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Cocker Specific Discussion => Puppies => Topic started by: *kimbo* on November 19, 2007, 11:03:15 AM
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Ok, everything is going well with Zara at the moment she has been home with us for over a week and she seems to be settling in well. The only problem is that she has an hour (usually about 7pm when the soaps are on) when she just goes nuts. She launched herself onto the coffee table last night, she nips and rages around like a nutter for ages and doesnt stop. The problem is she just doesnt listen to you and will not calm down. I could put her in her crete or just try and ignore her but not sure if she will see this as a punishment????
What to do I dont know has anyone had any experience with this is young puppies? It doesnt help that she isnt allowd out as she is due to have her second injection on Friday. Roll on that day!!!! >:(
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It's probably not the right thing to do, but if i'm honest i just try to ignore Jake and wait for him to settle down. He doesn't listen to a word I say when he's 'in the zone' so there's no point in me getting stressed about it.
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If orrin doesn't settle down in one room, i tend to get up and go into another, like the kitchen and do some washing up. Then try again back in the lounge, to see if she will settle.
Otherwise it's straight in the crate.
Andy.
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We experience this occasionally, the majority of the time she sleeps once 7 o'clock strikes. :blink:
On the occasions that she is behaving like a nutter we usually get her ball and roll is around the living room to try and tire her out.
Polly's madness is in the morning, obviously she is excited to see us all and it doesn't help that we all come downstairs at different stages. Its not so bad when I have the day off but when I'm trying to get my daughters ready for school and myself ready for work its very hard work.
We have been able to take Polly out this weekend and that has really helped.
I'm sure it'll be better once you can start taking her out.
Kate x
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Just recently Tilly my 4 month old blue roan has decided to do her "wall of death" as we call it three times a day !! She has decided that the last one will be at 12 o/clock at night GGGggggrrrrrrrr on my bed !!!!! At this rate I will be sleeping in her crate and she can have the damn bed !!!!! >:D >:D AND thats after an hours walk in the evning !!!! ph34r Hubby says its her teeth awwww !!! Teeth My A**E >:D
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Bella's 20 weeks she still has her mad hour in the evening, it used to mean one of us would get nipped, we now leave the room when it starts - she usually stops and follows us.
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We have been lucky so far - Hamish doesn't have a mad hour!
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Mine are both nearly 2 and still have their mad half hours, its good for them but have to watch they dont damage anything :005:
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Another one here who just lifts their feet moves anything breakable and sits back and laughs at them. They do do it less as they grow up I promise :lol: :lol:
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Oh Teresa don't say that! I love fred's daily dose of madness - no matter what a pants day i have it always makes me giggle! I tend to join in by getting him focused on something constructive, like playing with a toy / fetch/ retrieve, otherwise he'd be bouncing off the settee and causing destruction! :005:
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aahh bless my hubby does the same thing when the soaps come on :005:
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Fern used to do this when she was younger - I never got to watch the soaps :005: I used to let her have her 'wall of death' moment then did some clicker training with her and then out to the loo and then she would settle for a little while
Braan is a different dog to what she was like at his age - He just wants to sleep on you come 7pm, so if I'm sat down (very rare at that time of night tho :'( ) he'll cuddle up and go to sleep and takes no notice of the other two having a play :lol:
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poppy is 15 moths and STILL has her mad hour!! >:D
once she is in this mood she seems to have selective hearing :005: if she gets to the point were she gets really silly i put her lead on and take her for a quick walk round the streets and she settles then for the night, (sometimes >:()
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I usually stand well back ::) My two ginger kitteny things have their mad hour as well and I just let them get on with it then pick up the pieces later ::)
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:shades: I don't wan't to worry all you puppy owning folks, but at nearly eight and a half years old, Fern still does the wall of death, (only she no longer nips and tends not to jump on furniture ;) ) .
She invariably charges round all the downstairs rooms, (and garden if the back door is open), at high speed with a toy in her mouth, and has perfected accurate cornering and skillful negotiation of all the furniture in her path. :lol: She makes growly noises at me as she passes. I pretend to chase her. It's a nightly event just before feeding time, she always makes me laugh and we both love it. I hope she never grows out of it :luv: .
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Bonnee hurtles round and round the circular centrepiece we have in our lawn at full pelt, yapping wildly.....Molo just looks on, with his usual bemused expression :005:
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Ellie also has a mad hour. She's 13 weeks. We try to tire her out by throwing her ball or playing tug of war. Invariably , this means that if we stop playing, she will nip us as if to say ..."Oi you - play!!" :005:
The worst is though that she will run at our leather settee and start scratching and digging like she's trying to get inside it, and then start to bite it. We can't deter her, and usually when this happens, I take her out of the room, and put her in her basket. We just leave her five minutes, and usually by the time we let her back in she's calmed down. Quite often she goes to sleep, so I think this behaviour occurs when she's over tired or often when we are not paying her any attention (a bit like children reallyl)
I'm sure you'll find something that works for you - good luck :blink:
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i tend to sit down put my feet upand let him get on with it god bless sky plus as i just record lol
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What a great response from everyone thanks, it makes me feel better that other people are going through/have gone through the same experiences as me!!! It also make me realise that I dont have a nutter dog and its just part of her growing up and being a puppy.
I do enjoy watching her but do worry that she might do herself a mischief one day.
She was still the same last night although this time she mananged to make me miss the bush tucker trial in I'm a Celebrity.....O/H said it was really good and no I dont have sky plus mores the pity!!!
I am now thinking that when she is able to start going out for walks it will burn off some of that excess energy she has stored up. Roll on that day...... ;)
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Please learn to enjoy the mad hour. I think it's a cocker thing and I'm quite sure they don't grow out of it. Just move anything that they can hurt themselves on, sit back and love watching it. I look forward to Cody's, luckily he has 2, one in the morning at about 6.30 (hope the neighbours don't mind) then another after tea just before his walk. I grew up with a cocker as a child and remember his mad hours with head down and that " I'm coming so get out of my way" look in his eyes. He still did it at 13, that's what I love about them - ever playful.
Good luck!
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It's all good fun - as long as they don't come to any harm! :005:
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Heh heh... the wall of death is easier in the summer when you can chuck them in the garden, it has to be said!
You will probably have to get used to it though and the nipping should stop somewhere around 4-5-6 months :D
Hannah x
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Hahahaha!
I've had my pup 2 days today, and I took him out about 7:30 in the garden this evening, and he ran around like a bullet! I'm assuming this is a Cocker's "mad half hour", right?
He then laid asleep at the foot of my chair for the next couple of hours, lol.
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I think it's a cocker thing
Its a puppy thing --- every pup that comes here does it ::)