|
|
|||||||
| Dogs Health Big or small, fat or skinny, puppy or senior! Discuss all things related to Dog's Health here! Dog illnesses are a very serious thing to deal with. Let's help each other find the best course of action. |
 |
|
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#11
04-01-2007, 06:54 PM
|
||||
|
||||
She already does that, and she sits quite well, also.
    
|
|
#12
04-01-2007, 08:24 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
How does the dog do on a leash? I don't know how it is you are potty training yours but i do know that until they are 12 weeks of ago they do not have full control of their bladder (we read this on a training web site) Ours didn't really get the hang of it until they we about 14 weeks. Also read that 15 to 20 minutes after a dog drinks water they will have to pee.
|
|
#13
04-01-2007, 11:01 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Oh, no...the first thing she does when she comes in is drink more water. She does OK on a leash. I housebroke my last dog in 2 days and he was 8 weeks old when we got him. He was also a lot larger, too...does it make that much of a difference? This is my first ever purebred (of my own), and I'm just not too sure about it...but, this is what my husband wanted. He's a truck driver, though, so I keep threatening to send her with him!!! The other problem I am having with her is that she screams when left alone...even in a different room. She also screams when on a walk. I took her out in the woods for a walk and she would walk a bit, and then sit down and scream. Same thing when I took her into town. She would walk a bit, but then sit and just scream, then she would walk again. Is she just afraid? I was hoping that since my last dog got car sick and was overweight and didn't really like going anywhere, that she and I could walk and stuff like that, but if she's afraid, I don't know what to do. She will walk all over our yard, but it seems like she's afraid to be anywhere else.
|
|
#14
04-08-2007, 08:29 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Another thing that we do at night is cut the dogs water off at 6 pm unless the dog is very thirsty due to hot weather then we give them a small drink. But nothing to the extreme! By cutting their water off at 6 pm this hleps with them being able to hold it till morning also. We learned this on a web site.
|
|
#15
04-09-2007, 10:28 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
What about food? I am having some problems feeding her "meals", because if her food isn't down, she just eats the cat's food. My husband was enemployed for 2 weeks, and he got up with her every morning at 4 am, and I REFUSE to do that! Plus, I have 2 kids that once they are up, they are up! So I am thinking about moving her crate to the other end of the house so I can't hear her as well, then she won't wake up the baby, who, by the way, is sick, so he's up at night a lot...so I have him, and the dog, I'm not getting ANY sleep! It's worse than when I had infants!!!
|
|
#16
04-09-2007, 10:45 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Depending on the weight of the dog and the brand of dog food you are feeding her. There should be a chart saying how much the dog should eat. We go by that and that is all the dog gets. We feed them thier portion of their food in the evening when we eat our supper and that is it. If we have our eskimo puppys food on the kitchen floor when they get a chance and run by the dish they will aslo try to steal her food. But that we just pick up off the floor when she is not eatting and put it back down when she needs it. The getting up at 4 am (depending on the age of the dog) was also a mistake on my husband part now the dog think she has to go out everynight. We had a blanket that we covered our kennel with when he would squeel and bark at 4 am wanting to go out. As he got older he still tried to go out at 4 am so we just had to get gruff with him. We now have moved him to a kennel at night that is in our basement and he don't think he should be there and at 4 am will try to get us to take him outside. NO WAY! Our older GSH we trained different then this second one. She has been a very good dog but this male is very spoiled. Yes he was still easier to train but a much bigger baby then the female. And when he gets to squacking and howling he don't want to shut up. I guess all in all i would move the crate as far away from where your bedrooms are and let her bark but do try the covering up technique. We also have a min eskimo that was not kennel trained at all when we got her. The 1st time i put her in ther she was nuts. so i left the room shut the door and let her scream for awhile. Then when i was ready to go into the room (livingroom) she started to scream and go nuts again. So i took a beach towel and covered her kennel; so she could not see out at all and just kept saying to her (in a gruff voice) KODA NO! SHUSH! This took a few days but now she is wonderful in her kennel. Now at night we don't even have to cover her kennel with the towel and she sleeps all night. Just nake sure the blanket or towel that you use is not to heavy as she will get to warm in the kennel.
|
|
#17
04-10-2007, 10:26 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
My Veterinarian told me to let her have as much as she wanted for now. I have read that it's easier if you feed them "meals" so you will come to know when to expect them have a bowel movement, and you can then make it so that they don't have to go at 4 am. I did that last night, and she did better. I have had her crate covered with a heavy blanket, but the back is open, so it can vent.
My last dog I tried crate training and he was miserable, so I let him sleep in bed with me, but he rarely chewed anything, and he was housebroken from day 2. He was 8 weeks old when I got him and Addison was only 6 weeks. Is that too young for GSP's? Thank you so much for your advice...it is nice to have a fellow GSP owner to help!
|
|
#18
04-12-2007, 11:56 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
No i don't think 8 weeks is to young. No i know other people have gotten dogs at the age of 6 weeks. I guess in all the times that we have gotten dogs we have never had a Veterinarian tell us to feed them what they want. Just make sure that if you do feed the dog according to the bag that she does eat what is says she is to eat. As one of ours was not and started to loose weight. Our 2 GSP dogs get 2 or 4 cups a day. (can't remember right off hand) I know alot of people that feed their dogs at the same time when they eat their meals. Then also they won't bother you when you eat.
|
|
#19
04-13-2007, 08:07 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
I never thought about that...it's a great idea. My husband was home last night, and she was up most of the night. When I was here, she slept all night for me. Does she realize that he's the one that got up with her all the time, and she knows she can push him?
|
|
#20
04-13-2007, 11:07 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
You bet! Once a dog knows they can get away with things with a certain person they will continue to do it. You need to be the alpha (boss). Also one thing about putting the dog on a feeding schedule like feeding it at night when you eat. after you are done eatting let the dog out potty one more time just before you go to bed and he sould be good to go for the night and sleep all night. With our GSP when my husband would take him out at 4 am i finally told him no more he can go all night and not have to go. (i had to put my foot down with him) The dog has now accepted the fact that he is not going to take him out no more and he now does hold it all night and don't want to go out a 4 any more. From experience we used to have 2 dogs that we adopted from a shelter that were badly abused. In feeling sorry for these 2 dogs we let them get away with everything. After realizing what we had done by letting them get away with everything, there was no more controlling them. So it was 3 1/2 of pure you know what. When we moved a year ago we gave the dogs away.
|
Linear Mode
