I’ll be picking up my new staffy pup this weekend and I think I have everything ready for him – there’s just one thing that I’m not really sure of.
I’ve had dogs in the past when I was a kid and feel pretty comfortable about training, but having read a few different sources lately, I’m a little bit confused about some things.
One thing - where the puppy sleeps when you first bring him home. I’ve read that you should put the puppy where he’s going to be sleeping always, so he gets used to it and settles in etc. And that if he cries in the night you should just leave him otherwise if you give him attention he will think that crying is ok and do it every night etc. But then I have read that for the first week or so you should let your puppy sleep in a crate in your bedroom so that he doesn’t feel lonely from the shock of being taken from his litter and then put in a room by himself etc.
Which one is it?? Surely if he gets used to sleeping in the bedroom, when he is put in his own room he’ll cry? I really don’t want to teach him any bad habits, so which is the right way? What did everyone else do?
