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Saturday, November 21, 2009

472. Toilet Training 2 puppies at one time

Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore

E-MAIL TO DR SING, JUL 19, 2009
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:23 PM, <...@yahoo.com.sg> wrote:

Hi judy,

I hope this is not too much trouble for u. I recently bot 2 japanese spitz puppies. They are with me for 3 weeks now. The first 2 weeks, i admit i make some mistakes in the house breaking training.

Now i have confined the 2 puppies separately in 2 play pen. When the puppies are inside the play pen, they usually most of the time would pee n poo on the pee tray. When i open up the play pen to let them play hard, they would pee on other places. One pee very far, so i thought he prob couldnt find his way back. The other one pee abt 20 cm away from the pee tray. Why is it that when the play pen is opened up, they forgot where they shld pee just like how well behave they are when they are confined in the play pen.

Can u give me some advice as to what i shld do? I am so close to pulling out all my hair.


Thanks n regards
XXX
E-MAIL FROM DR SING, JUL 19, 2009

I am Dr Sing. Thank you for your e-mail.

1. In reply, I presume you have two puppies coming out of the 2 playpens at the same time.

2. The two are then given a much bigger area to play. They forget about their pee tray.

3. Ideally, you should permit one puppy to come out to an extended area which is around 2X the area of the playpen (e.g kitchen area). Open the playpen gate and monitor the puppy. If he goes to the pee tray, praise and give food treat. If he shows signs of wanting to pee, carry him quickly to the pee tray. Be observant.

4. The other puppy should be confined and not be seen by the other puppy while you train this one.
5. Repeat paragraph 3 with the other puppy.

6. In cases where there is only one puppy, it takes 2-4 weeks of confinement inside the playpen 90% of the time before they know that they must go to the pee tray to eliminate when they are let out of the playpen into a bigger area (not the whole apartment, just the kitchen or bathroom as an example). It is not just 1 week as that was what I presumed you did.

7. Therefore, go back to the basics as mentioned in paragraph 3.

Dear mr sing,

Thank you very much for your prompt reply. I really really appreciate it. I will listen to your advice and do as u said. I will definitely write back once the house breaking training is successful for the 2 puppies.

A big thank you.
XXX

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:50 PM, XXX wrote:
Hi dr sing,

I need more advice. One of the puppy behave really well when she is in her play pen. She poo n pee almost 95% on the pee tray. I followed your advice n give her a bigger area in the kitchen. I have a really big kitchen so i still hv to use the play pen to make the area only 2x the area of the playpen she is staying in. But she still doesnt know how to go to the pee tray to pee. But when i bring her back to her own play pen, she almost immediately pee n poo on the pee tray!
Why is that? What hv i done wrong? N what more shld i hv done?

The other puppy is hopeless. I didnt even wanna try the 2x play pen kitchen strategy on him. I think i need to confine him for another 1 or 2 weeks b4 i try the 2x play pen kitchen strategy. What do u think?

Sorry to bother u agn.

Pls advise me on this.

Regards

XXX
E-MAIL FROM DR SING, JUL 22, 2009

Hello
1. Start from the beginning again.
2. Confine the puppies for 2 weeks inside the playpen.
3. When you increase the area to 2X the area of the playpen initially, your puppy is "distracted" by your attention and forgets to go to the pee tray.

471. New puppy barks after midnight

Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore

Toa Payoh Vets Clinical Research
Making veterinary surgery alive
to a veterinary student studying in Australia
using real case studies and pictures

Why does the new puppy bark after midnight?
Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS (Glasgow), MRCVS

First written: Oct 28, 2009
Updated: Nov 21, 2009 (3rd vaccination)


Case study:
Couple: Working husband and home-maker wife in her late 20s.
Miniature Dachshund, Male, 2 months, bought from the pet shop 3 days ago. I was consulted on blood appearing in the evening stools 3 evenings but not in the day stools. The puppy was fed 2 times a day as advised by the pet shop.

This case has two common complaints amongst new puppy owners, viz.:

1. Blood in stools. For the past 3 evenings, the puppy poops loose stools with blood seen but was otherwise healthy and active.

2. Barking at around 2 am - 3 am and then at 6 am.
"He is seeking attention," the young lady owner said. "We just ignored him and he would stop barking. Then at 6 am, he would bark. He wants to come out of his playpen to play.

