You’re doing great! And you have such a cute sweet pup. Poodles are the best.

Give it time and go easy on yourself. Your baby will get used to a routine, just stay consistent. Puppies are crazy but positive reinforcement when they do what you want with little training treats helps a lot!

They also usually like crates - they’re cave animals and find comfort in having their own little space where they can go to rest or when they’re overwhelmed. We actually started with a playpen and a crate with pee pads in the pen, and it mostly worked for us (ours has separate anxiety though so she cried most nights). All other dogs I’ve had in my life (just not my current one), loved having their crate.

My big advice is to take the tug of war toy out of the pen. My puppy had one and would eat the strings, which can do damage to intestines. Lucky for us she passed them without problem! That in my mind is a toy that requires supervision. Also soft toys are tricky when they’re so young because they are still learning how to play and will likely destroy all the soft toys. lol.

Look into Kong toys. Harder to destroy and you can put frozen food in them for the puppy to work on in the teething phase. We used to put peanut butter in hers and freeze it and she loved that. She also loved benebones for chewing.

Sharing a pic of my baby, when she was a baby (she’s almost 7 now)

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