399. Routines, quality time and the N-1 formula for your puppy

Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore

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A TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF A ROUTINE BY A WORKING COUPLE WITH PUPPY HOME ALONE.
Example taken from No. 397

My puppy's daily schedule: (Weekday)wake up – 7.00am

1st feeding – 7.30am
go downstair - 7.50 am
playing - 8.30 - 9.00 (play a while at home)
sleeping - after i leave for work, most of the time she sleeps. ( i on classical music for her whole day so that she won't feel bored).


2nd feeding - 7.30pm
go downstair - 8.00pm
training (sit, come, stop...) - 9.00pm (at home).

Play until 12pm then sleep







My puppy's daily schedule: (Weekend)
wake up - 10am

1st feeding - 10.30 am

During Weekend, we will bring her out longer to the nearby park and basically she will have free roam for the whole day when she is at home.

She will sleep underneath sofa and then wake up to play again, there is no specific
time of playing and sleeping.

2nd feeding - 8.30pm

Sleeping - 1.00am


COMMENTS ABOUT THE FIRST 3 WEEKS

For the new puppy, the routine is too flexible for his stage of development.
At 5 months old, he is able to control his bladder for 4 hours but he is being toilet trained.

When the owner leaves him after 1-2 hours waiting for him to pee, he pees on the bathroom. But not when the owner is outside the baby gate waiting for him to eliminate. He was brought outdoors and might have eliminated outside. So, he could hold his urine till the owner gave up to go to sleep.


1. During weekends, he is permitted him to roam the whole apartment - pee and poop anywhere as he is not yet toilet trained.

2. During weekdays, he is home alone during office hours. Accidents happen.
Sleeps on pee pan in the bathroom during weekdays? Why?

3. Pee and poop outdoors affect his toilet training routine at home. He has eliminated in the evening walk during the weekday at 8 pam.

After going home, the owner waited 1-2 hours outside his bathroom for him to pee in the bathroom. They get disappointed. When they leave to go to sleep at around 12 midnight, he pees in the bathroom.

This case shows that the N-1 formula works.N= age of puppy in months (5 months old).
N-1= 5-1 = 4

The 5-month-old puppy pees around every 4 hours. Assume he pee when brought downstairs during weekdays at 8 pm. He might have eliminated downstairs.

Went home at 9 pm. Owner waited 1-2 hours for him to pee inside the bathroom (and the pee pan) from 9 pm - 11 pm.

No elimination.

When owner goes to sleep at 12 midnight i.e. 4 hours after going downstairs, he pees.