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Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe  looking around the house trying to puppy proof it!
shes 9 weeks. should i put her harness and lead on here and wrap her in a fleecy blanket for the two hour ride home?
shes only had one injection, im guessing shes gonna need toilet breaks, shall i put her on newspaper on the floor for a wee?
what shall i do with her when i get her home for the first time, let her sniff around. when do i put her in the crate for the first time and how long for?
im going to put the crate at bed height so if she wines i can put my fingers throught the bars... what else can u suggest.
what should i do with her on her first day here with us? apart from give kisses cuddles and take pictures!  |
if someone else is going with you to pick the pup up and your not driving then holding the pup in a blanket on your lap is fine during the car ride. i had a two hour car ride as well but i went by myself and put morgan in a carrier on the way home. she slept the entire time.
Since she's only had one vaccine (what i'm assuming you mean by one injection) you can still take her outside to potty if thats what you want to do. Potty training starts as soon as you get home. Its ok for her to go outside if on a leash and only to go to the potty spot. Carry her in and out and put her in the location you want her to go. Or if you want to pee pad train her then you can do that as well. you can use newspaper or buy wee wee pads from the pet store. Depends on how you want to housebreak. There are lots of different ways people do it on here. From the get go i took morgan strictly outside.
crate training is another thing that people have different opinions on because yorkies are so small. I already knew what i was going to do and it pretty much resembled what can be found on Sylvan's website.
http://sylvanyorkies.com/puppycare.htm stacy has excellent advise for alot of things on that page. When your pup first gets home its ok to let her explore her new environment but be prepared for possible accidents. I live in the basement of my house and morgan only saw the floor of my huge room for the first month. I'd carry her upstairs but never put her down until she was alittle better about holding her pee.
You don't have to put the crate at bed height to begin with. First i'd try leaving the crate on the floor in your room or wherever you want to to eventually sleep and see how that goes. She is probably going to whine at first. Try ignoring her first to see if she'll stop. You don't want to encourage bad behavior by answering her every whine. She'll just learn that if she whines in the crate mommy is going to come save her or give her attention. Even bad attention is still attention to them and they don't care as long as someone is standing there with them.
the first day she's home is gonna be a doozie for her. she's not going to remember much becuase she's so overwhelmed. the only training i'd do is with the potty training and where you want her to pee. other then that, give her lots of hugs and kisses and take lots of pictures. give her a few days to settle in before you start anything else with her
also she may have diarrhea the first day or two she is there because of the environment change. take a stool sample to the vet when you go just in case she has intestinal parasites.