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Originally Posted by sats4eva  Hi there,
I bought my yorkie on thursday from a breeder. He is 11.5 weeks old now and his name is Snickers. I've never had a dog before so I wasnt sure what to do. Here is my dilemma.
First, I bought him a crate and playpen which is set up upstairs in one of our bedrooms. Nobody uses the room, it is solely his. I have a crate attached to a play pen and in the play pen are his toys and pee pads. He pees on the pads which is nice but poops sometimes just a little off the pads. My concern is that we have no room to make a bedroom for him downstairs so is it ok if he uses the pee pads now and later I train him to go outside? Given his age I dont want him to form any habbits that I may later regret. Second, i'm a working guy so how long can I leave him home alone. I cant always supervise him. I work a 9-5 but for that reason I bought him a play pen so that he can run around freely. Is this ok? Can he be left alone? If not I may have to look at day care for the short term.
Next, he is sick with kennel cough so he cant get his second set of vaccinations. For that reason I cant enroll him in puppy training. Is there a certain age which I should start by? If i star him at 14 weeks is that ok? too late?
Just want to ensure the best for snickers. Please let me know!
Thanks in advance.
Sats |
Nothing in a dogs life is never not changable as long as you work from gentle and take your time so as for training if it works for you do it the best comfortable way for you and switch it as need. There is a great advantage of having a dog pee pad trained when a small breed as you do not have to take them out in very nasty weather.
14 weeks is not to late to start taking him to class although ideally itbe better if he could go now but it is what it is and when he is well get him out and socali to the max.
If you can find him a dog walker as he so young and in need of soicalization to come in and just play with him that be a good thing.
JL