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Thank you. He has certainly lost all his baby teeth, but do the adult teeth take time to bed in? It sometimes takes a bit of effort to get him to his crate to time out, do you have any ideas for an easier and more efficient way of doing a time out? I know that it has to be immediate for him to assoc...

Hi, Our 6 month old standard poodle Dusty is doing really well now. We have the house training sorted (fingers crossed) and he is generally a great character. The only problem we have started seeing now is biting our forearms, not in an aggressive manner but leaving bruises. He stopped puppy biting ...

Thanks Erica and Nettle, he is very good and barks and looks at the door when he needs to go out for a pee or poop when he is in the pen. We have an open plan room with a chimney in the middle so I will need to have a think about the best way to divide the room a bit and gradually expand it as you s...

Hi all, Just wanted to say thank you again for all your advice. We have now had no accidents in his pen for nearly two weeks and he loves having his crate in the living room too. He is also always asking to go out to go out to eliminate. The only thing we are still having issues with are when he is ...

Thanks all, this is all really helpful. My apologies for the confusion in my post last week i mentioned that he wasn't peeing in the pen and i didn't think that he was. Either he has just peed a lot more this week or because we had blanket's down before i didn't notice it as much. Also i mentioned l...

Hi Erica, Thank you so much for your reply it is very helpful. We will try to keep him on a schedule. I have had a puppy before but it was a long time ago, so i am unsure of a few things. Basically are we looking to limit the amount of opportunity he has to pee/poo indoors by taking him out, rather ...

Sorry this might be a bit long as i want to try and give the full picture. I would be grateful for any advice regarding toilet training our 15 week old standard poodle puppy. There just seems to be a mix of behavior and I don't know if we are giving him mixed signals or not reacting to him correctly...

Good idea, thanks!

Hi all, Dusty the 14 week old standard poodle has had his three sets of vaccines as of last Monday but he is still to have his rabies vaccine (at 16 weeks). We're from the UK originally and have not had to deal with this before. We would like to get him out for proper walks as soon as possible but a...

Thank you everyone for the advice. I just really wanted to check that this was normal, as i don't want to be "letting him get away with things" or "expecting too much of him". Thanks again

Thanks! That is what we've been doing to hopefully he'll grow out of this phase. Glad to know we're not doing anything terribly wrong.

He is also going through a major mouthing stage at the moment, i suspect teething! If anyone has any ideas i would be grateful.

Hi, We have a 14 week old standard poodle who is very good at not peeing or pooping in his crate or pen. Also when we take him out every hour to his eliminating spot outside he goes 9/10 and i think recognizes the command. However when he's playing or having some supervised time out of pen or crate ...