Today I got my new puppy. She is pretty, and makes me smile every time I look at her.

Well, we went to collect her from the breeder, and a number of people had come to see/collect puppies, so it was a very busy day for the pups with all the hub-ub of lots of people and excitement. I met my pup, called Missy, dad, who is beautiful, and then we got her in her crate to take her home. She had an initial 'funny five minutes' of whining, but soon settled down and slept for an hour and a quarter. She woke up in the last 10 minutes, whined a lot, and then threw up all over the crate, and then lay in it. She seemed quite upset about it, which is perfectly understandable.
We brought her in and she was very withdrawn. She had some water, and we took her into the garden. She is not familiar with grass and it was peeing down, so she looked mournful and walked back in. She then slept for nearly an hour. She has since woken up, eaten, drank, fallen in her waterbowl, peed on the floor, chewed the cap on my radiator and had another kip....

Now, she is still very withdrawn, and seems a bit of a timid little pup. I know i shouldn't expact anything more on her first afternoon in a new place, but how can I ensure she doesn't remain withdrawn? Also, she peed on our floor, even though we used traiining spray on a puppy training pad. She thinks the pads are there to be shredded....!

~~Also, she peed on our floor, even though we used traiining spray on a puppy training pad~~

Well sit her down and make sure she thoroughly reads the back of the packet and completely understands what the product is promising she will do before you let her loose again :rolleyes:

:)

Its so easy to really worry when you first get them home, I was absolutely cacking myself and he didn't really come out of his shell and show his personality for a couple of weeks.  Must be so strange for them, taken away from mum/dad and family!  Luckily our breeder gave us a furry tiger which all the pups had peed over so in times of stress and doubt he firstly tried to rip its head off and then sucked it til he fell asleep. 

Don't worry about the peeing, this all takes time, she's in a new place and unable to hold her bladder she'll get used to it soon! 

Good luck!

Oh glad you are home with your new pup bet you are chuffed,our pup was timid and withdrawn at first but after about a week she started to find her feet,doesnt take long,she is 5 mnths now and sometimes wish there was the odd day that she was a bit shy of her new surroundings again,they soon settle in soon she will be cock of the walk,they do make you smile a lot dont they,mine does and sing and hum to myself,nothing like a puppy to lift your spirits.

Good luck and enjoy.

When we brought leo home he was shaking like a leaf and not the ideal start for a puppy as after taking him home we then went to stay at m parents that night!

Well he was quiet and shaky and needed the loo at 3am, which is when he discovered his Voice lol took a few days but get got his confidence up, hes still timid with strangers but thas his breed (sheltie) and in some ways i would rather it that way with people having dogs stolen etc

Give pup a couple of days and you will be asking what happened to your timid quiet pup

Re the pads and spray, we tried the spray and he peed everywhere but

I keep telling Roy boy peeing is done always outside & he tells me there are times when a boy just needs to go ;)  & so he does

Depending on the puppy some like my late Giff dog never do anything indoors & others take time. I do take Roy out ever time he wakes up & make sure he goes for a pee. Best to simply clean up accidents & praise like mad when she makes it outside for a pee ;)

Hi NannyOgg,

Congrats on getting your little 'un home :)  It's a bit mind boggling though isn't it! She's probably almost as overwhelmed as you so don't expect too much too soon.

Everything will come fine with the house training - you'll know yourself how many times it's gone over on the forum so any info you need will be easy to find ;)  Re the training spray and puppy pads - you probably will find it easier not using them - did her breeder use anything like that?  Could be that once she's gotten over the huge shock of waking up in a new place you'll find that she's already been started off being taken outside.  Good luck and most of all don't get anxious - enjoy each other!  Like her name - "Missy" - and she sounds really cute.   Teri :)

She had two more little accidents, which were entirely our fault because we weren't vigilent enough, but now she goes on a pad just by the back door. She didn;t want to go outside to pee on her first day as she has never been familiarised with grass before and wasn;t happy about using it on top of all the other traumas of being in a new and unfamiliar place. She is now perfectly happy outside (running riot!) and uses the sand box we made. We sprayed the sand with potty training spray and now she already seems happy with scampering over to have a pee and a poo before continuing pulling the heads off my roses!
She is really settling in. By about 11pm she was playing and happy, and she kept on playing until 2:30 am this morning. Eventually once she had burned off her energy we put her in her crate with some toys from the breeder and a blanket that I took to the breeder to get scented with her mum and litter mates, and apart from two whimpers (which broke my heart) she was fine until we let her out for a wee and a poo at 6am, she had a little play and went back to sleep again. She has been running around with me around the garden and learning that grass can be shredded, and is now passed out again in her crate.
One question I do have is that she seems to pull on my clothes, which she doesn't do with my partner. She wags her tail when she does it. What I have been doing is opening her mouth to get my clothes out, while saying 'no' and then putting her ragger toy in her mouth. She isn't obviously getting the message just yet, but I was wondering if anyone had any advice on whether this is the best way to deter her from pulling on my clothes?
Also, in regard to crating. She seems happy in her crate and chooses to go in and out both to sleep and play. She is also happy for the door to be closed (I had the crate at the breeders for 3 weeks for her to go in and out of to get used to it before collecting her). Last night we slept downstairs in the front room, where we have the crate, as we can't really take her up to our bedroom in her crate as our stairs are extremely steep (old victorian house) and without my partner I couldn't rely on being able to take her up and down stairs myself (she weighed in at 1 stone 2 ounzes on Friday... at 7 weeks old). Should we be leaving her in her crate once she is asleep and going upstairs and then ignoring her little whimpers? I felt so confident in what i was going to do after reasing a whole load of books, but now I actually have her here I feel more confused and nervous about getting things right. Any advice?

