Hi all! My fiancé and I just adopted a 10 week old puppy named Dante (from devil may cry) and I’m trying to build a good general schedule for him especially while we’re trying to potty and crate train. I’ve tried looking at multiple resources on the Internet, but I’m getting conflicting results so I want to talk to some people who have direct and real world experience. While I do want him to be a snuggly dog, I also wanna make sure he has the comfort and independence to be left alone in his crate at least until he is potty trained enough to be left alone in the house. We are currently taking him to go potty every hour on the hour starting at 6 o’clock when we wake up for work. Is this a good schedule?
Wake up 6:00 am
Breakfast at 8:00
Crate nap 10:00-12:00
Walk 12:00-12:15
Lunch 1:00
Crate nap 2:00-4:00
Walk 4:00-4:15
Dinner 6:00
Bed time 9:00
Edit: two quick things cause I’ve gotten multiple comments about it. He’s waking up about every two hours at night to go potty and we are taking him out when he starts whining and he is sleeping a lot. Those crate naps are intentionally where I leave him alone just to sleep in his crate without me being there but even right now he’s asleep in my lap so I’m not only letting him sleep during those two times lol
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