81. Professional dog trainer's advices on toilet-training
Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore
The owner had excellent advices from a professional dog trainer and was able to paper-train the Jack Russell puppy in 7 days.
The puppy was confined to a small area in the bathroom and the adjoining area. The 4 pieces of fences normally used to form a playpen were stretched out to barricade the kitchen area adjoining the bathroom.
This formed a large rectangular floor plan with the bathroom at the top 1/3 and the kitchen the lower 2/3 of the rectangle.
In the restricted kitchen area, the bed is placed in the kitchen area on the lower right corner. The feed and water bowls are placed on the upper right corner, near the entrance to the bathroom.
In the bathroom, the dog trainer advised spreading two sheets of newspapers to cover the the floor, not just 1 sheet. "Two pieces?" I asked again.
"The bathroom floor is more spacious than some apartment bathrooms" the owner said.
The puppy was fed 3 times a day at 7 a.m, noon and 7 p.m with dry dog food and 1/4 canned food. The owner spent time with the puppy. He sprayed the urine training aid onto the newspapers. Whenever the papers are soilded, he cleaned up the soiled papers.
"7 to 8 times per day" the young man said. "I encourage the puppy to use the papers."
Watch for signs of sniffing, circling and bring the puppy to the papers. Lavish praise when she does the correct thing. With this close personalised training, the puppy was paper-trained in 7 days.
The female Jack Russell was 2 months and 3 weeks old or nearly 3 months old. A 3-month old puppy would be able to control her bladder every 2 hourly as a guideline. So, changing newspapers 7 - 8 times a day, during the 12 waking hours of the owner seem to verify the guideline. I did not ask the owner whether he was attentive to the puppy overnight too.
"Did you need to neutralise the kitchen floor?" I asked.
"No," he said. "I just use a piece of cloth with water to clean the floor as I do not wish to use chemicals. Chemicals may poison the puppy. In any case, the puppy does not pee or poop on the kitchen floor."
"I also do not beat the puppy," he said. "Beating her promotes aggressiveness or she would run away on seeing me."
He had the puppy for only 7 days and it was paper-trained. Hard to believe but true.
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READERS e-mail to me your problems or solutions. Your queries may be included in the book to help all puppy owners all over the world. E-mail to judy@toapayohvets.com
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Advertisers and sponsors for this book and another book HOW YOUR PUPPY CAN LIVE LONGER?, please e-mail to judy@toapayohvets.com for more info or tel: +65 9668-6468.
The owner had excellent advices from a professional dog trainer and was able to paper-train the Jack Russell puppy in 7 days.
The puppy was confined to a small area in the bathroom and the adjoining area. The 4 pieces of fences normally used to form a playpen were stretched out to barricade the kitchen area adjoining the bathroom.
This formed a large rectangular floor plan with the bathroom at the top 1/3 and the kitchen the lower 2/3 of the rectangle.
In the restricted kitchen area, the bed is placed in the kitchen area on the lower right corner. The feed and water bowls are placed on the upper right corner, near the entrance to the bathroom.
In the bathroom, the dog trainer advised spreading two sheets of newspapers to cover the the floor, not just 1 sheet. "Two pieces?" I asked again.
"The bathroom floor is more spacious than some apartment bathrooms" the owner said.
The puppy was fed 3 times a day at 7 a.m, noon and 7 p.m with dry dog food and 1/4 canned food. The owner spent time with the puppy. He sprayed the urine training aid onto the newspapers. Whenever the papers are soilded, he cleaned up the soiled papers.
"7 to 8 times per day" the young man said. "I encourage the puppy to use the papers."
Watch for signs of sniffing, circling and bring the puppy to the papers. Lavish praise when she does the correct thing. With this close personalised training, the puppy was paper-trained in 7 days.
The female Jack Russell was 2 months and 3 weeks old or nearly 3 months old. A 3-month old puppy would be able to control her bladder every 2 hourly as a guideline. So, changing newspapers 7 - 8 times a day, during the 12 waking hours of the owner seem to verify the guideline. I did not ask the owner whether he was attentive to the puppy overnight too.
"Did you need to neutralise the kitchen floor?" I asked.
"No," he said. "I just use a piece of cloth with water to clean the floor as I do not wish to use chemicals. Chemicals may poison the puppy. In any case, the puppy does not pee or poop on the kitchen floor."
"I also do not beat the puppy," he said. "Beating her promotes aggressiveness or she would run away on seeing me."
He had the puppy for only 7 days and it was paper-trained. Hard to believe but true.
SHARING YOUR INSIGHTS:
READERS e-mail to me your problems or solutions. Your queries may be included in the book to help all puppy owners all over the world. E-mail to judy@toapayohvets.com
SPONSORS NEEDED:
Advertisers and sponsors for this book and another book HOW YOUR PUPPY CAN LIVE LONGER?, please e-mail to judy@toapayohvets.com for more info or tel: +65 9668-6468.
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