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Originally Posted by Sabrinasabrina  Help! My Lillie is about 18 months old and has been with us only about 8 months. She is potty trained to go outdoors every 4-5 hours and seldom has an accident. But...I have started working and would like to make pads available to her so that should I not be able to get home in the 4-5 hour time period she can use those when necessary. Is it possible to dual train them to use the pad and the outdoors when she is already trained to go outdoors only? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! |
I don't know if this will help but it works for us. Mika is 10 months old. We started him on peepads - we had to spray the pads in the beginning to get him to use them. When we were home, we watched him like a 2 year old child to ensure quick correction. We are both Realtors so we can be gone for a while. We keep him in a fenced area inside (doggy playpen) with a pee pad. AFter a short time he would only use the peepads. Once he was about 7 months old we started to train him to go outside (peepads when we were not home and outside when we were home). We picked a spot outside where we wanted him to go. Then when we were home we again watched him very close. The minute we saw the signs or him going for his peepad we would qickly ask him if he had to go outside and scoop him up and bring him outside. After he was done, we praised him and gave him a small piece of chicken (we boil chicken, cut up in small pieces and freeze) and say "good boy go potty out side and get chicken. Chicken is the only people food he gets and he gets it ONLY when he goes out side. After doing this for a bit, he started holding his potty until we got home. Then we would rush him outside. After about a month or so, we removed the peepads. He is currently 100% trained outdoors. He will hold it until we get home. We try not to have him wait too long (coming home at lunch in the beginning) and slowly increasing the time. He has held it as long as 7+ hours (not by choice). We found out that he does not drink any water when we are not home (or very little). So, it can be done. I'm not going to say it not work because it is but it's worth it. By the way - our Mike is just over 3 pounds. Before we got this little guy we read a lot of different advice from Yorkie Talk so thank you to all for your advice.
Good Luck