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Old 09-10-2012, 11:43 AM   #1
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Confused Pee pad to outside

Hello Everyone: I have a question for those of you who have used puppy pads. I have Wallee using a pee pad if he is in the kitchen during the day and we are away. We have started to give him a little more space while we are home and he still wants to use the pad even though I take him outside often. If I don't put a pad down, he will still go over to the spot where the pad usually sits. (I actually started to put the pad there as it seemed to be a spot he chose). I have used the cleaning products out there for getting rid of the smell so think it is just the area he choses. My question is this. I am going to start training him to ring the bell by the door to go out. Will this encourage him to give up the pads or am I confusing him giving him the option? He is turning 6 months old on Wednesday and he is great when he is in the crate. He sleeps for 8-9 hours at night but seems to go pee very often during the day when he is active. I am hoping that his frequency of peeing during the day will subside some when he is old enough to be fixed and his bladder matures?
Any input from those of you who have raised these little puppies is appreciated.
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Youve done a very good job getting him pad trained so well. THeY learn to go outside and potty pad if they completely going to the pad and understand that well which it sounds like he does. The bells sound like a good idea.
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It's much easier to teach him something new than to untrain him not to do something else. Teach him the new way, but only remove the pee pad when he gives it up and reliably goes outside.

Moving his potty spot outside is totally possible and I did it with two of my Yorkies, but it's not as easy as starting outside. Dogs become conditioned to peeing whenever they feel a certain texture underneath their feet or when they smell urine/ammonia. If he's attached to the pee pad and you remove it too quickly, he'll start peeing on your carpets.

Get him conditioned to grass before you remove it. The easiest way to do this is to spend lots of time on grass, especially on walks. Little boys like to mark their way around the neighbourhood and this gives you a great opportunity to take him to appropriate grassy spots and encouraging him to go. Take him out regularly and consistently and he'll be trained to grass in no time.
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Old 09-10-2012, 07:29 PM   #4
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I'm training Lucy to go outside. We've been working with her all summer. She just turned 7 months.

She was doing fabulous until the family went away and Lucy stayed a few days with the breeder. He kept her with her cousins in a lined ex-pen. After that, she had a few accidents.

Turned out to be OK, however. We have Lucy back on track to go outside. However, she'll also use the pad - particularly in the middle of the night. I leave a pad by my closed bedroom door. She climbs down off the bed on her puppy steps and b-lines to the pad. This doesn't happen often but when it does, I'm glad she has the option to go on a pad.

Generally I want Lucy to go outside all the time. Lucy can hold it a long time and is presently restricted to my kitchen while we're out. So far, no accidents while we're out. Only once or twice at night and she hits the pad.

So, you probably can train to do both. I'd only put the pad down when you want your pup to have that option. Otherwise take it up. Your baby must learn to go outside all the time without the option of the pad.

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I'm pad training and now outside. Not going well. My pup is 6 months old. Finding accidents in not so noticeable spots! I think she's confused. I'm not looking forward to this good luck. I hope you do better then I'm doing.
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When we trained ours we gradually moved the pad closer to the door and then outside to the xpen. It only took a couple of weeks to have them going outside after that. Mine won't use the pad at all now though.
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Thanks for all the tips everyone. I usually take him outside numerous times during the day for walks and also just out to the yard to pee. He will pee outside if I take him, however as I mentioned sometimes even after a long walk and numerous "markings" he will come in and use his pee pad within 15 minutes. I have tried moving it towards the door and unfortunately he still went to the spot where I usually keep the pad and peed on the carpet. I have used all the products to remove the smell and made sure the area is good and clean. Is it perhaps just that I will have to wait until he does'nt seem to need to go as often to totally remove the pad?
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Once he's neutered, he may mark less - but not necessarily.

Just stick with it. Make sure you're feeding on an exact schedule and try to monitor water intake.

After I walk Lucy, she usually takes a good long drink (sometimes I bring water with me.) Anyway, I note the time that she drinks a whole lot. That water's going to have to come out - so knowing when it went in really helps.

If you don't want your pup to use a pad, I think you have to take it up. Then go back to crate training.

I had a male pup for a little while and found that the marking makes training a little more difficult. I would purely crate train until he gets the idea of going outside.

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Well, he is nicely pad trained. I used to have two different pee pad areas, one in the bedroom and one in the living area. When I thought she was fully trained I thought I would remove the bedroom one. I was amazed to find she continued to pee where the pad had once been. I had to slowly move it a few inches every few days until I got it to the location of the other pad area.

I got Gracie to pee outside by taking her for walks. She would seem to find areas where she smelled other animals and would want to pee there. At first she seemed to think she was doing a bad thing, she would do it so fast. I would tell her she was a good girl when she would potty outside and now it is natural for her. I think it is harder to get a dog to pee in it's own yard because dogs tend to want their own areas clean. You can take a peed on pee pad out to a particular spot in the yard and give a pee command and WAIT. It is a waiting game. You need to find his timing and be totally involved in his potty habits if you want to change what you have already taught him. If he has an accident it is because he is doing what he was taught.

As a dog matures they usually have to pee less but conditions like heat and how much they drink can change that.

I still keep a pee pad in a pee pad frame in the house for Gracie. As long as we go on regular walks she does not use it very often. When I have to be away she may use it or sometimes at night she may get up and use it. I'm grateful to have the pee pads. It's good for her bladder not to have to wait for me and it's good for me in that if I get involved in something else she can potty anyway.
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Reuben is usually very good with his pads,but now and again he will wee where he likes.He,s 6 and a half months now.He can hold himself for 10 or 12 hours,even as tiny as he is.
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Reuben is usually very good with his pads,but now and again he will wee where he likes.He,s 6 and a half months now.He can hold himself for 10 or 12 hours,even as tiny as he is.
Well, if he can hold his urine that long I hope he doesn't. That can cause severe bladder and kidney problems.
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I don,t force Reuben to hold himself,in fact I don,t really force him to do any thing.But he will do his last wee around 9ish,and not go again until morning.8ish.I try and urge him to go before bed,but he just won.t.He sleeps very contentedly in between me and my husband.
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