Help with Puppy!!-UPDATED AGAIN pg 4

[JR6ooo4]

try to seperate walks from going outside to do "business"

when the puppy is "going" use a keyword. The book suggested "hurry up" but who wants to be told that. We use "find a spot". Now we can ask Q if she need to go out to "find a spot" or if she wants a walk.

Mikeeee

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Stop! Ya'll are starting to scare me just as I'm getting comfy with this. Only encouragement and tips are asked for and all that is wanted. Please be kind, this is my 1st one and dont need my new confidence ripped away!

You will be fine. You will freak out one day and then hate the dog the next day (won't say it is because he ate your BASEBOARDS!! ....which is why crate training is vital to your house )
and then they do something cute and pretty soon you start to get the hang of it.

Now, coming up on 2 yrs in July, it is part of your family. It takes awhile.

 

[PrincessTiff]

Stop! Ya'll are starting to scare me just as I'm getting comfy with this. Only encouragement and tips are asked for and all that is wanted. Please be kind, this is my 1st one and dont need my new confidence ripped away!

This is my first puppy as well and trust me the pros greatly outweigh the cons!

 

[dolphinrescuegirl]

try to seperate walks from going outside to do "business"

when the puppy is "going" use a keyword. The book suggested "hurry up" but who wants to be told that. We use "find a spot". Now we can ask Q if she need to go out to "find a spot" or if she wants a walk.

Mikeeee

My word is "go potty" When she goes I say good girl, you went potty. I'm trying to associate the word with the deed.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Oh also we bell trained our dogs. Of course they were 4 months when we got them.

We have a bell that hangs from the backdoor handle. They ring it with their nose when they want to go out.

 

[dolphinrescuegirl]

Sometimes I just dont know how I feel. Heck, in one day I go through several emotions! Today I hated the dog, then I was proud of the dog, then I wanted to shoot the dog, then I loved the dog, etc etc I know what you mean about having different feelings about the dog

 

[NikiM20]

I totally agree on crate training.... all of my dogs are (yep all 8) I decide who and when and if they get free roam when I am gone, but when they come in from outside, they all go directly in their crates. I open the back door and say "kennel up" and in they go. My youngest puppy is 4 mths old and he knows to "kennel up" already, good luck and dogs are worth every second of it !!!

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Sometimes I just dont know how I feel. Heck, in one day I go through several emotions! Today I hated the dog, then I was proud of the dog, then I wanted to shoot the dog, then I loved the dog, etc etc I know what you mean about having different feelings about the dog

I am telling you...
When we were having aggression problems with Butters I was feeling horrible, like I made a huge mistake.
Then we got some professional "Dog Whisperer" help from a trainer.
Basically we had to "up" our leadership. I thought we were being "tough"...well apparently it was not enough to match the dog.

It only takes 10 minutes to learn a technique to train/teach your puppy. It takes many months of YOU training to implement it into your dog.
You have to be consistent and ever vigilant. Like kids...eventually they do "get it".

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I open the back door and say "kennel up" and in they go. My youngest puppy is 4 mths old and he knows to "kennel up" already, good luck and dogs are worth every second of it !!!

Our word is "night-night"...

 

[robinb]

I've been told it shouldnt take that long as german shepards are smart.

I was told that Poodles were smart too and easy to potty train. My new vet even said to me, "I wish I had a standard but they are too smart for me!" I say that Darci ...

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is an anomaly, LOL! She'll be a year old next month and she still has the occasional accident (two poops in the TV room this week!). I posted in desperation here back when she was over 6 months old and still having very regular accidents. I got some great advise, sorry I can't find the post ... darn that broken search feature!

I finally had to do what I really didn't want to do. I had to crate her almost all day. When she was not crated she was literally leashed right next to me. She was smart enough to know that pottying inside was wrong because she would get that guilty dog look on her face and her ears and tail would droop after she sneaked an indoor potty. I knew I had to keep her locked up or close to me.

