292. Not recognising paper at toilet area

Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore

Miniature Schnauzer, Female, 3.5 months. With owner for past 2 weeks.
Complaint: "Cannot recognise that newspapers are the toilet area".

Couple with pre-teen daughter. Mother said, "Some problems with toilet-training. Canyou advise us?"

When have vets become puppy toilet trainers?


1. Crate with pee tray. Upper right corner - towel. Rest is newspapers. Water bowl and water bottle on left lower corner.

2. Puppy pees and poops sometimes on towel, shreds papers.

3. When taken out, roam the whole apartment, does not recognise the newspapers for toilet area and eliminates anywhere during past 2 weeks.



ADVICES.
1. Neutralise urine smell of whole floor of crate, including towel with white vinegar:water 1:1

2. Or get new towel.

3. Remove water bowl.

4. Relocate water bottle to lower right corner, not left corner.

5. Restrict to small area outside crate when puppy is let out. Supervise. Watch signs of wanting to pee or poop.

6. Get soiled newspapers (with urine smell). Put puppy on it when signs are seen.

7. Neutralise whole apartment floor.

8. Feed 2 x/day. This is done. Puppy eats all food within 5 minutes. This is OK.

Basically, confine, paper with urine smells and training on schedule. Ask owner to let me know in 2 weeks. If they ever do.