How do you work at home with puppy??

[Anonymous]

I took off the first week with pup. Now back to working while we are all home.

He doesn’t like crate and we can work on that but the loud barking while I am on calls is no good.

What do you do?

[Anonymous]

You work on the crate. Full stop. It's hard, and we are sorting it out too. Put the crate in the other room, and if you can work in a bedroom or somewhere that you can close the door.

Make sure they have something awesome to chew on or play with in their crate that they only get when in their crate like a bully stick or a kong smeared with peanut butter. Did you work on crate training last week? Try to time your work breaks with the puppy's sleep schedule. Right now ours is sleeping, so although I'm taking a 5min brain break on DCUM I am heads down working for the next hour or two. Then I'll log off for 15min and play hard with the pup, have the kids play hard, DH will take his turn and then back in the crate she goes.

[Anonymous]

When I bought my puppy three years ago, for the first month as I timed it with a surgery that required me to work from home for a short time on top of taking time off, PTO.

What I did, was I took my laptop and put it in the kitchen to work so I was near the back door. Baby gated the kitchen so the puppy was with me in a confined place. Due to that I was able to keep an eye on him to judge when he was about to go potty so I could quickly put him outside. Also, since I was home with him I was able to be very consistent with taking him outside 15 minutes After eating, right after a nap, or right after he was very playful and having a Zumiez before a nap. To entertain him while I was working, I had a variety of chew toys at my feet. As he seem to like to hang out at my feet. We had a little dog bed in a small crate for him to go into to nap. However the end result is we never actually crate trained him. He is a smart little dog and only had three accidents in our house. The biggest issue with him chewing the fringe of our throw rugs. So we used bitter Apple. If he tried to chew on our hands or arms, we would say no sharply, and give him an appropriate tutorial.

The other thing that helped, was my children were home from school as it was during summer break. So they helped as well They were 11 and 12 at the time.

[Anonymous]

I am the last poster. Regarding the parking. Since he was confined in the kitchen with me or the back of the house, there’s nothing for him to bark at. Additionally, we don’t get up with higher energy when somebody rings the doorbell or knocks on the door. We are always very calm when we respond so the dog does not react to the doorbell with excitement, Because we never reacted with any sort of additional energy. This was a deliberate decision on our part, and it worked. To this day the dog does not get excited when there’s a knock at the door or somebody rings the bell. Which is a good thing because our Amazon packages are many and the doorbell rings a lot.

[Anonymous]

Lol try doing it with two kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I took off the first week with pup. Now back to working while we are all home.

He doesn’t like crate and we can work on that but the loud barking while I am on calls is no good.

What do you do?

Don't expect him to stay in a crate all day. Leash him to you most of the day and put him in the crate with some treat when you need to. Put the crate as far away as you can from the area where you are making your calls so that he won't see that you are available.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Biggest issue with the crate is the noise he generates when the door is closed and we leave him. Howling, barking, yelping, whining. Tell me this is normal? I would have to go around the block to avoid the noise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Biggest issue with the crate is the noise he generates when the door is closed and we leave him. Howling, barking, yelping, whining. Tell me this is normal? I would have to go around the block to avoid the noise.

What kind of puppy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Biggest issue with the crate is the noise he generates when the door is closed and we leave him. Howling, barking, yelping, whining. Tell me this is normal? I would have to go around the block to avoid the noise.

What kind of puppy?

Golden

[Anonymous]

More exercise in short bursts so he'll nap.

Cover the crate? Put on white noise so he doesn't hear you?

And give a puzzle toy in the crate or something that requires a lot of work to enjoy--we had a standard poodle and he liked cream cheese or liverwurst spread on the inside of what looked like a hard rubber manicotti noodle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More exercise in short bursts so he'll nap.

Cover the crate? Put on white noise so he doesn't hear you?

And give a puzzle toy in the crate or something that requires a lot of work to enjoy--we had a standard poodle and he liked cream cheese or liverwurst spread on the inside of what looked like a hard rubber manicotti noodle.

Hi thanks for the suggestions. Crate is covered and he has a snuggle puppy. He doesn’t care about any treats, bully sticks, toys with kibble, etc when he is in there. He only wants OUT!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More exercise in short bursts so he'll nap.

Cover the crate? Put on white noise so he doesn't hear you?

And give a puzzle toy in the crate or something that requires a lot of work to enjoy--we had a standard poodle and he liked cream cheese or liverwurst spread on the inside of what looked like a hard rubber manicotti noodle.

Hi thanks for the suggestions. Crate is covered and he has a snuggle puppy. He doesn’t care about any treats, bully sticks, toys with kibble, etc when he is in there. He only wants OUT!

It sounds like he needs more exercise and play time before going into the crate

[Anonymous]

08:43 got it. He needs a lot more play time. He's a puppy. He needs to be worn out and then go back into the crate.

[Anonymous]

He needs more exercise so that when you put him in the crate he’s ready to nap. It’s just like having a baby who already knows how to run.

We followed this schedule- wake up, outside to pee, long walk around our block, home and play eat/drink (in a Playpen near where I work), outside to pee, nap. Repeat all day

[Anonymous]

OP here. I thought I was wearing him out. I only put him in the crate to nap when he starts to get drowsy and nap on his own outside of the crate. Then he goes in and loses his mind.