Thanks for all the happy reponses. I am so pleased. We love her so much already, and made sure we visited a lot as she was growing up, at 3 weeks 5 weeks and 6 weeks, and I met both parents etc. She is so special to me, and I just want to make sure I do the best I can for her!

PS to Sarah, it was my fault I wasn't vigilent enough when my pup went to the loo on the floor, I wasn't presuming she would have inbuilt knowledge when it comes to toilet training - it takes dogs much less time than people - I was just making a comment.

nannyogg wat breed is she? its always worrying the first time you bring a pup home,but itll be fine shele be toilet trained in no time :) and re desighned your home too lol :d
enjoy her they dont stay little for long!
sarah x

Give her some time to adjust to her new surroundings. We were lucky that when we brought our pup home she found her voice within 5 hours or so but was very quiet and withdrawn before that, but I know that some dogs take a little longer to settle in.

With regards to accidents in the house, this is going to happen and I wouldn't say that it was your fault, but just remember to let her in the garden as soon as she eats, plays and wakes up, she will soon learn, but you will still have the odd accident, we still do and she has been here for 8 weeks now. Training pads, mine tried to shred it as well. We had one in our puppy pack, what a waste of time.

Good luck and enjoy her.

So she is already deadheading roses before the blooms are dead and she is running round the garden shredding grass?

Sounds as though it won't be long before you have the same puppied barren wasteland that used to be your garden that we have got...Lol

Enjoy your puppy...They soon become adolescents!

what breed is she?

Awww I am sure she will settle in. We have had our puppy 4 weeks now Well 4 weeks and 1 day to be percise, lol. And it took about a week for her to really settle in, and now its as though she has always been here, can't imagine not having her here with us.

And as for puppy pads, what a waste of time they are, she plays with them, shreds them, tugs thems, sleeps on them but not GO on them.

Good luck with your pup, they are loads of fun, we love watching Coco charge around the room like something crazy.

It has been said already but enjoy these first few days with her as they are something to be treasured forever. I would love to go through the puppy stages all over again! Enjoy!

By the way what breed is she?

I think i read on another post that shes a long coat german shepherd? She sounds great, have fun i still cant believe leo is over 18 months now i can still feel those little razor sharp teeth and remember all the running round with kitchen roll as if it was yesterday

Yes, she is a long coat and has the most beautiful colours (she is a sable, and currently sporting grey, cream and black, with a beautiful black muzzle and black eyes)!
She has just had a crazy time in the garden. We set up a paddling pool which she loved (only after my partner had got his feet in to show her it was all ok). She did her first poo outside today and she got a standing ovation from us for that! She is so joyful of life. Everything she does is full of joy. She is still getting the odd sad moment when she will whine a little and go off into a corner, but she has been with us just over 24 hours, and I think she looks for her mum and brother. She plays like a mad thing, until she can't cope but to flop down and sleep.
Today she went into her crate with the door closed and we were expecting her out again in 5 minutes, but she slept in there quite happily for 2 and a half hours, and in the end I had to wake her up for her dinner! She is really tired, but loving every minute of exploring her new home.
She play bites excessively, but I have never understood why people think this is abnormal in a pup, so she gets a firm no and a toy offered instead. My partner does a better 'no' than me that really gets her attention so I have to work on my tone of voice.
Well, she has already re-modelled my living room, which looks like a cross between a gheto and a squat - littered with toys, her water (which she insists on putting her feet in and then tramples wet paws all over the floor), her dinner which gets spilled all over the place, and the infernal training pads she wees on and then tries to shred... The garden has been dead-headed. The paddle pool already has a puncture, and the local cats now know we are a no go area - but I wouldn't have it any other way!

That's one of the lovliest posts I've read in a long time, NannyOgg!

>She is so joyful of life. Everything she does is full of joy.

That's what I love so much about dogs. I come downstairs in the morning and am greeted by 'the mob' who're delighted that it's a new day, full of hope and happiness. A tonic to cure worries!

Good choice of name nanny ogg.  My staff is called missy aka missy-mischief, miss-demeanour (missy elliot), you little *#%# (when she was a wee pup) and missy-monster.  You will probably have to get used to people calling her mitzi, misty and mickey and my grandad thought it was a daft name and started calling my pup suzie!! eventually with a lot of perseverence and advice from the champdoggers here you should end up with a well-balanced dog who adores you and spends her waking hours doing her damndest to please you.  Good luck and enjoy her when she's wee because they grow up far too quickly - or some days when everything is falling apart and your house is like a bombsite courtesy of said pup you will feel she is never going to grow up.