Potty Training Puppies Info

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1. 1 aperson
   2009 Nov 24

   I was a first-time owner too, in the past couple years.

   Never had any pets before.

   You have to take the dog out after they wake up, after they eat, after they drink, after they play, and just in general every few hours (probably hour per month, like every 2 hours for a 2 month old, every 4 hours for a 4 month old, etc).

   Stay out there ’till they do something (unless it’s more than 15 min or something, then come back in and be ready to go back out). When they do, reward them and instead of ‘good boy’ say some word that you’ll want to use when you want to make them potty.

   Use a product like nature’s miracle where any accidents occur.

   I trained my dog to ring a bell when he needs to go. I rang it for him for like two weeks, and just when I thought it wasn’t working, he started to do it himself!

   Also, when I caught him having an accident, I picked him up, said ‘outside’ and took him out to finish.

   I see somebody doesn’t like my suggestions, but they worked for me.
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   i agree with the ppl below, but as I said, be careful how you praise. Supposedly some ppl who say ‘good boy’ have had their dog think that’s the signal to go potty!

   Definitely be happy and treat. I used little cheese/egg disc-shaped biscuits from petsmart.

   LOL!

   we do the potty-before-walk thing, too

2. 2 Jennifer B
   2009 Nov 25

   first buy a crate …positive crate training is wonderful. and it takes consistancy.

   second - feed your puppy three times a day and make the last feeding around 6pm… this gives you time to take your puppy out before you go to bed.

   third - at her age she should be taken out 20 minutes after eating. She should recieve tons of praise for going the bathroom outside.
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3. 3 ♥ ~Animal Whisperer~♫
   2009 Nov 25

   Okay heres some helpful tips.
   1. Its important not to scold the dog when potty training.

   2. Give him tons of praise when they succeed, the more praise the better!

   3. Get the Idiot’s Guide To Puppy Training
   Once again not insulting you, it has everything there is to know and learn about potty training and then some. It’ll help you learn about diseases, grooming, barking, and training. Once again I’m not calling you an Idiot.
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   For more info. you can contact me
   puppylover6072@sbcglobal.net

4. 4 KimbeeJ
   2009 Nov 25

   From Dr. Ian Dunbar (get his book After You Get Your Puppy)

   HOUSETRAINING
   Housesoiling is a spatial problem. Your puppydog has been allowed to eliminate in the wrong place. Housesoiling quickly becomes a bad habit because dogs develop strong location, substrate, and olfactory preferences for their improvised indoor toilet areas. To housetrain your puppydog: first, prevent any more mistakes; and second, teach your puppydog where you would like him to eliminate.

   Prevent Mistakes
   Mistakes are a disaster since they set a bad precedent and create bad habits, which can be hard to break. Consequently, you must prevent mistakes at all cost. Whenever you are not at home, leave your dog in a long-term confinement area, such as a single room indoors with easy-to-clean floors (bathroom, kitchen, or utility room)—this will be your puppydog’s playroom.

   Provide your dog with fresh water, a number of stuffed chewtoys for entertainment, a comfortable bed in one corner, and a doggy toilet in the corner diagonally opposite from his bed. Your dog will naturally want to eliminate as far as possible from his bed, and so will soon develop the good habit of using his toilet. Good habits are just as hard to break as bad habits.

   For a doggy toilet, use sheets of newspaper sprinkled with soil, or a litter box filled with a roll of turf, or a concrete paving slab. Thus your dog will develop olfactory and substrate preferences for eliminating on soil, grass, or concrete.
   The purpose of long-term confinement is to confine your dog’s natural behaviors (including urinating and defecating) to an area that is protected (thus preventing any mistakes around the house when you are not there), and to help your dog quickly develop a strong preference for eliminating on soil, grass, or concrete.

   Teach Your Dog to Eliminate in the Right Place
   When you are at home, confine your dog to a short-term confinement area with a number of stuffed chewtoys for entertainment. A portable dog crate makes an ideal doggy den. Alternatively, keep your dog on a short leash fastened to an eye-hook in the base board near her bed, or attach the leash to your belt. This way your dog may settle down beside you while you read, work at the computer, or watch television.

