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Dec 2020
3:53pm, 6 Dec 2020
195 posts
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shyfire
Am 12 weeks now and nipping and biting has been incessant this last week. I try and divert with a toy but when gets too much just put her in her room for timeout. She has mastered come, sit and down the last 2 can be used to distract her as well but it can be a battle.
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Dec 2020
4:27pm, 6 Dec 2020
2,047 posts
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PenW
10 weeks here. It is hard isn’t it!
I’m finding it exhausting. The last couple of days he’s even been too excitable to do more than a minute or so of training at a time. And a minute or so of play. Though he has started sometimes bringing toys back to me. Then there’s endless biting. I try to get away or distract but it really hurts, he doesn’t let go and inevitably I react somehow which probably reinforces it.
There are times when he’s slightly better and sometimes he stops if I can stay stock still (not easy when needle teeth are tugging your Achilles’ tendon!).
I’m going to get him spending more time in the pen. He does play in there (can do 30 mins or so when I’m doing cooking etc) but cries regularly and gets worked up if I leave the room.
He’s slept loads in the crate yesterday and today (he had a trip to pet shop yesterday and to friends house with a cat today).
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Dec 2020
9:29am, 7 Dec 2020
6,463 posts
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Wobbling
Hugs for the puppy parents who are struggling.
On today's walk, Boots found a dead bird. Despite a lot of 'leave!' on our part he managed to dismantle a wing (*vom*) and set about crunching on it, until deciding it wasn't quite to his taste and then spat it out.
I guess we can't blame him 1. He is a dog after all and 2. We're messing about with his food so much at the moment, I guess he thought he could try to feed himself.
We've moved him from the Walker and Drake cold pressed which too rich, to Forthglade cold pressed, but it isn't filling him up and he is always hungry. So we added a little bit of complimentary food to the cold pressed, but that made him need to get up in the night (twice). Yesterday he had cold pressed and vegetables, not to self, don't ever give the dog cauliflower again. This morning we had soft and runny poos. I'm hoping we see improvement over the coming days, or I don't know what we'll do next. At least going grain free seems to have curbed his itching and bum-licking.
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Dec 2020
10:07am, 7 Dec 2020
2,048 posts
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PenW
Oh gross Wobbling! My sister had a similar experience when one of her dogs found a dead bird and crunched it all up.
I’ve just dug out some boots after he got me again biting my feet (wearing shoes but he sinks his teeth into the front of my ankle and I can’t help but react (which reinforces it). So hopefully if I try out wearing various boots in the house I’ll find ones that allow me to stay calm and immobile when he does it so I can distract when he’s ready.
I’ve put him in the crate as he was wild. He’s been up an hour so it’s about time. And I don’t think he relaxes yet in the pen - he can get stressed when I leave the room (less so in crate).
I’ve no idea how I’ll manage Thursday - working from home with 7 video or phone appointments 😮 He’ll just have to cope and I’ll just have to explain to my clients that there may be a puppy screeching in the background at times.
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Dec 2020
10:08am, 7 Dec 2020
2,049 posts
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PenW
Hope you work out the best food solution.
Albie still seems quite itchy. I’ll not change anything yet. We have the next vet in 2 weeks (2nd vaccination).
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Dec 2020
10:08am, 7 Dec 2020
8,522 posts
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BaronessBL
We have similar issues with dead birds... at least one of the advantages of wearing a muzzle is that she can't pick them up or eat them so - if we don't see it first - she spends a lot of time rolling on them instead. However we took her muzzle off over the weekend as we were walking on an empty playing field and the first thing she did was find two lots of poo (we think it must have been cat but we didn't inspect too closely) and eat that. The muzzle stays on in future!
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Dec 2020
10:13am, 7 Dec 2020
9,422 posts
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Mazlin
Rory once came across an injured pigeon which tried to fly away, but fell out of the sky literally into his mouth. My friend and I did a lot of squealing and jumping up and down. He did not know what to do with it, panicked, let it go and I dragged him away. Later, someone I vaguely know posted on Facebook that she had found a ‘poorly pigeon’ and what should she do with it. (In Rory’s defence, there was a LOT of blood before he got anywhere near the pigeon. I think something like a fox must have got it and I don’t think he was responsible for injuring it any further.)
We now refer to this as ‘pigeongate’. It was not my finest dog-owning hour.
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Dec 2020
10:32am, 7 Dec 2020
8,523 posts
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BaronessBL
When we first got Wanda we did loads and loads of recall training with her on our local play park/football pitch. She was really good and after a few weeks we decided we would risk letting her off the lead on a walk. We chose a path with a fence on either side so that she couldn't go too far. We undid the lead and she shot off, jumped the fence and disappeared across the local farmland which had crops in it so we couldn't see her at all. BaronBR set off along one field edge and I carried on along the path to try and head her off when I got to the next field. Nothing... not a sign..... we thought we'd lost her for good. Then suddenly after what seemed like ages (maybe 15 minutes) there was a commotion in the crops and Wanda appeared back at BaronBR's feet wagging furiously and presented him with a bird. He was so shocked he still has no idea what sort of bird it was. Luckily it seemed relatively unharmed and flew away!
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Dec 2020
10:49am, 7 Dec 2020
5,862 posts
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Metro_Nome
I've had a few video calls with a screaming pup in the background. people understand 
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Dec 2020
10:52am, 7 Dec 2020
2,050 posts
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PenW
Hopefully MN. 🤞
The tricky bit is that I’m doing psychological therapy - hopefully they’ll still understand (I know some will). My trainee will understand in my supervision call with her.
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