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02-25-2012, 08:02 PM | #1 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: WY
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| Potty questions for second pup! Riot came home in the dead of winter when he was 11.5 weeks old. We trained him on a potty pad since it was so cold out, and also since the door to the backyard is a long way from the living room and bedroom where we spend most of our time. Once the weather warmed up, and he had the hang of going on the pad, we slowly moved it closer to the back door until he started pottying outside and now he goes outside all the time. Chaos is coming home in a couple weeks, and once again there's lots of snow on the ground and temperatures are still very cold. If we take the same approach and train him on pads, would it be weird and confusing to have one who goes outside and one who goes on a pad?? I've never had two dogs at the same time so I'm just trying to work out what's best!
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02-25-2012, 09:52 PM | #2 |
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| There's a very good chance that the puppy will imitate Riot, follow him outside and do his business. Or set up an xpen with a peepad that Riot can't get access to...
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02-25-2012, 10:49 PM | #3 |
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| Agreed. The new dog will one day realize how wonderful it is to perform these bodily functions where it is most natural to their species and leave its scent outside for all the dog world to smell, especially after repeatedly seeing and smelling a sibling leaving its scent outside, and the newbie will want like heck to cover sibling's scent with its own and follow the canine's natural and centuries-old genetic predisposition to relieve itself 'out-of-doors'. After all, wolves nor early canines had any ready access to pads, newspaper, carpet or anything but the great outdoors in which to "do their business" until quite late in their history. And it is just born and bred into them to perform this natural function in the most natural place there is - the ground somewhere not too near their habitat, this ridding their body of waste and marking their territory.
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