   Every hour on the hour, say "Let’s go pee and poop" (or some other appropriate toilet instruction), and hurry your dog (on leash) to her toilet (in your yard, or at curbside outside the front door of your house or apartment building). Stand still with your dog on leash and repeat the instruction to eliminate. Give your dog three minutes to empty herself.
   When your dog eliminates, praise her enthusiastically and offer three freeze-dried liver treats. Most puppies will urinate within two minutes on each trip to a toilet area, and defecate within three minutes on every other trip. Once your dog realizes that she can cash in her urine and feces for tasty treats, she will want to eliminate in her toilet area. Soiling the house just does not have comparable fringe benefits. Moreover, after a dozen or so repetitions, you will have taught your dog to eliminate on command.

   If your dog does not eliminate during the allotted three-minute toilet break, put her back inside her crate for another hour.

   The purpose of short-term close confinement is to prevent any mistakes around the house when you are home (but cannot devote undivided attention to your dog) and to predict when your dog needs to eliminate. Temporarily (for no more than an hour at a time) confining a puppydog to a small space (e.g., a dog crate) inhibits elimination, since the dog does not want to soil her sleeping area. Consequently, your dog will want to go immediately upon release from confinement—especially since hurrying to the toilet area will jiggle her bladder and bowels. Since you choose when to release your dog, you may choose when your puppy eliminates, and since you can predict when your dog needs to eliminate, you may be there to show her where to go, to reward your dog for going, and to inspect and immediately clean up after your dog.

   Never confine a puppy or an unhousetrained adult dog to a crate for longer than an hour. A dog confined too long will be forced to soil her crate, making her extremely difficult to housetrain.

   Once your pup is old enough to go on walks, make sure she eliminates (in the yard, or in front of your house) before each walk. If your dog does not go within three minutes, put her back in her crate and try again an hour later. However, if your dog does go, praise and reward her as usual and then say “Let’s go for a walk.” With a no-feces/no-walk policy, you will soon have a very a speedy defecator. Moreover, elimination close to home facilitates clean-up and disposal; you will not have to stroll the neighborhood weighed down with a bag of doggie doo.

   If you require a more detailed description of housetraining, read our Housetraining booklet and BEFORE You Get Your Puppy and watch the Training The Companion Dog Video II: Behavior Problems & Household Etiquette. To housetrain your dog, you need a dog crate, a number of chewtoys, and some freeze-dried liver treats.
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   CVT

5. 5 QT PIE
   2009 Nov 25

   Use "wee-wee" pads on the floor. Every time she potties outdoors, say "Good potty!" laugh, clap, do whatever. Walk after they eat or play heavily, and RIGHT after puppies wake up, take them outside or they will have to use the indoor "throne".
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6. 6 dug c
   2009 Nov 25

   hey mate congrats on ya new best friend

   Dogs r like Babbie’s OK they DON"T no right from wrong but us as humans do so u need to teach him OK,

   my suggestion is that u fence of an area in the backyard near a tree so he doesn’t wreck ya hole lawn lol take him to that spot EVERY time he WAKES UP EATS DRINKS PLAYS GO FOR WALK and every 2 to 3 hours or so take him there DON"T let him out until he goes unless he has been their for more than 10 Min’s take him out and then try again 5 Min’s later when he goes give him LOTS OF PRAISE saying good boy make sure when u take him there give him the command TOILET!!! so he knows why he is there if u catch him in side DON"T PUNISH THE DOG by rubbing his nose in it he DOSEN"T no any better, what u should do is make a loud noise to startle the dog pick him up take him outside to the spot and say TOILET!!! then when he goes LOTS OF PRAISE Hope this helps any probs email me dug_campbell@yahoo.com.au

   REMEMBER there r 3P’S to successful dog training PATIENCE PERSISTENCE AND OF COURSE LOTS OF PRAISE

   good luck

   Cheer’s duggie

   dog trainer and lover
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7. 7 trina j
   2009 Nov 25

   Ok. First the way you train a dog is to catch him in the act, however, don’t yell at them. Because freaking out and yelling at your dog when he does something bad just tells him not to do that in front of you. So he’ll go some where else where you can’t see him and do the same thing. So yelling is a no no. Now, if he is doing something he is not supposed to do you make a "ah ah" sound to let him no not to. (and if u do it suddenly it catches them off guard and scares them a little bit so they know not to do it anymore) The reason you make the "ah ah" sound is because it is the closest sound we can make as humans that a mother dogs makes to her puppies when she doesn’t want them to do something. Now it won’t work unless you are consistant. That is key with dogs. So don’t make the noise one day then scream the next, you’ll get your dog confused. Another thing is u should try finding a crate or cage that is big enough for your dog to put him in so he’ll have a place to go while you’re away. Leaving him out and letting him have free rein of the house is a HUGE problem because he’ll soon think that he is alpha male and not you. Many people think that it is cruel to leave dogs in a cage for long periods of time but it’s not. See you have to relate everything to the wild which is the dogs original habitat. The mother will leave her pups in their den for up to 23 hours while she is out hunting. F.Y.I. when we think of den, we think of a huge cave. That is not a den, a den is actually only a small hole made and covered to protect the pups. So to get your dog use to the cage every once in a while let him stay in the cage for a nap or some for 2-3 hours, and as time goes on gradually extend the time he is in his cage. I did this with my dogs when they began to tear things up and now they can stay in the cage up to 10 hours! So I hope I’ve helped. OH YEAH and don’t forget to be consistant!
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8. 8 lilprinces7869
   2009 Nov 25

