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06-15-2010, 09:18 AM | #1 |
YT Addict Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Ocala, FL
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| Using training pads? I'm trying to train my 6 month old to use pads and to go outside. I can't get him to show any interest in them at all. I bought scented pads. I sprayed them with an attractant, I used them to blot up his pee from the carpet to try to attract him. I'm getting nowhere. Any suggestions? |
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06-15-2010, 09:35 AM | #2 |
♥ Jack & Josie ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: FL
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| I am still trying to potty train mine the same way. I'll give you my experiances you might can try. First are you leaving him behind a gate so he cannot roam (since he is not potty trained) If possible make his gated area more confined. Push it back till he gets used to using it. If you catch him using it any where else pck him up right then and say pee-pee or what-ever you call it and place him on pad. The more he starts using it you can give him more roaming room. Mine was almost 99.9% potty trained till I brought home the female. And it all went down hill. He is back behind the gate cause he now for sure wants to mark his spot. Peeing everywhere but on potty pad. Read somewhere last week about putting one of the small orange cones in middle of pad (he is now hiking his leg) to get him to pee there and believe it or not he is using potty pad and aiming for the cone. LOL. The more he uses the potty pad then you can start moving it closer to door if possible. I am no expert but this is what has been working for me. Trust me it has been a major trial and error. I keep saying I am going to win. One thing I have found if the pad gets too wet he want go on so you may want to not spray it with the scent stuff. I have never used that so I know nothing about it. Also when the female uses the pad he for sure wants to pee on that. LOL |
06-15-2010, 09:53 AM | #3 |
YT Addict Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Ocala, FL
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| I was doing outside only, but he seems to have regressed lately. It's like he doesn't want to be on the ground or something. I have a soft-sided playpen that I put him in when I leave him but he has never used the bathroom in it. I'm with him basically 24/7 and try to watch him like a hawk. He's sneaky about it. I put the pads in the spots that he goes most often in. I have 3 in that room. I keep the doors to the other rooms closed. He'll just go in a spot where the pad isn't. It's impossible to use a gate the way my house is...the rooms are large and open. Today, I'm setting the oven timer for every two hours. I always try to do every two hours, but the timer helps. He's had no accidents yet, but it's still early. I could try the playpen with the pads, but I hate to do that when I'm here in the house with him, and the fact that he doesn't "go" in it. The only predictable time I can take him out with certainty he'll go is when he comes out of his crate first thing in the morning. He has peed outside three times today, he just avoids those pads like the plague. When he poops it's over so fast that I hardly have time to get out the "ACK" before he's done. Then he'll pick it up and run away as fast as he can and he will eat it if I don't get it away from him. Is he hiding the evidence? I haven't heard of using a cone, mine will lift his leg a little but he doesn't seem to aim for anything. It definately is a trial and error thing and to tell you the truth it's discouraging and defeating. One day it all goes great, the next day I can't do anything but clean up after him. |
06-16-2010, 05:52 PM | #4 |
YT Addict Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: West Palm Beach, Fl, USA
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| I'm still learning but I went from Kasha peeing whenever she felt the urge (except of course on the potty pads) to her making in her area 70% of the time. Kasha didn't care if I sprayed the scent, used old pee or anything. The key was the gate. I have a really open floorplan in my apt so I took a hallway which leads to a bathroom w/ an extra wide gate thats mounted to the wall. They have free standing ones (not cheap but I have a jumper)(we do just a bathroom at my moms) and the WHOLE THING IS PAPERED(so not green). *What really got her to get it was taking her and immediately rewarding(w/in 3 secs) at a few key times. 1) DBF or I carry her to her playpen and ask her to "go peepee" when she goes, she gets out to play. It took my little brat about a week to go within 2 mins. I noticed that for her she went #2 about 10 mins after pee. I take her back after about 7. 2) After any nap. Not a paw on the ground. 3) Then I do the 1 hour timer while keeping her on tile. *I've noticed a remarkable difference. Perhaps it's just time. But I'd like to think she knows what she is doing. She will now excuse herself to pee and bark for a treat. Hope any of this helps.
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06-16-2010, 09:37 PM | #5 |
T. Bumpkins & Co. Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: New England
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| I always find whenever I want to do something new with my dogs that they are resistant to, I pull out the clicker and some yummy treats (usually sweet potatoes or some chicken). My dogs have been clicker trained since they were puppies and it's easy to clicker train your dog. There are lots of books on the subject or even info on the internet. The key to clicker training is TIMING. You must click at the moment the dog does the correct action. So once your dog is acclimated to the clicker and knows what it means, you can try it with the training pads. I'd wait until I knew the dog had to go. I'd put him/her on the pad (on leash) and give the command to pee (in our house we use the command "Be Clean!"). As soon as the dog is finished, I click and give a reward. The dog will quickly learn that peeing on the pad results in a click, and a click means that delicious food is coming his/her way. I hope this helps - don't give up, they can be trained to do anything....well, mostly anything!
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06-17-2010, 05:42 AM | #6 |
YT Addict Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Ocala, FL
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| I have a clicker! That's a great idea. Thanks everyone. |
06-21-2010, 08:02 AM | #7 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: rockledge
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| Pad training When I thought or knew my puppy had to go I picked him up and placed him on the pad...he would walk or try to walk off and I would just keep picking him up and placing on the pad...even if I had to do it 100 times...I would even stand there in defiance that he not move off unless he did his business. My puppy is very very good in general going to the pad to do his business now. He does have some accidents -maybe one sometimes none a day. I have have only had him for 8 days now. He is 11 weeks old. He did not come from a loving home but a puppy mill. I hate to say that but I knew nothing before I purchased him of puppy mills. With that being said I think he is doing great on the pad. Hope it works out for you. |
07-02-2010, 06:30 PM | #8 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Carmel, IN
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| Our Leia is six months and pees on the pad pretty well. I just put her on it if she makes a mistake and tell her to go potty. Or...when it is time for her to pee, I keep her on the pad until she goes and then reward her. BUT I can't get her to poop on the pad for anything. She only will poop on it sometimes while in the xpen. Any suggestions on this one?? |
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