[LadySam]

Excuse me, but you have nothing to say about the cutest, smartest, best looking dogs in the World?

I do, that is a good looking shepherd. And the puppy, well, he just looks like mischief wrapped in a fur coat, too stinking cute.

[Lucky098]

Could it be that is coming from your signature? the quote by Marilyn Monroe?

Lmao! Wow.. never put those two together...

[LadySam]

Lmao! Wow.. never put those two together...

Took me a while too, but that's got to be it, just try to remember to watch the vents or whatever when you're going down the street there Marilyn.

[Lucky098]

Virginiarey,

I'm glad everything is working out for you. As for advising a good book about potty training.. I'm not really sure. I learned all my puppy training/house training via the book of hard knocks ;) You could try checking out any of the "for dummie" books.. they're very informative and explain things well. Go to your local pet store and see what they have available

Now that you have her going in the right direction, stick to your schedule. Things typically get worse before they get better. It wouldn't be a bad idea to start her in obedience training either. Not only will it give you a structured learning environment, but it will also start her down the road of socializing.

Please keep us updated :)

Beautiful pup, by the way... GSD's are smart dogs! She'll catch on faster than you think!

[virginiarey]

Your encouragement is appreciated :- ) So far, so good and NO mistakes have been made today. Could be she's an extremely intelligent puppy. Tonight she may just go in the crate while we're sleeping, but that's okay as well, it's easy to clean up now and we are here for her to keep working at it throughout the day. So... much love to you Alty!

I gave you a solution. I gave you step by step instructions on how to potty train. You either didn't want to hear it, because it was too much work, or you didn't read it.

I'm glad things are working out now, amazing, overnight potty training for a 10 week old puppy. Highly doubtful.

I'll remove myself from this thread since nothing I say seems to sink in.

Good luck.

[virginiarey]

(grin, grin) imagine the possibilities!! Hilarious!

Laughing - and, yes, we've all been there with "I wouldn't believe what he/she just did" stories. I do think dog urine could be the USA's next line of defense. Collect it and then draw a line all around the country with it.

[virginiarey]

Thanks Marilyn :- ) so sorry about the name, it showed up in the quote, so I just thought it was yours, and didn't look further down on the post to see Monroe! Today has been good, and we will take it one day at a time. Obedience training will be I was told at 16 weeks of age, guess they want them to be fully vaccinated, etc. at Petsmart.

Well, thank you so much again!

Virginiarey,

I'm glad everything is working out for you. As for advising a good book about potty training.. I'm not really sure. I learned all my puppy training/house training via the book of hard knocks ;) You could try checking out any of the "for dummie" books.. they're very informative and explain things well. Go to your local pet store and see what they have available

Now that you have her going in the right direction, stick to your schedule. Things typically get worse before they get better. It wouldn't be a bad idea to start her in obedience training either. Not only will it give you a structured learning environment, but it will also start her down the road of socializing.

Please keep us updated :)

Beautiful pup, by the way... GSD's are smart dogs! She'll catch on faster than you think!

[JudyKayTee]

Thanks Marilyn :- ) so sorry about the name, it showed up in the quote, so I just thought it was yours, and didn't look further down on the post to see Monroe! Today has been good, and we will take it one day at a time. Obedience training will be I was told at 16 weeks of age, guess they want them to be fully vaccinated, etc. at Petsmart.

Well, thank you so much again!

The Petsmart trainers have minimum training - I had a terrible experience with them.

Look for a private instructor in your area.

Someone more knowledgeable about "formal" training will come along with more to say.

[Lucky098]

Yea, petsmart training isn't that great. If you like dogs and want to train them, Petsmart will send you to a crash course in dog training.

I would suggest to find a trainer through the kennel club if you have one or talk to other dog people so see who they recommend.

