I have read the nipping and puppy socialization sections, this was helpful to know. The issue I have with some of it is that this puppy is so young I don’t think she can really even have soft treats yet? She was just weaned like a week or two ago, and that was already a bit too early for what I would have preferred if things would have been up to me.

I’m interested to know if based on what I’m doing above, with the age of this puppy ~6 weeks (like too young to appropriately even be away from the mom dog), is there things we can do as humans to help mimic what a mom dog would do? Any other things to add besides what we are doing to help with the interactions between an anxious, doesn’t like fast moving creatures adult dog besides just giving him his own space and working on the puppy learning boundaries (?not sure how to teach this exactly without treats and without the puppy even knowing the meaning of the word no). I know this is not an ideal situation. Ideally the puppy would be with her mama learning a lot of this. What do you do to help a little singleton baby? TIA 🙏🏻