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05-01-2015, 06:39 PM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Palm Coast, FL, United States
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| Pee pads without a play pen? Hello everyone! My 9 week old Brody is loving his new home. I'm trying to train him to go on his pee pads whenever he feels the need, just like I did with my girl Daisy (7 y/o). She even gets off my bed to go in the middle of the night without even asking! No mistakes. When I trained her, I didn't use a play pen. I just constantly walked her to the pad, told her to "go pee pee", and waited. If she went somewhere else, she got in trouble, and if she went on the pad, she got tons of praise. It seemed to work! She also goes on command. Did I luck out with her, or can I do the same with Brody? |
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05-02-2015, 08:54 AM | #2 |
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| How does Brody react when you try this method? They are all different and what works like a charm for one wont even faze the next one! Mine are never off in another part of the house, unsupervised......if I have to leave the room,they go in a playpen because at that young age, they cant get from one end of the house to the other to use the pee pad. So, you either have pee pads in every room, or the pup stays in the room with the pee pads! |
05-02-2015, 09:37 AM | #3 |
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| It probably depends on the size and layout of your home. ZoE was only actually confined to her playpen for a matter of weeks (i took her home at six weeks old), and then I opened one of the panels to the pen and left it open for her to go use her potty pads. This was the daily setup while I was home, and I only confined her when i left the house. But, my house is very very tiny. Almost my whole house would fit in just the master suite of my previous home! So wherever ZoE is, in the entire house, she isnt that far from her potty area. I think the biggest thing early on, is setting your pup up for repeated success. The more he goes where hes supposed to, and gets praised for it, the faster he should train.
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05-02-2015, 09:38 AM | #4 |
I ♥ Joey & Ralphie! Donating Member | There's a lot of evidence to suggest that punishment for peeing in the wrong place can backfire, it can lead to submissive urination and also, hiding their pee, in other words, peeing in places you don't see. Some dogs eat their poop, because they have been punished for pooping in the wrong place. You can train a dog to pee in the right spot just by using positive reinforcement, reward the success and ignore the mistakes. Personally, I think you were lucky with Daisy, and some say girls are easier to train, don't know if that's true. Most of us use pens, as a convenience, not only to train, but to keep them safe and out of harms way. A nine week puppy has to go about every 5 minutes, so having a pad close by or over the entire surface is a good idea.
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05-03-2015, 05:33 AM | #5 |
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| Some take longer than others...I've been lucky as a whole...I keep the pads in the same place, I don't put them all over.
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05-03-2015, 12:31 PM | #6 | |
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I think as long as the pad is always close by and the puppy doesn't travel from one end of the house to the other (the main reason for limiting freedom), you should be okay.
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05-03-2015, 02:56 PM | #7 |
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| Our pup, Sissy has been with us for 3 weeks now and is 12 weeks old. Our other girl is almost 9 years old and was potty pad trained when we got her. Mu wife and I both work but I am in a our most of the day so I put her in one of the bathrooms with her bed, food and water and a pad and this past week she has been real good about going on her pad but when I let her out, she does not go in there to potty but instead on the floor. I praise her when I get home and see that she has used to pad and when she goes on the floor, I out her on the pad and tell her to go potty but most of the time she will just sit there and do nothing. I will continue to do this and HOPES she will learn to go potty on the pad. |
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