[virginiarey]

That may be best Judy, thanks! She is still doing great today, though she did peepee in the crate because I hadn't put her in the smaller crate until today.
What I'm going to try to do now is to set the alarm for 3 a.m. and take her out and see if that helps.
It's kind of creepy out this time of the morning for me, since we're in a rural area on two acres, and have had racoons, possums, and other critters here... the deer, we don't mind. I believe what got me concerned, is the man we bought Luna from. He has 120 acres (beautiful place), and has had to find, hunt down and kill a mountain lion that came too close to the house when the wife was outside, and she she saw it coming and took off indoors. He's had to kill and scare off wolves, and a bear on his property, so all this "excitement" kind of freaked me out! We went over to where he housed the puppies, and had to crossover this "walk over de plank" type setup, to get to the other side and open the locked door, where they were housed in a very large, solid, house-like chicken coop, that had the floor off the ground. All 10 pups were able to walk all around, lots of food, play,etc. and all very sweet, yet their poop/pee would fall to the bottom, which was at least 6 feet down or so, so they were not on dirt and had fresh, if you want to call it that, air, that easily went up through the grate that almost was the whole floor. Pretty cool setup for protection, but the pups didn't know what dirt or earth was. With all this protection, I had to ask further, and the man told us more...

He said that he and his wife are also doing rescue whenever the need came, from people either dumping their dogs somewhere close to his area and he happens to be able to "get to them" in time (I'll explain), or because they knew he and his wife took in animals to they would even call him and bring him their dogs, etc. and he would take them in and find homes for them. We were like, "wow, how nice", what a kind thing of them to do.
Then he went on informing us, that he also has had to come out, mostly at night, and shoot wolves off his calves like 20 feet on the side of his of door, because they were out for a kill! That he's been out in the woods, many times with his guns, trying to find where the most excruciating screaming and the noise of some dog/cat getting ripped to shreds out there that had been caught by the wild wolves. He would try and get to them to save it, but most times, it was just too late! Lost dog posters would be placed by people on the poles around the area, and he said you just knew that the screaming and noise you heard the night before, was most likely that lost pet, getting ripped to shreds! At daylight, all he would find is remains only.

So, you can just imagine hearing that, along with my imagination, scared the out of me! Now, I can't help, but look towards the small portion of our woods in the backyard if it's dark outside, to see if there's anything there, just waiting, and me having to hightail my back inside should something come out! I'm from California, where you don't ever have to think about things like this, but here, it's different! So early hours or darkness are not going to be something I look forward to.

I had also asked him the reason why he was letting the pups go so early and he said because momma dog didn't want to feed them past 3 weeks, it was just too many of them for her. So momma dog was still allowed to stay in the coop area with them, but they had started on moistened puppy kibble/water earlier. So when we picked out our little Luna from the litter, she was one of two girls who were the smallest of 9 girls! She was the one that kept following us around all the time, so we had to have her!
Her parents... were very large, mom was 90 pounds, but the father... an all solid black, took the cake! We had never seen such a gorgeous sweet animal, extremely intimidating by his look, but that massive in size. Like a beast only missing his red contact lenses and you would have sworn that "IT" had come to take you away for all the bad things you've ever done!

I figured since we picked the smallest and a female at that, most likely she would never get really large... now, I'm not so sure, time will tell.

The Petsmart trainers have minimum training - I had a terrible experience with them.

Look for a private instructor in your area.

Someone more knowledgeable about "formal" training will come along with more to say.

[JudyKayTee]

That may be best Judy, thanks! She is still doing great today, though she did peepee in the crate because I hadn't put her in the smaller crate until today.
What I'm going to try to do now is to set the alarm for 3 a.m. and take her out and see if that helps.
It's kinda creepy out this time of the morning for me, since we're in a rural area on two acres, and have had racoons, possums, and other critters here....the deer, we don't mind. I believe what got me concerned, is the man we bought Luna from. He has 120 acres (beautiful place), and has had to find, hunt down and kill a mountain lion that came too close to the house when the wife was outside, and she she saw it coming and took off indoors. He's had to kill and scare off wolves, and a bear on his property, so all this "excitement" kinda freaked me out! We went over to where he housed the puppies, and had to crossover this "walk over de plank" type setup, to get to the other side and open the locked door, where they were housed in a very large, solid, house-like chicken coop, that had the floor off the ground. All 10 pups were able to walk all around, lots of food, play,etc. and all very sweet, yet their poop/pee would fall to the bottom, which was at least 6 feet down or so, so they were not on dirt and had fresh, if you want to call it that, air, that easily went up through the grate that almost was the whole floor. Pretty cool setup for protection, but the pups didn't know what dirt or earth was. With all this protection, I had to ask further, and the man told us more......

