so I bought a dog

[mike]

I'm all squished up in the last two... don't want to disturb the puppy

[Alice]

Awww, what a cute puppy!

[Gamplayerx]

Hi, stranger.  Cute dog.

[Beefy]

Puppy!

[mike]

if I could just get her to consistently do her business on paper, I'll be set when she's done teething.

ugh. little shark teeth get annoying really quick

[dazie]

So- what's her name?  Is she a MinPin or just a small full sized?  How old?

[Beefy]

if I could just get her to consistently do her business on paper

Buy a wet vac.  It'll be your best friend.

[mike]

 minpin, name's ella.

about 8 weeks old in those pictures. they're a week old.

[dazie]

Brave man- leather furniture, puppy teeth...

[Alice]

I like how you have a smaller cage inside a much larger one.

[mike]

I haven't been using either. I've been giving her the run of the living room and kitchen... it's too much bother to keep track of her in the cages...

so, I'm already doing a bad job of training her, but I can't have her whining all night like she was doing when I was locking her up in the big cage at night.

sigh

[Jessie]

She's awesome!

[Bishamonten]

I haven't been using either. I've been giving her the run of the living room and kitchen... it's too much bother to keep track of her in the cages...

so, I'm already doing a bad job of training her, but I can't have her whining all night like she was doing when I was locking her up in the big cage at night.

sigh

Seriously, dude, crate her.    Put the crate in your bedroom, cover it with a crappy blanket to make it dark, and put her in there.  Sit in the room with her and let her just get used to being in the crate.  Give her treats for going into the crate, feed her in the crate, and make her SLEEP in the crate at night.  Whining sucks, but so does a dog who can't take the pressure of being in too large of a space and starts to get destructive.  IT's going to be easier to do it now rather than later. 

[Alice]

Bish is very right.

Also, the surefire way to make sure a dog won't whine or bark in it's cage is to take a jar full of change and leave it where the dog can't see it from it's crate.  Then everytime she starts to bark or whine, you shake the jar of change.  They will soon learn that barking in their cage = scary noise that they can't see.  You just have to make sure you can't be seen by her when you do it.

I want to say that it was dazie that gave me this tip 2 years ago for Bruce & it worked like a charm.

Plus, it is better to deal with her whining as a puppy and fix it now, before you decide you have to crate her & your neighbors call complaining about the incessent barking when you are gone.

Did I spell incessent right?  I don't think I did, but I'm too lazy to look it up.

[eo000]

cute pup.

[Mr. Ubiquity]

I haven't been using either. I've been giving her the run of the living room and kitchen... it's too much bother to keep track of her in the cages...

so, I'm already doing a bad job of training her, but I can't have her whining all night like she was doing when I was locking her up in the big cage at night.

sigh

Seriously, dude, crate her.    Put the crate in your bedroom, cover it with a crappy blanket to make it dark, and put her in there.  Sit in the room with her and let her just get used to being in the crate.  Give her treats for going into the crate, feed her in the crate, and make her SLEEP in the crate at night.  Whining sucks, but so does a dog who can't take the pressure of being in too large of a space and starts to get destructive.  IT's going to be easier to do it now rather than later. 

i hear that works for kids too.

[ReBurn]

I haven't been using either. I've been giving her the run of the living room and kitchen... it's too much bother to keep track of her in the cages...

so, I'm already doing a bad job of training her, but I can't have her whining all night like she was doing when I was locking her up in the big cage at night.

sigh

Seriously, dude, crate her.    Put the crate in your bedroom, cover it with a crappy blanket to make it dark, and put her in there.  Sit in the room with her and let her just get used to being in the crate.  Give her treats for going into the crate, feed her in the crate, and make her SLEEP in the crate at night.  Whining sucks, but so does a dog who can't take the pressure of being in too large of a space and starts to get destructive.  IT's going to be easier to do it now rather than later. 

i hear that works for kids too.

Not as well as you might think.

[mike]

I'll start on the crating sunday *nods*

gracias

[Mr. Ubiquity]

I haven't been using either. I've been giving her the run of the living room and kitchen... it's too much bother to keep track of her in the cages...

so, I'm already doing a bad job of training her, but I can't have her whining all night like she was doing when I was locking her up in the big cage at night.

sigh

Seriously, dude, crate her.    Put the crate in your bedroom, cover it with a crappy blanket to make it dark, and put her in there.  Sit in the room with her and let her just get used to being in the crate.  Give her treats for going into the crate, feed her in the crate, and make her SLEEP in the crate at night.  Whining sucks, but so does a dog who can't take the pressure of being in too large of a space and starts to get destructive.  IT's going to be easier to do it now rather than later. 

i hear that works for kids too.

Not as well as you might think.

then your not using enough duct tape over their mouth.