Adventures With Pearl™

I finally figured out why God made beagle puppies so cute. It’s hard to get mad at them when they make a mess or misbehave. Pearl just turned 11 weeks old yesterday. She’s old enough to start reinforcing potty training. Getting Pearl potty trained has sometimes been a challenge.   Most of the time she’s been a great pup at going outside. But sometimes she wants to do something else. We’ve been training her to walk to the door & go outside when we jingle the jinglebells on the doorknob. Most of the time she walks to the door. Other times she gets distracted and sometimes it’s easier for me  to carry her outside. Most of the time she goes outside without any incident.  Other times she has accidents or doesn’t let us know when she needs to go out. We have pee pads around the house, they only work for awhile.  Sometimes she’ll mess on the floor instead and I’ve caught her trying to chew on the pads. Today she had a couple of little incidents. She left a mess in the living room and didn

It’s been 3 weeks since Pearl came to our family. So far it’s been quite an adjustment getting used to a wee one. The first few nights were hard getting her used to her forever home. The first night, I slept in a chair the living room where her crate is. I sang and rocked her to sleep the first few nights with a mariachi song and Tony Bennetts version of Moonglow. She loves it when you cuddle with her and rock her to sleep. That technique worked for a little awhile. She sleeps for a couple of hrs., then whine to go out or decide it was time to play. Pearl has been pretty good about bathroom breaks, so far. We let her out her to go do her business before she goes back in her crate for the night. We’ve jingled some bells that are on the door handle when it’s time for her to go out. Occasionally she’ll have an accident, though. But if we get her on a schedule that everybody can live with, hopefully she should let us know when nature calls. Is it normal for a 2 month old pup to not sleep t