hello my name is wendy

My staffy is called Casper he is 11 weeks old now and mischievious think I will be on this site lots for advice

Hi &

Welcome to the staffordshire bull terrier niceboard. We are pleased you have decided to join us, and hope you enjoy your stay. We hope to see plenty of pictures of your staffordshire bull terriers or any other breed you may have in your household

If you would like to enter your dog(s), puppy(s) or another pet(s) you may have into our Monthly Competition, voting starts on the 20th of every month, if you are lucky your dog maybe placed on our Hall Of Fame page on our website.

Just one last thing before you look around could you please just have a quick look At This Poll, we would love to know how you found us.

Here are some links that will get you started with the website:-

Please read the Forum Rules before you start posting.
Here are a list of Tutorial & FAQs that will help you around the forum.
You can ask for help here if you are having trouble doing something on the forum.
If you have any ideas to improve the forum please let us know Your Feedback Here.
We have a Website with alot of information if you would like to view it.

Hi &

Welcome to the staffordshire bull terrier niceboard. We are pleased you have decided to join us, and hope you enjoy your stay. We hope to see plenty of pictures of your staffordshire bull terriers or any other breed you may have in your household

If you would like to enter your dog(s), puppy(s) or another pet(s) you may have into our Monthly Competition, voting starts on the 20th of every month, if you are lucky your dog maybe placed on our Hall Of Fame page on our website.

Just one last thing before you look around could you please just have a quick look At This Poll, we would love to know how you found us.

Here are some links that will get you started with the website:-

Please read the Forum Rules before you start posting.
Here are a list of Tutorial & FAQs that will help you around the forum.
You can ask for help here if you are having trouble doing something on the forum.
If you have any ideas to improve the forum please let us know Your Feedback Here.
We have a Website with alot of information if you would like to view it.

sorry steve didnt relise you had sent haha

hi wendy and welcome to the forum any questions just ask away

Hiya and welcome! x

i have had a quick look at the forum my worry is the biting/nipping/and not listening when we say NO and barking at us we have starting putting him in his crate (locked) when he wnt calm down for about 5-10mins so I am hoping it will work - I am thinking about getting a trainer for him what do you guys think?

he still a puppy all breeds start off like that aslong you stick with the samething and never let him away with 1 time and the next time you punish him the next because that could confuse him, he will grow out of it

start puppy classes at your vets at about 3 and a half months and that really brings them on .
the crate he will grow to love it the nipping/biting needs to be put in to cheack straight away say no and put him in his crate without talking to him and he will soon get he should not be doing that.
and the barking im really suprised he has found his voice so quick use it to your advantage say shhhhh with your finger on your lip or whatever signal you want to use and when the barking stops reward him and he will soon stop barking on comand

Thansk steve for that thought it was only my pup playing up

My other concern is at night he is fine not a peep but in the day recently he has riped his bed up and he rips his mat to pieces when we are at work is that normal he does have toys to play with

Its completely normal wendy. He's just a puppy at the end of the day and like babies, if they can, they'll play with and destroy things we dont want them to. As mentioned above, puppy classes are a must if you want a well socialised, well balanced and happy pup. But dont worry, everything you've described is perfectly normal puppy behaviour.

do you put all this toys together? if you do try moving the around the place

some have a thing about ripping thing up, when my was pup i use things that was harder for them to do like bit of old sofas

I thinks I am calming down abit now lol....

The toys are sometimes dotted about the room but end up in his bed where he takes everything have to het him a new bed now as it has a bit hole at the bottom do you think a hard plastic bed will be ok for him

If you have a crate for him, why not make that his bed? Just put an old duvet or some blankets and his toys in there. He should be well happy.

wendywoo wrote:I thinks I am calming down abit now lol....

The toys are sometimes dotted about the room but end up in his bed where he takes everything have to het him a new bed now as it has a bit hole at the bottom do you think a hard plastic bed will be ok for him

as said if your usind a crate put a old blanket in it and he will snuggle down
and a plastic bed last a lot longer than fleese beds as staffys love pulling things to bits ha ha

well on a lighter note I have jst had a call that he has been a good boy this afternoon no riped up mat yehhhhh 1 more week and I can get him out and about get him tired lol.....

Hiya and welcome, congrats on the puppy, he sounds like a very typical naughty staffy!!You'll have so much fun when you start taking him out just don't overdo it at first!! Can't wait to see some pics

hi and welcome

Hi & welcome to the forum
Know what you mean about get him out and about.....if Blue hasn't been out for a walk he's a knightmare.....he needs draining and then he is good as gold

Hi Wendy, welcome to the forum, and the joys of a staffy pup!

wendywoo wrote:Thansk steve for that thought it was only my pup playing up

My other concern is at night he is fine not a peep but in the day recently he has riped his bed up and he rips his mat to pieces when we are at work is that normal he does have toys to play with

This, unfortunately is SO normal!!! I'd use his crate as his den & put a platic bed inside it with a blanket at the bottom.

Just a little word of advice. If you want to use the crate as his den/bed you should not use it for punishment. What I mean is, if he does something wrong (nips, growls, tears something up) don't tell him off & shut him in the crate - you want him to WANT to be in there. If he does something you don't want him to do, give a firm, low, drawn out "Noooo!" and turn away. Ignore him until he's calm & then give him calm praise. If he won't stop, put him in another room & walk out. Leave him there for 1 minute & go back as long as he's quiet. He'll soon catch on.

Hi and welcome to the forum congrats on ur puppy

Hello wendy your making me so envious a new puppy!!!!!

and welcome to the forum

Hello and welcome to the forum

thanks to everyone for the warm welcome, Casper is booked in for 6 sessions of puppy training starting 13th Yipeeee I will update you to how he gets on cant wait getting all excited now lol.....

wendy i hope you get a trainer that knows what staffys are like, the one i had was saddly deluded and she had preconseption of staffys being prone to puppy aggresion, and not the easyest to train, but by the end she was proved 200%wrong, and she admitted it

well we had a good chat on the phone she seemed to no her stuff she but time will tell, she said that Casper will be nipping prob till he is about 6mths but as the previous reply she told me to put him in a naughty corner for a few min and he will learn (when i said 6mths i ment might forget a couple of times) she has about 6 puppies on the training not sure what breed they will be

nipping at 6 months i dont think so memphis is 4.5 months old he was trained from 7 weeks and he never nipped once in the last6-7 weeks.
and hopfully you not in a class of westies and chiwowowo s

well i hope casper will be the same......westies and chiwowowo ??? tell me more

there the most highly strung and snappy things but there owners put it down to being scared that there is a more dominant dog present in the room and they are just using self defence