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Teething time

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Question
My boxer is 7 weeks old and i bought it. So she has no mother or father or sisters to play with. Now the problem i am facing are that she shouts a lot at night (i keep her in my bathroom and kept alone). the other problem is that she tends to bite a lot probably cuz she is teething. Please give me your advise how to tackle with these issues....

Answer
Omer, you never owned a Boxer before, have you?

You can not shut her up in the bathroom alone. For God's sake, she is still practically a newborn, and shouldn't be wheened yet.

What and how are you feeding this young baby?

This baby is used to being with her mother and siblings. Not alone.

You can not change all that she's ever known. She is too young. She should be sleeping inside a comfortable crate with comfortable blankets or padding and in your bedroom so she isn't alone.

Either treat her like the newborn baby she is, as no different than your own children, or give her to a Boxer-savvy family that will.

You don't know enough about the Boxer breed to raise her properly, so educate yourself. Join BoxerWorld.com and BoxerForums.com (free) and read everything there is to read, and ask them questions in the forum.

She is a newborn and not to be left alone. Period. Don't treat her this way. You wouldn't your own child.