Reality & Solutions
1. Blood in the stool. Usually due to stress (change of environment and feeding).

2. Feeding 2x a day is common recommendation by pet shop puppy sellers in Singapore. Less eating, less pooping as the puppy eats all food usually and then poops 2x/day, after eating, instead of many times. This puppy poops 2x/day.

3. "Seeking attention past midnight". Few puppy books mention about this behaviour. Actually, the puppy barks to ask the owner to change the soiled newspapers. In this case, the puppy was now restricted to a one-page width of the newspapers. He pees around every 2 hourly. He does not want to step on soiled papers but being confined in the playpen, he could only communicate with people by barking: "Please change soiled newspapers."

Solutions: Understanding canine behaviour --- All normal puppies want a clean area to eliminate and to sleep.

I propose that the owner spread 75% of the playpen flooring with newspapers at night, thus giving the puppy more clean papers and therefore no barking at 2am to 3am. 25% of the floor space is his bed towel space. The 2-month-old puppy has a weak bladder and pees every 2 hourly approximately. Will this work in practice? She will let me know when the puppy comes for his 3rd vaccination.

P.S
A pee pan with newspapers on top will be better as urine will not soil the marble floor of the living room. The puppy was not crated inside the kitchen as he barks for attention. So, the owner puts him in the living room. Ideally, the kitchen's ceramic tiled floor will be better for cleaning. Most Singapore condo kitchens barely have space for the cook and her assistant, so the puppy is housed in the living cum dining area.

UPDATE AT THE 3RD VACCINATION.
The puppy has grown up a lot and has no more blood in the stools. The young lady owner told me she had bought a grate + pee pan set which is the correct idea as the puppy was brought up on a grate + pee pan surface at the Singapore pet shop.

"Sometimes the puppy eliminates on the newspapers and sometimes in the grate + pee pan placed in the balcony", the tall and slim lady explained to me. I could see that the puppy was confused.

"Place the grate + pee pan inside the play pen (confined area). This will create less confusion during the toilet training the puppy."

Of course, this puppy will not be paper-trained, but be grate + pee pan trained in this situation.

Puppy toilet training by various new puppy owners as a research topic is a fascinating subject. I approach it like a mystery thriller if you are a reader of this genre. There is a mystery which puzzles the owner. However, the vet can't visit the scene of the crime, for practical purposes. So, he has to figure out and solve the mystery.



Toilet training solutions is an excellent means of of opening a communication channel with your new client. The vet needs to have some knowledge of puppy toilet training methods and most important, time. It takes up much time to talk about evacuation in a puppy as first-time owners are usually puzzled by the strange behaviour of the young one. Pee and poop anywhere and at any time. It is enough to pull one's hair out especially if there are two puppies. If a vet has 80 clients a day, it is extremely difficult to talk about bowel and bladder movements. His or her mind is just too tired and mechanical.

Updates are at www.toapayohvets.com

Thursday, November 19, 2009

470. Car sickness in a puppy in Singapore

Wednesday, Nov 18, 2009

I don't know whether the present crop of vets are trained in answering questions on puppy toilet training as every puppy home management and situation is not the same. I illustrate the following case of "a couple with child" as an example.

Puppy: Japanese Spitz, Male, 4 months
Seller: Commercial Breeder, Singapore-based. Purchased 3 days ago.
Buyer: Couple in their 40s. One 10-year-old child. Expatriate.
Equipment sold : Crate + grated floor + pee pan. Bed. "The puppy prefers the grated floor," the wife commented.

Consult: Vaccination voucher. 3rd vaccination.

Problems:
1. Car motion sickness. Puppy was fed. Vomited inside carrier bag in a taxi to Surgery.

What is the solution? Short trips and food treat as a possible solution.

1. No feeding before vehicle travel.
2. Short car rides e.g. 5 minutes. Give food treat at the end of travel.
Expat has no car as car ownership is very expensive in Singapore, so it is not a surprise that the expatriates have no car but live in a prime area.
3. Buses and subway travel - dogs are not permitted. I suggest putting puppy in a big lady's bag. Go up the bus. Alight after one bus-stop. Food treat after alighting. This may focus the puppy's mind on the treat. Repeat for 2 bus-stops and so on.
4. Tranquilisers. Available from the vet.

2. "Toilet training. How to do it?," the Asian wife wearing a hat with flowers asked me.

