pup

[condor66]

any tips for toilet training new pup?

[beveridge111]

Newspaper on the floor moving a little nearer the outside door each time

[fredpuli47]

Always put the pup outside immediately after it wakes up and after it has eaten. Wait until it excretes (it won't take long for that to happen, which is why you have to be quick putting it out !), praise and return. Young pups are not good at controlling when they excrete but doing this gives them the idea of where and when. Don't, whatever you do, scold it for 'accidents' at any age. That just puzzles the dog and can make any problem worse. If the dog ever made the association between excreting somewhere and punishment it would think it was being punished for excreting, not for excreting in the wrong place.

[paddywak]

I agree whole heartedly with both the previous posters, worked perfectly with Max, the only problem was that when I started taking him out at 12wks he wouldn't do anything till he got home then he would rush to "his" toilet. It took him nearly a week before he realised he wasn't being naughty doing his poos on his walkies

[lankeela]

Get up early and go out and stay out until pup has done his business. If he has done it before you get up then get up earlier the next day. My pup is now almost seven months and this morning at 8 am when he asked to go out I realised why I had been out there at 5.30 am a few months ago - it made life much easier toilet training him and he has now learnt to wait to be let out. Don't expect too much too soon, and remember, every 'mistake' he makes is your mistake for not getting him outside quick enough, after every meal, every sleep, every play (try to work out how long he plays before he squats!) and first thing every morning as well as last thing at night. The weather does not come into it, rain, hail, snow, no matter, just keep your wellies handy by the door.

[woofgang]

to add to lankeela's excellent advice, if he wakes and cries in the night....take him outside, stay with him till he goes, take him back in and settle him.

[carmalee]

all previous advice spot on - would just add that a very useful thing I do is to teach dogs to pee and/or poo on command. Each time you take pup out just, before he or she squats, quietly say 'be clean' or whatever you want to say - can be dustbin for all it matters but just be very, very consistant with the word and tone - he/she will associate this command with the praise you give when dog has peed/pooed . In time you will be able to take the dog out, say 'be clean' and the dog will respond. Very useful on car journeys and times when it's not always possible to hang around waiting for dog to decide when and where. Don't use it though in place of a proper walk.

[divegirl]

Just to add....never put paper down in the house. It makes the pup think that it is ok to do it's business inside the house. Just take the pup out lots [after eating,after sleeping,after playing and then some].
The best advice you've been given is never to scold the pup for going inside the house, it'll get you nowhere but backwards....fast.

Good luck with your new baby, what is it?

Lisa x

[woofgang]

yup carmalee forgot the on command bit, really really useful..our dogs now associate the command with an outing or a left at home treat and rush out to the garden and pretend to go even if they have just been lol...and yes dive girl, paper or puppy pads just a waste of time and confusing for the pup.

[LoftyLottie]

I agree with all the good advice here.

I told my dog she had to go out and wee last night just before bedtime and she sloped off and tried to hide. It was pouring with rain! Dogs can certainly learn a routine and can hold on if they need to.

I have never used paper or puppy pads.

Just wished I had trained my cat a bit differently. She now comes indoors to wee and poo in her cat litter before rushing off outside again!!

[carmalee]

what 'make' of dog have you got woofgang? My avatar is the clue for mine.

[woofgang]

always had weimaraners till the current ruffians who are GSP Weimaraner crosses, litter bros., actually the whole litter from an accidental mating between two very nice pedigree dogs belonging to a nice lady who couldn't count lol

[carmalee]

we had a Weirmaraner when we lived in Rhodesia - what a super dog - absolutely brilliant with the kids but used to lie in ambush for the police patrol (bicycle) and leap out at the poor chap who usually fell off. Never bit him and didn't use the same ambush place twice - shouldn't have laughed but I did. BTW police chappie got a good Christmas pressie!

[pingram47]

when i got my puppy i got my tips off ceser mulan on the nat geo channel ...tips..when your pup does anythink and your not in the room just clean it up ,[clean it up first with some kitchen role then with a mop because your just spreading it if you dont and the pup can still smell it and will wee on it again ] dont tell him off because it will confuse him the mess could have been mad hours before . BUT when he does it and your there tell him no in a sturn voice and put him out side for 10 min and he will cotten on in about two weeks or less and every time he wakes up and your there put him streat out side and he will wee and then tell him he's a good boy in a nice happy voice your dog will always want to please you and thay love prase never ever rub his nose in it because it frightens them

[pingram47]

my dog" lip" is a sharpae staff cross hes got a red coat and a staff face with wrinkels hes the best looking dog ever and as daft as a brush ..on our walks if he see's a dog he likes he keeps looking back so he walks in to stuff lamp posts, trees,people, walls ect i thought he needed glasses but the vet said he doesent, now and then i look after my friends puppy if shes working late hes a very small dog and always hangs off lips ears one day lip got fedup with it and went to hide behind the tree in our garden but the puppy found him when i went behind the tree to look lip was sitting on the puppy who was riggeling like mad ....!!not so daft after all ...

[woofgang]

pingram a better tip is to never leave the pup unsupervised unless they are in a dog crate..no accidents that way...keep them under your eye all the time they are awake!

[thugulike]

Watch and listen carefully. A pup will normally 'tell' you. I had very few accidents and only because I had failed to read the signs.