ChatterBank0 min ago
housetraining a puppy
at the moment we're house training my 5 month pup and we've mastered that she goes outside to do her business but how do you extend the training to teaching her to hold it as at the moment she needs to go out once an hour?
any help is much appreciated
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Bitches take longer than male dogs before gaining full control of their bladders, so be prepared for a few accidents until she is about 1 year old. This was advice given to me by my vet and he was right!
You can't teach them to hold their bladders - your pup will gradually get bladder control. Be prepared for letting her out quite often for a while yet.
gesso: I was being silly saying go every hour for a yr..:)
But your dog "should not" take a yr to be potty trained. Every dog is different and I won't say "Never", but if you have been consistent and supervised them they should catch on very quickly, it depends on how many "accidents" you have, the more you have the less the dog learns where to go. If they go behind a chair, no one sees them so they think it's okay, because no one tells them UH-UH, and takes them to the correct spot. That's why you never yell at a dog when they are going, they think you don't want to SEE them defecating/urinating in front of you, so they go to hide it.
Just keep prolonging the time happy_face, after you check her urine by a vet. Let us know how it goes. I may have to put my whole Hour class speech on here just so people know how to potty train a dog, it's on Orangedog ForumUp.com it tells you how to do it the right way.
Bitches are more prone to little accidents when the are excited, etc. than males. That is why the vet told me that bitches often have more problems with complete bladder control until they are about 1 year old. This is a physical thing rather than not being fully trained. My bitch was housetrained completely in a couple of months but occasionally her bladder would let her down, e.g. excitment, or if she got caught doing something she shouldn't be doing!
Sorry i was correct in guessing the medical happy_face, hope she is better soon here the link
http://orangedog.forumup.com/index.php?mforum=orangedog
hope that helps.....we have been wondering where all you brits have been....LOL