[finasteride]

Okay, so here is my question Blaze is 20 weeks old and I just found out I'm pregnant with out first child. I want to make sure I prepare and train Blaze the best I can before the baby comes. Blaze gets a bit jealous of me and my husband when we kiss or hug. Anybody ever trained their pup to be around a newborn? I will take any advice or tips please! Oh and he will be 13 months old when the baby arrives! Help please!

[Poeetiol]

Sorry I don't have any tips, but I think this is a great thread topic and will be closely following. Good Luck!

[VEGLAS - SPB]

How is he with young children right now?

[77rexulceme]

Loves kids absolutely adores them. But he has a tendency to jump which is what worries me. He's my 4 yr old nieces best friend!

[vSzsgifP]

Thanks Nickel!

[RarensussyRen]

When I brought my newborn son home, I behaved like he'd always been there. I didn't make a big deal out of him to the dogs, or force any introductions. I made sure the dogs still received as much one on one attention as was possible, as well as including them in things with my son as part of the group. We never had any problems

The jealousy your pup is showing would concern me a bit, though... make sure to entirely ignore him when he does things like that. That is one thing I like about always having multiple dogs... none of my dogs are ever jealous of another getting attention!

[nuabuncarnigo]

Don't fall for the bullshit about using baby dolls and the baby's hospital blanket. A dog can tell the difference between a plastic doll and a real baby and will likely think the doll is a new toy since most dog toys are plastic. The hospital blanket will just smell like everything and everyone it has been in contact with.

Just work on training your dog not to jump and in basic manners. If you think you need help with that training, by all means get a few books, watch some Youtube videos, or take a beginner obedience class.

[refdhbgtd]

I have a few tips, if you dont like or feel comfortible with the tips or things i suggest, simply dont use them. no feelings hurt.
so first off, i would begin working on basics, like no jumping up sit,stay,lie down ect.

what do you mean by he gets "jelouse"? does he bark or growl at you? push his way in? nip you?
what ever he does nip it in the bud NOW the second he does ANY of those behaviors or whatever he does, give him a verbal correction like "NO" when he does it, if he pushes between you two scold him and send him away or out of the room and make him stay out of the room, youll have to do this 100 times in one session to get him to give up and ignore you, but DO IT. dontl et him get away with it, even if your teird and worn out after a long day, work with him to teach him that behavior is unacceptible ALWAYS.

do you have a babyroom picked out yet? when you do i would limit the dogs access to it, donot allow him to go in freely, teach him its okay to lie outside of the door but not to come in, this will help keep your baby safe later on when he/or she cries in the crib the dog will not feel free to just run in and take control of the weird sound.

also i would practice lieing a baby or throw blanket in the middle of the livingroom and practice teaching him that he is NOT allowed to lie on it not even on one tiny little corner, teach him to give the blanket space, this is setting your dog up to learn that he is never allowed to lie on the babys blankets weather the baby is on them or not, the second you see him lie down or sit on or even walk across the blanket shoo him away. this will help ensure that when the baby is older and learning to sit up you will feel safe lieing him or her on the floor and not worry about the dog sitting on or lieing on the baby.

i personally would also teach your dog to never sniff or put his faceinto a stroller, thats what i taught Cesar so he is never in a babys face thus he is never smacked by a baby or toddlar thus i never have to worry about him taking a snap out of a child when they push his face out of theres while they are in a stroller. what i did was, if he ever stuck his face into a stroller, i would give him a quick lead jerk and say "UHUH" when he stopped i praised him.

i would also invest in a few baby bottles and fill them up with maybe some milk, some formula, some juice and set them on the floor and practice the "leave it" command, never allow your dog to touch the bottles not even a quick lick off the nipple, give him a scolding if he does.

i know alot of people find it endearing to watch the dog and the new baby climb all over eachother, snuggling up together and shareing ice cream cones and lolli pops.
sure its sweet and cute with SOME dogs, some dogs are mellow and mild mannerd and dont have much prey drive or domineering tendencies.
but there are alot of dogs who do have a high prey drive and hearing that baby wail in its crib is enough to send them into prey mode causeing an attack, or feeling the need to take a nip from a toddlars face who tries to push the dogs face out of its own. or some dogs just dont like the sound or the excitment and will nip to keep it quiet or because the sound excites them, i wouldnt say Cesar has a perticularly high prey drive but certian sounds excite him.

alot of parents on youtube i see will have there dogs lieing right next to the baby on the same blanket on the floor, slowly the dog nudges and rolls around and eventually pushes the baby from the blanket its so funny! the dog is allowed to do this, no harm, theres no aggression there, so the dog who already has the tendency to be domineering begins to see the blanket on the floor as his, its fine when the baby is little and doesnt wiggle much the dog pushes it off slowly by pushing its back into it or its butt and takes the blanket, but then the baby is mobile the dog tries this and the baby instinctivly pushes back the dog who has never been told not to take this blanket gives the child a quick snap to say 'no this is mine you cant do that"
parents cant figure out whre it came from, ill tell you where its because your dog was allowed to make a disicion about whos blanket it was.