   congrats on the new puppy!! What you need to do is get a crate for her and work on crate training her. If nobody can keep a constant eye on her she needs to go in her crate. Also a neat trick I have learned is if you take a leash and tie it to her and you both so she goes where you go then this will make training her much easier. IF you have evidence of an accident dont be afraid to let her know that it is bad to go in the house and show her the evidence but DO NOT let her watch you clean it up!!! It can become a game to her. Royal canin is a good food to feed, and twice daily is good also. yes the timing is good as long as you do not catch her going before you get her outside. when she does go out side praise her and let her know that you are very happy she went outside. Good Luck
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   vet tech 3 years

9. 9 Lauren
   2009 Nov 25

   Remember: dogs are not born knowing they go potty outside, not on your rug.
   Crate train and when she is not in her crate watch her every second. Dogs go through a routine before they eliminate, some sniff, some circle… when you see that pick her up and run outside and say hurry up (whatever you want the cue to be). If she goes outside, praise her ton. Not just a "good dog", throw a party, run around in circles, give her a piece of cooked hotdog.
   Obviously you must take her outside often, I would say every hour, but dogs must go after they eat, sleep, and exercise. Take her out, say hurry up, when she goes praise and go inside.
   If you take your eyes off of her and she goes and you don’t see her doing it, that is your fault, do not punish her because she will not know why she is in trouble. If you catch her in the act, make a loud noise to stop her and rush her outside. Praise her after she goes. Don’t smack her if she pees in the house, she may just try to hold it forever and develop bladder problems, something you really don’t want, or she’ll just hide to go next time. Don’t correct after the fact. If the dog is corrected after the fact, it will not connect the correction with the behavior, and will begin to think that corrections are random, and that the owner cannot be trusted. This results in a bad relationship and a dog that does not connect corrections, which are believed random, with bad behaviors even when they are applied in time. When she does have an accident, be sure to clean it up with nature’s miracle or something made specifically for urine stains or she will go back to that spot to eliminate again.
   I cannot tell you how helpful a crate has been in housebreaking my puppy. He has never had an accident in his crate and when I get him out of his crate we go directly outside (I carry him) and he pees.
   I do not recommend pee pads or paper training. When you use pee pads, you are teaching your dog to go potty in your house. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want my dog peeing anywhere in my house, pee pad or no pee pad.
   http://www.leerburg.com/housebrk.htm - don’t buy the video- read the article below the video
   This works, I promise. My dog only had 3 accidents in the house, all my fault, using this method.
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10. 10 mtpkt74
    2009 Nov 25

    Hi, Purina.com has a lot of useful tips online for different types of dog training.. Being a breeder myself i give out puppy packs from purina which has a book in there to help potty train your new puppy.. but here are a few links that might help
    http://purina.com/dogs/behavior/Housetraining.aspx
    http://purina.com/dogs/behavior/BasicCommands.aspx
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11. 11 Shepherdgirl
    2009 Nov 25

    A puppy is like a baby. He will relieve himself anywhere, anytime. Because a newly adopted adult dog is unfamiliar with your home, he may not understand where he should "go"! Housetraining, or teaching your dog to go outside to relieve himself, is an important lesson your dog must learn.
    It is up to you, the new parent, to housetrain your new puppy or dog with patience, love and understanding.
    CRATE TRAINING
    In the wild, wolves live in a den or cave. It is important the entire wolf pack keep this area clean. The same idea works with your family pet. Your dog’s crate is his home, his bedroom. It is likely that your dog will not like to soil his bed. Therefore, he will wait until he is let out to do his business.
    HOUSETRAINING WITH YOUR CRATE
    On average, puppies can hold their bladders one hour for every month they have been alive, plus one hour. For example, if you have a three month old puppy, he can wait 3 + 1 = 4 hours. If you work longer than this, the best solution is to have someone (a neighbour, a relative, a dog walker) come in at an appropriate time to let your dog out.

