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KodysMom · 12-21-2005, 01:49 PM

I feel like when I got my puppy (Kody), for the first three weeks, we would go outside for 30 - 45 minute intervals and just stare at each other. He had no clue what to do out there! When he would finally go out there (quite by accident during our standoffs), I would praise him, pick him up and love him. Back inside, I had to hold him most of the time or put him in his crate and then take him out every 45 minutes to an hour. After about three weeks or so, he started to kind of understand. I could go outside for 15 - 20 (instead of 30 - 45 minutes) minute intervals and then take him out every hour and a half (holding him / crating him in between). If I would let him run around and play, I have to watch like a hawk and take him out every twenty minutes or so (and still do this) and we have had him 8 weeks. In time, your pup will know what to do outside... One more thing, I take him to the same spot to put him down and say the same thing to him (Go Potty Kody!) so he knows. Inside, I never use the word "potty" - I just keep repeating "let's go outside" on my way outdoors and say the magic words when we get to his spot that I put him down in. When we travel, it is hard to get him to go (like at my parents over the holidays) because he doesn't have his spots "marked"!

12-21-2005, 01:49 PM	#3
KodysMom Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: virginia Posts: 46	I feel like when I got my puppy (Kody), for the first three weeks, we would go outside for 30 - 45 minute intervals and just stare at each other. He had no clue what to do out there! When he would finally go out there (quite by accident during our standoffs), I would praise him, pick him up and love him. Back inside, I had to hold him most of the time or put him in his crate and then take him out every 45 minutes to an hour. After about three weeks or so, he started to kind of understand. I could go outside for 15 - 20 (instead of 30 - 45 minutes) minute intervals and then take him out every hour and a half (holding him / crating him in between). If I would let him run around and play, I have to watch like a hawk and take him out every twenty minutes or so (and still do this) and we have had him 8 weeks. In time, your pup will know what to do outside... One more thing, I take him to the same spot to put him down and say the same thing to him (Go Potty Kody!) so he knows. Inside, I never use the word "potty" - I just keep repeating "let's go outside" on my way outdoors and say the magic words when we get to his spot that I put him down in. When we travel, it is hard to get him to go (like at my parents over the holidays) because he doesn't have his spots "marked"!