Frustrated with nap/pee/feed/pee again routine!

I just carry the puppy and put it in the x-pen. I also use the 36" so it's easy to reach over them -- well, mostly, unless the puppy decides to do zoomies around the pen. I also had a poop eater...I would just stand nearby with the scooper ready to grab it. I don't leave puppies alone in x-pens here. For one thing, we have hawks and coyotes...for another, I think you need to be there to praise when the puppy performs.

For a 5 month-old you might want to clip two pens together to give him a bit more room. I just put the pen on the grass right near the deck.
 
Ann said:
I just carry the puppy and put it in the x-pen. I also use the 36" so it's easy to reach over them -- well, mostly, unless the puppy decides to do zoomies around the pen. I also had a poop eater...I would just stand nearby with the scooper ready to grab it. I don't leave puppies alone in x-pens here. For one thing, we have hawks and coyotes...for another, I think you need to be there to praise when the puppy performs.

For a 5 month-old you might want to clip two pens together to give him a bit more room. I just put the pen on the grass right near the deck.
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Thanks Ann. May check them out this weekend!
 
Hanna is one now and I'm still using my xpen at the bottom of the deck stairs. Only difference is that now I no longer have to carry her down, and she has stopped eating the poop for whatever reason. We aren't allowed to have fencing here so she can't be in the yard unsupervised - the xpen solves that nicely.
 
EJHUNTL said:
Hanna is one now and I'm still using my xpen at the bottom of the deck stairs. Only difference is that now I no longer have to carry her down, and she has stopped eating the poop for whatever reason. We aren't allowed to have fencing here so she can't be in the yard unsupervised - the xpen solves that nicely.
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Mally stopped eating his poop at age one, as well. Thank goodness, right?
 
EJHUNTL said:
Some questions - are you waking the puppy or does he wake on his own? By this age Hanna was easily sleeping until 6:30 or 7 am. Our routine was out to potty & pee first thing, then food right away, then play for about 10 minutes ( fully supervised) and out for another go. Is there a reason why you are not feeding as soon as he comes in ( that should give him a reason to want to hurry up)?
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Pup wakes on his own at around 5 or 5:15, but I'm also an early to bed person too. Tucked usually by 9:30 latest.

And I don't feed him as soon as he gets up. I put him back into crate until it's time for me to get up for work. Then the boys get fed
 
Ann said:
The absolute best thing I ever found when training puppies was to put an x-pen outside in the yard. When it's time to do business, puppy goes in the x-pen, not loose in the big yard. Magic!! With no place to go and nothing to distract them, they quickly figure out this is where I do my chores and then, maybe...I get to play. Of course they always get a treat after performing in the pen too...I just use their puppy kibbles for that.

For Ruffles, I put two x-pens together insider my bigger dog yard to give her more space which was great as she grew. I just took it down a week ago, and she's nearly 9 months old. If it was dark at night, or raining and I didn't want her running around the big yard, I'd plop her in the pen. All my puppies have been so much more efficient this way! Maybe it would help you too.
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Ok seems like I now need a second xpen. I'm frankly sick and tired of having Callan bark to go out and then I sit for endless minutes waiting for him to go do his stuff. Only to finally give up and bring him back in and try again 10 minutes later. At list with the pen, I could go in and shower or something, not just stare at him begging him to do something. P:gaah
 
BarbV said:
Ok seems like I now need a second xpen. I'm frankly sick and tired of having Callan bark to go out and then I sit for endless minutes waiting for him to go do his stuff. Only to finally give up and bring him back in and try again 10 minutes later. At list with the pen, I could go in and shower or something, not just stare at him begging him to do something. P:gaah
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I had to laugh Barb, because I remember so well doing that with Honey! "Please, please, please for the love of god just go to the bathroom! I have to work!" (or I'm cold, or I'm wet, or....)
 
Bo has a special "potty toy" (which is actually a feathery cat toy on a string) He goes bazonkers when I bring it out, and it's only for when he's potted outside. We play with that for a few minutes and then it goes away and he's free to roam. He can't get outside and inside fast enough!!
 
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