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puppy help...
I just got a new Boxer puppy. Shes 3 and a half months old, and she used to live with her two parents and 5 other dogs which she got to play with everyday. So I know it's hard for her to not always have someone to play with. Today, (Sunday) I spent the day with her and she was mostly outside with me or sleeping on my lap inside. The only issue is that my mom doesn't want her walking around inside the house (but when she's not home, I let her) because she can't deal with the puppy peeing and pooping all over. So, sometimes, we put her crate in the garage which is heated (we don't keep cars in there.)She also sleeps in there at night. I put her in there and tied her leash to her cage so she could move around a few feet surrounding her cage. I also put toys and a bowl of water. 15 minutes passed, and she was still howling and barking. It really bothers me, and as much as I'd like to let her keep sleeping on my lap, I'm incredibly tired, and I'm in high school, so I have work to do. I don't know if she's barking because I'm teaching her wrong, or if she misses her puppy friends. I have no idea how to make her okay with being in her crate. The first two days that we had her, she was fine in her crate and slept after whimpering a little bit, but now she is full out barking and howling for much longer than normal. Help????
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It is very wrong to leave a puppy in the garage all the time.
It is cruel to keep a social animal away from her pack, especially a baby who needs reasurence from her family. She needs to be taught the correct way to act. A puppy is a major responsability and you should not have gotten a puppy if you cannot take care of it properly. She can grow scared and aggressive if she is continued to be treated like this. Boxers are a very smart sweet, and loyal breed of dog, but they are also a large breed which means they need A LOT of excersize every day. So she should not be tied to her crate to walk around it, she needs a back yard, or at least to b taken on long walks daily. And boxers seeing how they have short noses cannot live outside, they need to live inside to become a good dog. If you potty train her you will not have to worry about her pee or poo in the house. If you cannot let her live in the house then i do not think you should keep her.
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To add to what has already been said, at only 3.5 months old, she's a baby. Being locked in a crate in the garage is just about the last place she wants to be. Dogs are social animals, locking them away from the family pretty much makes me ask why you have a dog in the first place...
This was information that I posted for someone who had adopted a 2 year old dog that needed house training. Hopefully this information will help you too:
I was a sentry dog handler in the Army and then attended the Mandelyn Kennels school for training in Bakersfield, CA. (Before the shooting that took the lives of the owners, Ray Marcois and his wife Diane.)
I ended up working in IT for a living, but the following process has proven effective for our two dogs and those of family members. It's simple, but requires that someone be attentive throughout the day during the time that training is taking place.
It should be noted that this is assuming that there is nothing physically wrong with your dog such as sickness or a "plumbing" issue that prevents her from successful housebreaking.
- A crate that is large enough to allow her free movement will be required, or an enclosure of some sort that will be able to keep her confined to a space that allows comfortable movement - the ability to easily turn around and stand, and food and water bowls, but not much more.
Make sure that she's comfortable with a pet bed, or soft blankets and has a toy(s). A radio softly playing nearby is nice, if possible. (Nothing crazy, you want soothing music for this.)
- She'll be in the crate/enclosure all the time until training has been completed.
- At two years old, her internals are fully developed, so you should be able to start with every 2 hours. NIGHT time will be addressed a bit later in this...
You should be able to increase the time, but you'll want to keep it around the 2 hour mark to increase the interaction, which will help expedite the training.
- Every 2 hours, let her out of the crate and walk her to the door, sticking with a key phrase. We always used "out." For example, "Annie, do you want to go OUT? Annie is going OUT.'
Pause at the door to get her excited about going out. Be kind of nutty about it; 'Annie, want to go OUT!!! Yeah, let's go OUT!!
You get the idea. You want to get her excited about getting to the door and getting out. The more she wants to get out there, the more she'll be frustrated at your slowness to open the door and will bark, scratch or both.
When the dog is actually outside and starts to bathroom, make sure to proclaim, over and over throughout, that 'ANNIE is OUT, good girl is OUT.'
- When she's done, LOTS of praise, a little play time, vigorous petting, whatever your dog enjoys most.
- Once that's done, back into the crate to be repeated throughout the day.
- At least 3 hours before bedtime, remove food and water. At bedtime, not too much before, make sure to go OUT again, following the same "Annie is OUT' chant. (Grin)
- Once all of that is done, into the crate for the night.
- Get an early start and let her out of the crate to go OUT. Especially at first, as she's not used to exercising control. This is not a good time to sleep in!
Our Golden Retriever was trained and never had an accident after within 3 days. Our Black Lab mix had to be watched a little more, but was completely trained in about 1 week.
I hope this helps. It can be kind of a pain during the training, but it does go pretty quick and is obviously worth the effort.
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Keeping her in the garage in a crate or tied to anything is wrong. That dog will grow fearful of you and submissive.
The proper thing to do is go to any petstore (a big box one is best)and buy a pen that you can snap together and allow her to move about comfortably inside your house. This pen is slightly bigger than a child's playpen with room to move about.
She'll get used to all the noises and to your family better that way. All you need to do is put newspaper down when you aren't around and she will go on that. Trust me, everyone will be a lot happier.
The barking and howling will subside eventually but you should read some training guides about that or use a product other than a bark collar to assist you. Ask your vet for what to do.
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Please consider getting a good book on crate training. This isn't something you can do half-way. If you don't crate train correctly, you can end up with a worse behaved dog than you might have otherwise.
If you just can't manage to abide by the rules, and I understand from experience how hard it is, then please consider talking to someone from an obedience school. Make sure that they have experience in crate training before you bother with them.
As for the barking, yowling, howling and carrying on... it is part of the process. A bit like eventually having to let an infant cry themselves out so that they don't feel like they own you.
There is a time, place and specific way to do this. Please do some reading in the subject, and/or talk with someone who has already been through it. This isn't something you should have to do on your own.
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Your puppy is 3 months old and she is sleeping in a crate in the garage?...Well this explains why she is howling all night long.
She is a baby and no puppy wants to be left alone, Guess what now this isn't directed towards you..but your mother should of never allowed you to have a puppy if she can't handle the poop and peeing around the house. It's just what pups do, I would sit down and explain to your mother to allow the puppy in the house if you have to keep her in a room with a pee pee pad then do so but I really wouldn't be putting her in the garage all night long she is way to young for that.
My advise: Get a pee pee pad and train her to go on that until she gets a bit older. Also, Your puppy will in time forget her puppy friends. Do you honestly remember a whole lot when you were 3 months? No.
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