244. Leash in Toilet Training :What's the next step?
Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore
The picture is worth a thousand words. I was fortunate that the dog owner with a pre-teen son really e-mailed to me the picture.
The son had said, "The puppy will eat the plants in the balcony!" when I proposed using the panels of fences (see picture) to confine the puppy as he poops everywhere when he is off-leash. I could see what the boy meant when I saw the picture.
The owner had bought a playpen with the Aluminium pee pan but found it to be ineffective. So he leashed the puppy to the hook in the balcony, spreading 2 sheets of 3-ply each of newspapers on the balcony floor. "Heavy use of newspapers," he said. "Sometimes the puppy poops in between the 2 sheets and the 6 soiled papers had to be replaced."
This puppy would not go back to the newspapers in the balcony to pee and poop. Why?
"Did you neutralise the ammonia smell of urine inside the living and dining area?" I asked.
"Yes, I used the enzyme breakdown anti-bacterial floor pcleaner bought from the pet shop," he replied. "Still the puppy went to pee on the living area, around the same spot."
"The smell of urine is too attractive, as puppies have a strong sense of smell." I said. "Some of the dog owners had success with white vinegar:water 1:2 used to neutralise the puppy urine smell on the floor."
He would try.
As to paper training, I advised that the whole apartment's urine smell be neutralised. Put the puppy inside the kitchen. Used soiled newspapers. "Maybe leash him?" the owner added.
"The puppy had never been tested whether he would go to the newspapers when confined and not leashed," I noted.
"I can close the sliding doors of the balcony and observe," the owner suggested. The puppy had never been left enclosed in the balcony area without a leash. It was an excellent idea.
The puppy sleeps in the living area. However when it rains, the puppy's newspapers are put inside the living area. This means that the living area smells of urine.
"Why not put the papers onto the aluminium pee pan you bought?" I asked."In this way, the floor tiles will not be soiled by pee and poop."
The owner had never thought about the use of the pee pan. He would not have to use so many newspapers if he train the puppy to pee and poop on the pee pan. He will try this out in the kitchen or the balcony.
It was quite a very interesting talk (if you were a first-time puppy owner). I would see how he succeeded. Maybe I should be a puppy toilet training consultant if there is such a position.
But I was happy he sent me a picture (above) overnight. It was a good picture and it is worth a thousand words of my writing!
The picture is worth a thousand words. I was fortunate that the dog owner with a pre-teen son really e-mailed to me the picture.
The son had said, "The puppy will eat the plants in the balcony!" when I proposed using the panels of fences (see picture) to confine the puppy as he poops everywhere when he is off-leash. I could see what the boy meant when I saw the picture.
The owner had bought a playpen with the Aluminium pee pan but found it to be ineffective. So he leashed the puppy to the hook in the balcony, spreading 2 sheets of 3-ply each of newspapers on the balcony floor. "Heavy use of newspapers," he said. "Sometimes the puppy poops in between the 2 sheets and the 6 soiled papers had to be replaced."
This puppy would not go back to the newspapers in the balcony to pee and poop. Why?
"Did you neutralise the ammonia smell of urine inside the living and dining area?" I asked.
"Yes, I used the enzyme breakdown anti-bacterial floor pcleaner bought from the pet shop," he replied. "Still the puppy went to pee on the living area, around the same spot."
"The smell of urine is too attractive, as puppies have a strong sense of smell." I said. "Some of the dog owners had success with white vinegar:water 1:2 used to neutralise the puppy urine smell on the floor."
He would try.
As to paper training, I advised that the whole apartment's urine smell be neutralised. Put the puppy inside the kitchen. Used soiled newspapers. "Maybe leash him?" the owner added.
"The puppy had never been tested whether he would go to the newspapers when confined and not leashed," I noted.
"I can close the sliding doors of the balcony and observe," the owner suggested. The puppy had never been left enclosed in the balcony area without a leash. It was an excellent idea.
The puppy sleeps in the living area. However when it rains, the puppy's newspapers are put inside the living area. This means that the living area smells of urine.
"Why not put the papers onto the aluminium pee pan you bought?" I asked."In this way, the floor tiles will not be soiled by pee and poop."
The owner had never thought about the use of the pee pan. He would not have to use so many newspapers if he train the puppy to pee and poop on the pee pan. He will try this out in the kitchen or the balcony.
It was quite a very interesting talk (if you were a first-time puppy owner). I would see how he succeeded. Maybe I should be a puppy toilet training consultant if there is such a position.
But I was happy he sent me a picture (above) overnight. It was a good picture and it is worth a thousand words of my writing!
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