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Location: Bolton
Joined: Feb 2006
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I got litter siblings when my old girl died as I was picking a new puppy up the following week, and I came home with a +1. It is a whole new, steep, learning curve. I learnt a lot, but wouldn't want to go through it again.
Your puppy is crying because she is scared, she has been with her litter siblings all her life, probably not had a wonderful start in that life either, if she is in a shelter at 10 weeks old. All of a sudden she is in a strange place with someone she has never met before and has no idea what is going to happen next. If someone picked you up and put you in the middle of China, say. Where you knew no one, couldn't speak the language and had no control over all this, you too would cling like velcro to the one thing you did know, i.e. you.
I puppy pad/paper train all my puppies, they learn very quickly, I start when I wean at 3 weeks, as soon as they start to go, I lift them up onto the pad, and praise when they make the required deposit. They go out to play (subject to weather) at about 4 weeks onwards, and they go outside, when they come in they use the pads and they latch onto to what is required pretty quickly. Once you have her going on the pad, move it nearer to the door, and also make sure she goes out when she wakes up or after eating. If you see her running round in circles, sniffing, take her out straight away.
You have to be really on the ball, and relaxed about all this.
I would stick with the one puppy or now and once she is over one year old, then is a good time to bring her a playmate. Take her to training classes once she has had her first vax and work on her until you are confident.