ok i picked up my little pup from the breeders yesterday. she is a bull terrier x lhasa apso.
she will be 7 weeks on tuesday.

last night i had her in my bedroom in a puppy crate but with blocked sides for added warmth and protection. i let her out for a wee at 1am and she slept all night and was dry intill 6am when she started to cry. i took her out for a wee and she went straight away. then she had breakfast and a poo. she then spent mopst of the day sleeping on my lap on in her crate and playing. she had 5 v small feeds i would say a tea spoon at a time of nature diet puppy and had water all day intill 1am again tonight. i take it out of her cage as im worried she will drown in it. but also she does jump around and knock it.
tonight i have put her in the spare bedroom with a small light on i have a baby moniter on so i can hear her. now last night she was quite but tonight she is yappign away to be pucked up. i have made sure she has been watered and toileted and is safe and not too warm or cold. and i have decided to ignore her crying. but will get up at 3am to quietly check on her to make sure she is ok and maybe toilet her again. does thsi sound right?

it feels creulk ignoring her yapping but im worried that liek with a baby, if i go to her when ever she yapps she will learn it gets attention.

i feel sorry for her as she is obviously still ajusting to being alone from mother and sister. but she has a baby safe teddy and one of my old shirts to sleep on.

is there anything else you would do?

Sounds right to me  :)       well what does she look like , which parent do you see ?

To be honest I think your pup may be hungry ;) I'm sure a pup of this xbreed would need more than a TEASPOON of nature diet per meal and probably more than a TABLEspoon too ;)  (this is where knowing how big the dog is going to be comes in handy :) )
Some puppy diets make it easy to calculate how much to feed and others make it really difficult.

How heavy is the pup?  You need to know this as a guide to how much food the pup needs for its age/size, this will change weekly or even every few days according to how quickly the pup grows ;)

There is information on feeding pups with Nature Diet here

http://www.naturediet.net/health_advice/index.html?library_branch=health_advice/feeding_guides/

Hope this helps
Regards
Dill

PS Bowers - she looks to me more bully than Lhasa at this stage ;) (photies in another thread ;) )

She really should not have come to you for at least another week, but what's done is done.

Also you are making a rod for your own back by making too big a difference between the attention she gets in the day when she sleeps and at night.  Do not let her sleep in your lap, as she will over attach to you (not surprising having lost her family), and then find it harder to cope alone at night.

You need to pop her in her bed or crate when she needs to sleep in the day, so that she learns to cope without your constant presence.

It is not unusaual for a puppy not to eat well for a day or two.  Keep putting food down four times a day for 15 minutes and then remove it.

Assuming her size may be half way between that of her parent breeds I would expect her to be eating about 200g a day of dry food, or the equivalent in wet food (about a baked bean tin size or pack of nature diet), so she needs about a 1/4 pack of nature diet per meal, but more if she will eat it and not getting fat.

I have to agree with Brainless about the lap sleeping.  Its hard not to but as soon as your pup is getting sleepy pop her into the crate and wait till she settles then get on with your own stuff. 

I have to admit I have forgotten what house work and paper work is since I got my little girl but today I am being disciplined and walking away from the crate and computer now, now, in a minute, no I really am going now.

Enjoy your little girl.

Hi there wolfwoman

Most of what you're doing is excellent - I have a few other suggestions.

If she doesn't settle in the spare room, and the yapping continues, you are absolutely right about not going back to her while she is making noise.  Then you would just be teaching her to make more noise by rewarding that. 

But one thing you could try is to slowly move her puppy crate out of your room.  So the first night it is right by the bed, the next night it is a metre closer to the door, the next night a bit further out, and then keep going until the crate is where you want it to be.  Make sure she is settling quickly each night before you move the crate further.  (I mean, if she yaps a bit one night, then leave the crate there the next night until she is happy again with it there, then start to move it again slowly.)

Another idea for something to leave with her is a hot water bottle.  If you can get hold of one of those old hot water bottles which are ceramic that's best - you can pick them up in junk shops sometimes and they're not expensive, about £5.  If you don't think she's a chewer yet you can try a rubber hot water bottle with a cover on it, and wrap another towel around that too.  The good thing about the hot water bottle is that she is used to snuggling up with her mum and other pups, and they are warm and soft.  A hot water bottle might remind her of that and help her settle quicker.

Does she have something which smells of the litter, like some vet bed which came with the litter?

as regards to the amount of nature diet she is eating, what i ment by the teaspoon full, is that is all she is eating, i put down more than that for her, but at the moment i am throing away more than what she is eating. so i have been reducing the amount i put down and if she is still hungry i increase the nest feed. i was a bit worried she was too young, aparently though she was eating solids vey well and mum had a big litter that had left her somewhat wornout.the pup is well covered and since being here has eaten the food no problems. also the breeder had the mum  and pups living outside as the owner had just not long given birth her self. so it was probably a plus for the pup to come now and be in the warmth.  it was her first litter, but wasnt a planned one. i saw the mother she was the bully. they showed me pics of the lhasa.

it is hard to guess what she will be liek when she is old, but i suppsoe that makes it past of the fun. i dont belive is activly seeking out these weirs and wonderfull breeds as i supose you will never be able to guess what it would be like. but i saw her as just another pup needing a home and she looked so sweet.

last night she did yapp a lot, i stuck to my guns though and she settled. this morning she went out for a poo again, and becsue of the nature diet her poos and loverly and firm which is good. ill try the hot water bottle tonight.

I'm not sure about removing water from her at night. We have a bolt on bowl which is attached near to the floor so pup can drink easily, good for travelling with the crate as well
Regards

i remove the water 1am, offer her a drink at 4am and then she had access to the water again from 6am to  1am again.  another thign is that otherwise she plays with it and wets everything. she dunks her paws in and splashes her nose in.

Sounds like you're really busy during the night - just as well it doesn't last for too long. I was lucky as our pup only seemed to wake up once during the night & was 'sleeping through' by 12 weeks, bless him.