ok, need advice for pad training... i've had my pup almost a week. he will be 9 weeks on friday. my set up for him is a 36 inch crate with potty box on 1 side and bed toys and food on the other side. from day 1 when he is in his crate he goes in his box like he is supposed to. he eats good and drinks good too. i keep the crate during the day in the living/dining area where he has full view of the whole front of the house. he loves his crate and has from day 1 also. at nite i move the crate by my bed and for the last 2 nites i have not heard a peep out of him until i get up a 6:30 (and my hubby gets up at 5:30 and showers and everything). we go to bed between 9 and 10. my hubby will even lay in bed and watch tv a while after we go to bed and still no fussing from Harley. He is doing to good! Anyway, during the day when he needs to go potty he just goes where ever unless i catch him and put him in his potty box in his crate. sometimes if he has been in his crate a while i will keep telling him to go potty over and over and will not get him out until he does. yesterday it was soo funny, after telling him to go potty for a while, i will go on about my business and i will hear him in there whining/barking and will check on him and he is sitting in his box next to his pee pee, like he is showing me he did it! The only time i let him run around and play is if i am watching him like a hawk... so am i doing the right thing??? will he eventually start going to his crate to potty... am i expecting too much from him too early (he is almost 9 weeks)? i really do not want pee pads all over my living room... just to move them later and him think its ok to still potty there.... I'm just not sure if i'm doing all this right and i'm getting a little stressed :confused: any advise will be appreciated! |
You are doing right by watching him like a hawk. He is still so young to get it but eventually will. I was always told not to let them go potty where they sleep because they will get used to it and don't move his potty area around because they get confused. I have pads in a certain area of my house and thats where they go. My babies could be busy doing whatever and once they need to go potty they run to their pads. I used to take mine to the pads every 30 mins and tell them go potty and it didn't take much for them to learn it. I think it took Timmy about 3 weeks and Mimi just learned from Timmy so I didn't have to train her. Oh and another thing...don't carry him to his potty area..walk him to it so that he knows his way. Good luck and just know that yes there will be mistakes because he is still very young. |
When I got Gus at 8 weeks he was really good about going pee pee on his potty pads, but then he would always poop in certain places. After, fighting with him to no avail, I decided to put potty pads where he liked to poop. This worked! I had to put 4 potty pads around the house in various rooms. I still keep them in those spots and we have had NO accidents since he was tiny!!! This worked for me, but I wish we only had one pad out at a time....oh, well. Plus, I have trained him to go when I say "Go potty". This works well if we are going somewhere in the car. |
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I know mine will not poop in the same pad that they have peed on. Thats why I keep 2 pads in an area and they pee on one and poop on the other:eek: I still feel like im going through pads but when its hard poop I just pick up the poop and leave the same pad there. |
Mine will poop and pee as many times as he can on all the pads while I'm at work! Ha ha. I swear I don't know where it all comes from :) I guess I am stuck with all 4 pads around the house, as I am too scared to try and remove any. Also, I place folded up white trash bags under my pads b/c the urine seeps through:mad: This has seemed to work at protecting my carpet, thank goodness! Unfortunately, for weeks or months I didn't realize that....Yuck!!! I have gone through a lot of carpet cleaner. |
how old are they when to expect they really understand "where to go potty" when you show them their pads??:confused: |
Gus pretty much knew at 8 weeks when I brought him home, but of course I still kept an eye on him and took him and put him on the potty pad after playing, eating, drinking, or waking up. I found that if they won't go, then be really patient and don't let them off the pad...that is how Gus learned the words "go potty". I would just gently pick him up and place him back on the pad if he tried to escape! He finally got the hang of it! |
I always read that you would have trouble potty-training if they had a potty space in their crate where they are sleeping. The puppy doesn't learn not to go in the crate and to hold it, and they'll go pretty much anywhere. Usually they don't like to poop/pee near where they sleep, but if that's their set-up, they will probably learn to go just about anywhere. We did the same thing when they were smaller, but read up on it and decided to block off the other half of the crate that is normally the potty place. The crate should be big enough for them to get up, walk in a circle, and lay back down. YT, correct me if I'm off on this, but this was what I was informed of when I first got my two.... |
i just thought that meant if you were training for them to hold it for you to get home or take time to take them out?? if they have potty spots around they shouldnt have to hold it right ?? :confused: |
Try rubbing a bit of his urine on the pee pad. When I brought Gracie home, she had peed on the pad in her travel crate. I put that pad in the x-pen where I wanted her to go. She has gone on the pad ever since, unless I have her somewhere that she can't get to it, then any accident is my fault! I have a very small crate inside of her x-pen. She has never gone in her crate. |
Everything I read said to keep their bathrrom spot as FAR away from their bed and food as possible, and especially not to mingle them in one crate. When we realized this (from reading hours online), we switched off coming home at lunches to let them out (or had a relative do it) ande got up once per night, until they were about 5-6 months old (20-30 weeks), and then they began to hold it all night and all day if they were crated. When they are super-young, their bladders are just too small to hold it that long.... |
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