167. Pees on papers but poops outside papers.

Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore

A 4-month-old Jack Russell. Female. Paper-trained. Supervision. When the puppy whines, bring her to the newspapers. "Good girl" said when the puppy uses the newspaper as the toilet area. If she misbehaved, the owner looked at her "fiercely," and the puppy ran away to hide.

1. Toilet area is the kitchen or the bathroom.

2. Problem: The puppy pees on the newspaper but poops outside the newspaper area.

2.1. Solutions?

The puppy is a very clean animal. It does not like to step onto the urine as the owner provides only 1 sheet of newspaper as the toilet area. When it urinates there, the paper is soiled. Therefore, it needs to poop outside the papers.

2.2 Provide a much larger area of newspaper and put in 2 different nearby locations.
2.3 Buy anti-ammonia floor cleaning from the pet shop to remove the urine smell from the tiled floors.

3. Problem: In many Singapore apartments, the toilet is next to the kitchen. But the puppy goes only once to the bathroom to use it as a toilet.

3.1 The bathroom is far away as far as the puppy is concerned. It is a pack animal and prefers to be in the kitchen, near to family members. So, it uses the kitchen area.

3.2 It is motivated to use the kitchen as it gets lavish praises and none for using the toilet.

3.3 Most likely, the urine smell in the kitchen attracts the puppy to use this area as its toilet. Neutralise with vinegar:water 1:2 the strong ammonia smell of puppy urine.