Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #170: Fair Weather
Puppy Update!
We have figured out how to get Beau to sleep through the night 9:30-4:30, without crying and waking us up! We take him for a walk/run between 8 and 8:30, to get him really tired out, then keep him up and about until 9:30. Put him in the kennel, with his toys and rawhides, turn on the radio and sit by him until he falls asleep (takes like 2 minutes), then put the blanket over the kennel. Lastly, we put a dirty shirt that one of us wore next to his kennel, so he can still smell us when he wakes up. We've done this the last 2 nights and he's slept the whole night through.
In other more frustrating puppy news....he loves going outside, obviously. I have been working from home in the afternoons so he doesn't have to spend 9 hours straight in the kennel. Well, if I'm working, I can be outside all afternoon playing with Beau, so he has to stay inside with me. (we aren't ready to leave him outside by himself, and he isn't used to being on a chain yet) He has figured out that if he pees on the carpet, he gets punished, and sent outside. I'm pretty sure he is now peeing on the carpet just so we put him outside.
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My reasoning: he'll pee right after he comes in from peeing, minutes after he'd just gone, I scold him, and take him outside. The whole time his tail is wagging, and he gets outside and jumps around, and wants to play, even though I keep telling him that he's a bad boy, in an angry voice. He's way too smart for his own good.... Also, I know he knows he should go outside to potty, since he went to the door yesterday, and sat and waited to go out when he had to poop.