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How loud a "NO" when dog pees on the floor??? We just got our second yorkie. A female named Lilly. She is 7 weeks old, so everybody knows that she loves to pee on the floor at this age. We are pee-pad training her. I am going with this method. When she pees on the pad, we praise her, give her pets, and a treat. That kind of thing. When she pees of the pad, Im going with a simple 'NO Lilly" and putting her on the pee-pad, making her stay for at least a few seconds, with no further punishment. The question is, how loud should my 'No Lilly" be??? So far, I have a few mirrors in our house, so I can hid around corners, and catch her peeing or pooping everytime. When i catch her peeing or pooping off the pad, I stomp my foot on the ground, shaking the whole house, and yell in a yelling manner "NO, LILLY!!!" then she goes to the pad. Should my NO's be softer.? Should I not be frightning her? Would a firm, but quieter NO be better, or is it alright to pound my foot on the floor to scare her? |
I never raised my voice to correct mine...a stern tone is all that was/is necessary. I wouldn't let her have free reign of the house unsupervised either. I'd contain her within the room where her pad is located if you aren't able to supervise her. |
I have never told my dogs No for pottying in the house. No scolding JUST praise Take her to the peepee pad & tell her good girl when she goes. |
I scold and praise mine. Whenever I catch Ollie in the act of trying to pee/poop on the floor, I shout, "No!" and clap my hands loudly. Sometimes this stops him before he starts to pee, and I can get the leash on him and take him outside (or over to the pee pee pad). Sometimes he'll go then, and he can get praise instead of punishment. If he does manage to pee on the floor before I can stop him, I fall over myself with exaggerated disappointment, trying to show him that whenever he pees on the carpet, it really displeases me. But when he does manage to use the pee pad or go outside, I throw a little party with huge amounts of praise, and I give him his favorite treat. If I take him out of his crate and take him out to pee and he doesn't (forgets what he's supposed to be doing), then pees in the house, he gets put back in the crate for a few minutes (usually just long enough for me to scrub the spot out with some Nature's Miracle). I do this so he associates good potty habits with freedom, and bad potty habits with being in "time out"... |
I say no, not really in a yell, but, in a different kind of voice. That's what grandma used to do, and always had her dogs housebroken in 1 day(boy how I wish she were still alive)..They need to know you're not happy with them. When you catch her peeing, change the tone of your voice, tell her no, pick her up and take her to the pee pad or outside(whichever way you're training)..always have a treat on hand so when she does go to the pad you can give her a treat and a lot of praise. She'll get there, it takes time and patience. Whenever she gets a drink, take her potty, then a few min. after eating, take her again. Also whenever she wakes up..I take mine on one pee pad as soon as she wakes up, shut the door, tell her to go potty, the door doesn't get open until I see her pee.. |
I think as long as you don't sound angry, you have some flexibility. I have a borderline scary tone I use when my boy tries to eat something off the street. Once he drops it, I tell him good boy. The only thing is to only correct if you catch her in the act or right before. Yelling afterwards is not helpful because the dog doesn't know what you're talking about. It sounds like that's what you're doing, but just to be totally explicit. |
Hoggbond If you are using the No to stop action that is one thing.. it not working as you have stoped the action but not replaced it with what you want the dog to do. If your yelling to punish you are reinforcing the wrong thing and getting more of it insted of less. Ignore the pee one the floor take dog outside and or put in a differnt room and clean up and try again. I going to link you to a great article and site for all things training related and more so potty training fact sheet of a sort. ClickerSolutions Training Articles -- Housetraining Your Puppy JL |
This is what we did with Chip. If we were not able to watch him constantly, he stayed in his crate. As soon as he came out, we would block him on the pee pad until he peed then exageratedly praised him and gave him a treat. If he peed on the floor off of the pad, I firmly said no and took him to the pad and said "This is where you potty" and I said "Potty" a little louder, firmer, and more exagerated than the rest of the sentence. After hubby and I stopped being lazy and were more consistent, he got it within 3 weeks. |
I don't yell, but I use a stern load voice, I point at the pee puddle, pick her up and give her a pat on the bum, (not hard enough to hurt her.) Then I put her outside and say let her know she's a bad girl. Worked well for me. Now if she has an accident (which is rarely), I'm not as stern - she knows what she did was bad. If my Golden retriever has an accident (which is more and more with her turning 14) she is so guilty! I can tell she did something wrong before I even spot it. She then waits for by the door. I don't generally raise my voice too much at her, She knows the drill she just can't help it anymore. |
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