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12-15-2008, 08:21 PM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Stroudsburg, PA. USA
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| How to potty train one, while the other is already trained?? I've been looking and have found nothing on this subject. Can any one help? My 6 month old girl is almost fully potty trained. She goes outside rain or shine. In the last month she's had only one accident and that was daddy's fault. He neglected to read her whining correctly (he thought she was just bored ). We adopted a 4 month old boy almost a week ago. Though the breeder said he was potty trained, I doubt it. When I introduced the wee-wee pad, he just lay on it. He doesn't mind sleeping, eating or playing on it while it's dirty. He was afraid to go on any floor that is not inside the house, so I'm thinking he was locked in a crate all this time and was never taken outside. Though things are easier because my girl is slowly bringing him out of his fear shell and showing him how fun it is to go outside with her, etc. I'm worried that my girl will start to go inside again. In other words, that he'll throw my training of her out the window. My girl looks at me every time he does it on the couch, pillows, any where as if asking me, "is this ok? What are you going to do about this?." I have crated him to show him that is not okay. But it feels cruel, my girl wants him out and it seems to be making him very competitive with her. How can I train him? Is it possible to do it with out separating them? Or treating them too differently, which seems to be creating a friction between them already because she gets a treat when she does things the way mommy likes, but he doesn't because he hasn't earned it. I don't want him to think that he'll get a treat just because. What do you think? |
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12-16-2008, 04:31 PM | #2 |
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| Continue to reward your girl for doing things right. And praise praise praise and reward you new little boy whenever he gets it right. Take him out whenever she goes out, when he goes, use a command such as "go potty" and good boy when he goes potty outside. I wouldn't use the crate for punishment. He will just associate it with punishment. A crate should be a safe haven, a den, a place for him to go, his own space. Have you tried crate training? Or heard of potty bells? IF you do a search here, there are many threads on these training methods, lots of good info. I have five furries, and the last 3 were house trained while the next older one was just about 100%, and it worked out fine.
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12-16-2008, 07:19 PM | #3 | |
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