or with the bottles, you might think its hillarious when the dog smells formular or milk in the bottle and slwly licks it right out of your babys mouth HAHA! too silly, untill one day the dog who is prone to being domineering once again tries to take the bottle from your child but the child is old enough to swat the dog away, another potential snap because you allowed the dog to make the call.

im not saying ALL dogs will have a problem in those areas, there arem any who are sweet and mild mannerd and good natured and who would have no problems later on, but some dogs can and will see a toddlar or a baby swatting at them a NO NO and will be dogs and discipline the way dogs do, with a snap or a bite. hence the reason i always try to advocate teaching all dogs to give a new baby and an older baby space so your dog learns that its not okay to get into your childs face when he or she is waddling around with a cookie or a bottle or a sippy cup and try to take it, that its not okay for your dog to step on or lie on or get into your babys face while they sleep or crawl on the floor because trust me once your baby is crawling, your NOT going to be able to keep them in a playpen 100 percent of the time and why keep the dog in the crate everytime the baby is walking or crawling around when you can simply teach the dog to respect the babys space and things


once your child is older and begins to invade the dogs space you can begin teaching them how to respect a dog as well and very soon youll have two freinds who respect and trust eachother, who can snuggle into bed at night or crawl around the floor together and play.

[amannddo]

By jealous I mean he sticks his nose between us. He's never shown any aggression what so ever!

[KaterinaNJq]

I have a few tips, if you dont like or feel comfortible with the tips or things i suggest, simply dont use them. no feelings hurt.
so first off, i would begin working on basics, like no jumping up sit,stay,lie down ect.

what do you mean by he gets "jelouse"? does he bark or growl at you? push his way in? nip you?
what ever he does nip it in the bud NOW the second he does ANY of those behaviors or whatever he does, give him a verbal correction like "NO" when he does it, if he pushes between you two scold him and send him away or out of the room and make him stay out of the room, youll have to do this 100 times in one session to get him to give up and ignore you, but DO IT. dontl et him get away with it, even if your teird and worn out after a long day, work with him to teach him that behavior is unacceptible ALWAYS.

do you have a babyroom picked out yet? when you do i would limit the dogs access to it, donot allow him to go in freely, teach him its okay to lie outside of the door but not to come in, this will help keep your baby safe later on when he/or she cries in the crib the dog will not feel free to just run in and take control of the weird sound.

also i would practice lieing a baby or throw blanket in the middle of the livingroom and practice teaching him that he is NOT allowed to lie on it not even on one tiny little corner, teach him to give the blanket space, this is setting your dog up to learn that he is never allowed to lie on the babys blankets weather the baby is on them or not, the second you see him lie down or sit on or even walk across the blanket shoo him away. this will help ensure that when the baby is older and learning to sit up you will feel safe lieing him or her on the floor and not worry about the dog sitting on or lieing on the baby.

i personally would also teach your dog to never sniff or put his faceinto a stroller, thats what i taught Cesar so he is never in a babys face thus he is never smacked by a baby or toddlar thus i never have to worry about him taking a snap out of a child when they push his face out of theres while they are in a stroller. what i did was, if he ever stuck his face into a stroller, i would give him a quick lead jerk and say "UHUH" when he stopped i praised him.

i would also invest in a few baby bottles and fill them up with maybe some milk, some formula, some juice and set them on the floor and practice the "leave it" command, never allow your dog to touch the bottles not even a quick lick off the nipple, give him a scolding if he does.

i know alot of people find it endearing to watch the dog and the new baby climb all over eachother, snuggling up together and shareing ice cream cones and lolli pops.
sure its sweet and cute with SOME dogs, some dogs are mellow and mild mannerd and dont have much prey drive or domineering tendencies.
but there are alot of dogs who do have a high prey drive and hearing that baby wail in its crib is enough to send them into prey mode causeing an attack, or feeling the need to take a nip from a toddlars face who tries to push the dogs face out of its own. or some dogs just dont like the sound or the excitment and will nip to keep it quiet or because the sound excites them, i wouldnt say Cesar has a perticularly high prey drive but certian sounds excite him.

