Puppy Problems

Don't feed him right before bed. He'll need to go to the bathroom with much more frequency. He's only 2 months old, so he should be going out every two hours and that includes when you're sleeping. Feed him an appropriate amount of food 3 times a day: at your breakfast, at your lunch, and at your dinner. When he's older you can switch to once/twice a day.

He doesn't have separation anxiety after two days. He's a literal baby as he is adapting to a new situation. Unless it's been two hours since his last bathroom trip, you need to let him cry it out. Puppies have less of a chance of separation anxiety if you put them into a routine immediately. But trust me, the jumping/crying/etc. isn't separation anxiety.

Here was my routine when I got my puppy--I had some time to take care of him without going to work or school, so yours may be different:

>wake up, immediately take him for bathroom break
>back in for breakfast
>age-appropriate-time walk after breakfast (5 min for every month old he was)
>he takes a nap in his crate
>when he wakes up, bathroom break
>playtime

Any time he wasn't specifically with me, he was in the crate. Every time he was done playing, napping, eating, drinking, bathroom break. When he napped, it was in the crate. When the crying became too infuriating, I would step out of the apartment (or cover th crate with a blanket and make him think I did). The crying would ALWAYS stop after thirty seconds had passed and he realized it wasn't going to work. Try this. Don't do it for more than a few minutes the first time (or a little longer if he falls asleep), but I guarantee you your puppy doesn't have separation anxiety.

pay the dudes you got it from to keep it for one more month with its mom
I mean you already see the problem in action

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>>2341483
Alright thanks a bunch, that's a relief. Still kinda new to this so I apologise if my questions weren't exactly well read into.

The thing about Tank is he refuses to nap unless he's on somebody. The best I can do is wait until he's passed out on my lap then lay him in his crate.

Do you suggest after his bathroom break and play time, I just put him down in his crate and leave him alone? Despite the crying?

(He hasn't gotten any jabs yet so the best we can do is let him run about the garden with us.)

>>2341498
It's important to ignore the crying. Don't talk to him or pet him because that's teaching him that he can cry/whine for attention.

>>2341498
It depends on how much exercise he's gotten, but yes. If you don't have a crate cover, get one. Like the other anon said, you don't want him to learn he can cry for attention or to be let out.

My dog is almost two now, and he can come and go from his crate as he pleases since he's an adult. But sometimes he needs to be shut in, like when a handyman comes around. The only time he cried as an adult was when we were moving and had to keep him in the crate while we propped the door open and moved boxes--the sight of us moving all the stuff out of the apartment *except* him probably sent him into a tizzy thinking he'd be left there. But otherwise, he's entirely fine with the crate.

Don't stress too much about the crying, OP. You're not killing him. Like I said, if it becomes too infuriating, leave. There is such a thing as "puppy postpartum". The crying can really get to you. Leave and take a walk alone. When you come back, I guarantee you he'll have fallen asleep.

>>2341510
We don't own a crate cover but we most likely have a substitute. Nobody let him out of the crate last night. I fed him, then played with him for about an hour and a half, made sure he went to the bathroom then when he fell asleep I put him in his crate and left him in a quiet room.

About an hour later the crying started and didn't stop until 8am when we got up. Is it normal for it to be that long? (Also he doesn't seem to be drinking water at all, he seems afraid of it. We've been feeding him weetabix with kitten milk and he's been peeing a LOT, so I presume he's getting enough liquids but it's still concerning.)

>>2341483
good advice anon

>>2341513
Why aren't you feeding him dog food?

>>2341525
We have Puppy food for his 2 meals after morning. My mum got the impression from someone or something that feeding him that in the morning will make him less constipated.

>>2341528
You could add puppy milk to his food. I would cut out the cereal though. Dogs don't need wheat and over-consuming it as a puppy could lead to sensitivities later on.

>>2341529
Alright thanks for the advice. I'll change it up next meal.

>>2341513
>We've been feeding him weetabix with kitten milk

You need to feed him puppy food for puppies, not human food for humans. Weetabix is 95% wheat fortified with vitamins that a human needs, and it's an inappropriate diet for a growing puppy - he needs a high protein, meat-based puppy food suitable for his age and breed. Moistening the food is fine, especially if he is just six weeks old, but you shouldn't be feeding him pap like he's an elderly invalid in a poorhouse instead of a growing dog. Dogs grow tremendously fast at this age and he will end up malnourished and it could eventually harm his development.

