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Old 08-11-2007, 09:27 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by seainthecity View Post
How old is he? I have to say, Guppy will be 6 months old next week and it's like a little light bulb went off! All of a sudden he's stopped going inside as long as we get him outside regularly. We had him pad trained...to a point, but he also would often go next to the pad instead of on it. Now, he even "knocks" on the door to go out. My secret: everytime we went out and he went potty, I'd say "Good boy, potty outside!" and make a big fuss...then, the magic! I always keep a jar of peanut butter with me when I go out and as soon as he's done going, I reinforce the action with "Good boy, potty outside" while I stick my finger in the jar and let him lick the PB off. He loves the stuff! It also makes him go sooner (he used to take forever) but now when he sees the jar he just goes right away and then waits for his treat. You must be very vigilant with this. I started crating him at night and he'll whimper in the morning when he gets up and has to go. But I really think this is a large part of the training...getting them to learn to hold their pee. I grab him and run outside with him under one arm and the peanut butter under the other (not always a pretty site, I warn you). During the day I make sure he gets out after he eats and about every 2-3 hours although he is holding it longer if I get busy and can't get him out right on schedule. But I do try really hard not to miss taking him when it's time. HTH,
This is exactly how I trained him to go on the pad, and to poop outside at my parents' house (well, I used biscuits rather than PB, and a clicker, but that's about the only difference) He is 5 months. He is crated to teach him to hold it, and he does very well in the apartment with holding it until he's on the pad, but since my parents' house is so big, I think that he feels he can just go where ever the mood strikes him sometimes. 60% of the time he goes on the pad at the house, and 90% of the time he goes on it when we're at the apartment. HE used to show no preference to outside vs. inside, if we were outside when he had to go, he'd go outside, and if we were inside then he'd go to his pad to go. Except pooping, then if we were inside, he'd just go. He never let us know that he needed to go potty, he'd just go. But now that we're trying to train him to prefer going outside, he absolutely WON'T go! I mean, we could be outside for an hour, and he won't go. He'll go as soon as we come back in. I carry him back outside, he stops. We wait again forever, figure he had finished, go back inside and he does the rest inside. He's always been praised for going outside though, so I have no idea why... actually, he has even been getting better (more preffered and bigger treats) for going outside, and still he stopped going out there. If he doesn't stop going inside by the time we move into this condo, I'm afraid Daryl (BF) will ask me to rehome him. We can't move in for another month, so there is time to work on this. I just wonder how we can work on it when we are still living in an apartment where we can't get outside right away. Thanks for all the advice
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