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Ah I will start working on 'wait' she knows 'sit' 'down' 'in your crate' and 'paw' now (just learnt this half an hour ago. 'Wait' will definitely be our next training session :)

Yes I agree, I want her to be able to run freely all day and have her crate as a night time thing. We never shut the crate door in the day, she has the opportunity to go in there but when she is we don't shut it. She would be able to run freely at a relatives house, I'd take her crate there too...

As long as she needs really, my nan would most likely be doing it as it's great company for her too. She has also said she wouldn't mind her coming to her house for the working day once or twice a week either so think I will set this up:)

Sorry I went overboard on the post, once I started I couldn't stop! I should have put a shorter version straight to the question. Yes she is crated all night, she sleeps in there from eith 10pm or 11pm (depending on when we go to bed) and sleeps all the way through to 6am when she is taken...

Thank you this is really helpful information, specifically the keeping her calm when a family member comes. As she does get extremely excited when she sees people. I will take a look for some puzzle toys too she only has a treat dispensing toy at the moment which is a bit too easy for her to get...

Great thank you! I'll take a look too.

Thank you for this, she seems to already be falling into this pattern so it will probably be best to carry this on and train her to sleep while no one is there. As she is so small it doesn't take a lot for her to want a sleep so I'm sure when she's fully vaccinated a walk before work would be...

Thanks for reading the full post, this reply is a lot more helpful for me. I understand what pampering meant but I think you assumed what kind of owner I was before reading the full post. I certainly don't carry her round with me all the time, I train her and we have a lot of rules in place. The...

Thank you so much for your advice Th is is really helpful. I was absolutely gutted when I’d read that leaving them at night could have a long term negative impact. All the advice I had read had recommended this and by the time I read otherwise she was already starting to settle in her crate at...

Sorry about the long post, just thought it would help to give information on her current abilities and temperament. Sorry I don’t know what you mean by hand bag dog? And what sleeping from 11pm until 6am has to do with pampering a dog?? How do I treat a dog to ‘act real’? The reason why I’m...

So me and my partner are first time dog owners and picked up our perfect little Shih Poo (Shitzu X Poodle) puppy Mila 2 weeks ago. We picked her up at 9 weeks and she is now 11 weeks. In the 2 weeks we've had her she has been an absolute angel and she's coming into her little personality a lot...