I'd definitely recommend looking up some solid information on how to raise this puppy. You seem to be unprepared for the fact that he's still crying and lonely after just two days away from his litter and mother, and this is just the beginning - he's going to present you with plenty of new challenges over the next few months. All puppies can be needy, messy, destructive little monsters, and he is also a JRT, which are a particularly high energy, high prey drive breed that really need to be well socialised and trained. No permanent damage will have been done in two days and you can still socialise him appropriately and end up with a very nice dog, but the next couple of months are a crucial stage in his life and you will need to be well prepared.

>>2341531
I appreciate the advice I really do.

Tensions have been getting a bit high with me and my mum over this. I recommended getting a dog however I expected a rescue dog rather than a puppy and when the opportunity came to buy one close to us I think we underestimated the amount of work that was gonna be on our lap.

I think with enough time and dedication we can raise him right. The cereal we fed him was apparently recommended by a veterinarian for constipation and has only been fed to him once this morning. The rest has been top quality puppy food which we have also been moistening.

And I wouldn't so much as say we're "unprepared" more than trying to find the quickest solution to this behaviour as it's been effecting our sleep heavily.

>>2341477
We had the same problem with our dog when she was young. We took one of my dad's shirts, and let her sleep with it, and it seemed to help.

>>2341513
No one is letting him go to the bathroom at night? Of course he would cry all night. He is either in pain from trying to hold it or upset that he is laying in his own piss and shit. Wake up and take him out once every hour or two to go to the bathroom. Do you want him to get kidney stones? No wonder he's scared of water. Why would you get a puppy, especially one this young, without doing the proper research?

>>2341558
The crate is open at all times, we're afraid of locking him in there especially this early during crate training.

There's training mats near and next to the crate also so he can relieve himself when he wants.

We just want him to sleep as long as possible in there so he can learn to see it as his bed rather than a cage.

>>2341558
After reading my comment again i can see how it got misunderstood, i'm real sorry.

What I mean by "let him out" I mean nobody went to his whimpering to pick him up out of the crate. As even when it's open and he's shown that he can clamber out of it when he wants he usually prefers to be picked up out of it.

>>2341544
You guys are just going to have to deal with your sleep being messed up. Someone needs to get up every two hours and take him out to go potty.

He is a baby, animal or not. Just like a human baby that cries, you have to get up at odd hours and care for them. You guys cannot get around this.

>>2341564
No.

Goddamnit anon, do ten seconds of googling or YouTube.

Get rid of the training pads. Block half of his crate off so he has enough room to get up and turn around, that's it.

Then, and again, you can't get around it, get up and let him out every two hours. An hour for each month old he is is how long he can hold his bladder

The pee pads are only going to prolong the potty training and teach him he can go inside.

OP, go on YouTube right now and watch Kiko pup and Zak George. You have internet, so I know you can.

>>2341477
Just have the pupper sleep in your room. Lay down a bunch of newspapers. If there's shit or piss in the morning you discipline him and he'll learn in no time to hold it til morning.

>>2341477
Sleep with something and put it in the crate with him. The only thing other than that is to just keep it up, he will adjust

>>2341571
This

anon, you got a literal baby. puppy pads do nothing but teach it that it's okay to pee and poop in the house. you have to get up every two hours, and that's it.

can you imagine if all your life, until you were in your teens, your parents told you, "this is the shitting corner, you shit here." literally until you were in high school. then one day, out of fucking nowhere, you shat in the shitting corner and they descended upon you like screaming hellbeasts, saying stuff like, "how can you not have learned to shit in the toilet yet!" "you were never supposed to shit on the floor!" "what the hell do you think you're doing!" etc.

that's what it's like for dogs who are trained on puppy pads.

if the puppy learns immediately that the only designated bathroom spot is outside, that's what they learn. there may be accidents, but they will be few and far between if you do it correctly.

after every meal, every drink, every nap, every playtime, go out with the puppy. every two hours (and then next month, every three), go out with the puppy. this includes nighttime. set an alarm. if they don't pee/poop on that particular break, place them in the crate for a half hour and try again.

is this your dog or your mom's dog? if it's your dog, tell your mom to fuck off. if it's your mom's, tell her to fuck off a little more gently.

yep