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Originally Posted by Natalia85  I think that I pretty much should wait til the puppy is at least 14 weeks and neutered, and then expect a little more out of him. We do have all the carpet areas completely blocked off but somehow the little guy just breaks through. We watch him like hawks when my husband and i are home and as soon as we see him sniffing around we put him on the pad and he pees on it fine, sometimes right next to it, but that's good enough for us for now. but when he needs to poop, he will circle around the kitchen and the dinning room for 10, 15 minutes, running like crazy and when he finally finds a spot on the title we grab him and put him on the pad. as soon as we do that he doesn't want to go anymore and just holds it in. i know that's not healthy for him to do that. my husband mentioned something about him not wanting to use the pad because it might be too close to his food and play area in the kitchen but we have another pad laid out about ten feet away when we re home and he still wont use it to poop. .... well i guess i'll take everyones advice and try to work on the little guy.
Now i have a random question about training to do tricks. is there a certain age that it would be ok to start teaching them simple commands and tricks ? |
You can teach tricks right away. Is there a reason they are neutering him at 14 weeks? They made us wait until Loki was 6 months old. I think we had him neutered at exactly 6 months. He never learned to hike his leg. The way to prevent that is just avoid any poles or trees or anything upright on walks until he is older.
Also, you can't just keep moving the pads. First of all, the dog's natural instinct is to do it's thing outside. You are teaching him that it's OK to go in one part of the house - kitchen, bathroom, corner of the living room, or whatever. They don't seek out a pad like a cat would seek out a litter box. It doesn't work that way. If you train them to go on a pad and then take up the pad, they are more likely to go where the pad WAS rather than where you moved it to. That's why I recommend people train their dogs to go outside from the beginning if they ever want them to go outside. Because you can't just move the pad one day and decide it's not OK to go in the house anymore. They won't understand.