I was all set to write a ranty, desperate post about puppy poop, but have decided to leave out all the nasty details (you're welcome) and just ask a few questions:
If your ten-week-old puppy needed a pooh at 2am (like, 2am on the dot) every morning (EVERY MORNING WITHOUT FAIL) what would you do? Would you feed him his dinner at 3pm instead of 5pm (not really plausible, what with work and all) to move up his nightly pooh to the more civilised hour of midnight? Or would you push back his dinner to 10pm to ensure his pooh stayed put until 7am? Currently, we feed Wolfgang breakfast at 7am and dinner at 5pm and oh, aren't we horrible pet-owners for feeding him only twice a day when we should really be splitting his food up into at least 3 separate meals (hey, can you tell that I already talked to Shawn's mother about this?) Anyway, he has two poohs a day - right after dinner and at 2am and wow, this is just too much math for me to figure out. Can someone please tell me when to feed him so that I can stop either a: getting out of bed at 2am to pooh the dog or b: smacking Shawn on the side of the face until he wakes up so he can get out of bed at 2am to pooh the dog. All suggestions will be considered. Unless your suggestion is to quit my job so that I can feed my dog three times a day at evenly-spaced intervals.
Moving on, if you'd like to read about human pooh instead of puppy pooh (or if you would like to read something that is classified under "birth control" in my books), I suggest you read Angella's post about her daughter, Emily.
And because links are fun, you should then head over to Kristin's blog and leave a comment. If 500 people leave comments telling her brother to cut his hair, he's going to do it. Let's do this, people!
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We feed our dog twice a day. Our vet has said it's also okay to do it once a day (assuming the same amount of food is given either way), but I don't like only eating once a day so why should he?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, our dog eats at 5:30AM and around 9PM, and that seems to work out for him, poo-wise.
I would take her outside at 2 AM until she's older. Puppies need more care than older dogs, we go our puppies at 12 weeks and we were taking them out in the middle of the night for a good two months after that. I think it's less about timing and more about their little systems still growing.
ReplyDeleteOur guys are 7 months old now and from the time they were about 5 months on they could last through the night, but they still need to be taken out at lunch for a pee break so one of us comes home during the day (huge hassle..) and takes them out.
It's been an adjustment, but it'll pass. And when Wolfgang is older he won't need to do that, but I think it's just part of it.
Wow and now I feel like a terrible dog mom since Olivia only gets dinner.
ReplyDeleteeek. i've got nothing, sorry. this is why i have cats, because i'm not willing to do more than dump some food in their bowls occasionally.
ReplyDeleteDiaper?
ReplyDeleteFrom what I understand about puppies, they will find a way to wake you up at 2am no matter what. So as long as you know it's for poo, you might as well embrace it? Not the poo, that is. That would be gross.
ReplyDeleteI second the diaper suggestion. And possibly a onesie so he doesn't pull Emily's trick...
ReplyDeletewe only feed our dogs once a day too. however, they get regular treats and graze on cat food if they get a chance. i would feed him a bit later in the morning and feed him later at night (like 9 or 10 pm) and see what happens. seems to me puppies need to eat more than once a day...otherwise i'd say try feeding him just once. good luck.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely feed him dinner later. You can give him a little snack when you get home, but save the evening meal for much later. Take him out to poo then (and don't let him in until he does). Even with that, I'd say a wake-up at 5am for a potty outing is totally normal in a puppy that small. I'd just be thankful that he is waking you up to take her out - that's a great start!
ReplyDeleteI have no idea. Can't help you here. Only because I don't have a puppy.
ReplyDeleteI know, sad.
I have no ideas about puppies - but when our darling daughter woke up all bloody night and no amount of slapping woke a snoring hubby up, I went on sex strike! after a while your man will starts playing his part in the 2am poo!
ReplyDeletealso wolfgang will get bigger and lean to hold onto his poo untill his morning walk x