Is it ok to leave a 10 week old puppy home alone from 8:30am- 2:30 pm. Also, should I keep it in its crate all the time or fence of where the kitchen and other part of the house meets so it would stay in the kitchen only. I would have training potty pads out. I would supply her w/ food and water.
I ment keep it in its crate all the time when im gone or keep it only in the kitchen when im gone. I would never only keep it in its crate.
btw, training pads smell like grass so it would be used to smelling grass and peeing outside.
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If she was older you could probably get away with a 5 hour crate stay.Leaving her in the kitchen is gonna slow down her potty training. Is there any way you can crate her, have someone let her out to do her business ,and re-crate her for a few more weeks.
No, its far too long for a ten week pup. (Its SIX hours. - one or two would be the max)
It is cruel and will seriously disrupt her leaning to toilet outside - it will be harder for her to learn later after she has got used to going inside.
Also if she learns to ‘go’ in her crate you will find it even harder to ever get her toilet trained.
You really should not have got a pup if you have to be out that long. An older, steady dog might be fne, but never a pup.
dogs get bored when they are alone. you have to make sure there is water,food and toys
I am horrified at the thought of leaving a 10 week old puppy alone for 6 hours every day. Dogs need company, they are pack animals. Puppies also need to learn, and a pup will learn nothing but bad habits if left on its own so much. It will cry, it will chew things it should not, all kinds of things. It is like leaving a baby alone for hours, it is just not fair. Please think again about doing this.
Yes, I would give the pup as much room as I could. The crate should only be used for transporting. 10 weeks is young- so I would expect to have to clean up behind the pup. But as it gets older- it can learn to make it 6 hours without the potty.
I have an inside dog. We leave her in alone often, rarely do we have to clean up.
Well first off if you leave the dog at home and let it use a puppy pad, your only asking for trouble later. They will think that they can go to the bathroom anytime inside, and you don’t really want to do that do you.
And when I am not home, I leave my dogs in pet taxi’s they take naps and at bedtime for the most part I don’t put them to bed until I go to bed, as my puter is where they all sleep.Honestly puppies and even adult dogs need there own space. And they don’t tear up as much if there confined to a smaller area. My dogs as puppies and now adults know that thats there beds and to go to bed when there tired most of the time in the evening thats where I’ll find them.
And I tried the crate that are wired and those didn’t work at all, my dogs liked the covered ones. I got mine at Walmart. GOOD LUCK.
When my westie was 10 week old, she was left alone with newspaper lined all over the ‘fenced’ (20 sq ft) area of the kitchen. However, be prepared that she will chew up stuff. Puppy proof the area. She is 2 years old now and is 100% toilet trained. We never crate her but crating is a good training too because I have made this mistake and when I am not in town it is not possible to board her. Crating is traumatic to her at this moment. Now she has the whole house, upstairs and downstairs to herself.
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