Sarah Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 What To Expect When House Training Unless you can monitor your puppy 24 hours a day, don't expect the house training process to be completed until your puppy is at least 6 months old. It's normal for a young puppy to be a little 'input-output' machine. Since puppies are growing and developing rapidly at this stage, they eat more food, burn up more energy and seem to need to eliminate constantly! They also have not yet developed bowel and bladder control, so they can't 'hold it' as long as adult dogs. House Training When You Are NOT Home Confine your puppy to a small, 'puppy-proofed' room and paper the entire floor. Put his bed, toys and food/water bowls there. At first there will be no rhyme or reason to where your pup eliminates. He will go every where and any where. He will also probably play with the papers, chew on them, and drag them around his little den. Most puppies do this and you just have to live with it. Don't get upset; just accept it as life with a young puppy. The important thing is that when you get home, clean up the mess and lay down fresh papers. Passive House Training or Paper Training While your puppy is confined, he is developing a habit of eliminating on paper because no matter where he goes, it will be on paper. As time goes on, he will start to show a preferred place to do his business. When this place is well established and the rest of the papers remain clean all day, then gradually reduce the area that is papered. Start removing the paper that is furthest away from his chosen location. Eventually you will only need to leave a few sheets down in that area only. If he ever misses the paper, then you've reduced the area too soon. Go back to papering a larger area or even the entire room. Once your puppy is reliably going only on the papers you've left, then you can slowly and gradually move his papers to a location of your choice. Move the papers only an inch a day. If puppy misses the paper again, then you're moving too fast. Go back a few steps and start over. Don't be discouraged if your puppy seems to be making remarkable progress and then suddenly you have to return to papering the entire room. This is normal. There will always be minor set-backs. If you stick with this procedure, your puppy will be paper trained. House Training When You ARE Home When you are home but can't attend to your puppy, follow the same procedures described above. However, the more time you spend with your puppy, the quicker he will be house trained. Your objective is to take your puppy to his toilet area every time he needs to eliminate. This should be about once every 45 minutes; just after a play session; just after eating or drinking; and just upon waking. When he does eliminate in his toilet area, praise and reward him profusely and enthusiastically! Don't use any type of reprimand or punishment for mistakes or accidents. Your puppy is too young to understand and it can set the house training process back drastically. Don't allow your puppy freedom outside of his room unless you know absolutely for sure that his bladder and bowels are completely empty. When you do let him out, don't let him out of your sight. It is a good idea to have him on leash when he is exploring your home. He can't get into trouble if you are attached to the other end of the leash. Every 30 minutes return your pup to his toilet area. As your puppy becomes more reliable about using his toilet area and his bowel and bladder control develops, he can begin to spend more time outside his room with you in the rest of your home. Begin by giving him access to one room at a time. Let him eat, sleep and play in this room but only when he can be supervised. When you cannot supervise him, put him back in his room. Active House Training The most important thing you can do to make house training happen as quickly as possible is to reward and praise your puppy every time he goes in the right place. The more times he is rewarded, the quicker he will learn. Therefore it's important that you spend as much time as possible with your pup and give him regular and frequent access to his toilet area. The Key to Successful House Training Consistency and Patience. Never scold or punish your puppy for mistakes and accidents. The older your pup gets, the more he will be able to control his bladder and bowels. Eventually your pup will have enough control that he will be able to "hold it" for longer and longer periods of time. Let your puppy do this on his own time. When training is rushed, problems usually develop. Don't forget, most puppies are not reliably house trained until they are at least 6 months old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PawPrints Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 if all else fails - buy nappies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunc Posted October 29, 2008 Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 Thats a shit post sorry lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted October 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 Thats a shit post sorry lol might have known Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 This is how they chould be toilet trained Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted October 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 i wish Kimba would do that....would save me a job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dog walker Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 quality!!!......:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunc Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 Yeah gotta see if I can get mine to do that as well its a crap job and I hate it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siberianandy Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 great post sarah was just bout to put a question up bout this but then found this. suka was actually going on his paper after a day of bringing him home and he will go outside when he does go in his den its always the same place with or without paper down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted March 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 always in the same place??? you are SO lucky! lol Kimba and Kaiser start in one spot and then move around the garden! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 gd post this is an example which could be implemented in my idea thread (for the attention of the management) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siberianandy Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 always in the same place??? you are SO lucky! lol Kimba and Kaiser start in one spot and then move around the garden! lol he will go in the same spot indoors but in the garden he tends to go where ever he stops running Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bec Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 I don't use paper to toilet train - I see it as an unnecessary step if you then want to train them to toilet outside. I teach my pups from the get go to toilet outside, that way you don't have to train them twice (once to toilet on the paper and then secondly to toilet outside). Yes this involves getting up in the middle of the night to let them out of their crates when they cry so they can toilet for the first couple of weeks until they can hold it through the night, but it is worth it in the long run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siberianandy Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 i didn't paper train him he just did it him self Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bec Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 Micha was paper trained at his breeders - but I personally prefer leaving no paper around and just encouraging them to toilet outside, I don't want them to think it is ok to toilet in the house even if it is on paper only. I have tried both ways but found training them to toilet outside from day one easiest in the long run. Leaving no paper down inside means you get a couple of accidents, but I found they had accidents when I left paper down anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siberianandy Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 to true i do encouragehim to go outside an d he will Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakersmama Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 I've done the same as smeagle with all the dogs I've had... I've read that huskies are hard to house train, but sneakers is doing quite well already. Of course, I can share taking out at night duty with the hubby who stays up until 3 a.m. playing video games. And we have wood floors in all the downstairs so I'm not having to scrub carpet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bec Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 I've done the same as smeagle with all the dogs I've had... I've read that huskies are hard to house train, but sneakers is doing quite well already. Of course, I can share taking out at night duty with the hubby who stays up until 3 a.m. playing video games. And we have wood floors in all the downstairs so I'm not having to scrub carpet. Yep we have wood floors too! To be honest I found Micha really easy to house train, although it was a while ago Daisy was a nightmare, being a scent hound she would have her nose to the ground all the time and it was really hard to tell when she needed to toilet or if she was just sniffing for the sake of sniffing. She's a good girl now though! I'm on a beagle forum and the number of adolescent and adult dogs that owners are still having toilet training problems with is quite large! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakersmama Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 We had a beagle when I was a kid, but my mom handled the toilet training so I don't know what works for him. He was a sweet dog, though. Yep, Sneakers has been fairly easy too. For some reason he's always tried to run off into the other room when he needs to potty, so when he starts running off we send him out. Just this week he's going more toward "asking" to go out - he'll start nudging me, THEN run off. But, the second I open the door he's back and goes right out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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