155. Success in toilet training the apartment puppy - time needed and restricted zone necessary
Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore
1. You need to spend time to supervise and bring the puppy to the toilet. The puppy must be confined to a small area.
2. TOILET TRAINING in the dog is also known as house-training or house-breaking.
2.1 EVERY HOUR, ON THE HOUR. If your puppy is around 8 weeks old, you need to take the puppy to the toilet every hour, on the hour.
2.2 When the puppy is about to squat, say "Pee now". When it obliges, give it a treat and praise. Let it play for 15 minutes under supervision. Put it back into the crate.
3. If you don't have a crate to confine the puppy, the substitutes are
play pen (puppy pen), leash it to your waist, tether it to a table near you.
4. In addition, take it to the toilet whenever it wakes up from a nap, finishes playing, eats or look restless (sniffing the floor, circling).
5. As the puppy gets older, extend the one hour to more than one hour. As a general guideline, a 2-month old puppy can hold its bladder for 2 hours and a 3-month-old puppy can hold its bladder for 3 hours. But this is a guideline.
NIGHT TIME.
6. Put the puppy in a crate if you have one. It is an invaluable aid to toilet-training (house training). Put the crate in your bedroom. She whines when she wants to go to the toilet. You need to get up to bring her to the toilet. If not, you weaken the "clean den" instinct in which all puppies do not soil their sleeping area which is the crate.
7. After taking it out, put it right back in the crate. No cuddling or it will wake you up for cuddling.
8. By 12 weeks, most pups sleep through the night. Continue to crate it at night till it is at least one year old.
9. When there is an accident, don't punish the puppy by rubbing its nose into the urine or beating it. Say "Go toilet" and bring it to the toilet spot. Then clean the tiles thoroughly with an anti-ammonia cleaner.
SOME REASONS FOR FAILURE
1. OWNERS NEED TO WORK. NOBODY AT HOME.
Ideally, confine the puppy in a puppy pen large enough to accommodate a crate. Make sure that the puppy pen will not collapse on the puppy while you are not at home. Put a thick pad of newspapers on the floor. Leave your puppy and its crate (with the door open) inside the pen. Most puppies will learn to pass urine and stools at one area of the newspaper and will not soil her crate. However, many puppies will shred the newspapers. Provide chew toys with food inside.
When you go home, just change the newspapers without making a fuss or punish the puppy.
2. PAPER TRAINING
In Singapore, most first-time owners buy 4 pieces of fences to hook together to form a play pen (puppy pen). It is too small to accomodate a crate. The apartment may also be too small for a bigger play pen. Put newspapers to cover 100% of the floor. Note the area which the puppy soils. Usually it is a particular spot. Every day, reduce the paper covering the floor by 10%. The puppy will be paper-trained when it uses the soils newspapers only.
3. URINE SPRAY AID FROM THE PET SHOP. Some owners think this housebreaking aid is ineffective. Some are happy with it.
4. PUPPY TRAINING PADS from the pet shop.
Puppy gate to confine the puppy in the a restricted area, room or the balcony area.
Wire or obstacle to prevent the puppy leaving a confined area.
5. PAPER SHREDDING. This is the most common complaint. Just ignore the puppy while you clear the mess on returning home from work.
6. TRACES OF URINE SMELL ON TILED FLOORS OR WALLS. Use a commercial anti-ammonial floor cleaner. Purchase from a pet shop. Or use vinegar (1 part of vinegar to 3 parts of water). If the puppy still goes to that particular spot, you may not have cleaned thoroughly. For resistant cases, spray an insect repellant on the area or use perfume to discourage the puppy.
7. MEDICAL PROBLEMS. Urinary tract infection may not be possible for the puppy to hold its urine. Diarrhoea upsets the routine of toilet training. Consult your veterinarian.
8. CHANGE OF TOILET LOCATION. If the older puppy is used to the carpet, it will hold its bladder if you want it to go to the grass downstairs. Bring pieces of carpet with you and gradually reduce the pieces so that the puppy will eliminate on the grass.
9. TOILET LOCATION TOO FAR. PUPPY DISTRACTED. Far away from the toilet area. The pup cannot hold too long if the toilet is far away and you want it to go to the grass downstairs.
10. LITTER BOX TRAINING? Commercially available pelleted litter are apparently available for dogs. Rarely seen in Singapore's pet shops, unlike cat litter.
When proper paper trained, let the puppy have a bigger area to move. Lift up the playpen so that it can access the newspaper when it needs to go to the toilet. If you can't supervise for signs of restlessness, accidents will happen. Just clean up the soiled area with an anti-ammonial floor cleaner.
