I brought him a 9 week old puppy last week, turned 10 weeks old today. He will not be fully vaccinated until end of December or early January. Some things are going great (he sleeps through the night in his crate from 9:30-6 or 7am!). Other things are hard, namely managing his energy inside.
We do enforced naps and loosely follow 1 hour up 2 hours down. Sometimes it’s more like 1 hour up 1 hour down or 1.5 hours up 1.75 hours down. But I still feel like he doesn’t have a good outlet and it’s really hard. My apartment is concrete floor so I don’t want him running around too much because it’s bad for his growing bones.
Games, training, and enrichment toys so far don’t do much. Lick mats he will just tear off the wall or floor and chew on them, bored within 1-4 minutes. Sniff mat with food he just flips or chews on the edges before getting bored within 5-10 minutes. Stuffed kong he doesn’t really understand, will lick it for a minute or two before getting bored. Training he enjoys but I can’t hold his attention for more than 2-3 minutes before he wants to chew the carpet or something. He also likes playing with me but 1) tug of war or a little fetch doesn’t wear him out 2) I work from home, so I can’t spend enough time playing with him during the week from 9-5. Sometimes he’ll get the zoomies and just run from one end of the apartment to the other, but 1) I worry about the joints 2) this is usually chaos because he’ll be grabbing things he shouldn’t or chewing on things along the way.
My trainer also recommended he primarily be leashed in the house to keep him from getting into things he shouldn’t/develop good habits and help potty training. Which does absolutely help but I feel terrible when he clearly has all this energy he needs to get out. I’m tired
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