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Originally Posted by MomtoJasper  Once you have that baby in your arms, you will be just fine. The training time is flying by for me. Jasper will be 7 months old Monday and it seems like we just brought him home yesterday. Sure he still has a lot of work on housebreaking. But, he is getting there. Remember they are so smart and can learn things so fast. You are going to be a great mom. Will you be crating at night or sleeping in the bed with you? Pee pad outside training? |
With the way I sleep, it's not safe to have a small dog in bed with me. She'll sleep in either her crate or ex-pen until she's able to be trusted out overnight. I have the ex-pen set up right next to the doggie door and will have pads under it. I'll start removing the pads and wean her down to just one over time. When she's big enough to try and start going through it, I'll open the ex-pen door and move it so she has access to the outside from the pen but is still contained to a small area. The hope is she'll be doggie door trained as well as pad trained.
This will be the first time I've trained a dog to use the doggie door without their being able to watch others go in and out, so cross your fingers for me!