Soooo cute!
I want a puppy very badly! But we've decided to wait until we have a house. Well, we live in a house now but it has no yard, so I have to wait, likely 18-24 months. Scoping out breeds, though!
We crate trained one of our collies but not the other. My Dad's GSD was never crate trained, but that was 3 decades ago so who knows how popular the practice was then. Our one collie immediately took to the crate and loved that thing. We'd have to keep the door open at all times so he could go nap in it whenever he wanted. When our relatives with small children arrived for a visit, he'd run into his crate and hide. The second collie was totally hopeless and you would honestly think that he was being slaughtered anytime you put him in a crate. My Mom then gave up, and it helped that we got him at 8 weeks and he never peed in the house, and I mean never, unless he was sick, and didn't cause a dollar of damage. The previous one had eaten my Nike sports sandals, every pair of flip flops he could find (I guess he liked the foam), chewed through the legs and armrests of the plastic patio furniture, etc.
Good luck!
I want a puppy very badly! But we've decided to wait until we have a house. Well, we live in a house now but it has no yard, so I have to wait, likely 18-24 months. Scoping out breeds, though!
We crate trained one of our collies but not the other. My Dad's GSD was never crate trained, but that was 3 decades ago so who knows how popular the practice was then. Our one collie immediately took to the crate and loved that thing. We'd have to keep the door open at all times so he could go nap in it whenever he wanted. When our relatives with small children arrived for a visit, he'd run into his crate and hide. The second collie was totally hopeless and you would honestly think that he was being slaughtered anytime you put him in a crate. My Mom then gave up, and it helped that we got him at 8 weeks and he never peed in the house, and I mean never, unless he was sick, and didn't cause a dollar of damage. The previous one had eaten my Nike sports sandals, every pair of flip flops he could find (I guess he liked the foam), chewed through the legs and armrests of the plastic patio furniture, etc.
Good luck!