Can You Please Help Me Potty Train My New Puppy?
February 4, 2010 by admin
Filed under Care & Training Q&As
I have a yorkie/westie mix. She’s a really smart dog, but even when I’m outside with her for hours at a time, she still comes right inside and pees on the carpet.
I’m crate training her, so when I put her in the crate, even if we’ve come inside from being outside a long long time, she’ll pee and poop in the crate.
I’m not leaving her in the crate too long. She doesn’t even give me time to shut the door before she’s peeing in there, and then she makes a point of it to get herself completely soaked in her own urine.
I tried to ask this question before (last night) but most of the answers treated me like I was a complete idiot and left my brand new 11 week old puppy in a cage for 4 hours without giving her the chance to go to the bathroom.
- When she sniffs around, I take her out.
- When she wakes up from a nap, I take her out.
- When she’s finished eating/drinking, we go out for 20 – 30 minutes.
- When she gets up at 4:30 in the morning, usually 3 hours before me, I take her out.
She doesn’t have a “pee place” besides outside. Outside is the only place I need her to pee.
Please, can someone help me given this information?
Last time, the answers were not very helpful, and I’m just needing a hand with this.
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Puppy potty training is not as daunting a task as you may think. There are proven methods that will allow you to effectively housebreak your puppy in a matter of weeks. So do not give in just yet, get your puppy housebroken in no time at all by following these simple steps.
1. Enforce your dominance. Let the dog know that you are boss. Like a child, the puppy learns wrong and right through discipline. Every time you catch your puppy using the carpet as their bathroom make sure to discipline them with a light tap on the nose. Reinforce this by telling them in a harsh tone that they were bad. This usually works well, “Bad Dog, no potty in the house!”
2. Take them immediately outside. Once you have scolded the puppy pick it up and take it outside. Make sure to support the puppy’s weight with one hand, while maintaining a secure grip on their scruff with the other hand. This enforces your dominance in the situation; much like the mother dog would do.
3. Enforce the potty outside rule. Now that you have your puppy outside set them on or near were they can go and tell them, “You go potty outside!” Do not let them go inside or allow them to play until they have done their business. Once they have finished their business reward them with praise, “Good dog good potty outside!”
4. Clean up in-door puppy waste properly. You will definitely want to use a specialty cleaning product, depending on what type of surface you will be cleaning. If you are cleaning tile flooring use bleach enhanced cleaner. If you are cleaning carpeting use a brand name carpet cleaner spray. This is necessary to remove all residue of the smell; this way your puppy is not encouraged to go on the same spot again.
5. Practice makes perfect. Don’t expect your puppy to become potty trained overnight. Remember puppy potty training is a habit that you must form in your puppy’s mind. Habits take time, especially with puppies. This process will generally take anywhere from three to six weeks to really take effect on your puppy.
maybe you could give her lots of praise when she does go outside and maybe also give her a treat.
My puppy started doing this when we first had her and I mentioned this to my vet when she had her vaccinations. She advised me to feed her in her crate – it worked. Try it!
sounds like you are doing everything right. I guessing she is only 11 weeks and you havent had her very long but everything you are doing is good. You cant expect a pup to be FULLy house trained until six months. Thats not saying she wont be done early. but thats like takeing a diaper off a 1 yr old and expecting them to potty in the potty every single time. its not going to happen.
when you come in from outside keep a eye on her 100 % of the times. dont let her run through the house and give hre the chance to potty.
if she is potting in her crate it is probalby too large. try to either get a smaller one (they simply need to stand up, turn around and lay down.)or block off part of the one she has now. MOST (not saying all) dogs will not potty where they sleep but if they can go to one end of the crate to potty and sleep in the other then thats gonna be harder to train to potty.
hang in there and keep doing what you are doing.