What do you do? Mollie is six months old and wow! She can go wild sometimes. Tatze gets the brunt of it, poor girl. My routine is like this - 7am get up - dogs play together really well. 7:30 breakfast for all of us, dogs have a kong while I eat 8am - 9am puppy training followed by me doing washing, cleaning and other horrible things. OH gets up and has his breakfast. 9:30. We all go out. Usually Mr Boogs takes Tatze a long walk and I take the pup on a training walk or shorter free run. Twice a week we all go together. Mid day I go to a shopping centre, garden centre or cafe with the pup for training on everything - stairs lifts, the list is long. Mollie sleeps most of the afternoon due to tiring mornings. Two times in the day she goes wild - totally uncontrollable. Both are after eating and her kong so about 8:30am and pm. She's really really good for her training, so I shouldn't complain if she's a nutcase at other times. I tend to put her in Tatze's crate to calm down - but I feel awful! She sits there starting out and looking so so hangdog. I could easily give her another kong but Tatze can't have too many as she puts weight on so easily and I hate giving one dog and not the other. Having written this I see that this is mostly about my feelings and not the dogs' behaviour at all. What is your experience, advice or idea? Looking in from the outside often gives better insight than when you are in the middle of it. I've never had such a lovely, crazy, quirky, clever, wild pup!! What do you do with puppy nutters?
Heh, I'm awful, I normally just let Shadow deal with it - he'll play with her and keep her occupied. But, if he's not in the mood, or if he starts going bonkers, it's time for distraction. An energetic game of tug, throw her on her back for tummy rubs, scenting games - which I've just introduced her to, and she loves. Anything to control the beast
Rory used to have a relaxing stroky massage on his bed he would calm down then. His sillies was tiredness related
LOL. This morning DH went down to the swimming pool pump, at the bottom of the garden, to check on it. Harley went hurtling down there and right into him. He is great at the rough and tumble stuff so it sounded like there was a werewolf in the garden. Harley doesn't really growl, but she does make a noise that is specific to her puppy silliness. Then she saw me and ran as fast as her lab legs could carry her and right into me. If I had stepped aside she would have gone straight into the sliding door. But I wish she wouldn't run into me. But she doesn't rough and tumble with me. If we were inside and it was just me and her I would put her in her crate. Puppy crazies is too much for me.
I did Find It games with Snowie when he was a small crazy puppy. Took about 5-10 times and he was calmed down. This was at bedtime when he became a loon, totally impossible. He still gets the crazies now at five years. But not often unfortunately cos we LOVE them. Usually when I want to bath him, or if he's done something naughty like taken his meaty bone to our bedroom, then he can't contain himself. He'll tear around the swimming pool and up and down the garden path and onto all the outdoor furniture, legs flying, bum tucked in, wild speeds and high leaps. We laugh and make sure we flatten ourselves against the wall lest we get bashed into. It really is hilarious. After a few minutes he's calmed down and thoroughly exhausted!
Hehe I must say I've noticed that, at the ripe old age of nearly 2, Ella's nutty moments are celebrated more now rather than the old "oh Ella, not again"
I must do more scenting games. I've just ordered a snuffle rug. I've also decided to make some low-cal Kongs for Tatze so that Mollie can have more Kalming Kongs ...
