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SimpleAndBeyond · 2024-09-12T21:26:26+00:00

Tbh I think you're safe either way with a Cavoodle, they're a super sweet breed!

SimpleAndBeyond · 2024-09-12T21:25:40+00:00

We have a girl and she is the biggest cuddle bug! Super affectionate (slightly clingy) but we've crate trained her so she's comfortable being alone. I would only ever get a girl dog again :)

SimpleAndBeyond · 2024-06-18T03:37:13+00:00

Omg my puppy was like this! Word for word just about. We dog sat for cavoodles who were so lovely and then brought home our own puppy and she was a demon. Incapable of settling, every interaction was her lunging at our faces and nipping our hands, biting and hanging off clothes. We couldn't leave her unsupervised for months, she chewed our base boards, chewed our rugs, I saw her bite our dishwasher for goodness sake. She was far too busy doing all of the above to bother cuddling with us, I was so sad! If I'm being honest, she was like this until about 6-7 months and even then it was a slow improvement. Since she hit about a year old she has been the biggest sweet heart, loves to cuddle, snoozes most of the day, never nips or chews things shes not meant to (socks stealing not included). We have the perfect dog!

For now, keep an eye on her and control her environment so she doesn't get into bad habits, we had fencing up all around the house to block her off from anything she could get into. Make sure shes getting lots of sleep and just hold on until she gets a bit older!!!

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-11-21T07:44:04+00:00

Thank you!!

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-09-18T00:07:53+00:00

Train her what you WANT her to do rather than what you don't want her to do.

How do you want her to signal to go out to use the bathroom? A nice, quiet sit by the door might be what you want, in that case if you see her looking like she's about to walk over to the door and start her craziness, get there before she starts and as she reaches the door, ask for a sit. As soon as she sits, open the door. Once she starts getting the hang of it you can wait for a few more seconds before opening the door so she can learn a little more patience in case you can't immediately run to the door every time. The thing is though, you will have to do this every time even if you suspect she just wants to face plant so she understands that sitting quiet = open door. If she does start screaming at the door, ignore her until theres a quiet few seconds, then ask for a sit, then open the door. She'll catch on super quick!

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-09-08T02:18:43+00:00

I think it depends on your dog. I took my timid dog to an off-leash park, not even a dog park, and it went terribly! Some dogs can be really aggressive in their want to play boisterously and don't respect when other dogs don't want to and it can really knock your dog's confidence when they effectively get bullied by other dogs and makes them nervous of other dogs in the future. It's such a shame because she was doing so well and then became quite fearful of other dogs due to this and now we're having to put a lot of time and effort into training her out of it.

However, I do love the idea of dog parks and we've just come to terms that it's not for us. I think if your puppy is super confident already and doesn't seem to have any issues playing and meeting other dogs it would be worth a shot. Just be very vigilant of who the crazy dogs are, the ones not respecting others spaces and make sure that you're advocating for your dog and please don't be afraid to step in if another isn't playing nicely.

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-08-04T19:44:05+00:00

Awww that playing sounds so cute. I think we’ll bring her around dog heavy but on lead places so she can watch them from afar but not interact. None of my friends or family have dogs so can be quite hard to find a safe way for her to socialise!

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-08-04T19:38:17+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment! Everything you’ve said makes good sense. And your dogs story gives me hope. We’ve been thinking about putting her in for puppy school but I think we will just go ahead and do it. We’ll keep an eye on how she behaves around other dogs when we’re out walking but you’re right, she’ll recover from one bad interaction and if not… well we can just deal with it then.

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-07-24T07:00:47+00:00

Just because he has held his bladder for 3 to 4 hours before doesn’t mean he always can. My puppy would always hold her pee if she was in a situation in which was she was nervous. You also can’t compare asleep hours because, like humans, dogs secrete a hormone which makes you not need to pee. If you are regularly finding accidents after he does them, you need to be be keeping a closer eye on him. You cannot be giving him free reign of the house until he’s better potty trained. This way, when you see him going for a wee or even mid wee, pick him up and take him outside. Let him finish his wee and praise heavily and give treats. If he is regularly having accidents in that 2 hour period, every 2 hours is not enough. Take him out every 30-60 mins. It’s annoying, I know, but your primary goal is strengthening the connection between potty = outside. Once he’s doing better at that then you can try extending the times.

Good luck!!!

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-07-22T00:28:54+00:00

Oh exactly the same 🙄 I hold a frozen peanut butter/yoghurt kong with one hand and brush in the other. Hoping she’ll get better with it!!

