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Originally Posted by GSBelle  Hello,
I don't know what to try next. I have had my pup for 2 weeks now. Some background, I have a female, 9 week old, weight 1.4 lbs. I am having a very hard time training her. She uses the inside to relieve herself about as much as she uses the outside, about half and half. She also uses the bathroom in her crate. Something I thought dogs never do. And last but not least she loves to eat any poop she can find outside, not the fresh stuff. It is poop she finds while searching for a place to poop outside.
She doesn't seem to adhere to any of the crate training rules. I wonder if it is the way she was raised prior to my getting her. Her breeder said he had fallen on hard times, and his house had no furniture in it. I only saw the front room, so I have no idea what went on in the back part of the house. He made sure I did not see it. He fed my pup some Karo syrup while I was there and I wonder if that was all he had to feed her. He said he had been training her on newspaper. Who knows. Anyway, I need all the help and information I can get on resolving all the different problems I am having with my puppy's training.
Thanks in advance,
Belle |
Please don't expect to train a 9wk old puppy! You can, however, pee pad
train her but to crate train her at this age is asking way too much.
Her bladder can't hold anything much at this age, she's an infant.
The bladder in a puppy this age can't hold much more than 45mins-1hr.
Add 1hr for each month of age. You don't have a problem you have
a baby.