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OP here. Thank you for this. People are hating on me but I don’t see it as any different as someone coming online and asking for help for their crying baby or when they will sleep through the night, etc. I am asking for advice so that hopefully the feeling of being annoyed will lessen. What is a good amount to walk her? She is 20lbs. We do 20 minute walks every two hours. We do not have a fenced in backyard. Would it be best to get one to help burn more energy? Even when the kids take her out, I have to be out there because I don’t want her running off. I don’t like the idea of a shock collar. We put her in the crate at night with no issues. Putting her in during the day seems so sad to me. She just stares at me. I can’t see putting her in at night and then during the day at times too? We have a deck that has no stairs. We chill out there but again, don’t want her to be unsupervised so I have to be out there too. Most people are saying she will grow out with this and I will keep going. We are getting her trained next month. She knows sit and come. She just pulls at the leash. Again, I think she needs to run but we have no fence. No, we never had a dog before. [/quote]

I just posted about daycare. On the days our dog is home, she takes an afternoon crate nap from 1-3ish (she also follows this schedule at daycare). She is ready and waiting at 12:30 to go into her crate with her frozen yogurt Kong. Then I usually run errands or nap or go to the gym. Put the crate in a quiet, no traffic area (ours is in our basement family room). [/quote]

Not a dog expert but love dogs. My current dog is a husky (not purebred, got from people who were moving and couldn't take her, who got from some backyard breeder). She replaced my previous husky who was a rescue (3yo when we got him so no housebreaking required and very well-behaved, he was found in a rural area as a stray) and had been euthanized due to metastasized cancer (4 months after a perfectly fine well dog check up). She was 11 months old, it was early 2021 so I was working from home. Housebreaking was a challenge (due probably to the move, she had previously lived in an apt).

Instead of 20 min walks every 2 hours I would try a couple of periods a day of pretty intense play. For peeing get a yard lead (that's what I have, although it is on a cable that gives the dog a lot of room to run and play), take  the dog out, watch for it to pee or poop, reward, and bring back in. If it wants to play ignore it and tell it to go to the bathroom. Also spend a little time during the day teaching some basics (sit, stay, lie down)--this also provides attention. Get it to a dog park once a week for socialization. [/quote]

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