We're trying to be more regimented with his food intake. We only leave the food bowl down in the morning, at lunch, and then again at dinner. He's quite the "pee" factory, and monitoring his water intake has seemed to help (somewhat.) Hopefully, we'll get the potty training under control sooner rather than later. I welcome any tips in this area!
This afternoon Kel and I decided to take Cooper for his first walk! He wanted to chew on the leash at first, but quickly found there were more exciting things to discover outside. We would walk about 15 steps and he would stop to scope things out. (Although, he never went "potty" outside, grr.) This was his first time to get that much activity at once, and as you can imagine, he was worn out when we got home. We made the loop around the block once, and then headed across the street to a large clearing where we let him run and play. However, since we've been back home, he's been very whiny. Don't know why.
He also learned to climb the stairs today. All by himself. Kel and I have been "helping" him up the steps, and today he went up and down without us there. He's growing so fast and learning new things everyday. He catches on pretty quickly. Except for biting. We've been using a lot of phrases lately over, and over, and over, like:
- No. No bite.
- Goooooood Boyyeeeeee
- No. No bite.
- Come on, come on Cooper!
- Way to go Cooper!!
- No. No bite.
You get the drift. He loves to come running up to us and wait for us to give him a kiss on the head...or to get his sock and play tug-of-war. He's keeping us very entertained!
Tomorrow's a new adventure!
5 comments:
Sounds like yall are doing great! I'm so proud!! Can't wait to meet him :)
xoxo
You're doing so good! How exciting. A trained dog is SO nice and worth it. You mentioned he was whiny, maybe the pads of his feet got sore from the concrete rubbing on them from the walk? You guys rock!
Hey there, sounds like you all had a great weekend together, I can't believe he can do the stairs already. The one thing we did to keep our pups from biting was... when they bite you simply push their tounge down in the bottom of their mouth with your thumb, they don't tend to like it and they squirm a bit, However it teaches them not to bite. It worked on our pups, it's something my sister told us to do. Also play with his ears and feet a lot so if you decide to trim his nails yourself he is used to you touching them. Can't wait to hear more about Cooper.
Totally feeling ya on the "No, No bite".....
The.Biting.Never.Stops...Help!
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