GreenEnvy22
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Hi all,
In early May we adopted a 8 week old puppy, sold to us as a cockapoo. She is now just past 16 weeks, and a little over 9 lbs, her name is Kira. She's been great so far.
We're just not sure she is actually a cockapoo. I know they can vary a lot in how much of the traits they get from each parent, so it's possible she just got almost all the cocker spaniel looks, but right now she just looks like a cocker spaniel to me.
We don't care much except we wanted a cockapoo to reduce the chances of allergies for my Wife, who is allergic to most cats and some dogs. So far no problems with allergies, and she does seem to shed very little.
I built an outdoor doggy-john for her, an 8x4 foot gravel area to do her business. It's plumbed underneath so we can just rinse it out from time to time to get rid of urine. She uses that pretty well, though still goes in the grass once in a while. She also still will pee inside the house once every few days, it doesn't seem to be that she urgently needs to go and we miss it, she just will walk into a room even when we're in it, and pee. We're trying to work on this by rewarding her when she does go outside, which is almost always. We have no carpets so it's easy cleanup at least.
She sleeps through the night fine in her crate, sometimes upto 10 hours, with no accidents. We usually put her in around 8pm, take her pee at 10pm, then she sleeps until we get up around 6:30am. On occasion she's gone right from 8pm to 6:30am the next day.
She's starting to like walks but is still nervous sometimes and will just park her butt and not move. If the whole family is along though we never have that issue. She's also nervous around most other dogs. It's funny to watch because you can see she wants to play with them but every time they move or bark she gets worried and runs away.
She loves people, when on walks she pulls me towards every person she sees. She usually pees (submissive urination) when she meets a new person.
She loves our cat, always wanting to lick her and climb on her. The cat is fine with the dog except when the dog gets in her face which is pretty often. She'll give the dog a whack or two to get her to back off. When the dog is calm they'll happily lay beside each other.
She loves the kids too. She's always happy to see them and loves playing with them. She does chase them and bite their clothes sometimes, mostly our 6 year old. We've told them this is because they are jumping and running around and she thinks they want to play. So we're trying to get the kids to be more calm around her and tell her "NO" when she does that. She doesn't do it to my wife or I.
Photos attached are a bit old but she still looks mostly the same.
No matter which breed she ends up being, we'll love her.
In early May we adopted a 8 week old puppy, sold to us as a cockapoo. She is now just past 16 weeks, and a little over 9 lbs, her name is Kira. She's been great so far.
We're just not sure she is actually a cockapoo. I know they can vary a lot in how much of the traits they get from each parent, so it's possible she just got almost all the cocker spaniel looks, but right now she just looks like a cocker spaniel to me.
We don't care much except we wanted a cockapoo to reduce the chances of allergies for my Wife, who is allergic to most cats and some dogs. So far no problems with allergies, and she does seem to shed very little.
I built an outdoor doggy-john for her, an 8x4 foot gravel area to do her business. It's plumbed underneath so we can just rinse it out from time to time to get rid of urine. She uses that pretty well, though still goes in the grass once in a while. She also still will pee inside the house once every few days, it doesn't seem to be that she urgently needs to go and we miss it, she just will walk into a room even when we're in it, and pee. We're trying to work on this by rewarding her when she does go outside, which is almost always. We have no carpets so it's easy cleanup at least.
She sleeps through the night fine in her crate, sometimes upto 10 hours, with no accidents. We usually put her in around 8pm, take her pee at 10pm, then she sleeps until we get up around 6:30am. On occasion she's gone right from 8pm to 6:30am the next day.
She's starting to like walks but is still nervous sometimes and will just park her butt and not move. If the whole family is along though we never have that issue. She's also nervous around most other dogs. It's funny to watch because you can see she wants to play with them but every time they move or bark she gets worried and runs away.
She loves people, when on walks she pulls me towards every person she sees. She usually pees (submissive urination) when she meets a new person.
She loves our cat, always wanting to lick her and climb on her. The cat is fine with the dog except when the dog gets in her face which is pretty often. She'll give the dog a whack or two to get her to back off. When the dog is calm they'll happily lay beside each other.
She loves the kids too. She's always happy to see them and loves playing with them. She does chase them and bite their clothes sometimes, mostly our 6 year old. We've told them this is because they are jumping and running around and she thinks they want to play. So we're trying to get the kids to be more calm around her and tell her "NO" when she does that. She doesn't do it to my wife or I.
Photos attached are a bit old but she still looks mostly the same.
No matter which breed she ends up being, we'll love her.
It's good to hear there are other cockapoos who look just like ours 
