just got a puppy :D

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hey i just got a black lab pup and we caging him he keeps crying during the night and i was wondering is there anything we can do to stop this....its only for like half hour and then he settled are we doing this right. also any other tricks to stop him weeing in the house he is like 50/50 going outside etc.


i think we doing everything right just would like some advice as this is my first puppy haha :D
 
I'd say let him cry. Needs to learn that you can't be with him 24/7.

We got a new puppy a couple of weeks ago and for the first two nights it was pretty incessant. After that though he just seemed to stop.

As for the weeing, praise him when he does it outside and try to stop him mid wee and take him outside. He'll soon associate outdoors with where to do his business.
 
give them something that reminds them of you. an old towel, sheet, t-shirt....and puppies do this no matter what most of the time. it will quickly grow out of it. if its only when you first leave it its an attention thing so don't let it get its own way. if its first thing in the morning its coz its hungry or needs to pee.
 
When mine was a pup it just took a lot of time and effort. It's kind of like training for a baby... as for the peeing in the house, I would recommend puppy pads and if you see him going or about to go, pick him up and put him on the pad. He'll pick the idea of it up pretty quick, then gradually move the pad closer to the door and eventually outside and soon enough he'll be crying to go out!
 
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What is it these days with dogs in cages? Growing up having dogs parents never use to have cages for them.
 
As jonis said. you just got to give it time an effort.

I had my patterdale terrier from 8 weeks old (he is just turned 2 years old now) He was a little bugger when he was young very much the same lots of crying at night. My approach when he was really young was to give in and give him a little attention or pat because I felt he is in a new home and still probably a bit scared. Then I just slowed it down bit by bit and instead gave him a t-shirt in his cage. He slowly got the idea and pretty rapidly stopped crying at night.

As for the peeing in the house. I tried puppy pads but my dog just ripped the hell out of them so I gave up with them. The key I found (although annoying) was to keep an eye on him and when he looks like he is thinking of going a toilet I would quickly grab him and take him outside and say toilet to him a couple of times. That way he knows when he needs a loo that outside is the toilet.

It all takes time but very worthwhile. Now my dog always goes to the door when he needs a toilet. The odd "accident" happens but its very rare.

Persist and you will have a great pet :D

Edit: also I ditched his cage asap and got him used to sleeping in a dog bed. I would also suggest doing that sooner rather than later too. As when he grows up the last thing you want to do is get a dog (especially a lab) to stay in a cage all day while you are at work or out. It's not fair on the dog at all imo.
 
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Do not give in to its crying, if you let the cute thing out it will grow used to sleeping with you and it will never brake the habbit of crying when away from someone, it needs to learn now while its young. its only crying as its used to sleeping with the rest of the pups and mum.
 
A tip someone gave me once to stop a pup crying, was to place an old style ticking clock wrapped in a blanket in with the pup, the ticking noise is supposed to remind it of it's mothers heartbeat. Done this with my two german pointer pups and it worked well.
 
Ignore him. Simple as.

It will stop within a couple of weeks.


Also, get some break-in spray - Spray it in the garden where you want him to pee. Did this with my old dog when he was a pup and he was housetrained using this method within less than a week.
 
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A tip someone gave me once to stop a pup crying, was to place an old style ticking clock wrapped in a blanket in with the pup, the ticking noise is supposed to remind it of it's mothers heartbeat. Done this with my two german pointer pups and it worked well.
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Thats a cool tip! Will remember that and we are getting a puppy soon.
 
When he pees just soak it up into some newspaper, then put the paper with new 'clean' newspapers by the back door, he'll soon learn that that is where he wants to pee, once he's happy with that, start moving the newspapers outside, expect the odd accident while he's growing, just needs lots of praise and patience.

It's when he starts chewing you want to start worrying! :D
 
Also remember that while they are puppies they may seem like they aren't learning to pee outside but generally it's just them not being able to keep it in.
 
You'd think with owning a dog being a 10-15 year committment, costing anything from a few hundred to a few thousand pounds along the way, people would actually do some research before getting the animal.

No wonder so many end up abandoned when it seems beyond the owners to look into the answers to even the most basic of questions they should have thought of beforehand.
 
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You'd think with owning a dog being a 10-15 year committment, costing anything from a few hundred to a few thousand pounds along the way, people would actually do some research before getting the animal.

No wonder so many end up abandoned when it seems beyond the owners to look into the answers to even the most basic of questions they should have thought of beforehand.
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There's nothing here that states he is just going to ditch the dog, it's possible he could have done all the research possible and felt bad when the dog starts crying. Then you come along and shoot him down for having a heart. Grow up and stop whining at people. If he hadn't thought about it and didn't care he wouldn't be asking.
 
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