(1) I took her out every 2 hours without fail. Sometimes I would just put her on a leash outside and sometimes I would actually walk her. I made she that she went out within about 20 minutes of eating. We were out to potty, not play. Play time was after she pottied. I am home all day and I think that made it much harder to potty train her than if I put her in a crate while I went to work.

(2) I put her in the crate for a lot of the day. That was really hard on me since I really wanted her to be near me. I was sick and tired of cleaning up puppy messes from a dog who should know better, so tough love it was!

(3) When she was not in the crate, she was tied to a table near me. I would loop the leash around the table leg and then put the snap end through the handle so the leash wrapped around the leg. She could be next to me and even come up for pets, but she could only go as far as the 6-foot leash would allow. This worked because my pup would not potty in front of me. Some folks suggested that I attach the leash to me, but I didn't like that idea. You might feel better about it.

(4) When I started to unleash her from the tables, I would block off the basement and the upstairs with old baby gates. She liked to use both places as her potty, but the downstairs was her den. Obviously, I still have problems with the TV room. *sigh* Time for the baby gates again!

(5) I bought the giant industrial size bottle of Nature's Miracle plus the small spray bottle. I am on my third or forth bottle. I also bought paper towels in bulk. The Nature's Miracle will help remove the potty smell from your carpet that only the dog can smell. If you just clean it up with water or even soap, the dog can still smell it and will use that spot again.

These finally worked except for the very occasional accident. I think the poops this week are from lack of exercise more than anything else. I am a cold wuss so I have been tossing her furry little butt (in a doggie coat!) outside on the long leash to potty. The windchill here has been below zero every single day for about two weeks and I have been a bad dog mom by not walking her.

 

[ZipaDeeDooDah]

I have a question for the puppy experts out there!!!

Our puppy is still quite young (9 weeks) and stays in her crate at night and seems quite content to sleep in it. She is getting up anywhere from 2 to 4 times a night whining (I make sure she has stopped whining before I let her out). I take her to go pee each time (she usually only goes pee once out of all of those times). Is it okay to be letting her get up that many times in the night? Or am I setting up a bad pattern?

 

[dolphinrescuegirl]

Wow, I think she is getting the hang out it. I got up and we went outside and she performed. 10 mins later I saw her making the motions to go on the pad and got her outside again where she performed. Now she is in the crate. I gave her a kong filled with cream cheese. After finishing that she starts barking. She calmed down but I feel bad. I wonder if she's bored? I put her beloved duck in there with her and another fav toy. She has a nice comfy blanket to lie on. Think she's ok? I dont want to be the "bad guy". Thanks

 

[RrCoAsTeR]

ITA! I found that my now 4 month old pup would go on the pads, and nowhere else, not even outside! I think they do cause confusion and tells the pup that it's okay to go indoors.

Yes-at the animal shelter I volunteer at we had flyers with a bunch of reasons why NOT to use them

OUr puppy is workin gon potty training, but main tips are not to let them have run of the house until they are about 7 months to a year old... when they stop chewing things up and calm down a bit. We have gated all three of ours in our kitchen, unless you asre with them to supervise.

Get to know what your pppy does when it needs to go out... sniffinf in circls is the best bet. Pick it up- this is the big one- just letting it out on its own usually won't work, it will confuse uotside time with playtime, especially with the pads- you need to put the puppy on a leash and take it outside. while you are outside, urge the puppy by saying "go potty" in a baby-ish voice, and praise profusly when it does. Keep the puppy moving while outside, don't let it stop for sdistractions. Sometimes walking in a small circles helps. When the puppy goes indoors, scold it at the scene of the crime. If you can't be watching your puppy, put it in a crate--- like lots of people said, crate training.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I gave her a kong filled with cream cheese.

Man you have to watch the treats! My pups still hard get hardly NONE and they are 2.

Frankly I would give no treats to a puppy that young. It causes them to potty too much which makes training harder.

Treats should be given as they earn it and I usually gave their own dog food. Dry food. A pup won't care.
Go potty give them a piece of dry food, with praise of course.