Puppies

[minion 29]

I bought a whippet pup a few weeks ago from "Itallion stallion" and I am over the moon with her but it's been 5 years since I had a puppy and I forgot how mutch trouble they can cause.

 

Nothing is safe. Kids toys, socks, tv remote - nothing.

 

She has more energy than any other pup I have ever had.

 

 

Training wise she is coming on reasonable. She sits on comand (sometimes) and I am getting there with the lead training. She gets her next jag this sat so I can get her out for wee walks soon.

 

She also is retrieving alot better than I had expected.

 

Cant wait to get her on the bunnies next year.

[Guest Frank]

Sounds good minion

 

Keep up the good work and your whippet pup will be catching them bunnys fast.

 

Good luck

 

Frank.

[luke 2]

do you think thats bad you should try 6 ive just about lost the will

to live good luck with your pup mate

[midnight walker 8]

do you think thats bad you should try 6 ive just about lost the will

to live good luck with your pup mate

been there hard going get the pics up

[luke 2]

do you think thats bad you should try 6 ive just about lost the will

to live good luck with your pup mate

been there hard going get the pics up

 

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Get her a crate, mush. Up untill a few years ago I'd have attacked anyone who dared suggest crating a puppy to me. Then I tired it. Pup gets to love it. You'll love it. Before ye know it, they've grown out of destructo mode and ye have a perfectly happy and normal Dog who ye can still manage to pop back into a nice cage should an occassion arise.

 

I have a bull ring set in the floor here too. But that's more useful for older Dogs. Put a pup on one and the bugger'll only destroy what it can reach. Floor. Walls. Ye nerves .....

[Irish Lurcher 1,013]

DS you are spot on re the crate pal. I had trouble at first with my bitch, a spell in the cage did her the world of good.

 

No more eating the jocks.

[skycat 6,173]

Yes, Its a funny thing this crating business: I use to (many years ago) when I first heard of them, think it was cruel to put a puppy in a cage: but it's just our perception of the 'cage', and it doesn't seem right to 'cage' a dog when most folks think of it like that. Substitute the words 'nest' or 'den' and there's no problem, and that's exactly what a crate is to a dog: somewhere safe and snug. Once they've got used to the fact that they can't rampage all over your house getting their own way all the time! My adult dogs queue up to get in the crate in my sitting room as soon as a pup comes out.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

My adult dogs queue up to get in the crate in my sitting room as soon as a pup comes out.

 

 

I've had that too! Had to chase the older Dogs out to get the puppy in!

[Guest Boston]

I love crates for young dogs, would not be with out one. It has saved my sanity over the past year of raising my Springer boy that other wise would have had to have been kenneled outside!

 

He is such a relaxed dog now, okay a bit giddy when he first comes out of his pen, to be expected but we have passed through the chewing stage nicey with little to no fuss at all, unlike other pups we have raised where it has been a nightmare from start to finish.

 

He is relaxed in his pen, plays in his pen and when left open during the day you will more than not find him asleep in his pen out of free will as he know he does not get bothered there.

 

He is in his pen when we are out of the house and at night time - other than that he is allowed to roam freely.

 

Good luck with the pup, and I would honestly say, your belongings may fair better if you did get a pen.

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I bought a whippet pup a few weeks ago from "Itallion stallion" and I am over the moon with her but it's been 5 years since I had a puppy and I forgot how mutch trouble they can cause.

 

Nothing is safe. Kids toys, socks, tv remote - nothing.

 

She has more energy than any other pup I have ever had.

 

 

Training wise she is coming on reasonable. She sits on comand (sometimes) and I am getting there with the lead training. She gets her next jag this sat so I can get her out for wee walks soon.

 

She also is retrieving alot better than I had expected.

 

Cant wait to get her on the bunnies next year.

i bought a saluki greyhound collie greyhound and it destroyed everything in the house and even chewed though a light socket when it was live. But now it has turned into a good dog so just give them a chance afterall they are only pups yet!!