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09-28-2005, 12:38 PM | #1 |
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| Housetrained at last I just wanted to post a positive result in the housetraining department to let those struggling with this know it can be done! I posted a while back that I was having real difficulty with this along with so many other people. My little girl is now 11 months old (I adopted her as a rescue at 6 months old and I'm sure she had 6 months of peeing and pooping in the home and that is why she was dumped at a shelter) and she is 90% there. I say 90% because I know she is not ready for an 8 hour day free reign in the house. But she has had no accidents now for a month or more. My plan is to write my training protocol to achieve this - but in short I had to be consistent, take her out on a schedule, watch her EVERY SECOND at first when she had free access to the house, and put her in her crate (with a stuffed kong toy) whenever I coudn't watch her. Her free time at first was 20 minutes - and there were failures with that short amount of time! Gradually build on that time. The mistakes I made along the way was making too big of time jumps. Then I'd have to go back to whatever previous time I was at where she was successful. Having only had large dogs in my life I will say I found this process difficult. I had to reach deep inside for every ounce of patience I could find. I honestly think a lot of the training was just her bladder maturing enough to handle the "I gotta pee" pressure. I also want to add that when I was watching her and she started to squat I would clap my hands or say "ah! ah!" and take her out. This was enough of an aversive for her that she learned to squat when I was not looking (MY mistake, not hers). So, I would suggest making every effort for rewarded successful outings and avoiding aversives as much as possible. For those of you struggling with housetraining - it can be done but it's all up to you!! beth |
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09-28-2005, 12:47 PM | #2 |
Gina, (Lexi's Mommy) Donating Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: LONG ISLAND,NY
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| yippie, good for you, you must be soooo happy, i would be.
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09-28-2005, 12:50 PM | #3 |
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| That is amazing..thanks for sharing! Kelsey is 98% there! woo hoo!
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09-28-2005, 01:05 PM | #4 |
Banning Thread Dictator Donating Member | Great post. I'm sure that's going to help a lot of others who are at wit's end.
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09-28-2005, 01:12 PM | #5 |
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| I wonder if Sunshine will ever be housetrained. I'm so glad to hear of your success. It gives me hope.
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