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Is it too much for a pup? I was wondering if training a pup to potty on a pad AND outside? I am bringing home my little guy in a month but I don't want to confuse him. I want to make him feel comfy and safe before I do anything. I'd prefer if he goes on the pad but is it hard to train him to also go in the grass. Should I do one more than the other? *if there is a previous thread about this, feel free to delete.. And show me where that thread is located. :D |
I'm so happy for you that you are going to have a pup soon -- congratulations! :) My boys are both pad and outdoor trained. No problems. Focus on the pad training, and the outdoor part will come naturally. Be sure to praise, praise, praise for correct potties -- pad or outdoors. Maximo took a little while to figure out that it was okay to potty outside on our walks or outings. He is still excellent about discerning when and where it is okay to potty. For instance, he know stores and garden centers are not places to do his business. |
My vet thinks it is too confusing; but there are others (as above) who were successful at training both. I'm still working on the outside potty! |
thank you.. He's looks like a sweet little guy.. I really hope my boyfriend will open up to him. I'm sure a little puppy face will make him smile. :) I guess i'll just enforce the potty pad then and try the outside later. :) |
I have had wonderful success training my little girl with potty pads and going outside. It has been perfect for bad weather and and awesome that if she wakes in the night she goes back to the office where her potty tray/pad are, goes potty, comes back to bed and never wakes me up. I did have a trainer tell me how horrible potty pads are and that she would be going all over the house and she was so very wrong. My pup will be 3 in July and doesn't have accidents and knows exactly where she is supposed to go potty. I don't know if boy dogs are different though in their potty training. I'm sure you are so excited to get your little boy. Don't forget to post pics when you get him! |
My pup is six months old and we're trying to pad train him and train him to go outside. He figured out that we humans use the bathroom and that he was going to potty there too. It's great except when he doesn't manage to get in there with one of us before we close the door so he has little accidents every now and then. We're still working on going outside. He'll pee outside but he won't poop. |
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Just don't take your pup out until he has full immunity. You don't want to risk getting him/her sick. Good luck and Congrats! |
Mine are all trained to use potty pads inside at night and w hen we're gone and to go outside with a doggie door when we're home. I don't think it confuses them at all because I never find mistakes to clean up so I know they are trained. If I had it to do again though I would change one thing. At first I used the disposable pads and they tore them up so I went to the washable pads and it was fine...until they started mistaking my rugs as potty pads because they felt like the soft material of the washable pads. Later I found the tray that holds the disposable pads in place so I got one and started using disposable pads again and things are o.k. now. If I had it to do again I would have never started using washable pads. |
My boy is 7 months old and I am still trying to train him outside. He's a lot harder than my girl was. His trainer is absolutely against pads, but I think the best is what works for you. Everyone's needs are different. |
I do both, I focused more on him going outside at first, and then starting putting potty pads in his "room" which is the kitchen while I am away. When I'm not at home he goes on the pad if he needs to, I seldom if ever find poo in there (guess I'm not gone long enough for him to need to do both). He's six months old and the last accident he had was in my bf's place, but I didnt have any piddle pads for him there...So I do believe that it is entirely possible to do both, just focus more on the one that you want him to do while you are at home and able to provide for him, and use the other as a back up plan for when you can't give him the other. |
thank you for all the advice.. I do agree about his immunity so i'll train him with the potty pads until he gets his shots. Lexi was trained with that plastic square around the pad. But then she got used to just the pad. I think I could just borrow that plastic thing for him. Thanks again everyone! :-) i'm so excited to be able to love and teach my Bailey-to-be! |
Sophie Kate will go on a pad or outside, she is trained to the "go potty" command which I always use outside and when inside she goes on a the pad with no command but I learned I can not move the pad around it has to be in a spot where she is used to it being. |
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I was hoping that would be best to teach him.. Any other ideas?? :D |
I tried the pads and it didn't work that well; Merlin got confused with the carpet. Now we are trying him only to go outside which works quite well. Only when it is pouring, the mosquitos are eating me alive while he circles to find the best position or when I think of the winter I think it would be great if he could get used to the pads after all. On the other side he is still young, he will learn. I'm sure you can't wait to get your baby. |
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