New Puppy - Use Crate or Playpen while at work

[b0chatma]

Hi all,

We are getting a 3 month old french bulldog pup in a few weeks and I just want to make sure that we put her on a realistic schedule and setup while my wife and I are at work.

Schedule:
Take pup for a walk at 7am
Put her in a 3'x6' playpen at 7:30am with a dog bed, water bowl, and a couple of kong toys that have treats in them
Include pee pad in the play pen.

Have dog walker come mid-day to take her out for a walk.

We get home at 5:30 and take her out for a walk.

I'm a little worried that we might be exposing her to too many things. Such as the porch potty which we plan to use while we are home, then morning, mid-day, and afterwork walks where she will use the bathroom in the grass and then pee pads in her play pen during the day in case she can't hold it.

Then she will sleep in her crate over night.

I'm sure this is flawed on many levels that's why I'm reaching out to you guys to see if you can help me create a proper schedule and setup.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Brad

 

[Hervé Eulacia]

Hi all,

We are getting a 3 month old french bulldog pup in a few weeks and I just want to make sure that we put her on a realistic schedule and setup while my wife and I are at work.

Schedule:
Take pup for a walk at 7am
Put her in a 3'x6' playpen at 7:30am with a dog bed, water bowl, and a couple of kong toys that have treats in them
Include pee pad in the play pen.

Have dog walker come mid-day to take her out for a walk.

We get home at 5:30 and take her out for a walk.

I'm a little worried that we might be exposing her to too many things. Such as the porch potty which we plan to use while we are home, then morning, mid-day, and afterwork walks where she will use the bathroom in the grass and then pee pads in her play pen during the day in case she can't hold it.

Then she will sleep in her crate over night.

I'm sure this is flawed on many levels that's why I'm reaching out to you guys to see if you can help me create a proper schedule and setup.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Brad

We started with the same set up as yours, with a typical day starting with a morning walk and feed at 6am, another walk at noon and is coming back from work around 5pm.

Playpen and pee pad were fine in the first few weeks bit he then starting shuffling the pad around the playpen connected to the crate and destroying it. We ended up removing the playpen entirely — MIlo is effectively crated when we're not there — and associating the outside lawn as the only place where he could pee or poo. He had a few accidents in his crate but quickly got better.

My current opinion is that pee pad are confusing and that play pens are overrated.




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[Alice Kable]

We have always had 2 dogs, a pet door leading to a fenced in pet area with concrete flooring. We have so many deer around I wouldn't let a pup out on grass until fully immunized. Some diseases can live in the ground for years. Other than that a 3 month old probably can't make it 5 hours without having to potty. The water bowl is good because they need to drink lots of water. In your situation I would go with a crate and a fabric potty pad.

 

[2bullymama]

As a guideline... pups can only hold potty for 1 hour more than months old... so at 3 months, 4 hours is the limit


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[davidh]

Sounds like you have a good plan. I like the play pen idea. We use a similar idea with our pups when they are younger. We take a crate and attach a play pin to it with cotton washable pee pads in the play pin, and bedding in the crate. This works very well until they get older and can hold their pee longer, then we just use the crate.

 

[Cbrugs]

When Jax was younger he was confined to a pen in the kitchen with a pee pad. Then as he grew he was confined to the kitchen. He didn't use pee pads very long at all. Now he gets free range of the top floor when no one is home.