worth the love you will receive in return.
Just don’t baby it. Set rules/boundaries/limitations or you will an unholy monster on your hands. Small dogs have the worst attitudes if not trained properly.
Signed, a vet tech/dog behaviorist