My Golden retriever puppy is 12 weeks old now and I'm struggling to figure out the day-to-day of going back to work. I'm a freelancer and I work from home so I'm fairly flexible but I can't figure out how to do it.
Ideally I'd like her to occupy herself from say 9 – 11, then potty and play/train for about half an hour and I go back to work and then lunch at 1 plus potty and play some more and sort of end up with a two hour work, half hour puppy care rhythm until end of work day.
I have a few problems with this. First she's not a big fan of her crate. She'll sleep in there without much trouble and I don't think she's anxious about it or anything but she won't just stay in there with a chew toy. She never chews on anything inside the crate and we've given her many options.
This gets me to my next point which is that we're struggling with chew toy training. Every toy we've given her we had to train her to chew on it and even then, she only chews on them if we hold them for her or else quickly loses interest and starts chewing on the rugs. Which brings me to my next point:
I do worry that my schedule would require her to be in her crate for too long anyway even if she didn't dislike being in there. She has a room that's safe with baby gates to keep her out of trouble but because the floor in our house is quite slippery for her (laminate) we put some rugs down. However if left alone in there she chews up the rugs and will definitely pee on the floor.
I feel sort of stupidly stuck with this. People have way harder schedules and they figure things out but I don't know where to start.
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