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the local pet shop has a bunch of random animal bits by the counter, chick feet, some kind of tendons etc and I picked up a couple for the pup a few days ago. I gave her half a sausage thing and she tried to swallow most of it whole which made her throw it up, then ate it again. I just gave her the remaining half but snapped it into smaller pieces, turns out there's something about the sausage itself which doesn't like her and she threw all that up too while on the sofa, and cussion, and throw, and dog bed. All this happening while I had about 5 minutes before needing to join a zoom call. Great afternoon.
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Benny had colitis last week, I spent 3 nights in a row taking him out every 2 hours throughout the night to squirt a tiny bit of liquid shit out, strain for a bit longer then back indoors. we'd fasted him for the first day then put him on bland diet and some pro-kolin but whatever kicked it off originally had done a number on his intestinal lining so he wasnt interested in eating.
by the third night his stomach was so empty it filled with bile so about 5am in the morning he wakes me up wretching over me on the bed. I quickly grab him and stick him on the floor a millisecond before he chucks up a guts worth of yellow bile which he spreads over about 2m of floor my walking forwards with every retch towards the hallway.
having not sleep for more than 90 mins continuously at any point since sunday (it was now wednesday morning) it was not a very fun clean up, not least because the pup was clearly not very well which was troubling.
a trip to the vets a couple hours later, a couple of shots and £90 later he was back to normal within 24hrs.
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Otto does hunger pukes too.
And occasionally, eating breakfast too fast pukes
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does anyone live in a property where the main living area is not on the ground floor? we’ve been waiting ages until we’re were in a long term house and stable before getting a dog, or new issue is that we live in a split level townhouse.
the front door is down one flight from lounge/diner, access to the garden is another flight down from there.
there are also no doors below the bedrooms above the living area, we’re stuck on how you would toilet train a puupy in these circumstances..
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You'll have some impressive thigh muscles with all the stair climbing you'll be doing. Basically every time the puppy eats, drinks, wakes or gets up it's time to go to the garden. Say go quickly or some other phrase as the puppy starts the business. Pretty soon it will associate the phrase with pooing and weeing. Consistency of whatever works for your dog is crucial. My last pup was on four little meals a day at first and got the hang of in one end, out the other quite quickly.
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2nd floor flat here. Over a thousand trips up and down stairs in four month period when Otto was a pup. We thought nothing of it at the time. The stair climbing and sleepless nights helped us lose some weight too.
Don't mean to make it sound grim. Totally worth it.
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Ours still goes straight out for a piss after eating, even if he's just been for one, whatever happens you'll get piss somewhere for a while.
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I'd suggest trying what we did with Otto for the front door.
Hang a bell up at nose height and ring it each time you take it outside. Pup will learn that ringing the bell means it needs the toilet.
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You could put puppy pads in a corner for while it's really small and still take it out every couple of hours to see if it needs to go then it should associate the pads with going go the loo but if you take it out before it needs to then no problem. We basically do this except the pads are on the balcony. Now she's 8 months it's only really one of each per day out there.
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For sure. You don't need to take the same approach as we did, i.e down for a piss every half an hour to an hour during the day for the first few weeks. There are other ways of doing it.
Otto only had one piss indoors when he was a pup. He also tried to take a shit in my office but i picked him up before it came all the way out and it went back in! 😂
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Second floor flat her too. Several weeks of taking her out every two hours worked well enough for mine. It will take them a loooonngggg time to understand exactly what they're meant to be doing (and not doing).
Don't teach a puppy to go indoors (even on puppy pads) if you can help it. You'll spend the next year trying to make them unlearn it.
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I have a split level townhouse where the living room is one flight up from the front door and the kitchen, which opens on to the garden, is one flight down. I adopted Reggie as a pup and he wasn't fully house trained. Fortunately the kitchen is quite large, so I spent the first couple of weeks spending my time down there with him. I also crate trained him and kept the crate in the kitchen so he could be left down there without risk of messing. Out of the crate and straight into the garden.
Now he gets two walks a day, hasn't shit in the garden for as long as I can remember and only pees there before going to his crate at night. He saves everything else up for his walk. He'd be a great dog for a flat...
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Benny managed to rub himself in poo twice yesterday necessitating two showers about 4hrs apart. he was not very happy about that (but was happy about the poo).