Toy American Eskimo Puppies
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Anything and everything there is to know about the American Eskimo Dog.?
I have finally figured out what dog breed I am going to get. I have researched it and just wanted to know of some tips and advice on this breed. I plan to get it this summer and have a few questions.
1) How long does it take to crate (or potty) train a puppy?
2) What are some games this breed really enjoys to play? What types of toys should I plan on getting. I heard they chew a lot?
3) Any one know how to train the dog to stop barking when not necessary?
4) Any other advice! 
Thanks a lot.
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Double-crating to housebreak puppies.
The whole idea of crating a puppy for housebreaking purposes is to encourage her to learn to "hold it" -- most pups don't want to step in or lie in their own waste, so if she is enclosed in a small space where there is no escape, she'll hold it as long as she can. Your task, as the human, is to take her out often enough that she never accidentally has to go in the crate.
Because we live in the industrialized world and don't command our time, sometimes we have to leave puppies home alone. The easiest way to housebreak a pup when you aren't home is double crating.
You still use the little crate as her bed. But when you have to leave for more than an hour or two, you put the little crate inside a much larger crate or, more conveniently, a puppy playpen.
This is a puppy playpen:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yad5bmc
They are certainly available from other retailers; this is where I got mine. There is a tray under the floor, and the floor can be raised or lowered to your convenience. There are no doors on the sides; the roof lifts up. I recommend buying the largest one you can afford.
It has a wire floor that would be rough on puppy paws, so I lined mine with Dri-Dek tiles.
These are Dri-Dek tiles
http://preview.tinyurl.com/y8rbmv6
They are certainly available from other retailers; this is where I got mine. They are soft plastic, anti-microbial, perforated to let fluids through, and interlock easily. They are inexpensive and come in a variety of colors.
Most importantly, they don't feel like anything else in your house. They have a unique texture and smell, and the pup will never mistake a Dri-Dek tile for anything else.
Here's how it works: You set up the playpen in the house, near the door you will come home through. I put mine in the kitchen, under the table. When you have to leave, put the sleeping crate in the pen with the door removed, so pup can't get locked out. Leave her a bowl of water that she would have difficulty spilling. The little sleeping crate had soft towels inside to make a nest; the rest of the pen floor was Dri-Dek tiles. On the occasion that she has to urinate or defecate, she will likely leave her nest and do it on the Dri-Dek tile, then go back to the nest.
Puppies remember the surfaces and the smells upon which they defecate. Some pups raised to use newspapers will do it on newspapers all their lives. This pup is being taught to use these soft plastic tiles that cannot be mistaken for anything else. When she is let out of the pen, she will seek the tile surface to use. Take a tile and put it outside in the yard where you want her to potty. When you travel, take a tile along and she will happily potty wherever you put the tile.
If she's a toy that you won't be taking outside on a daily basis, take the tray out of the bottom of the pen, put tiles on it, and she will happily go there. That's what she learned. You can line the tray with plain clay cat litter or peat moss or newspapers to absorb the liquid and put the tiles on top; use things that dont have strong scents; you don't want to confuse her.
The shift between keeping her in the pen and setting up the tray should happen on a weekend when you can watch her. Every time she uses the tile-lined tray appropriately, praise her. If she's reliable, then on the second day try leaving her home alone for a half hour. Then a couple hours. Then overnight. I'd still use the pen while you are gone all day, but for overnights and shorter times, if she is reliable, she'll be reliable. If she isn't, just put her back in the pen and try again a few weeks later.
In general terms, the pen should be used until you're sure the pup has matured past chewing on random items like electrical cords and furniture. If you and the pup are comfortable, you can use it the rest of the dog's life. That's up to you.
I got my Aussie pup by air freight, and I put him in his shipping crate, put it in my room at night. In the middle of the night he woke up the whole house screaming in obvious panic. I checked, and he had had green slimy diarrhea... it was all over the crate and the poor pup, who was panic-stricken and horrified because he couldn't escape it.
I had to take him into the tub and scrub him and the crate down. After being cuddled dry, I put clean towels on the floor of the crate, put the puppy back inside, and we all adjourned back to the bedroom and sleep.
Pup never messed in his crate again, but that was mostly because he was eleven weeks old when I got him, and my supervisor at work was understanding; until he was six months old, I went home for lunch. I'd let him out, play with him till I had to leave, and re-crate him. I'd come home after work, let him out, and we'd play until he was tired. Then I'd feed him and the other dog, and make dinner. Before we turned in for the night, there would be another extended play/train
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