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I just recently got a 8 week old German Shepherd / Rottweiler mix puppy. I've never owned a puppy before so everything is very new to me and I wanted to make sure he is acting the way a puppy should, which to me feels like a have a newborn baby on my hands again. He plays for 30 mins to an hour and then passes out. When he wakes up I take him to go potty and then it starts all over again. We have been crating him at night when we are sleeping, but not during the day unless I need to go out of the house. He whines and cries the whole time he is in the crate. We had to move the crate to down stairs so we can sleep at night because of this.
This morning we had a little problem because he didn't want to go potty outside, he just cried at the backdoor. I tried picking him up and moving him deeper into the yard and saying "go potty" but he would just run back to the door and cry at it. We must have spent at least 30 mins outside before I figured he just didn't have to go. But maybe 10 mins into being back inside he peed on the floor. I'm not sure if it is because it rained last night and he didn't like getting his little feet wet, but its the first time he has done this.
He also seems very scared of my neighbors dogs, he hasn't been introduced to them yet but when the bark, and they are inside when they do, he takes off running for the backdoor. I figured he was to young to introduce to full grown dogs, but now I'm thinking maybe I should take him to the local dog park so he can socialize with other dogs so it doesn't scare him so much.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
This morning we had a little problem because he didn't want to go potty outside, he just cried at the backdoor. I tried picking him up and moving him deeper into the yard and saying "go potty" but he would just run back to the door and cry at it. We must have spent at least 30 mins outside before I figured he just didn't have to go. But maybe 10 mins into being back inside he peed on the floor. I'm not sure if it is because it rained last night and he didn't like getting his little feet wet, but its the first time he has done this.
He also seems very scared of my neighbors dogs, he hasn't been introduced to them yet but when the bark, and they are inside when they do, he takes off running for the backdoor. I figured he was to young to introduce to full grown dogs, but now I'm thinking maybe I should take him to the local dog park so he can socialize with other dogs so it doesn't scare him so much.
Any advice would be much appreciated.