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Originally Posted by izzy816 Hi everyone,
Well I had to share this with you today. My 4month old puppy Izzy made a huge mess at home. Here is some background: I work during the day so I was keeping him in the crate. My cousin was able to check on him in the middle of the day to feed him and let him pee/poop. Well she's working now and cant look after him for me. I found that leaving him in the crate all day, causes way too much stress for me and him mainly because he cant hold his pee/poop for 8 hours!
So that brings me to today: I decided to block of part of a room for him and put his food/water, crate and pee pad in there. Day one: he got out and roamed all over the house, he ened up in my bedroom chillin on the rug next to my bed...awww. Lucky me, he didnt make a mess. Day two: I made sure that he couldnt escape. It worked but this is what he did instead. See pictures attached. He managed to climb over the boxes I had stacked up (I just moved so Im still unpacking) and tore open a box I had files in and proceeded to shred the paper and he managed to pull tissue out of the garbage can and tear that up too! I couldnt get mad, all I could do was shake my head. It was kind of funny, because he ended up on that side but couldnt get back, which is why he tore up everything and plus he was probably mad because I left him.
My other solution is to get an exercise pen. I ordered it yesterday. Hopefully this will help. So where is he today you ask? Well I put him in my bedroom, there isnt much in there, just a bed and a dresser and some plastic storage totes. So we will see what damage he does today. Im afraid to find out. After all of this, I guess I need some suggestions on what I should do. For a week I was going home at lunchtime to check on him but that is too much driving and time. I live 20 min away from work. Im hoping the ex pen will help What do you think?   |
I bought the biggest xpen I could find for times when we are gone for more than 4 hrs. I've had it for about 6 weeks and put the puppies in it for a short time several times a day. I've only left them twice (for about 7 hrs.) and the first time it was quite a mess. I leave a large litter box in it and litter was everywhere and they tore up the pee pads. That was shortly after I bought it. The last time was last week and they only messed on the pee pads and maybe a little in the litter box. Today it's been extremely cold and windy so they have spent some time in it and did both business in the litter box. I put their food and water in there and they ate it all up this aft. (Water was turning to ice!) The last week has been the best so far. I was beginning to give up hope till this week. They are 5months and 4 and 1/2 months old. The younger is very small- was 2.2 lbs about 2 or 3 weeks ago and I'm surprised he's doing so well. Eventually I plan to let them have the whole room to themselves with several litter boxes, their crates, the xpen, toys, and some cushions. However, that will be awhile. I'm waiting till I can trust them not to chew everything in sight. So, things may not start out well with the xpen but give it time. It will work.