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01-20-2014, 10:56 PM | #1 |
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| Little girl potty training question I have a question about potty training little girl puppies. I'm watching a little female puppy of unknown age (possibly anywhere from 4-7 months old). My question is, do little girls have a tell when they are about to go potty? With all the other foster puppies I've watched, all male, they sniff intensely which is how I know they need to go potty. Or, another thing I do is let Kaji go out a min before them, and then the little boy fosters always try to outdo Kaji, hence helping me with the whole potty training process. My tried and true methods have failed me with this little girl. She has no "tell." She will squat down mid fetch and pee; or just hanging out, she'll randomly just squat. No sniffs, or anything. Is this normal for little girls?
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01-20-2014, 11:57 PM | #2 |
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01-21-2014, 12:04 AM | #3 |
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| My puppy seems to sniff around about Unless she's already close to the area where she is supposed to go, in that case, she'll just go, even if it's not on the paper, just in the area. |
01-21-2014, 04:18 AM | #4 |
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| I don't know about all female pups, but my Annie who is 4 years old still doesn't give me any signals whatsoever. She and I will be "talking" and she will just squat and pee on the carpet. The one thing I have noticed is that when she gets up off my lap, she will turn around and look at me and that's my queue to take her to the kitchen to her pee pad. So far, we haven't had any accidents....knock wood! |
01-21-2014, 04:39 AM | #5 |
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| I have one that will search just for the right place and circle about 7 times before she finds the right spot. The other one will just get on the pad and go. The one that searches was easier to train. It took the other one about a year before I had her trained.
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01-21-2014, 05:55 AM | #6 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | Bella circles her chosen spot once she's found it. She also marks Tuffy's pee spot (which I've always found incredibly odd!). Tuffy will stand in front of you when he has to go out. With the puppy you're caring for, I'd just stick to taking it "to potty" every hour to hr 1/2. Hopefully you'll pick up on a tell signal soon. Have fun pupsitting!
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01-21-2014, 07:40 AM | #7 |
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| I don't know why people think dogs know instincivily to alert an owner when they need to to go out to potty, if you are lucky some will tell you out of frustration by circling the let out spot or bark. If a dog circles or sits by the door how do you know that if you are in another room and can't see them. With a child you have to teach them not only where to go but to also let you know they need to go, same with a pup. To me teaching a pup to go outside is only half the battle, why not incorporate an alert in the process. The only alert I know that I can hear throughout my house is ringing a strand of jingle bells and it was easy to teach, and believe me she is not easy to teach tricks to. I don't know how long you have the foster pup and if the time would be worth it for you. Perhaps like someone else said it would be easier to just take her out often.
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01-21-2014, 10:05 AM | #11 |
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| Neither of my girls have let me know until almost 12months of age. We have tried the bell. We have tried bark/speak. Both of them walk around with their noses on my floor all of the time. So I set a timer. If they are less than a year,they go out EVERY hour. During the 8 or 9 months of age and 12 months they will come to me and I swear they look like they are doing a pee pee dance,staring me in the eye and sometimes whining. Mina has to walk into her squat,Kenzie can just curtsy,pee and go on. |
01-21-2014, 11:24 AM | #12 |
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| Callie always sniffs first and when its poo she would normally sniff hard and fast sometimes in a circle.
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01-21-2014, 12:49 PM | #13 |
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| With Cookie it was really challenging at first. She sniffed around when she had to go, but she was also constantly sniffing around both indoors and out (I know she could smell Minnie). So sniffing was almost completely out for me as a way of telling, because she did it 24/7 from age 3-4.5 months or so. She didn't circle intensely; Cookie would usually do maybe 1/2 to 1 full circle and then squat. It was too fast to stop it even with a hawkeye on her, so all I could do is give negative reinforcement (e.g., saying NOOO or BADDDD in a stern voice) and take her outside immediately. I was lucky in that my breeder (Deb Sillers) had already trained her to never go on furniture, and the only accident she ever had on furniture was from excitement (but it was tough to complete the training since Cook was used to pee pads and the doggie door when Deb raised her, and neither method was appropriate at my house). It can be an adventure training a little girl!
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