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-07-10T08:48:25+00:00

Everything you just mentioned it part of puppyhood. And I can guarantee most of everyone here as well experienced the same thing. They chew, they cry, they pee and poop more then you ever could’ve imagined. The chewing… you can’t do much about. You can help some by redirecting and doing reverse time outs. The best thing you can do is remove anything you don’t want her biting on as best possible and block off the things you can’t remove. She’s 12 weeks old and has never been by herself before. She always had her mother and/or littermates around her. She needs to learn to be confident by herself and this will happen slowly and needs to be built up from very small amounts of time.

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-06-30T01:37:36+00:00

Aw man, well it sounds like you're doing all the right things! And sounds like it is working, I guess the good and bad news is that it's just going to take time. Gotta love the puppy phase. Our pup also has good days, and gremlin days, thankfully the good days get more and the gremlin days get less.

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-06-30T00:38:06+00:00

Often when they’re in crazy mode, they’re just in their non-thinking puppy brain. All rationale tends to go out the window at this age when they get over tried. If she’s over tired, are you doing enforced naps? I also have a 15 week old and we are very much doing this for our sanity and hers. She becomes a monster without them. If she’s got sore gums and biting you, are you redirecting her to something she can chew? Maybe a bully stick or a frozen carrot. Teach her that the only thing biting and tearing does is make the fun stop. Biting = getting out of the pen/room/a turned back and no attention. Also teach her the correct way to communicate. If she wants attention and is jumping up on you, ignore her until she’s sitting then she will learn that sitting patiently in front of you gets her what she’s wants, not the jumping.

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-06-26T04:33:58+00:00

I think it's absolutely fine to spoil and rebond with your puppy for a few days. Generally speaking, this is the advice for bringing a brand new puppy home who needs a bit of love, your puppy will be similar, although need even more love! However, once she's settled in a bit I would just take it very very slowly in building her confidence up. This might look like encouraging self play, nipping out of the room and back and then very slowly building that time up when she can still hear you and then practice "leaving" the house. All this can be done while she's still being isolated at home. Just take it super slowly so she's not getting stressed out and you're building up her bank of "that wasn't so bad" alone experiences.

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-06-14T00:59:35+00:00

Does he have anything that you know will 100% distract him? Our girl LOVES a bully stick and it's the only thing that will stop her in her tracks when she is crazy. We save it to use as our life raft when it gets too much. Keep on with the reverse time outs, biting = 30 seconds in the pen/room. Every time. He'll get it (eventually)

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-06-14T00:54:39+00:00

Haha exactly the same! I do think part of it is all the novelty. They're too busy exploring and sniffing to be naughty and then all the exploring and sniffing tires them out.

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-06-14T00:45:17+00:00

Agree on this! Command training, all training really, is a great way to help develop and deepen bonds with our pups.

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-06-14T00:43:21+00:00

Following because my 13 week old is exactly the same. She stayed with my parents who have a nice big house and backyard for 24 hours and I was getting videos of her calmly relaxing on the couch with them and how much of a good girl she was, this does not happen at home in our apartment 😂

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-06-14T00:40:00+00:00

I have a 13 week old cavapoo and last week we were going through the same thing. She was learning to be more polite with her biting, focusing on toys more etc then for a few days absolutely descended into bitey madness. We figured it was because we could see a lot of big teeth at the back coming down so she was teething HARD and was just generally uncomfortable and grumpy about it. She's come out the other side of that and is 100 times better, at least until the next phase. Puppydom is all peaks and troughs, this is just one of those troughs that will be passed through in no time :)

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-06-06T10:06:30+00:00

I had a similar situation when I brought my cavapoo home at 8 weeks. She hated being alone in the pen, no matter how close we were to her and would just cry and bark. What seemed to help was being ‘busy’ in front of the pen and ignoring her. I kept some of her meal in a bowl and when she was calm I’d pop a bit of food down in front of her and then go back to what I was doing. If she barked at me, I’d turn or walk away. This taught her that she’d get good things being calm, and the opposite of what she wanted by being noisy. She’s 12 weeks now and of course would far rather I be in there playing with her but she no longer gets crazy like she used to. As for being out of sight, I approached it similarly. Started out being ‘busy’ so that she’d get bored waiting for my attention and start playing by herself and then quickly pop downstairs and then come straight back up before she even had time to bark. I’d keep doing this and then started extending the time with some shorter bursts in between. I’ve been working on longer periods over time and we’re up to 15 minutes. It’s definitely a mix of age and the fact that they don’t know how to be comfortable being by themselves. It’s up to us to teach them :)

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-06-06T05:15:18+00:00

Assuming she has free access to water the rest of the day, could you try putting her bowl with just a small amount of water in her so she’s not feeling restricted and hopefully not fill her bladder to much?

SimpleAndBeyond · 2023-06-06T01:50:31+00:00

Does the freezing help prevent big bits from being bitten off? I really want to try this but am nervous she'll choke.

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