What can i do with my 6 week old puppy when i got to work for 8 hours? please help me out!?

Question

ok i just bought a 6 week old male pit bull puppy. i spent the whole weekend with him and let him sleep in my bed at night. I have wee wee pads but hes obviously not potty trained, when i see him about to go to the bathroom i pick him up and bring him to the pad but i feel he gets scared. This upcoming week my girlfriend will probably watch him but after that i have no one to watch him from 9am till 4 pm. What should i do, should i get a crate for him or close him off in the kitchen please help me out every ones thoughts count!

Answer 1

I just recently got a 6 week old pup,

and we keep her in the laundry, or bathroom when we're out. With newspaper all over the floor a blanket, water and all her toys. ;)

Also get some treats, and/or leave food down.

Also leave a radio or tv on. ;)

Answer 2

I'd get him a crate, but I'd try to get him used to it while you are home.

Eventually, you should be able to trust him out of  the crate, but a six week old puppy will not be able to "wait" eight hours for you to get home.

If you don't have a safely fenced yard, or don't want to chain your baby up while you are at work, he'll have to learn to live in the house without making a mess or tearing up your stuff.

Best if you start him in a crate...

And do, make it a large enough crate that he won't be forced to eliminate too close to his "living quarters"...it would be best if you had one big enough for him to grow up in, and maybe retreat to as a grown up...

Sorta like going to your own room for some "quiet time"...

EDIT:

My own dog is not allowed to have stuffed toys any more either. He chewed one up, and tried to eat the stuffing. Luckily I noticed in time, because he was choking on it...he must have gotten some in his tummy, though, because it made him sick.

Crating your baby is not cruel, but leaving him free to run where he could get into trouble when you have to be away for eight hours is. My Mom's Westie chewed through the refrigerator cord and electrocuted herself when she was about four months old...she was devastated. If she had been in a crate, she would have been fine.

Please learn from her mistake, and do give your dog his own den, where he will be safe from any household dangers you might not even realize are there. When he is a bit older, he will view his crate as his "safe haven", if you make it a positive experience for him now.

Good luck with your new baby!!

Answer 3

First - You should NEVER have gotten the dog at it's young age knowing you wouldn't be around at the proper times to train it. It's not fair to the dog!

Second - You should never entrust it's care & training to a third party, when it's hardly used to you yet

Third - You've got to be very naive if you think  3 days in a new & strange environment with "strangers," and  just being taken from its mother & litter mates, is enough time for the puppy to adjust. It won't even be able psychologically to begin training until it adjusts to the new people and new surroundings.

Fourth - The first phase of a puppy's training, along with taking him out on a leash  to do its business, is to crate train it ASAP so it can learn to hold its bowels & its water for extended periods of time, like while you're at work. You're not ready or able to do this.

Be fair to the puppy and take it back where you got it, or give it to a rescue shelter. You certainly aren't equipped to take care of it. It was very immature and selfish of you to get the puppy under your current living conditions.

You're certainly creating an environment for an already dangerous breed of dog to be even more violent and ill naturerd when it is grown.  If YOU can't train it, at least hire a licensed dog trainer to work with it until it at least gets house broke and crate trained.

"spurt"..."spew"..."mutter"..."curse".... Clueless dog owners!!

Answer 4

You consistency with house training now is what will decide how consistent your dog will be in going outside to relieve itself later, so do it right now and it will save you a ton of headaches later on down the road. If you pup is going to be alone during the workday, i would suggest both blocking him off in the kitchen and using a crate. Due to the fact that there is no way your puppy can hold it all day and you aren't there to take him out, I would paper train your puppy, so he knows the right place to go, first. then when he is old enough to hold it until you get home, you can switch him over to straight crate training and going outside when you get home.  

Answer 5

A few things i have to point out:

1) He's too young to be away from mom and litter mates. Eight weeks is the absolute MINIMUM age a pup should be separated. In some places it's even illegal to have a pup under eight weeks. Is there any way to bring him back to the breeder for another three or so weeks? He's missing out on important socialization...

2) Ditch the pads - they're totally useless. The whole point of potty training is to get the pup to go outside, and using the pads encourages the pup to potty inside. You need to put the dog on a schedule where you can bring him out every hour. As he gets older you can lengthen that time and bring him out after eating/drinking, playing, napping, and first things in the morning/before bed. Crate training is the best way to teach a dog to hold their potty in for significant lengths of time when you aren't around.

