252. Tip - The domestic worker quickly replaced soiled newspapers & the N-1 formula.
Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore
Miniature Schnauzer Black and Silver, Female, 5 months.
Puppy came in for consultation of vomiting 2 x today and 1 x yesterday. No diarrhoea.
Lives in a house. Fed in the garden (cleaner) but goes indoors to pee on the pee pan (Aluminium Pan).
Playpen + Aluminium Pan + urine spray aid on newspapers for first week.
Playpen fences removed on week 2.
Puppy trained to goto the newspapers on the pee pan. When she had accidents, she would be "beaten" ( a roll of newspapers hitting the floor).
"Why don't you carry her when you see signs of circling and squatting?" I asked.
"Too late," the daughter laughed. "Her urine would spray onto me."
It took around 4 weeks to successfully paper-trained. The daughter was having school holidays and could spend time training her.
Poops 3-4 times a day.
Pees 3-4 times a day.
This case was interesting because the mother and daughter (Sec 3 girl) knew that the puppy pees 3-4 times a day.
"How do you know this puppy pees 3-4 times a day?" I asked. Many puppy owners say "many times".
"The domestic worker is very good. She replaces the soiled newspapers on the pee pan immediately." The puppy will go to the pee pan newspapers in the living area downstairs even if she is on the 3rd floor of the house. What a clever puppy.
By changing the papers, the puppy was encouraged to eliminate to the papers.
THE N-1 FORMULA
As a general guideline, a puppy can withhold urine based on N-1 formula. N = Age of puppy in months.
In this 5-month-old puppy, N-1 should be 5-1 or 4 hours.
As waking hours are assumed to be 16 hours per day (not 24 hours), the puppy peeing 3 - 4 times means roughly 4 hourly of bladder control. This observation verifies the formula given by the dog experts. That means the 5-month-old puppy should not be crated or confined for more than 4 hours if the crate training method used in housebreaking.
Pooping 3-4 times while fed twice per day is surprisingly. Most puppies at this age can poop twice per day.
On further questions of vomiting, the puppy had been dewormed. There was no fever.
The puppy had been eating soil, grass and swallowing pieces of rawhides. The stomach might be upset by soil and maybe small stones and sand. So pooping 4 times per day may be the result.
It was kind of the mother to provide the information. I saw her looking at her watch. Only later did she tell me that her Sec 3 daughter was late for her Chinese tuition.
This is probably the only research report substantiating the N-1 formula proposed by some dog experts regarding how long can a puppy be confined without soiling the crate.
Miniature Schnauzer Black and Silver, Female, 5 months.
Puppy came in for consultation of vomiting 2 x today and 1 x yesterday. No diarrhoea.
Lives in a house. Fed in the garden (cleaner) but goes indoors to pee on the pee pan (Aluminium Pan).
Playpen + Aluminium Pan + urine spray aid on newspapers for first week.
Playpen fences removed on week 2.
Puppy trained to goto the newspapers on the pee pan. When she had accidents, she would be "beaten" ( a roll of newspapers hitting the floor).
"Why don't you carry her when you see signs of circling and squatting?" I asked.
"Too late," the daughter laughed. "Her urine would spray onto me."
It took around 4 weeks to successfully paper-trained. The daughter was having school holidays and could spend time training her.
Poops 3-4 times a day.
Pees 3-4 times a day.
This case was interesting because the mother and daughter (Sec 3 girl) knew that the puppy pees 3-4 times a day.
"How do you know this puppy pees 3-4 times a day?" I asked. Many puppy owners say "many times".
"The domestic worker is very good. She replaces the soiled newspapers on the pee pan immediately." The puppy will go to the pee pan newspapers in the living area downstairs even if she is on the 3rd floor of the house. What a clever puppy.
By changing the papers, the puppy was encouraged to eliminate to the papers.
THE N-1 FORMULA
As a general guideline, a puppy can withhold urine based on N-1 formula. N = Age of puppy in months.
In this 5-month-old puppy, N-1 should be 5-1 or 4 hours.
As waking hours are assumed to be 16 hours per day (not 24 hours), the puppy peeing 3 - 4 times means roughly 4 hourly of bladder control. This observation verifies the formula given by the dog experts. That means the 5-month-old puppy should not be crated or confined for more than 4 hours if the crate training method used in housebreaking.
Pooping 3-4 times while fed twice per day is surprisingly. Most puppies at this age can poop twice per day.
On further questions of vomiting, the puppy had been dewormed. There was no fever.
The puppy had been eating soil, grass and swallowing pieces of rawhides. The stomach might be upset by soil and maybe small stones and sand. So pooping 4 times per day may be the result.
It was kind of the mother to provide the information. I saw her looking at her watch. Only later did she tell me that her Sec 3 daughter was late for her Chinese tuition.
This is probably the only research report substantiating the N-1 formula proposed by some dog experts regarding how long can a puppy be confined without soiling the crate.
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