213. Paper-training on bathroom floor. Use of pee tray?

Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore

Maltese, Male, born July 30, 2005. Bought Nov 5, 2005. Apartment living.

1. First week - pee and poop anywhere when allowed freedom.
2. Confine to the bathroom. Newspapers on bathroom floor.
3. If puppy is seen peeing or pooping when let out, beat with newspapers.
4. Now, crate + door + wire flooring + pee tray when home alone.
5. Puppy goes to the newspapers in the bathroom now.

"Why not use the pee tray?" I advised. "Put newspapers onto the pee tray and put it inside the bathroom. This will save a lot of washing of the bathroom floor."

The young couple had not thought of that.

"However, the pupy need a big area as he turned and turned before poppingk" the young man said. "We have to put 2-3 spread out sheets of the newspapers for him."

In that case, the pee tray is too small.

"The puppy will only use new newspapers and will avoid the soiled ones," the owner mentioned. "He also avoid the soiled bathroom floor." This is a puppy's instinct to keep itself clean.

In this case, giving more newspapers to enable the puppy to get paper-trained. Spend time with training. The owner said it took 1 month and lots of training to get him paper-trained.