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From the time she wakes up from the time it’s bed time she wants to play with our older dog. He usually is up for it and they play great together. He has a room he asks to go in when he has had enough. She will whine for a few minutes when he does. Is it ok to let them play bitey face so much? They take breaks to eat and go outside. Tell me this calms down and it’s just normal 5 month old puppy behavior. 🤦‍♀️

I have a 4 month old Scottish deerhound that we have had for two weeks now and we are trying to crate train her as me and my husband work in the office for 3 days of the week. She is only home in crate alone for around 4 hours usually as my husband can work remote half days on his in office days. She has been doing fairly good at night when in the crate with only a few hiccups of crying once or twice. she is also fed her meals in her crate and has willingly gone in to grabs her plushie, we also do some training with treats with her crate. During the day however is a different story, she cries for around 10-15 minutes when we first put her in (she works herself up so much that she pees sometimes) and the she settles but whenever she wakes up she cries again and it is a cycle. Sometimes so gets into a cycle for 20 or so min where she cries for a few minutes then settles for a minute and then repeats crying and settling multiple times.

Before crating in the morning we always go outside for her to pee and/or poop and also we play with her to tire her out. I have put a cover on the crate along with a heartbeat plush in the crate, we also play noise and stuff on Alexa to help.

We cant have her out as we one don't 100% trust her not to get into stuff but we also have cats and since she is high prey drive breed we are being cautious. Any advice or similar experiences? Want to make sure we are helping her adjust and not traumatizing her…

We just adopted a 4 month border collie mix, Roscoe, a couple days ago. He's truly such a sweet boy. Other than trying to get our cats to stop hating us and them being terrified of the new puppy, things are going well.

The biggest issue we're having is crate training. We were told by his foster mom that he was 100% crate trained. He slept in his crate every night and she had him crated between 8-3 when she was working. She said he may whine and be restless at first in a new environment but will settle down quickly. This is not happening. The first night he cried for a half hour after we left the room. My husband thought he just needed to get used to us, so he slept on the couch next to Roscoe. Roscoe calmed down and slept the entire night without issue.

We contacted the foster to see if there's something we could do to help him. She said she never had any issues like this when she had him. She said we needed to ignore him and he'd eventually settle down because this is a routine he's used to. She said not to comfort him because he'll learn that when he cries, we'll come.

So last night we gave him half a Greenies calming chew to help with a little anxiety along with another treat he always gets when he goes in the crate. He cried for an hour before finally calming down and going to sleep.

He's fine(ish) in the crate if he can see us. He's great when he's not in the crate. However, we have noticed he still freaks out when we leave the room even when he's not crated. So we're worried about possible separation anxiety starting.

Any tips? He needs to stay crated at night at least until our cats stop being afraid of him and accept him. they were here first, so we're trying to put their needs first by making sure they have rooms that are just theirs where they can relax. We also need to keep him crated when we're not home until we trust he won't destroy anything or accidentally hurt the cats (which isn't a huge fear since he adored the cats at his foster which is a huge reason why we chose him).