330. 2 women afraid of the Shih Tzu's bites
Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore
"So naughty at home, quiet as a mouse at the Vet," the young lady laughed as she placed the carrier bag with a gold and white Shih Tzu puppy inside, onto the consultation table. "Always chasing me to bite me when I am back from school."
"Did you jump onto a chair when the Shih Tzu puppy wants to bite you?" I asked the chocolcate-brown sunburnt teenager. Probably she had indulged in water sports under the hot afternoon sun.
"His bites are very painful," she said. "He keeps chasing me to bite my ankle."
"Does he bite your father?" I asked.
"No," she said. "My mother runs away from him as he bites her."
"Biting or nipping by puppies is a common natural behaviour," I explained. "They mouth you as a way to communicate with you. These bites can be painful and must be discouraged. If you run or scream, the puppy gets a reaction and bites more."
Many lady owners and children don't know what to do as they are first-time puppy owners.
"Maybe you can say 'No' as you use a roll of newspapers to smack the floor when the puppy wants to bite. Distract him with play, a toy, a treat or praise when he does not bite."
TOILET TRAINING
The lady owner puts the 13-week-old male Shih Tzu in a crate with a pee pan below. On the right half of the pee pan, she sprayed toilet training aid onto the newspapers. In this way, she hoped that the puppy would associate elimination with papers and become paper-trained.
It is unusual to paper train this way. Usually, the puppy is in contact with the papers instead of through the wire flooring of the crate with newspapers below the wire flooring.
Night - sleep inside the crate.
Daytime - Roam the whole apartment.
Poop - anywhere. 3 x per day. Fed 8 am and 7 pm. Sometimes poop in crate, esp. morning.
Pees - sometimes go into crate. "Depends on his moods," the teenager said.
Was this method successful in paper-training?
"No," the teenager said. "Sometimes he refused to get into the crate when he is out. So he pees outside the crate." The puppy had free run of the whole apartment and so would not want to be crated for the past 3 weeks. Paper training was not successful.
"For paper-training, put newspapers outside the crate," I advised. "Use white vinegar :water 1:2 to neutralise all urine smells on the floor of the apartment rooms."
"Watch for signals of wanting to pee and poop," I said. "When you see the signals, put him on the newspapers."
The puppy is learning. He needs to be trained. Time must be spent with puppies as with teenagers if you want to win his or her heart. The interests and passion for puppy is play. For teenagers, it is music (arts) and sports (play). So, an owner must know how to train the puppy to the appropriate behaviour (not biting at ankles) by directing its playful bites to no biting.
"So naughty at home, quiet as a mouse at the Vet," the young lady laughed as she placed the carrier bag with a gold and white Shih Tzu puppy inside, onto the consultation table. "Always chasing me to bite me when I am back from school."
"Did you jump onto a chair when the Shih Tzu puppy wants to bite you?" I asked the chocolcate-brown sunburnt teenager. Probably she had indulged in water sports under the hot afternoon sun.
"His bites are very painful," she said. "He keeps chasing me to bite my ankle."
"Does he bite your father?" I asked.
"No," she said. "My mother runs away from him as he bites her."
"Biting or nipping by puppies is a common natural behaviour," I explained. "They mouth you as a way to communicate with you. These bites can be painful and must be discouraged. If you run or scream, the puppy gets a reaction and bites more."
Many lady owners and children don't know what to do as they are first-time puppy owners.
"Maybe you can say 'No' as you use a roll of newspapers to smack the floor when the puppy wants to bite. Distract him with play, a toy, a treat or praise when he does not bite."
TOILET TRAINING
The lady owner puts the 13-week-old male Shih Tzu in a crate with a pee pan below. On the right half of the pee pan, she sprayed toilet training aid onto the newspapers. In this way, she hoped that the puppy would associate elimination with papers and become paper-trained.
It is unusual to paper train this way. Usually, the puppy is in contact with the papers instead of through the wire flooring of the crate with newspapers below the wire flooring.
Night - sleep inside the crate.
Daytime - Roam the whole apartment.
Poop - anywhere. 3 x per day. Fed 8 am and 7 pm. Sometimes poop in crate, esp. morning.
Pees - sometimes go into crate. "Depends on his moods," the teenager said.
Was this method successful in paper-training?
"No," the teenager said. "Sometimes he refused to get into the crate when he is out. So he pees outside the crate." The puppy had free run of the whole apartment and so would not want to be crated for the past 3 weeks. Paper training was not successful.
"For paper-training, put newspapers outside the crate," I advised. "Use white vinegar :water 1:2 to neutralise all urine smells on the floor of the apartment rooms."
"Watch for signals of wanting to pee and poop," I said. "When you see the signals, put him on the newspapers."
The puppy is learning. He needs to be trained. Time must be spent with puppies as with teenagers if you want to win his or her heart. The interests and passion for puppy is play. For teenagers, it is music (arts) and sports (play). So, an owner must know how to train the puppy to the appropriate behaviour (not biting at ankles) by directing its playful bites to no biting.
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