Hello everyone! In three weeks I'm picking up my little baby and want to learn as much as possible before then and prepare whatever I can. (Forgive me if this has already been posted, I tried searching and couldn't really find much.)
Does anyone have any books they'd recommend? I'm going to the bookstore and the library today and want to get a bunch of good books, but I don't know where to start.
Also, I've got a conundrum that I'm hoping you can help with. I plan on crate training her, as we've done that with all of our dogs and so far so good. I've heard that it's best to keep their crate by your bed so they hear you at night. Well my bedroom is upstairs, with lamanent hardwood (I assume, I rent so I didn't buy it to know). Downstairs is all tile though, and I thought it'd be best to set her up there, especially if I set her up in an X-pen (as I probably will wind up doing at some point).
I'm going to have a small plastic travel crate for the long drive home and a wire crate at home. I've never heard of two crates for one dog and I'm thinking it probably wouldn't work to use both as crates in the house, just on the different floors. I'm just nervous/afraid to keep her crate downstairs and be so far from her. And I don't know if carying her crate back forth each day makes sense (or would even work!).
As I'm counting down the days until she comes home I'm not sure what to do. Any thoughts or suggestions, I'd really love some! Thanks!