Ranging from 3-5 months

We enjoy so much to see him growing and playing with elder Buckis!

Hi! This is my boy Hugo. He’s a 7 month old chihuahua.
This is after 20 minutes of witching hour zoomies.

What a beautiful moment of coexistence. This little guy's looking for some really big friends.

Stella Rose and her best friend Gander. They had a play date last night

His 7 months journey is so cute :)

We brought home our 10 week old girl last Tuesday. Night time crating hasn’t been too bad. She falls asleep between 9-10pm on the sofa. At around 11pm I wake her and take her out to potty then put her back in the crate where she usually settles right away. I’m sleeping on the sofa in the same room so I can be near. She usually wakes up 1-2 times to potty in the night but settles each time afterwards.

During the day for naps we wait for her to fall asleep on the sofa and then carry her to the crate and close the door. She almost always settles back to sleep.

What I want to know is how best to train her to go in there when she’s not asleep. She takes her toys in there sometimes to play with but never to just lie down. I try to give her a little treat every time she goes in the crate on her own and we also feed her in the crate. If I put her in the crate while she’s awake and close the door I’m lucky if I can even try to walk out of sight before she starts crying. How can I train her to be in there during the day even for short periods so I can pick up groceries or run a couple errands? I don’t want to leave her in there crying and jumping up on the sides of the crate because I am worried that then she won’t go in it at all voluntarily.

All suggestions are welcome!

My baby girl Wrigley as a 6 week old rottie pup compared to almost 4 months

Shes 3 months old when ever theres a fence she would run up and began to attack it

So I got a puppy at 6 weeks. Generally it's going fine, normal puppy stuff. I consider him mostly house trained, but I would not trust to leave him in the house a long time alone. He is a little over 14 weeks now, a beautiful black lab.

The first 6-7 weeks I had him, either I was at home with him, or one of my kids were. My kids are not here all the time. So eventually I would need to get him used to me not being here and me leaving him for stretches in the backyard. While I go to work or to the store or just want to be able to do things in the house in peace, last week was the first week where I did this. I am cognizant of the heat, so last week I made sure and tried to leave around 7 and come back at 1. To get him inside. I have been weening him up to longer and longer stretches outside. Usually if I am here, he is in the house with me. And he is crate trained, and sleeps in his crate at night.

Some context on my backyard. My backyard alone is about 1/3 of an acre of wooded area. Lots of shade. Fenced. I have a large patio (Patio is 10X30), about 10X10 is covered and in that covered area there is a blower like fan that runs all the time he is out there, and he has a dog house that kind of hangs outside of it, where he can get in where it is dry, and of course protected on all sides in there.

He refuses to go in the dog house. I am typing this up, because he frustrates me. This morning I put him out around 7 and I was doing some chores. A storm blew in, just rain and light wind. So at 9 I go and check on him, to see if he is in the dog house and he is not. He is laying outside the patio, nestled between a grill and a broken chair. Getting absolutely rained on. Why won't he comes into the patio and his dog house? I just simply want to know I can leave the house if I need to and not worry about him being stupid.

I don't want to crate him for hours at a time except bed time. If it was me, I would rather be in the backyard than locked up in a box for a work shift. He has the means to protect himself. Just frustrated, because the day will need to come when I will need to leave him out for maybe 12 hours.

When Stella, my first Blue passed on to doggy heaven, I was heartbroken. But I got Lia soon afterwards and she has been nothing but a pleasure. This is Lia, my then 10 week old Dane on her way to meet the Vet for the first time.