please help me house train this puppy **pics**UPDATED!

[allmypeeps]

OK- I GOT it!

Fence in her pee pads with one of those bottomless moveable play pen things (you know for rabbits, guineapigs/dogs), cover the floor area in the pen with pads that way she wont be able to walk off them. Set her in there every other hour and dont let her out until she goes...she will obviously not want to be left in there so she may catch on. Eventually open the pen, don't remove it - just allow her free acess, and see if she starts running in there as needed.

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You could call it her Potty-pen!

 

[aidenbaby]

We did umbilical training with our dog. It is wear you have a leash attached to your dog and to yourself at all times. When you aren't wearing the dog there are "stations" that you put your dog at. Anyway, I found it was much easier to read the dog when they are attached to you, literally. Also, every time he started to have an accident, I would shout "NO!!" and then march him outside to the spot we wanted him to go. We never cleaned up his messes in front of him as I read that it can encourage some pups to eat their own feces. I think it definitely worked as the only times he's ever gone in the house since puppyhood were when he was ill and we weren't home to let him out.

Another thing we used when he was a puppy was to have a bell hanging from the door that we taught him to ring when he wanted to go outside. He would ring the bell even if he wanted to go out to play. He's old enough now where he gives very clear signals and lets us know he's got to go.

 

[Dar]

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LOL I did the same method with one of my other dogs but it backfired on me. she was a little older at this point and we had the problem of her being under foot cause she was trained to be right at my side...well i was in the kitchen and tripped and fell with a pot of boiling spaghetti and I was very lucky no one got hurt. I also had to be careful i was not tripping over the dog coming up and down the stairs.

 

[Dar]

I am trying to see if I can borrow a pen or get one off of freecycle or something that i dont have to invest a lot of money into hopefully it will be a training method and it wont be a forever thing. I have gotten rid of the pee pads because she has mastered the pee part outside she is funny about it though as soon as her feet touch the grass she drops her but...but its the poo part.

 

[BroncoHollow]

It is sooo easy to spoil them, wonderfully so!! The trick for us humans is to do so by being the alpha especially when bringing up baby.

Insiderart gave a good idea on the SHHH word - or any word for that matter than tells the dog you, the Alpha, are not tolerating the behavior. I also use a finger snap, and believe me, the offender knows its directed at him/her.

Dogs are a lot smarter than we think. They know when they poo or pee in a wrong location, even if you didn't catch them 'in the act'. Just taking them back to the location and admonishing them by a stern NO! they get the picture.

 

[Dar]

HAAAAAAA I did it....

well sort of....

I litter trained my dog....

I went to IKEA and bought one of the under the bed storage units and put the puppy pads in there..so this stopped her from walking all over as she was going poo... well then i started putting a little bit of litter under the pad and eventually removed the pad ...

now this "litter box" is in a sheltered area of the yard and she will look for her box and go in there... if the weather is nasty out she will not go out its to cold so all i do is pull the box inside and she will go in there...

so I have litter trained my dog...

 

[scarter]

You're kidding. I've never heard of that before. I've heard of the pee pads but not litter training. Good for you. One thing we did was no free choice eating. Our puppy eats in the AM and again in the PM and has her bowel movement about an hour afterwards. She will pace and stare at us. LOL!