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07-30-2009, 05:35 AM | #1 |
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| How to Housebreak Your Dog in 7 Days Has anyone read this book and tried this method? It is supposed to be really good and effective (if you stick to it), i am on my first day today. |
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07-30-2009, 10:42 AM | #2 |
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| I just read it. My pup is not yet 16 weeks, but getting there. I'm not sure if we'll even need to do the hard-core seven day plan (with limiting food and water) because we've been using the basic principles of the book since we brought him home, so he's already picking things up really well. |
07-30-2009, 05:54 PM | #3 |
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| Oh, I will be watching this post to see how it goes. We have a stubborn one. |
07-30-2009, 06:32 PM | #4 |
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07-30-2009, 07:19 PM | #6 |
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| oh, please let us know how this works. Oliver is 16 weeks this Saturday and I need all the help I can get.
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07-30-2009, 08:36 PM | #7 |
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| Interesting and I too will watch to see how this goes.. anne |
07-31-2009, 01:12 AM | #8 |
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| Interesting I may get it just to see what their technique is
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07-31-2009, 04:19 AM | #9 |
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| Which book exactly did you get. Who is the author because I went onto amazon to search for it but more then one of them come up... I am eager to read it. I hope its not to late for me Roxy is 8 1/2 months old
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07-31-2009, 05:21 AM | #10 |
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| Amazon.com: How to Housebreak Your Dog in 7 Days... That's the one I got. The idea of it is to use a crate, and to have a strict schedule of feeding (and watering during the first seven days), pottying, and playtime. During the seven days the dog is only supposed to be fed and watered during the specific times, in their crate. Then a half hour later you take them out to potty. Then free playtime, followed by a few hours of crate time. The book has different schedules for people who are home during the day vs. working and also for different dog/puppy age groups. She says that after seven days (or so) of adhering to the strict schedule your dog will know where to go potty, and will learn to hold it until brought to the potty spot. I believe for this to work you need to continue with the schedule, but can increase the free time and lessen the amount of confined time until you are just confining when you are not home. My puppy is just 15 weeks now, we've had him for a month. We've been crating him, letting him out into his pen (which at first was covered completely in papers and now just has his Rascal dog potty and bare floor) and after he potties he is allowed free time out in the house and then we repeat the process. Overnight we leave his crate door open in the pen so he can potty when he needs to. He's been doing really well with this, in that he now uses his Rascal and does not have accidents on his pen floor. BUT, I slipped up yesterday and did not wait for him to poop in his Rascal before letting him out with us and the minute he ran into my daughter's room he pooped on her floor. My bad, because at this point I feel it is our responsiblity to make sure he is "empty" before he gets free time - but I also learned that he does NOT completely understand that the Rascal is the only place he can go in the house. |
07-31-2009, 05:27 AM | #11 |
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| Oh that sounds great I think I might have to go and buy that this weekend and not wait until I can get it from Amazon... I def need that I hope it works for you and me too LOL!! I just posted a thread about having problems with the limit space I give my dog that she just poops and plays with it ALL over the kitchen Thanks again...
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07-31-2009, 11:35 AM | #12 |
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| So today will be my third day on the program. Marly is doing pretty good. Unfortunately he escaped from the baby gate yesterday and dug a nice hole into my carpet 3" X 2". His new home is now the laundry room instead of the bathroom LOL. I think this will work out really good, i can already see a difference. |
07-31-2009, 11:54 AM | #13 |
Therapy Dog Donating Member | I ordered that book from Amazon early this week for Cosmo whom I've had for 3 weeks now. We are doing the crate/x-pen thing and clicker training for outside potty, plus potty bells..lol. He really caught on to the potty bells too much where he dings the bells just to go outside and goof off so that's when I brought the clicker into play. He goes potty, click, treat and that's it. If he goes out for a few minutes and goofs off in we come in. I love the potty bell idea but they are so smart and catch on so quickly that oh I get to ring the bell and they jump up and let me outside. I'll let you all know how I llike this book when I get it and try it out on Cosmo.
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07-31-2009, 12:04 PM | #14 |
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| OH! i forgot, i got it at Barnes and Noble for 7.99$. I know amazon is about the same including shipping, but if you don't want to wait, pay the same and hit up barnes and noble. ALSO it is a really small skinny book, so you will have to look through the whole rack of them until you find it hidden between some. That was my luck |
08-05-2009, 01:33 PM | #15 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: North Jersey
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| Would love to know how everyone's training is going. I bought the book and read it but I think I'm a little to late for the training.. Roxy already goes on pad and book says I shouldn't confuse her so I'm stuck with her going on pee pads. Now my only problem is her spreading her poop ALL over the kitchen
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