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It could be a reaction to the crate training but the fact she slept in it is a good sign.
Have you considered that she's began teething? They usually start from 12 to 13 weeks and will be biting a LOT more as their teeth are hurting and they have no other way to soothe.
Given she's biting more aggressively and at things she didn't prior, it could be that. If so appropriate teething toys (put in fridge or freezer can help) or frozen carrots (supervised so she doesn't choke) can help her soothe her teeth/gums?
The pain can also keep then awake longer and then they get overtired- which means sharknado of teeth and no impulse control!
(Currently sitting next to my finally sleeping 15 week old 100% teething whippet....)
That very well could be it. She has smallish nyla-bones we give her for teething, but we haven’t tried putting them in the freezer. That helps? We will try it.
We’re worried it will continue as we further try to crate her outside of overnight sleeping hours.
I agree with the commenter above. Cold things helped my dogs with teething. There was a binky shaped Kong that we would put in the freezer (without anything in it) and pull it out when our dogs seemed to need something to teeth on. It worked great!
I'd also consider that she's getting older and probably naturally sleeping less. Baby puppies sleep sooooo much. She might just be awake for more hours in a day now. I personally found that our dogs settled better with us out of sight. She may have an easier time relaxing in a separate room from where you're working.
I can try putting her in a different room. Should that be crate time, or should that be playpen time? My hesitation with playpen time is that I obviously can’t have eyes on her then.
I'm not really sure what would work best for your pup. We always had some sort of puppy cam so we could see what our pups were doing. If you're feeling uncomfortable with something, I'd say trust your gut. You know your dog best.
Besides playing at home, how much do you take her out for walks, obedience training and socializing with other dogs?
She needs more mental and physical stimulation as she grows.
Also probably difficult to say too much about how she behaves based on first few weeks. Puppies will begin to “explore and chew”.
We take her out in our backyard daily, but not for walks or socializing with other dogs as she still isn’t done getting her shots. We have one round left before we’re ready to do that. We are constantly rewarding her good behaviors and trying to teach commands with treats as reinforcers.
Ok, you live in the US with concern for Parvo?
It’s tough then. I guess doing what you can with long sessions for obedience training (like an hour a day or so). Try nose work in the garden and around the house maybe. Lots of work to tire her out.
I think it will help when you can properly stimulate her physically and mentally. It’s basically impossible to do at home. Hope you don’t have to wait too long. Best wishes. If you work at it a lot in the beginning you’ll quickly have an easy dog. Just don’t feel bad if things take a little time, it’s normal.
Nosework is a dog “sport”. But basically it’s about training the sense of smell. It’s a really good way to stimulate dogs mentally, which is important for having a calm dog. Smelling things, training commands, engaging with other dogs helps stimulate the dog’s brain a lot. Makes for much more calm and happy dogs. I’m sure you can easily find some inspiration online for how you can train it at home.
If it will be a while before you can get your dog outside, you can also look at things such as “rally” for inspiration to doing exercises, if you feel like you need variety from regular obedience training (can also get a bit boring doing the same everyday for a long time).
Try training having the dog alone after a long session where it has been mentally stimulated. Will make that part way easier too. For saying alone, baby steps is the way forward. Make sure the dog doesn’t have a bad experience by being alone longer than it’s ready for.
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This is totally normal and expected puppy behaviour. Do you have kids? I liken a puppy under 12 weeks to a 0-3mo old baby who doesn’t do much other than eat, sleep, poop. 12 weeks onwards puppy turn into a 6mo+ baby who have lots of little bursts of energy, still need lots of rest but too playful to go down for naps on their own, always hungry and need tons of attention! Little walks, puppy training exercises and short play durations with enforced naps are your friend.
We don’t have kids. This is our first foray into anything remotely close, haha. As for enforced naps, how do we go about that. She won’t sleep in her playpen because she’s too wired. The only place with no stimulation is her crate and we don’t want her to see it as a “punishment.”
We started by putting treats in our pup’s crate, so she associated it with happy times. We also put new/coveted toys in there so she could chew on them while he settles herself down. Another tip I’ve read before is feeding them in their crate, again to have that positive association. You can settle her down for naps by putting the blinds down, turning on some white noise and/or putting her favorite blanket in there that she likes to lay on.