    100 PER CENT SUPERVISION
    Supervision is the key to housetraining! While you are at home, your dog must be supervised. Whether you are watching television, making dinner, on the phone or on the computer, your puppy must be watched. While it sounds like an impossible task, it isn’t. Keeping the crate in a social part of the house makes it easier. Using a house lead – a small, thin lead with a little clip on it – also helps immensely. Outside, you put a lead on your dog so you can control him. If the lead is removed after returning home, control is lost. For example, when watching television, have the lead tied to a couch leg. Your dog can have his blanket and toys with him. He’ll feel safe and comfortable. The majority of accidents happen when your pup wanders off and you haven’t noticed. You don’t want him to sneak off into the kitchen and find a puddle a short time later. If your pup is kept from wandering, the possibility of an accident is diminished because he will not eliminate where he is sitting. 100 per cent supervision means ensuring your dog is playing with you, in his crate, outside or on his house lead.

    SCHEDULING
    In the morning, take your dog outside. He should urinate and possibly have a bowel movement. Spend about five to seven minutes with him and then bring him in. Do not play with him yet. Feed him breakfast, either in the crate or with the lead, and supervise it. If your pup did not have a bowel movement earlier, take him back outside about 15 minutes after he has eaten. Use the lead to keep your pup moving along while outside. Otherwise, he may start sniffing, stopping and playing to avoid the job at hand. You can say “hurry up” and your dog will begin to associate these words with the task at hand. Praise him excessively when he has eliminated. Bring him back in the house and place him in his crate if you are going to work. Continue to supervise him with the crate or the lead if you are home. When returning after being out, go directly to the crate, let him out, praise him and put him back in. Feed him his meal, take him outside 15 minutes after he has eaten, praise him after he eliminates, and bring him back in. Continue to follow the same steps consistently.

    While you are home, you should take your pup outside on a regular basis. Even if your pup is in a crate or on a house lead, he still needs the opportunity to eliminate. Also, be careful what you wish for! A pup who barks to go outside may be cute and clever now. However, you must try not to fall into the habit of leaping up every time your dog wants in or out. It is a very submissive gesture on your part. Have your pup wait a moment or two.

    Setting up a schedule is also a good idea. If your pup is under four months of age, take him out for five minutes every hour on the hour. If your pup is over four months old, take him out every second hour on the hour. The schedule will help you remember when to take him out. Go out for five minutes only. It provides the opportunity to eliminate even if your pup may not need to go. Take your dog out after active play and also after napping. If an accident occurs, you may have forgotten to take him out .

    FEEDING TIME
    Having a puppy drink a lot of water and then placing him in his crate is much more unkind than letting him be a bit thirsty for an hour or two. Adult dogs should have access to drinking water at all times. However, this is not the case for untrained pups. Most parents will not allow their children to drink a big glass of water before going to bed. Avoid setting your pup up for failure. Restrict his water intake to three or four drinks daily and make sure you remove the water dish about three hours before bedtime. This will help your dog sleep more comfortably.

    If it is a hot evening, supply your pup with a few ice cubes. They will enter your dog’s system at a slower pace. When feeding your pup, provide a high-quality food that is a good source of protein. The food must be concentrated so your puppy’s body doesn’t require much of it. If you feed less, your puppy eliminates less. Food is directly related to how well puppies do in their housetraining.

    EXERCISE
    It is important that your pup gets a lot of exercise, especially while crate training. You can play fetch, chase or hide and seek in your home. You can call ‘come’ at the same time to provide further training. Anyway you do it, your pup needs to be able to run and play.
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12. 12 H.O.T. Dog
    2009 Nov 25

    Lets just KISS this one kiddo
    Keep It Simple Sweetie

    Take your puppy outside upon
    waking up
    eating
    drinking water
    playing for 10-15 mins
    and especially right before you go to bed.

    Keep an eye on your puppy and you will soon recognize the *what* that she does right before she goes potty.

    When you take your puppy outside stay with her and say your potty word.. I say *hurry up*… once your puppy *goes* bring her back into the house and be very happy and excited and give her a treat…

    She will learn to go fast so she can come inside to get a treat…

    Good Luck
    H.O.T. Dog
    Handler Owner Trainer of GSD’s
    Member U.S.A- MSSV - A.W.D.F
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