When she's hyperactive she's lunging at ppl with her mouth wide open, she's trying to eat things (she has successfully destroyed two text books and I narrowly freed my Harry Potter book from her teeth). Short of taking EVERYTHING off EVERY SURFACE within her reach -- help
I love my puppy, and when she's calm she's absolutely lovely, she's a lap dog for sure but she just never seems to BE calm nowadays.
Getting everything you don't want chewed out of her reach while she's teething is an
excellent plan. Go for it!
Seriously. You've got to combine making things she shouldn't chew unavailable to her as much as possible with providing, and redirecting her towards, things she should be chewing--Kongs, bully sticks, other safe chew toys.
We let her run around in the back yard with the leash on (16 ft retractable) - and we do training (click training) with her. She's mastered sit and lay (if she's undestracted and u have a treat she'll come when called but its a work in progress).
Being allowed to run around in the yard on her own is not nearly enough exercise for her. Dogs won't exercise themselves enough on their own, for one thing, and for another--how much does the yard change from day to day? There's no mental exercise there. Doing some clicker training with her is a good start, and you can expand that with some simple trick training, too. But Bella needs to be
walked. With you, every day. How long, how far, depends a lot on what kind of dog and how large she is--at fourteen weeks, you don't want to overdo it and overstress her, but she needs to be walked, for both the physical and the mental exercise it will give her. Two or three walks of fifteen or twenty minutes each may be a lot better for her at this age than one hour-long walk--especially if you can vary the routes.
Puppies
are overwhelming, but most people survive, so hang in there, and remember how cute she is when she's curled up in your lap!
Lis
