452. Peeing off target during paper training

Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore

A common complaint from the puppy owners during my survey of the past 3 years is that the puppy does not pee directly onto the newspapers laid on the floor.

Reasons may be:
1. Papers are soiled. Some "cleanliness freaks" as one lady owner told me about her Silkie don't want to dirty their paws. As the soiled papers are not changed immediately, the puppy pees outside the paper edges.

2. The puppy steps onto the papers with its front paws. Well, he is on the papers but his back legs are outside.

3. The puppy urine smell or spray should be at the further end of the paper. But some owners spray the smell in the centre of the paper. When the puppy's nose smell the paper, his back half of the body may be outside the paper. So he is peeing "off target."

Puppies are not marksmen I guess.