He said that he and his wife are also doing rescue whenever the need came, from people either dumping their dogs somewhere close to his area and he happens to be able to "get to them" in time (I'll explain), or because they knew he and his wife took in animals to they would even call him and bring him their dogs, etc. and he would take them in and find homes for them. We were like, "wow, how nice", what a kind thing of them to do.
Then he went on informing us, that he also has had to come out, mostly at night, and shoot wolves off of his calves like 20 feet on the side of his of door, because they were out for a kill! That he's been out in the woods, many times with his guns, trying to find where the most excruciating screaming and the noise of some dog/cat getting ripped to shreds out there that had been caught by the wild wolves. He would try and get to them to save it, but most times, it was just too late! Lost dog posters would be placed by people on the poles around the area, and he said you just knew that the screaming and noise you heard the night before, was most likely that lost pet, getting ripped to shreds! At daylight, all he would find is remains only.

So, you can just imagine hearing that, along with my imagination, scared the out of me! Now, I can't help, but look towards the small portion of our woods in the backyard if it's dark outside, to see if there's anything there, just waiting, and me having to hightail my back inside should something come out! I'm from California, where you don't ever have to think about things like this, but here, it's different! So early hours or darkness are not going to be something I look forward to.

I had also asked him the reason why he was letting the pups go so early and he said because momma dog didn't want to feed them past 3 weeks, it was just too many of them for her. So momma dog was still allowed to stay in the coop area with them, but they had started on moistened puppy kibble/water earlier. So when we picked out our little Luna from the litter, she was one of two girls who were the smallest of 9 girls! She was the one that kept following us around all the time, so we had to have her!
Her parents..........were very large, mom was 90 pounds, but the father.....an all solid black, took the cake! We had never seen such a gorgeous sweet animal, extremely intimidating by his look, but that massive in size. Like a beast only missing his red contact lenses and you would have sworn that "IT" had come to take you away for all the bad things you've ever done!

I figured since we picked the smallest and a female at that, most likely she would never get really large...........now, I'm not so sure, time will tell.

I'd be a little concern about always letting her out at the same time. That will become part of her routine, and when she's older she'll still be going out at 3AM.

Love the post - just love it. There are coyotes where I live, I let the dogs out a few nights ago, same thing - saw the eyes. I have a privacy fence and the coyotes dug under it. My GSD weighs between 138 and 150 (depending on the time of year). She would have no problem with a coyote but the puppy - I shudder to think about it.

I actually go out at night with my handgun.

[virginiarey]

Yes, that is frightening! We're in the Piney Woods of east Texas and I thought the wolves, etc. we're all gone, until this man told me uh uh! I may just have to lessen her water earlier throughout the day and by night time or just before it gets really dark, take her out and no more to drink, or anything, until EARLY the next morning.

That man's place, which was also Indian land way back when, was just beautiful! Very green, tree filled with lots of noises of nature, plenty of birds. They had their own veggie garden, fruit trees, and even citrus, which doesn't grow well here, but they had them growing and did their own canning and the man... um, well, he was big enough (like the size of Hulk Hogan) to tackle a bear if he wanted to! He wasn't fat and at almost 60 years of age, didn't look anything over 45-49 years. It was hilarious because I think my 5 foot 6 inch tall hubby (bless his sweet heart) felt a bit intimidated by this big man and so we asked him what the heck he was eating to stay so young... and he said he hunts wild game on his acres, nuts, and drinks from their well that is fed by some springs, along with the stuff they grew. We had a great time there with him and his wife and there whole little ecosystems that all seem to be so very natural and you just new that this was a good way of living... off the land!

I'd be a little concern about always letting her out at the same time. That will become part of her routine, and when she's older she'll still be going out at 3AM.

Love the post - just love it. There are coyotes where I live, I let the dogs out a few nights ago, same thing - saw the eyes. I have a privacy fence and the coyotes dug under it. My GSD weighs between 138 and 150 (depending on the time of year). She would have no problem with a coyote but the puppy - I shudder to think about it.

I actually go out at night with my handgun.

[Alty]

We live in the burbs and still have run ins with wildlife. The other day there was a skunk in our yard. Our 6 month old border collie cross went after it, tail wagging, wanting to play. Thankfully the skunk didn't seem to be threatened, just turned, went under the fence and left our pup alone. Don't know what the beagle would have done, and I'm glad I didn't find out. Skunky puppy is no fun to deal with.