1. You need to spend time to supervise and bring the puppy to the toilet. The puppy must be confined to a small area.
2. TOILET TRAINING in the dog is also known as house-training or house-breaking.
2.1 EVERY HOUR, ON THE HOUR. If your puppy is around 8 weeks old, you need to take the puppy to the toilet every hour, on the hour.
2.2 When the puppy is about to squat, say "Pee now". When it obliges, give it a treat and praise. Let it play for 15 minutes under supervision. Put it back into the crate.
3. If you don't have a crate to confine the puppy, the substitutes are
play pen (puppy pen), leash it to your waist, tether it to a table near you.
4. In addition, take it to the toilet whenever it wakes up from a nap, finishes playing, eats or look restless (sniffing the floor, circling).
5. As the puppy gets older, extend the one hour to more than one hour. As a general guideline, a 2-month old puppy can hold its bladder for 2 hours and a 3-month-old puppy can hold its bladder for 3 hours. But this is a guideline.
NIGHT TIME.
6. Put the puppy in a crate if you have one. It is an invaluable aid to toilet-training (house training). Put the crate in your bedroom. She whines when she wants to go to the toilet. You need to get up to bring her to the toilet. If not, you weaken the "clean den" instinct in which all puppies do not soil their sleeping area which is the crate.
7. After taking it out, put it right back in the crate. No cuddling or it will wake you up for cuddling.
8. By 12 weeks, most pups sleep through the night. Continue to crate it at night till it is at least one year old.
9. When there is an accident, don't punish the puppy by rubbing its nose into the urine or beating it. Say "Go toilet" and bring it to the toilet spot. Then clean the tiles thoroughly with an anti-ammonia cleaner.
SOME REASONS FOR FAILURE
1. OWNERS NEED TO WORK. NOBODY AT HOME.
Ideally, confine the puppy in a puppy pen large enough to accommodate a crate. Make sure that the puppy pen will not collapse on the puppy while you are not at home. Put a thick pad of newspapers on the floor. Leave your puppy and its crate (with the door open) inside the pen. Most puppies will learn to pass urine and stools at one area of the newspaper and will not soil her crate. However, many puppies will shred the newspapers. Provide chew toys with food inside.
When you go home, just change the newspapers without making a fuss or punish the puppy.
2. PAPER TRAINING
In Singapore, most first-time owners buy 4 pieces of fences to hook together to form a play pen (puppy pen). It is too small to accomodate a crate. The apartment may also be too small for a bigger play pen. Put newspapers to cover 100% of the floor. Note the area which the puppy soils. Usually it is a particular spot. Every day, reduce the paper covering the floor by 10%. The puppy will be paper-trained when it uses the soils newspapers only.
3. URINE SPRAY AID FROM THE PET SHOP. Some owners think this housebreaking aid is ineffective. Some are happy with it.
4. PUPPY TRAINING PADS from the pet shop.
Puppy gate to confine the puppy in the a restricted area, room or the balcony area.
Wire or obstacle to prevent the puppy leaving a confined area.
5. PAPER SHREDDING. This is the most common complaint. Just ignore the puppy while you clear the mess on returning home from work.
6. TRACES OF URINE SMELL ON TILED FLOORS OR WALLS. Use a commercial anti-ammonial floor cleaner. Purchase from a pet shop. Or use vinegar (1 part of vinegar to 3 parts of water). If the puppy still goes to that particular spot, you may not have cleaned thoroughly. For resistant cases, spray an insect repellant on the area or use perfume to discourage the puppy.
7. MEDICAL PROBLEMS. Urinary tract infection may not be possible for the puppy to hold its urine. Diarrhoea upsets the routine of toilet training. Consult your veterinarian.
8. CHANGE OF TOILET LOCATION. If the older puppy is used to the carpet, it will hold its bladder if you want it to go to the grass downstairs. Bring pieces of carpet with you and gradually reduce the pieces so that the puppy will eliminate on the grass.
9. TOILET LOCATION TOO FAR. PUPPY DISTRACTED. Far away from the toilet area. The pup cannot hold too long if the toilet is far away and you want it to go to the grass downstairs.
10. LITTER BOX TRAINING? Commercially available pelleted litter are apparently available for dogs. Rarely seen in Singapore's pet shops, unlike cat litter.
When proper paper trained, let the puppy have a bigger area to move. Lift up the playpen so that it can access the newspaper when it needs to go to the toilet. If you can't supervise for signs of restlessness, accidents will happen. Just clean up the soiled area with an anti-ammonial floor cleaner.
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