Anthony G

does anyone have a video of how this is done?

thank you for the info everyone. gonna get the crates this weekend. need 2.... coz the pomeranian is coming in less than 2 weeks. and yes i know... its gonna be hard doing 2 pups in 1 go.... i saw the suggestions from that person with 2 pups. hehe. and argh.. the poms gonna be a barker! *gulp* i hope ill be one of those ppl in the future telling new owners to get crates. im kinda confident it will work anyway, from what everyone has said, so yeh... here goes.... ciao!

crate training it is. OH... and how will i know its time to put down the crate? or is this gonna be a forever thing? and can i ask, can u train a puppy to bark at the door when he/she wants it opened?

what if i do a little confinement.. not a crate.. but its bigger space, the one i started with in the first place... the problem with that is, she wont be able to see us, its in the same room, its at the corner, and she will have 4 by 4 metres of space, and i used my old cushion for my single bed to block her... yes? no? or will that give her room to wee and it will be next to her bed? i have til this weekend to decide as i dont have the time to buy a crate til then. and maybe it might save me a bit of money if that works.

thank you for ur reply meriment. and yeh... i guess its gonna be 'training 2 pups' then.. *gulp* good luck to me. OH.. and i wasnt complaining about the little one waking me up to go wee... thats fine by me, its usually in the morning already anyway and we have to get up for work. its when she is confined that prevents us from sleeping... she'd scratch and scratch and won't stop. i guess it'll be the same when i start her off with crate training? how long does it usually take before they stop whining in their crates?? anthony g

yes... she is still a baby... unfortunately, i dont think i can leave her indoors during the day as she might trigger the alarm, and might break furnitures and cause trouble when my wife and i are both at work. we're getting a pomeranian in 2 weeks time (he will be 8 weeks old by then), i guess my goal is to get the japanese spitz (arwen) trained first, so that she will be the dominant one, and the pomeranian (aragorn), will just follow her lead. i monitor her via webcam everyday, i guess its not really SA, as she stops after a while(not quite sure how long, but by the time i get to work, she has already calmed down) and gets on with her business outside... playing, sniffing around, sleeping most of the time, and sometimes finding a wood chip from the garden and start biting it. I have tried confining her in the beginning, we bought vinyl for her little area in our room... i think it was 4x4m, we ended up hearing a lot of whining and jumping and scratching, trying to get out of there.. which was affecting our sleeping pattern. and plus, she wakes up before us, so she couldn't wake us up when she needs to wee. nowadays, she wakes us in the morning to bring her outside (and this is without confinement, i saw that as progress) shes more secure seeing us when she sleeps... even though she is far from us and not on the same bed, as long as we are there.. and she can get to us anytime she wants, then its fine by her. she hasnt wee'ed tonight in our bedroom....yet, maybe coz we just finished her 'before to bed wee', we'll see when we wake up tomorrow. no i havent got any books to read, ive just been relying on puppy school materials + articles on the internet. ill start looking for one this weekend. thank you again for ur reply.

Thank you for your reply. With regards to leaving her outside for a while.. how long is a while? once she knows im home, she keeps on jumping against the door... do i open the blinds to let her see me? or just leave it closed? i've left her outside today for 15 minutes, and that was killing me coz she just wont stop trying to get in. is 15 minutes okay? or is that too cruel already? with regards to wee-ing, yeh, im still working on catching her in the act. and i will try the letting her sniff it outside bit, if she does it tonight. I dont think my wife will let me let her sleep in another room. she has her own bed in our room, and its a few steps away. it used to be just next to the bed, but im slowly moving that further away from the bed gradually. I guess it will just be a longer way of training aye? but will the distance still build even if she sleeps in our room?

Hi, I have a problem with my little 17week old Japanese Spitz. It goes wherever I go, even if its tea time already, no matter how hungry she is, she just follows and only eats when im near her. Her food is outside and we leave the sliding door open letting her go in and out as she pleases. During the day when my wife and I go to work, we leave her outside in the backyard. All day she'll be there running around, playing, sleeping, etc. When i get home, i was told from puppy school that i shouldn't open the door straight away and let them in. is this the right way? I just have this theory that im confusing her. this backyard is where she's supposed to wee/poo, eat and yet this is where i leave her during the day. She sleeps with us during the night. She has learned not to poo in the room anymore, but still pees in the room before sleeping. even if its just a little trickle. and yes, i go out regularly with her. My problem is, crying whenever i leave her, wouldnt eat unless im there, wont go outside to pee unless i bring her outside (an exception is before sleeping, she wont wee until we get in our room during the night). I just want her to be confident enough to just go out and wee/poo... or eat... then come back in when done. should i lock her outside to make her eat while i wait by the door? maybe she's scared that i would leave her again (as i do during the day). am i confusing her? im confused myself, i didnt know i have that many problems til i wrote this thread. help? anthony