alot of parents on youtube i see will have there dogs lieing right next to the baby on the same blanket on the floor, slowly the dog nudges and rolls around and eventually pushes the baby from the blanket its so funny! the dog is allowed to do this, no harm, theres no aggression there, so the dog who already has the tendency to be domineering begins to see the blanket on the floor as his, its fine when the baby is little and doesnt wiggle much the dog pushes it off slowly by pushing its back into it or its butt and takes the blanket, but then the baby is mobile the dog tries this and the baby instinctivly pushes back the dog who has never been told not to take this blanket gives the child a quick snap to say 'no this is mine you cant do that"
parents cant figure out whre it came from, ill tell you where its because your dog was allowed to make a disicion about whos blanket it was.

or with the bottles, you might think its hillarious when the dog smells formular or milk in the bottle and slwly licks it right out of your babys mouth HAHA! too silly, untill one day the dog who is prone to being domineering once again tries to take the bottle from your child but the child is old enough to swat the dog away, another potential snap because you allowed the dog to make the call.

im not saying ALL dogs will have a problem in those areas, there arem any who are sweet and mild mannerd and good natured and who would have no problems later on, but some dogs can and will see a toddlar or a baby swatting at them a NO NO and will be dogs and discipline the way dogs do, with a snap or a bite. hence the reason i always try to advocate teaching all dogs to give a new baby and an older baby space so your dog learns that its not okay to get into your childs face when he or she is waddling around with a cookie or a bottle or a sippy cup and try to take it, that its not okay for your dog to step on or lie on or get into your babys face while they sleep or crawl on the floor because trust me once your baby is crawling, your NOT going to be able to keep them in a playpen 100 percent of the time and why keep the dog in the crate everytime the baby is walking or crawling around when you can simply teach the dog to respect the babys space and things


once your child is older and begins to invade the dogs space you can begin teaching them how to respect a dog as well and very soon youll have two freinds who respect and trust eachother, who can snuggle into bed at night or crawl around the floor together and play.

This helps so much thank you! I'm not worried about the 3 year old range bc he's absolutely great with my niece. Just the infant stage. But he's never been aggressive. I'm starting obedience classes next week even though he knows all his basic commands along with a few tricks such as shake and high five. But I will definitely start in on this. He's very smart it usually takes me a week tops to train him on something new! I appreciate all of the advice greatly!

[Barbshowers]

When I brought my daughter home, I just made sure that my dog respected her space an never got too close in the beginning. He had and boundary of a few feet around my daughter that he was not alowed to enter unless I said it was ok. The first 24 hours after I brought my daughter home, my dog didn't eat, vomited and shook. It was really sad. Now they get along well, but my dog is still not 100% comfortable with infants and toddlers. I just have to always keep an eye on them and when my dog gets uncomfortable he is allowed to get up and walk away

[M_Marked]

im glad the advice i gave was what you were looking for.

i know a few people who read this and thought
"thats crazy! my dog was around mt baby from teh second it came home! lieing beside him/her at 5 days old on the couch! never hurt her!"
i beilive you, im sure your dog was great with your new baby some dogs are some dogs never get the oppertunity to feel thretend by a baby or a toddlar, great thats awsome! but sometimes, some dogs are very subtle about there dominance tendencys, my dog Cesar tries to take control by pushing into you and making you step back he would act like he was ignoreing you or he would act sweet about it and push against you, the longer we let him do that the more and more he did it and then one day my mom was going down the stairs and he tried to push into her so she pushed back and he jumped at her as if to say "uh, no you cant do that me" after that i realized what he was doing and never allowed it to happen again, since then we can push him out of our way if need be and hes fine with it.

and you know, your dog is young is still,20 weeks old so i doubt he has begun his "teenager, stubborn faze" where hes gonna try his hardest to test you and hes going to already have an idea on what works to get his own way and what doesnt. his teenager faze could be very mild and might only show itself with a raise in energy and a bit of extra stubborness or he could be a real butt-hole and make you wanna strangle him with your bare hands lol

but like i said its better to be safe then sorry, even if Cesar were 12 years old and i knew him thru and thru i STILL would do the above with him before i had a baby.

[autolubitelone]

Oh he's In the teenager stage that's exactly why I posted. And I want to be prepared you never know when that one thing will set them off.

[citalopram]

I would just work really hard on NILIF and sit/leave it/drop it because a sitting dog can't jump, a good leave it can prevent ingestion of baby toys and objects that would have to be surgically removed, and drop it same thing. I had my baby in January and my puppy just turned a year on the 22nd of last month. I would just work hards on manors, my boys are outside dogs so I don't have to worry about things all the time and it might be a good idea to have a chain spot set up just in case you need it. I do walk one dog at a time with the stroller and they actually check on Katie before we set out and if she crys they lick her and try to calm her.

[Paybeskf]

http://www.safekidssafedogs.com/

I haven't really looked around at all this, but it's been around a while....maybe you can glean something here.

[PIORARMADDERI]

Thank you all so much! We've started intense obedience training and he is doing great!