How can I train my puppy to potty outside?
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 at
7:58 pm
I recently brought my 2 month old puppy home and am having a difficult time getting her to potty outside. This is the first indoor puppy I’ve had and need strategies on how to train her.
give it a treat when it pees outside and if it starts to pee in the house then pick it up and take it outside, sooner or later it will learn that it is supposed to pee outside
take outside on leash tell potty praise and reward when they do
let off for play time in an enclosed yard
If you catch her going inside, make a loud clapping sound or stomping noise to get her attention and make her stop. Do not yell if you catch her because this will hinder your relationship development. As soon as you catch her, immediately take her outside so that it can help her learn that she is suppose to go outside. You should also be feeding her twice a day and should walk her shortly after she eats and after she naps, as puppies nap often. You need to get her on a regular feeding and walking schedule. Feed her and walk her at the same time everyday. Her schedule needs to coincide with yours.
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When I got my recent pup I loved her from the first minute, so that night she slept in my room, on my bed, on my pillow behind my head (I used to let a different dog sleep by my feet, but since I kept rolling over at night, I would wake her up and then she would wake ME up by angrily biting my feet through the blanket).
Since wild dogs will naturally not go to the bathroom “in the house”, she would lick my face every night until I woke up to take her out. After a while she could sleep through the night, and so could I. She’s on my pillow right now. Since I keep her shut up in my room when I’m not in, and she won’t ‘go’ where she lives, she’s pretty much housebroken. She DOES occasionally go in OTHER rooms, so now I have to keep her in my bedroom.
I have had animals my whole life growing up! I also have 2 dogs(1 small and 1 big)now. They are both house trained!!! I treat my dogs as I would treat my children. You must make them understand that going inside is BAD! Dogs can pick up on the moods in your voice. They know when its good and when its bad. You have to catch them in the act and make them understand that it is BAD! All of my pets were trained in less than a month. I always had a closed yard that I could put them in. But what I would do is catch them and give them a little fussing and then put them outside in the yard and leave them in the yeard for at least 30 mins so they can think about what they did that made you mad. Dogs are very smart! They usually figure it out very quickly. If they do not, when you catch them, show them the pee or the poo and then put them out side. They have to understand that everytime they do this they get in trouble.
Use a crate:
-Get a crate big enough for your puppy to stand up, laydown comfortably, and turn, but small to walk about. Puppies do not soil their sleeping area so if the crate is as big as he bed she won’t make a mess in there.
-A two months old pup can hold for three hours (and a three months for four hours). Leave your pup in the crate for no more than three hours, then put her *on leash* and take her DIRECTLY to the area you want her to relieve herself.
-Once on the spot tell her “pee”. After she peed prais her lavisly and give her a very tasty treat (i.e. real liver).
- After she reveled herself on command let her play for 30 minutes (you need to supervise her). Then take her to the spot again and tell her pee. (puppies need to pee after play too.)
-If she peed elsewhere during playtime say NO and pick her up and carry her to the spot and then say pee.
- It is VERY important not to leave your puppy in her crate more than 3 hours as they cannot physically hold themselves longer than this.
- For the first two weeks (until puppy is house trained) you need to set the alarm at night and wake up every 3 hours!
-When she has accidents, use odor remover to remove the smell. If your house smell like a bathroom, she will use it as a bathroom next time too.
-gradually you can increase the time she spends outside her crate.
-Be very consistent with your method and words (i.e. words for praise and words for corrections).
It took my GSD almost two weeks to be 99% house trained. I am sure my second pup will be trained in less than week as I made some mistakes with my first puppy (i.e. I did not take her directly to her pad.)
get a certain spot where she will always go. (for my puppy, we have a pile of wood chips that she goes potty on.) Then, every time after she eats or plays or takes a nap, take her to her “potty place” and tell her to go potty. Eventually, your puppy will know to always go to her potty place to go to the bathroom.
you must take her out often because when puppies are puppies, they have no bladder control, whatsoever. They will just suddenly think, “I gotta go potty!” and they will just go on the floor. As they grow older, they will have control and will be able to hold it if you are gone.
if you don’t have her kennel trained, KENNEL TRAIN HER!! put her in her “home” (her kennel) every time you go somewhere. Your puppy will automatically hold it so she doesn’t have to lay in her pee.