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[quote=Anonymous]You are going to be fine! 15-20 minutes is a little extreme.

Make sure you have a safe/easy to clean place to contain the puppy and separate him from your children when you need to. If you think you'll need to use it a lot during the day, make it bigger than his crate (like a playpen on a tiled floor). This isn't a training tool - it's a sanity/reality tool.

When you have the puppy in your house and out of the crate, attach him to you with a leash. That makes it much easier to supervise him.

Remember the first few nights are the roughest - mine cried for hours and I remember sleeping on the floor next to his crate for a few nights. It gets a lot better really fast. Think of him as a newborn, but faster.

The most important part of puppy training besides potty imo is teaching him not to bite or put his teeth on people. Whatever your strategy is for that - yelping/ignoring, whatever the trainer says - you have to be militant about it and getting your kids to do it. When they can't, separate the puppy and the kids.

Do the daily "grooming" (handling paws/nails/mouth) and take his food/toys away from him regularly, then give them back. That's important to make sure he's easy to deal with later and doesn't develop problems with resource guarding.

It's going to be great! And hard! And fine! With setbacks! And triumphs! You'll be fine. [/quote]

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