Should I walk dog before or after breakfast

October

We got a puppy last week. She is 4 months old. She is getting her final vaccinations tomorrow so we can bring her out for a walk in two weeks. I was just wondering if we should bring her for a walk before or after breakfast? At the moment she is so excited to see us in the morning that she doesn’t eat for about 20 minutes after we get up. So I was wondering should I bring her for a short walk as soon as I get up and then feed her? And how long after feeding should I wait before walking her? She is a Yorkie X. We are living on the 7th floor of an apartment building so no garden unfortunately!

tk123

I always feed after we walk or if I feed before I'd give them about an hour before I take them out. They usually want to have a snooze/relax after that eat anyways!

D3V!L

tk123 wrote: »

I always feed after we walk or if I feed before I'd give them about an hour before I take them out. They usually want to have a snooze/relax after that eat anyways!

I thought it was just our fella that does that !! Post breakfast snooze for 3 -4 hours :rolleyes:

muddypaws

You'll need to take her out to go to the toilet first thing in the morning, when she gets up and, while she's still a puppy, straight after eating. Where is she toileting at the moment?

I don't have a hard and fast rule, it depends what I'm doing that day, sometimes the dogs go out first thing, other days they get fed and then walked later. I always wait about 2 hours though between feeding and exercise.

October

muddypaws wrote: »

You'll need to take her out to go to the toilet first thing in the morning, when she gets up and, while she's still a puppy, straight after eating. Where is she toileting at the moment?

I don't have a hard and fast rule, it depends what I'm doing that day, sometimes the dogs go out first thing, other days they get fed and then walked later. I always wait about 2 hours though between feeding and exercise.

We are using puppy training pads at the moment and she is not always on target but getting better every day!!!

Thanks for the advice. I think I will bring her out first thing and then regular short outings to go to the toilet and then her walks in between.

Nody

October wrote: »

We are using puppy training pads at the moment and she is not always on target but getting better every day!!!

Thanks for the advice. I think I will bring her out first thing and then regular short outings to go to the toilet and then her walks in between.

All you're doing is confusing your pup; you're telling them it's ok to pee/poo inside sometimes and sometimes not and set them up to possibly do so on for example mail or papers.

If you want faster progress remove puppy pads and take them out, a lot, often and cheer the living daylight out of them when they pee/poo to show them how happy you are about them doing it outside. If they have an accident inside simply clean it up, no comment, no rubbing their face in it etc. and keep taking them out.

October

Nody wrote: »

October wrote: »

We are using puppy training pads at the moment and she is not always on target but getting better every day!!!

Thanks for the advice. I think I will bring her out first thing and then regular short outings to go to the toilet and then her walks in between.

All you're doing is confusing your pup; you're telling them it's ok to pee/poo inside sometimes and sometimes not and set them up to possibly do so on for example mail or papers.

If you want faster progress remove puppy pads and take them out, a lot, often and cheer the living daylight out of them when they pee/poo to show them how happy you are about them doing it outside. If they have an accident inside simply clean it up, no comment, no rubbing their face in it etc. and keep taking them out.

We are giving her lots of praise and a treat when she goes on the puppy pads and silence and no eye contact when she doesn’t.

As I said above, she gets her final vaccinations tomorrow and then we were advised we can’t bring her outside until two weeks after that so bringing her out is not an option at the moment. We intend to train her to go outside only when it’s safe for her to go out.

em_cat

Do you have a balcony? Reason I ask is because you could easily get something like https://piddlepatch.com/ so she gets use to grass, command toileting along with being outdoors.

October

em_cat wrote: »

Do you have a balcony? Reason I ask is because you could easily get something like https://piddlepatch.com/ so she gets use to grass, command toileting along with being outdoors.

Interesting. That would be a good idea. Thanks.