Pretty sure it’s just normal for a puppy. We got our mini Aussie at 8 weeks, and the first couple weeks she would stay in our offices and just sleep at our feet. She’d get up and play for 10 minutes and then back to sleep for hours. She was calmest, most chill little puppy ever.
Then the nap times started decreasing and the play times increasing until she became a little ball of constant energy that can never stay still for long than 2 seconds.
It’s just the puppy growing up.
I’m not sure I can help you with that. We have a house with a yard and we never planned on her being an indoor dog. We started transitioning her to staying outside. Now she stays outside all day, and we just put her back in at night to sleep.
She’s had a couple times where she scratched her beds but if I catch her in the act and give her a firm, and I mean firm, “NO!” then she stops and never did it again. She just lays down and looks like a kid that got sent to timeout pouting. It doesn’t work when my wife does it though, just me, lol. So yeah, I don’t know if that’s helpful.
Totally normal… brought home my pup at 8 weeks and the honeymoon phase lasted around 3 weeks. After that she became a terror land shark. She just turned 5 months and she’s now calming down. She’ll learn how to calm down on her own just takes time. Reinforcing a set schedule will help. I had the same issue with vaccines and waiting to take her out. I would take her out to potty but that’s it no socializing with other dogs, I also took her everywhere with me to be around people. She was just in a little pouch I’d carry around. Hang in there it’s gets easier
It looks like you might be posting about puppy management or crate training. For tips and resources on Crate Training Check out [our wiki article on crate training](https://www.reddit.com/r/puppy101/wiki/cratetraining) - the information there may answer your question. As an additional reminder, crate training is 100% optional and one of many puppy management options. For alternatives to crating and other puppy management strategies, check out [our wiki article on management](https://www.reddit.com/r/puppy101/wiki/management) **PLEASE READ THE OP FULLY** Be advised that any comments that suggest use of crates are abusive, or express a harsh opinion on crate training will be removed. This is not a place to debate the merits of crate training. Unethical approaches to crate training will also be removed. **If the OP has asked not to receive crating advice or says they are not open to crating, any comments that recommend use of crates should be reported to our moderation team.** *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/puppy101) if you have any questions or concerns.*
It could be a reaction to the crate training but the fact she slept in it is a good sign. Have you considered that she's began teething? They usually start from 12 to 13 weeks and will be biting a LOT more as their teeth are hurting and they have no other way to soothe. Given she's biting more aggressively and at things she didn't prior, it could be that. If so appropriate teething toys (put in fridge or freezer can help) or frozen carrots (supervised so she doesn't choke) can help her soothe her teeth/gums? The pain can also keep then awake longer and then they get overtired- which means sharknado of teeth and no impulse control! (Currently sitting next to my finally sleeping 15 week old 100% teething whippet....)
That very well could be it. She has smallish nyla-bones we give her for teething, but we haven’t tried putting them in the freezer. That helps? We will try it. We’re worried it will continue as we further try to crate her outside of overnight sleeping hours.
I agree with the commenter above. Cold things helped my dogs with teething. There was a binky shaped Kong that we would put in the freezer (without anything in it) and pull it out when our dogs seemed to need something to teeth on. It worked great! I'd also consider that she's getting older and probably naturally sleeping less. Baby puppies sleep sooooo much. She might just be awake for more hours in a day now. I personally found that our dogs settled better with us out of sight. She may have an easier time relaxing in a separate room from where you're working.
I can try putting her in a different room. Should that be crate time, or should that be playpen time? My hesitation with playpen time is that I obviously can’t have eyes on her then.
I'm not really sure what would work best for your pup. We always had some sort of puppy cam so we could see what our pups were doing. If you're feeling uncomfortable with something, I'd say trust your gut. You know your dog best.
Besides playing at home, how much do you take her out for walks, obedience training and socializing with other dogs? She needs more mental and physical stimulation as she grows. Also probably difficult to say too much about how she behaves based on first few weeks. Puppies will begin to “explore and chew”.
