368. Draft - Westie house-breaking
Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore
Small confined area with 100% newspapers. However, the first week will be stressful for the owner as the puppy gets paper-trained. Eating poos and drinking urine are behaviours not acceptable.
See e-mail below.
"E-mail from a dog owner">:
Dear Dr Sing,
We hope you remember us. We came to you with our westie yesterday for new puppy examination. We were seeking your advice on housebreaking and you were sharing some of the methods with us.
We are now using a smaller confine area with newspaper covering the entire confined place, the problem is that our pup will lick/drink it’s own urine and eat it’s own poo (even when we are clearing away the papers with the poo). It will even lie over it’s own urine and poo. Please do advise us on how to get our pup to stop these behaviors, thanks.
We are glad to add that it is not urinating and passing motion on it’s chosen sleeping area though.
Regards
E-MAIL REPLY
Aug 10, 2006
6.20 pm, National Library Victoria St 7th floor
1. Thank you for your feedback.
2. During the first week, there is a lot of stress to most owners and puppies over the toilet training behaviour.
3. Eating poo is not common in puppies but it happens in many puppies. In my survey, around 1 out of 50 pups will eat its own stools.
3.1 Drinking urine is less common than eating poo but it happens.
3.2 One solution is to change newspapers frequently and to give firm strong commands "No". Distract him with a toy or play. However, you can't change newspapers frequently because nobody is at home.
3.3 There are solutions proposed by others, like shaking cans with pebbles (to distract him) when he starts eating stools or spray him with water from a spray bottle. Putting pepper on stools.
4. Lying down on soiled papers. This will take some time for him for you to train him. He has had been in Australia (toilet training method unknown) and had been crated on wire flooring at the pet shop. His urine and poo probably fell through the gaps of the wire flooring to the pee pan below, keeping him relatively dry. He got confused for the first 7 days with you as you are using newspapers.
5. Now he has a new toilet area - the newspapers. It takes at least 7 - 30 days of your patience and perseverance to train him to accept the papers. Praise and reward with treats when he does eliminate on the papers. It takes time and monitoring for signs of wanting to eliminate - sniffing, circling, turning. Pick him up and put him on the papers. If you spend full time training him, it will be around 7 - 14 days to be paper-trained. If not, usually it takes 30 days.
6. Let me know after 7 days how is his progress.
P.S. The newspapers may not cover a sufficient area for the puppy. It is hard to tell from e-mails. In such cases, the increase in confinement area may resolve the problem as the puppy may not have space to keep clean. Or he could be used to sleeping on urine in the pet shop and so consider it normal.
Small confined area with 100% newspapers. However, the first week will be stressful for the owner as the puppy gets paper-trained. Eating poos and drinking urine are behaviours not acceptable.
See e-mail below.
"E-mail from a dog owner">:
Dear Dr Sing,
We hope you remember us. We came to you with our westie yesterday for new puppy examination. We were seeking your advice on housebreaking and you were sharing some of the methods with us.
We are now using a smaller confine area with newspaper covering the entire confined place, the problem is that our pup will lick/drink it’s own urine and eat it’s own poo (even when we are clearing away the papers with the poo). It will even lie over it’s own urine and poo. Please do advise us on how to get our pup to stop these behaviors, thanks.
We are glad to add that it is not urinating and passing motion on it’s chosen sleeping area though.
Regards
E-MAIL REPLY
Aug 10, 2006
6.20 pm, National Library Victoria St 7th floor
1. Thank you for your feedback.
2. During the first week, there is a lot of stress to most owners and puppies over the toilet training behaviour.
3. Eating poo is not common in puppies but it happens in many puppies. In my survey, around 1 out of 50 pups will eat its own stools.
3.1 Drinking urine is less common than eating poo but it happens.
3.2 One solution is to change newspapers frequently and to give firm strong commands "No". Distract him with a toy or play. However, you can't change newspapers frequently because nobody is at home.
3.3 There are solutions proposed by others, like shaking cans with pebbles (to distract him) when he starts eating stools or spray him with water from a spray bottle. Putting pepper on stools.
4. Lying down on soiled papers. This will take some time for him for you to train him. He has had been in Australia (toilet training method unknown) and had been crated on wire flooring at the pet shop. His urine and poo probably fell through the gaps of the wire flooring to the pee pan below, keeping him relatively dry. He got confused for the first 7 days with you as you are using newspapers.
5. Now he has a new toilet area - the newspapers. It takes at least 7 - 30 days of your patience and perseverance to train him to accept the papers. Praise and reward with treats when he does eliminate on the papers. It takes time and monitoring for signs of wanting to eliminate - sniffing, circling, turning. Pick him up and put him on the papers. If you spend full time training him, it will be around 7 - 14 days to be paper-trained. If not, usually it takes 30 days.
6. Let me know after 7 days how is his progress.
P.S. The newspapers may not cover a sufficient area for the puppy. It is hard to tell from e-mails. In such cases, the increase in confinement area may resolve the problem as the puppy may not have space to keep clean. Or he could be used to sleeping on urine in the pet shop and so consider it normal.
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1 Comments:
HI! I'm new here, and this seems like a good site for info. I've got soooo many questions about my 3-month old pug! I think I'm really lost on this puppy training stuff! I'm going to be so bold as to post my list of issues/questions here and see what input anyone might have. And of course I appreciate any and all comments!!! Thanks!
1. Eats newspaper all the time now
2. When not eating newspaper, tearing at it constantly
3. Chews on everything, including our clothes while we're in them, even though she's got plenty of chew toys around
4. Pooping more than when we first got her, but solid
peeing on pad, then not (next to, then nowhere near)
5. Never poops on pad; same spots in living room, even though odor remover used constantly
6. Frequent bouts of hiccups; sometimes double, sometimes triple
7. After three weeks of crate training, still crying and howling for quite a long time. Often ok now when first put in for the night, but then wakes in the wee hours due to wetting or pooping on the newspapers in her crate. Once i clean her and everything in the crate, ishe gets a quick cuddle and is then put back in her crate, but then she will howl until someone comes to get her and sleep with her. We try to let her cry it out, but she goes on endlessly, and we need sleep!
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