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The poop was picked up immediately and Ive been using a shovel to scoop up about 6-8 in. below areas that were soiled. I restricted Yogi to a small area and put newspaper over the dirt for when he goes #2 and am using another area for #1. Good thing is he's becoming more comfortable with his crate and is sleeping up to 6 hours at night. He's still peeing everywhere, even right after he goes #1 hopefully I can get that under control before our flight back to New York on Tuesday.
Man those puppy teeth are sharp. Its been almost 16 years since I had to train a puppy, so glad forums like this exist and that search feature has been a godsend.
 
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wick said:
He is peeing everywhere after going pee? How much longer after? Is he still drinking a ton of water?
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He's not drinking water like its going out of style anymore nor is he stealing my brothers Golden Retrievers water anymore a nip in leg cleared that up. He sleeps through the night now (12AM-6:30/7) or at least won't wake me up until then. Once I get get up I take him outside to pee and then its 2 x Albon 125mg tabs for the Coccidia, breakfast, then outside again to pee and poo

Aprox daily schedule

0630-7 - Wake and pee
07-0703 - 2 x Alcon 125MG
07-0705 - Breakfast
0730 - Poo and usually pee

Then almost every 20-30 min he'll have an accident if he's not napping. This stopped when my younger brother was home with Arya(Golden Retriever 1yr 6mo). I assume he's still getting used of his surroundings since its only been 4/5 days. Waiting to hear back from the vet. other than that he''s a healthy boy and his stomach is getting smaller. He's picking up sit, stay but come and responding to his name has been somewhat of a challenge.
 
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That 5am picture is adorable! How wonderful you took him in :) Hope everything keeps going well with him.

Ruger peed A LOT when he was a puppy too, every 30 minutes it seemed he had to pee. Tiny puppy bladders :) Hopefully that's all it is.
 
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Yeah wick peed every 30 min at ten weeks and around 16 weeks started going every hour/1.5 hours.

Try saying his name, putting a stinky treat in front of his nose then pulling the treat up to your eyes and when he looks at you say "yes" or "good" then give the treat. this will teach him to start looking at you when you say his name. Do it like 10/15 times in a row with pea sized treats in addition to saying his name often.

When our trainer was having us teach come she had us say "come" then run while patting our knee and making kissy noises or saying "puppy" repeatedly (or wherever peaks his interest the most) and get him to chase us. When you stop and he looks at you then "jackpot" treats (give a few but one at a time because they think it's alot of them) while saying your marker word (good/yes). It really helped get wick to start coming reliably even when I wasnt running away.

I'm glad it sounds like he is healthy! Having a sick puppy is so scary :/ you are such an awesone puppy parent ! He is so lucky :)
 
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Got Yogi back to New York on Tuesday and surprisingly it was an uneventful flight. He passed out before takeoff, slept 2.5 hours, peed on the pad in the bathroom, played with the stewardesses and went back to sleep all the way until we deplaned. I definitely got lucky with the wind to our back it only took 4hrs 30min. The diarrhea is over with and he's gotten bigger in the week and a half I've had him.

He's adjusting well to the apartment and not peeing as often but still missing the pad about 25% of the time. He'll be finishing up his Albon 125 in a few days so hopefully the poop test will show the coccidia and roundworms have gone. O yea he's learned how to run and jump over boxes. I had just moved into a new apt before I left for Los Angeles and was using some 18" tall boxes to block the area to the bedroom during the day. He can now do a short running jump and hop on top of the box. I was really surprised to find him in the bathroom which was blocked off when i woke from a nap.

He's gone out up and down the block for socialization and house training but i'm keeping him inside for the most part. Very confident pup, not scared to approach people and can chase a toy by himself to wear himself out.
 
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He is really cute! And I love the name. He's lucky to have found you.

There are two pdf books that I found free online somewhere a while back, by Ian Dunbar, called Before You Get Your Puppy and After You Get Your Puppy. They're pretty simple reads but he did extensively cover potty training methods. He really emphasized the fact that the more accidents a puppy has, the more there will be accidents in the future... a positive feedback thing. Food for thought. :)
 
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