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Lots of treats to help train it, be the pack leader.
Err... bit harsh no?That's the worse advice you could give!
Sleeping in the same room with the dog will just make it think its the norm, start as you mean to go on is the best way.
Put the dog in crate at night downstairs, if he whines or cries don't go down, leave him.
As for letting him out during the night, its not required. All you need to do is place pee/poo pads in the crate so that she/he can do the business whilst your in bed. For the sake of 20p each the cost of the pee/poo pads its literally not worth losing sleep over.
Once hes house trained he wont need the pee/poo pads.
Here's a link to the pads ;
https://www.petsathome.com/shop/en/...d-toilet-training/puppy-training-pads-p546--1
Well done you are in for an interesting first year, crate train it and do not answer the dogs attention cries in the middle of the night, you will need to take it our for a wee about once an hour!
Err... bit harsh no?
Worked just fine for us - we now have a delightful and well-behaved 1 year-old whippet. Didn’t cost us too much sleep either as they were happy that they were sleeping near us.
Having him nearby meant we could deal with any midnight toilet trips easily. I am not a fan of pads as dogs need to learn the toilet is outside ASAP and I’ve see so many instances of dogs confusing white rugs/ things on the floor with their pads.
And having dog poo on the floor (pad or no pad) is just disgusting too.
Ensure that you get decent pet insurance that offers lifetime cover. Labs have tendency to hip and elbow displasia and treatment can easily be over £5,000. Our lab's sire and mom had good hip/elbow scores but he still had elbow issues, and first year the costs were £7500, luckily we had £7000 cover.
Been ok for 7 odd years, but now starting to get a touch of arthritis and might need a further op.
As others have said labs are always hungry so make sure that you don't overfeed. If you are giving lots of treats (great way to train them) remember to reduce the amount of dinners.
Actually while on this thread, can anyone give me some advice...
Ours is 7 months old (mini dachsund). When we sit down for dinner, he turns into a little monster and constantly barks at me or the mrs for attention (mostly at her). Thankfully he's not too big that he can jump up on the table. Unfortunately our house is rather open-plan with a kitchen/diner, and his bedroom is in the kitchen/diner, so not like we can go elsewhere to eat.
The general advice tends to be to just ignore him, which we have been doing for probably the last 2 months, but doesn't seem to be getting any better.
We try and give him his food at the same time that we have ours so that he's preoccupied. But he'll eat his food in 15 seconds flat, before you can even sit down and pick up a knife/fork, so that's not really possible.
An idea i did have is we've got one of these toys where he has to work to get the food out of it. Tonight i plan to stick a load of his food in that, so that he's got something to occupy himself with whilst we eat.
the one thing I’ve learnt is that dachshunds are too stubborn to be trained.
Actually while on this thread, can anyone give me some advice...
Ours is 7 months old (mini dachsund). When we sit down for dinner, he turns into a little monster and constantly barks at me or the mrs for attention (mostly at her). Thankfully he's not too big that he can jump up on the table. Unfortunately our house is rather open-plan with a kitchen/diner, and his bedroom is in the kitchen/diner, so not like we can go elsewhere to eat.
The general advice tends to be to just ignore him, which we have been doing for probably the last 2 months, but doesn't seem to be getting any better.
We try and give him his food at the same time that we have ours so that he's preoccupied. But he'll eat his food in 15 seconds flat, before you can even sit down and pick up a knife/fork, so that's not really possible.
An idea i did have is we've got one of these toys where he has to work to get the food out of it. Tonight i plan to stick a load of his food in that, so that he's got something to occupy himself with whilst we eat.
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My mini-dachshund turned 5 yesterday. In the time that we’ve had her, the one thing I’ve learnt is that dachshunds are too stubborn to be trained.
That said, mine doesn’t beg for human food- maybe try to only give her dog treats (nothing off your plate). It might be too late though.
ETA: get one of the big Kongs if you feed him kibble. Will keep him occupied for 5 mins at least, and make him think that he’s more full.
Generally speaking I would say excess barking is either (a) too much energy or (b) wanting attention.
We had a similar issue with our Pointer when he was young. It was a combination of both for us I think - we found it difficult to exercise him off lead (which he really needed) and so he wanted attention whenever we sat down.
My suggestion is to move the walk/exercise to just before dinner if possible and/or put him out of the room when he behaves this way. We consistently did both (and found a way of exercising him by riding our bike with him) and he grew out of it after a couple of months.
Not sure if that helps but that was our experience!
We too have recently joined the fun world of Dachshund training, we have had ours for 4 months now and although she is reasonably well behaved the majority of the time she is very stubborn and some days will only do what she wants to. All other Dachshund owners we have met confirm that theirs are just the same.