Potty Training Puppies Info

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1. 1 Texas Rottie
   2009 Dec 02

   House Training
   House training your dog is simple if you follow a few basic rules. Remember that puppies younger than 10 to 12 weeks have little control. Accidents will always happen when teaching puppies to be clean in the house. Be kind and patient, and reward handsomely all outdoor elimination. Always remember that dogs do what works for them. Make outdoor pottying work really well for your puppy.
   1) The puppy must have NO time unsupervised in your home. NONE. If you are not directly watching the puppy, it should be in the crate, or outside in a safe area. You MUST watch the puppy at ALL times when loose in the house. Use baby gates, crates, or tie the leash to your belt.
   2) The puppy should sleep inside the crate by your bedside. This way you can hear if the puppy should happen to need to go out during the night.
   3) You must go WITH the puppy outside for ALL trips for elimination. You must have treats with you. When the puppy is urinating, say "GO PEE PEE" in a nice praise tone of voice the entire time. When she is finished, pop the treat into her mouth at once, and praise praise praise. This should be something she gets at no other time, like tiny pieces of string cheese or boiled chicken. Same for defecation. Say "GO POOP" while she is going, and food reward and praise afterwards. You must observe and reward ALL outdoor potty time.
   4) Keep a schedule. Feed at the same time, and walk outside at the same times. Your pup needs at least 4 trips outdoors each day, and 5 is probably better. Pup needs to go out at wake up time, lunch time, 4-5 PM, after dinner or any other meals, and before bed. Younger puppies may need to go out much more often.
   5) Use a key word each time you go out. I say "Let’s go out!!" in a happy tone of voice each time I’m opening the door to go out with the dog.
   6) If you catch the puppy IN THE ACT of eliminating in your house, CLAP YOUR HANDS, say AH AH, OUTSIDE!! And immediately rush her outside. If she finishes there, do your usual food reward and praise.
   The keys to getting your dog reliably housetrained are:
   SUPERVISION: NO loose time in the house if you are not watching
   REWARDS: ALL outdoor elimination MUST be observed and rewarded. If you only do this ONE thing, your puppy will get housetrained.
   PATIENCE: Anger and punishment have no place in dog training. Elimination is a natural and pleasurable experience for your dog. You can teach her to not soil your house, but punishment will NOT help. It will only teach the dog to hide when she needs to eliminate.
   If you have applied these techniques carefully for 4 weeks and you are still finding spots or piles after the fact, it’s time for stronger measures. Roll up a newspaper and fasten both ends with a rubber band. Keep it handy. The very next time you find a spot of a pile that the dog has left behind, whip out that newspaper, and hit YOURSELF over the head firmly several times as you repeat "I FORGOT TO WATCH MY PUPPY".
   Works every time.
   
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2. 2 Brandon
   2009 Dec 02

   New puppies cannot be housetrained until they are much older.

   Immediately get an appointment with somebody who knows how to raise a puppy so you can catch up on all the things you should have known before you got the puppy.

   Seriously - you have a lot to learn and not a lot of time to do it.
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3. 3 ChiLady
   2009 Dec 02

   Puppies have to be taught when and where to go to the bathroom.
   Please crate train him or your rugs and furniture will be ruined.
   A puppy sleeps up to 20 hours a day. Keep him in the crate and let him out every 2 hours. Buy piddle pads and have them set up for the dog to pee, immediately when he wakes up–and immediately after he eats/drinks.
   Keep the crate in the kitchen, with no rugs, and get a baby gate. So when you let him out of the crate, he stays in the kitchen.
   he is like a new little infant baby who will pee and poop anytime–they have no control over it!
   having a crate actually teaches the puppy ‘not’ to pee and poop inside the crate. Pups won’t ‘go’ in the place where they sleep.
   Crate training takes ALOT of patience and constant watching the puppy.
   They eat 4 or more times a day and will also pee/poop that many times.
   Google "crate training" and read, read, read how to do it.
   best wishes
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4. 4 Amore
   2009 Dec 02

   Well, first off you can’t expect it to be perfect the first day. Potty training usually takes a while. Here’s what I’ve always done:
   Don’t use newspaper or training pads, this still teaches the dog that going inside is ok.
   Get a consistent schedule.
   After it eats, take it outside.
   After playing, take it outside.
   After a nap take it outside.
   Don’t feed it after 5pm and take water away a few hours before bed.
   Depending on the age you will have to get up throughout the night to take it out.
   Rule of thumb, 1 hour for each month (3 months can hold it up to 3 hours) this, of course, varies
   Before you know it though the pup will being to realize that it goes outside not inside.
   Do not expect it to be perfect though, accept accidents and correct it only if you catch it in the act by making a loud noise to startle it and make it stop and running it outside.
   Finally, buy yourself an enzyme cleaner from a pet store and use it every time the pup soils in the house, this will get rid of the scent so it doesn’t keep going back
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5. 5 Sonia L
   2009 Dec 02

   take them out every 10 min and wen tey go to the bathroom praise them
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6. 6 Holiday Cookie
   2009 Dec 02

   Well that guy is wrong you can train them when they are little puppies.
   I would buy some ‘pee pee’ pads the absorb every thing put them all around the house and when you start to see her pee or poo move her quickly to the pad and she will relize that that is where she needs to go potty.
   hope I helped!
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   my own dog

7. 7 dave n
   2009 Dec 02

   If its that young, its muscles will not have developed enough for any sort of control, this is normal. persevere, keep a continual eye on them and restrict them from anywhere you don’t want messed up.
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   http://www.germanshepherdpuppytraining.net