When we got Diesel he was only 9 weeks old. He was already trained to use a puppy pad. I bought him a playpen and thats where he sleeps at night. I also put a puppy pad in the pen with him at night. He will use that at night and during the day he will go out. I take him out at least every hour or two. He goes everytime I take him out. Well he at least tries. I don't think he is doing much everytime tho. He is 16 weeks now and for the most part is housebroken. Now if I get busy cleaning and I forget to take him out then he will go to the front door and go. At least he knows where to go. I was really scared that he would take forever to housebreak. I had heard such horror stories about it all. Thankgoodness my baby was easy! My grandmothers dog on the other hand is just awful about going. He is 16 months old and STILL isn't housebroken. That being said my granny hasn't worked very hard wiht him either. He will go outside to pee and then bring his butt back in to poop. When he does it he will go hide and do it. I just don't see how she deals with it. I have told her to put his butt in a crate when she leaves and when he comes back in from peeing so that he doesn't poop all over. She will have no part of it. Her baby isn't going in a crate. But oh well. Nothing I can do. I am just thankful that I didn't have to go through all of that. |