3) You NEED to make an effort to go home or have someone go home to let the pup out every three hours or less. The general rule of thumb is one hour per month the pup is - so a three month old pup can physically hold it for three hours or so (and so on.) This dog won't be able to hold it and will end up soiling in the house, which may affect his housebreaking as he ages.

http://www.training-dogs.com/potty-train...

Answer 6

Poor puppy.

6 weeks old, should still be with his family and being left alone for 8 hours a day

Some things are just not right.

He's a living baby, not a plastic toy.

Would you leave a human baby in a room lying on papers to pee and p**p for 8 hours alone?

Answer 7

First, he needs to be with his mother for two more weeks.

Working 8 hours a day with nobody else home is not a good start for a puppy.

Get him a dog crate or bed to sleep in at night.

To properly housetrain a puppy, he needs to go outside every couple of hours. It will be harder to teach him after he is used to peeing in the house, even if it is on wee wee pads.

And make sure you socialize him! When a puppy goes to its new home at EIGHT weeks of age at least, housetraining and socialization start from Day One.

Answer 8

you shouldve gotten a girl so it wouldnt be lonley.

stick him in a little fence covered square and cover the spot with the pads so he doesnt go anywhere else. and give him toys his water his food treats bone. thats what i do with my puppy khloe

Answer 9

I would put him in a little cage with the pads in there. And some toys.

Answer 10

I put my puppy in a cage, with toys and bones, but DONT put stuffed animal toys with him b/c one of my old dogs got bored and chewed up one and the stuffing wrapped around his heat, and well, hes not here anymore. =(

but  ya, so just some chewy toys, that will keep him occupied, a blanket and a potty pad, hope i helped! =)

Answer 11

Firstly congrats on the new baby..I can imagine how adorable he is :)

at 6 weeks old you really need to be there for the pup, if you have someone that can pop over every 2-3 hours and check on him, make sure he is ok give him a cuddle to make him feel safe that would be great, fencing him off in a safe area in your house is fine, I personally used to put my lil girl in the bathroom, I layered newspaper down in the area I wanted her to wee on and made a nice warm comfy bed in the the other corner, puppies are smart they wont wee in there own bedded area :)  make sure you have a bowl of water, preferably caramic or glass so he cannot knock it over, same with the food bowl and in the bed for him put something of yours like a shirt or something that you have worn recently so he can smell you there and that will make him feel more comfortable and safe being left all day.. Remember also puppies sleep alot, so if he is only checked on once while your away that should be enough as he will sleep most the day.. goodluck

Answer 12

Why did you even get a puppy if you know you will have to be away for 8 hours?

Puppies NEED attention.

I do NOT suggest locking your pup in a crate! a big no-no.

Keeping him in the kitchen is a much better idea so he can stretch his legs.Be sure to leave a puppy pad,food,water,toys and a bed.

Answer 13

When my doggie was a puppy about a year ago, we would leave her in the Kitchen locked up, with 1 Puppy Pad in the middle of the room, and we would leave the radio on, with a plate of wet food and another plate with dry food and some water. Then We would Leave this huge stuffed dog so she can sleep with it and bite, and some other medium sized stuffed animals, my dog didn't like plastic toys, then when i got home from school (because my parents were at work) she would get super happy!!! so she was home alone for around 7 hours. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE DRY AND WET FOOD WITH WATER!!!! leave the radio on so she wont feel lonely and so people don't think she's home alone and wanna puppy-nap her.

Answer 14

You could close him off in the kitchen and teach him to pee and p**p on the newpaper you should put down or you can get a crate but I never did for my dog.

Answer 15

Put him in a long term confinement area.

Basically this needs to be an area where he can go to the bathroom without getting in trouble, have water, have toys, shelter, and enough room to walk around a bit.  

Just a warning about pee-pads.  Most dogs don't recognize the difference between a pee-pad and a rug.  So it'd be better to use a litter box with something in it that is like what you want him to normally go on  (dirt, rocks, sod, etc.)

Answer 16

You should close him off in the kitchen with a few pee pads or newspapers, since he can't hold it all day. He will be fine, just leave food and water out for him and whatever you want for him to use the bathroom on.