Update! Wow it's been over a month and I'm feeling a lot more positive about things (I honestly felt like the worst owner when I first posted...
Ok so today I've: bought a puppy pen partner is going to come back at lunchtime until I've found a doggy day care I'm happy with if I need to go...
Oh man this just made me feel awful. I thought I'd read somewhere that the crating advice was one hour for every month of age :( Honestly I really...
Poppy is 6 1/2 months old now and whilst I try to take her everywhere... Poppy's rock climbing trip to the Dolomites... Poppy's entourage... I...
I actually don't need to wait a week before saying that things have improved - they already have! I bought a training lead and harness but even...
I could write the exact same thing apart from the bit about having two puppies before - Poppy is my first. This forum is the best thing I could've...
I think that sometimes this forum is literally the only thing that can talk me out of feeling like the worst puppy parent in the world. Thank you...
I'm writing this at 3:30am and I've been awake since midnight fretting about this! This puppy-parenting is a minefield for anxious folk... I just...
Hi My partner and I are following the Happy Puppy handbook. We have the whistle around our necks and give our recall signal whenever she runs...
Thank you. I've read your early posts and I know especially want you mean about anxiety and writing lists etc. You're right about enjoying it,...
It sounds awful but I'm really glad that other people are experiencing this level of puppy blues too just because it means I'm not the worst...
I definitely needed to read this. I was getting a bit down because in Pippa's book it says from 9 weeks you can move on to stage 2 where they've...
Thank you. Don't worry she hasn't been in her crate all the time whilst not out for toileting! I've been watching her like a hawk instead. I'm...
Me again... When I let my 8 week puppy out to go to the toilet in the garden, I think she gets distracted so easily that she forgets to go!...
Hi My labrador puppy (Poppy) turned 8 weeks on Monday. We are following Pippa's guide to toilet/crate training (let the puppy out every set time...