Hello Everyone,
I just wanted to share our bundle of joy with all of you, Jules. I have been on this site a lot in the past twp weeks and learned a great deal of valuable information. THANK YOU TO ALL IN ADVANCE for the months of good advice I will surely receive coming up.
We brought home our Vizsla last night (Tues) at around 8:30pm. She was from a litter of 7 pups, and when we got there to meet them there were 2 boys and 2 girls, but we had already decided on a girl.
Jules was born March.04 2009, which makes her about 2 1/2 months old. I'm happy to say that she is doing just GREAT!!!!
We had a crate all set up for her, with food and toys, and a puppy pen surrounding the crate so she could come and go from it as she pleased. She was in it and chewing on her bully stick within 2 mins of getting in the pen! I really thought we would have more trouble getting her to like the crate! I even shut the door while we were still in the room for about 10-15 mins, and she could care less!
We set our alarm clocks for multiple times throughout the night to get into a bit of a routine, but she woke us up each time before the alarm rang, sayin "I Gotta PEE guys!". She was great again, jumped into her harness, attached a leash, and walked her out to her pee spot. Within 5 mins, I was back inside (no play time or goofin off) and in her crate. This was the only time that she decided to see if she can use those beautiful puppy features as weapons of mental distruction. She would cry for about 10-15 mins trying to get us outta bed to cuddle her or let her out of the crate. We took everyones advice and just stayed strong, and she quieted down quite quickly.
We only had to let her out 3 times throughout the night for pee, and right back in the crate. Now she is in her crate, happily lounging with the door open, she just loves that thing (thank god).
Our concern was that we want her to be as accident free as possible, and happy to be by herself (haha, ya right. At least we don't want her terrrified!). So we only really have one question at the moment. When is it ok to bring her outside of her pen to play (supervised) or to let her jump up on the couch with us and nap? We just don't want to undo any of her crate training associating the COUCH with bedtime instead of the BED. Just wondering any other tips anyone cares to give. Especially treats! We bought some to train Jules with, liver treats I believe, but she is not interested at all.
Anyways, I love the site, and the people are great. I'll post some pics for everyone.
Lots of puppy love!
Derek & Nicole
P.S. In case pics don't load, here are the links:
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5818/349j.jpg
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/8055/344.jpg
I just wanted to share our bundle of joy with all of you, Jules. I have been on this site a lot in the past twp weeks and learned a great deal of valuable information. THANK YOU TO ALL IN ADVANCE for the months of good advice I will surely receive coming up.
We brought home our Vizsla last night (Tues) at around 8:30pm. She was from a litter of 7 pups, and when we got there to meet them there were 2 boys and 2 girls, but we had already decided on a girl.
Jules was born March.04 2009, which makes her about 2 1/2 months old. I'm happy to say that she is doing just GREAT!!!!
We had a crate all set up for her, with food and toys, and a puppy pen surrounding the crate so she could come and go from it as she pleased. She was in it and chewing on her bully stick within 2 mins of getting in the pen! I really thought we would have more trouble getting her to like the crate! I even shut the door while we were still in the room for about 10-15 mins, and she could care less!
We set our alarm clocks for multiple times throughout the night to get into a bit of a routine, but she woke us up each time before the alarm rang, sayin "I Gotta PEE guys!". She was great again, jumped into her harness, attached a leash, and walked her out to her pee spot. Within 5 mins, I was back inside (no play time or goofin off) and in her crate. This was the only time that she decided to see if she can use those beautiful puppy features as weapons of mental distruction. She would cry for about 10-15 mins trying to get us outta bed to cuddle her or let her out of the crate. We took everyones advice and just stayed strong, and she quieted down quite quickly.
We only had to let her out 3 times throughout the night for pee, and right back in the crate. Now she is in her crate, happily lounging with the door open, she just loves that thing (thank god).
Our concern was that we want her to be as accident free as possible, and happy to be by herself (haha, ya right. At least we don't want her terrrified!). So we only really have one question at the moment. When is it ok to bring her outside of her pen to play (supervised) or to let her jump up on the couch with us and nap? We just don't want to undo any of her crate training associating the COUCH with bedtime instead of the BED. Just wondering any other tips anyone cares to give. Especially treats! We bought some to train Jules with, liver treats I believe, but she is not interested at all.
Anyways, I love the site, and the people are great. I'll post some pics for everyone.
Lots of puppy love!
Derek & Nicole
P.S. In case pics don't load, here are the links:
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5818/349j.jpg
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/8055/344.jpg