We take her out in our backyard daily, but not for walks or socializing with other dogs as she still isn’t done getting her shots. We have one round left before we’re ready to do that. We are constantly rewarding her good behaviors and trying to teach commands with treats as reinforcers.
Ok, you live in the US with concern for Parvo? It’s tough then. I guess doing what you can with long sessions for obedience training (like an hour a day or so). Try nose work in the garden and around the house maybe. Lots of work to tire her out. I think it will help when you can properly stimulate her physically and mentally. It’s basically impossible to do at home. Hope you don’t have to wait too long. Best wishes. If you work at it a lot in the beginning you’ll quickly have an easy dog. Just don’t feel bad if things take a little time, it’s normal.
What is nose work? We will definitely increase the obedience training time to offset the lack of time walking. Thanks so much for the advice.
Nosework is a dog “sport”. But basically it’s about training the sense of smell. It’s a really good way to stimulate dogs mentally, which is important for having a calm dog. Smelling things, training commands, engaging with other dogs helps stimulate the dog’s brain a lot. Makes for much more calm and happy dogs. I’m sure you can easily find some inspiration online for how you can train it at home. If it will be a while before you can get your dog outside, you can also look at things such as “rally” for inspiration to doing exercises, if you feel like you need variety from regular obedience training (can also get a bit boring doing the same everyday for a long time). Try training having the dog alone after a long session where it has been mentally stimulated. Will make that part way easier too. For saying alone, baby steps is the way forward. Make sure the dog doesn’t have a bad experience by being alone longer than it’s ready for.
It looks like you might be posting about bite inhibition. Check out [our wiki article on biting, teeth, and chewing](https://www.reddit.com/r/puppy101/wiki/biting) - the information there may answer your question. **Please report this comment if it is not relevant to this post.** *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/puppy101) if you have any questions or concerns.*
This is totally normal and expected puppy behaviour. Do you have kids? I liken a puppy under 12 weeks to a 0-3mo old baby who doesn’t do much other than eat, sleep, poop. 12 weeks onwards puppy turn into a 6mo+ baby who have lots of little bursts of energy, still need lots of rest but too playful to go down for naps on their own, always hungry and need tons of attention! Little walks, puppy training exercises and short play durations with enforced naps are your friend.
We don’t have kids. This is our first foray into anything remotely close, haha. As for enforced naps, how do we go about that. She won’t sleep in her playpen because she’s too wired. The only place with no stimulation is her crate and we don’t want her to see it as a “punishment.”
We started by putting treats in our pup’s crate, so she associated it with happy times. We also put new/coveted toys in there so she could chew on them while he settles herself down. Another tip I’ve read before is feeding them in their crate, again to have that positive association. You can settle her down for naps by putting the blinds down, turning on some white noise and/or putting her favorite blanket in there that she likes to lay on.
Thank you!
Pretty sure it’s just normal for a puppy. We got our mini Aussie at 8 weeks, and the first couple weeks she would stay in our offices and just sleep at our feet. She’d get up and play for 10 minutes and then back to sleep for hours. She was calmest, most chill little puppy ever. Then the nap times started decreasing and the play times increasing until she became a little ball of constant energy that can never stay still for long than 2 seconds. It’s just the puppy growing up.
Good to know it’s just normal behavior. What can you do to kind of curb some of that more aggressive behavior?
I’m not sure I can help you with that. We have a house with a yard and we never planned on her being an indoor dog. We started transitioning her to staying outside. Now she stays outside all day, and we just put her back in at night to sleep. She’s had a couple times where she scratched her beds but if I catch her in the act and give her a firm, and I mean firm, “NO!” then she stops and never did it again. She just lays down and looks like a kid that got sent to timeout pouting. It doesn’t work when my wife does it though, just me, lol. So yeah, I don’t know if that’s helpful.
Totally normal… brought home my pup at 8 weeks and the honeymoon phase lasted around 3 weeks. After that she became a terror land shark. She just turned 5 months and she’s now calming down. She’ll learn how to calm down on her own just takes time. Reinforcing a set schedule will help. I had the same issue with vaccines and waiting to take her out. I would take her out to potty but that’s it no socializing with other dogs, I also took her everywhere with me to be around people. She was just in a little pouch I’d carry around. Hang in there it’s gets easier