 my puppy
I had it all planned out how I was going to train...and it did not work out that wayt. My puppy has the best bladder I've ever seen. He can hold it forever. 10hrs if he is in a stubborn mood.
When I got him, i wanted ONLY to put a pad by the door and teach him to go outside and to pee on command for when I travel.
He would not go outside. I would walk him around for an hour and sometimes get him to go that way but I can't spend an hour everytime I go out...even now, unless it is in the A.M upon waking...it will take him an hour. I'm not kidding!
If we go somewhere and he is afraid of something in the yard...forget it.
I also stayed 1hr and 1/2 two nights in a row trying to get him to go on the pad in front of the door...nope...too many distractions.
I noticed that he always wanted to go in the bathroom at night while I was washing my face. I started to think...hmmm...bathrooms are the same everywhere pretty much. Now I keep his pad in the bathroom. He is 99% trained to "go" on command and can be in the whole house and if he has to "go" will go right to the bathroom. I do not allow pee pads throughout the house and now I am training him to "ask" if he has to "go". At night he is in the TV room penned in with us and we are working on teaching him "if there is no pee pad and no outside, you have to ask".
He is 5mos and doing very well I feel for a terrier puppy.
suzie |