Here are my advices:

1. Do you want to paper-train the puppy or to use the floor grate method? Usually puppies from commercial breeders in Singapore are used to the floor grate method. The couple said that the puppy shreds newspapers instead of eliminating on them. "The puppy does not know what the newspapers are meant to eliminate," the husband concluded correctly.

1. History: The puppy had been crated and the breeder had sold the couple a crate with a floor grate + a pee pan below. However, no instructions or book on how to use it effectively.

2. Confine to the crate for 2 weeks most of the time. Feed the puppy outside the crate. Ensure he finishes his food within 10 minutes. If not, take away the bowl and put him back into the crate. He will poop within 15 minutes after eating as in most puppies not distracted. Water bottle hung on the crate or a water bowl.

3. Distraction means a child or adult petting him while he eats. The couple and child were guilty. So, the puppy poops at unknown times in the apartment. He was free to roam. So he pees and poops everywhere.

4. Location of crate. In the living area where he can see everybody, except the area where the couple has meals. The kitchen (recommended by me) is too small. This location is not conducive for toilet training as there are too many distractions. I suggested the bathroom for the puppy during meal times (breakfast and dinner). A bathroom with a baby gate will be ideal in this case during meal times to shut out distractions and for the puppy to poop.

5. "How about taking the puppy downstairs twice a day?" the husband was told by the breeder not to take the puppy outdoor till the 3rd vaccination. Yet this dog must socialise and be used to public noises and traffic at this age.

"This puppy can go outdoors provided he does not go to the areas where dogs have been, in case of parvoviral infections from other dog's stools. Parvoviruses do kill puppies. Take the puppy out after he has pooped. Normally, the puppy poops 2-4X at this age." The wife said 3X including overnight.

6. "This puppy pees too many times," the wife asked if there was a way to reduce the times. Pee will flow through the grated floor into the pee pan.

"At 4 months of age, the puppy pees around every 3 hours (N-1 formula where N=months). So, he will pee 8 times in 24 hours. This formula is a guideline. Control of the bladder muscle will take another 2-4 months."

Take away the water at 8 pm. I forgot to tell the lady as there were so many questions. It is best to get all advices written down. This will take a book to properly record everything.

7. Clean area (sleeping) and dirty area (elimination). The elimination area inside a crate will be distant from the clean area.
No normal puppy will eliminate on sleeping area or soiled elimination area. I advised prompt cleaning of the elimination area though the stools and urine usually fall through the grate. In this way, the puppy is encouraged to use the floor grate for elimination.

By week 2, let the puppy out into an extended area which may be 2-4X the floor area of the crate. The puppy should be jumping into the elimination area inside the crate to pee and poop. Eating, drinking and possible sleeping area will be outside the crate.

By week 3, the puppy is free to roam one or two rooms. All bedrooms are out of bounds.
By week 4, the puppy has been either floor grate trained or will be eliminating in one particular spot in the bathroom. Each puppy is different and so it is hard for me to predict.

Dr Sing's comments:
In conclusion, toilet training has to start immediately with a routine of feeding, drinking, exercise and food treats for successful performance. No distractions from children and adults during the first week or two. The wife said she will let me know the outcome.

469. Confusing the Golden Retriever puppy

ONE OF 4 CASE STUDIES IS RECORDED HERE TO EDUCATE FIRST-TIME SINGAPORE PUPPY OWNERS ON THE USE OF THE FLOOR GRATE + PEE PAN IN TOILET TRAINING OF THE PUPPY

CASE STUDY 1: CONFUSING THE GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPPY

From: <...@yahoo.com.sg>
Subject: Golden Retriever Training
To: judy@toapayohvets.com
Date: Friday, December 19, 2008, 8:28 AM

Dear Dr Sing:

I sincerely hope you can provide me with your expert advise.

I got a Golden retriever puppy on last Sunday, 13 Dec 2008. It is of 3 months age. I placed it in a cage ( 4 sided chrome wire with a top and a wire grating below with a pee tray ). I placed it in my planter area in the kitchen. There is a toilet just 2 metres away. There, I placed newspaper on a separate pee-tray and placed the "urine-smell" chemical on it. My wife and I took turns and wake up twice during the night to bring it there to pee and poo. Meal times are at 7am and 7-8pm. Water bottle is removed at 11pm. After each meal, we bring the puppy there.

I am glad that within 2 days, by Tuesday, 16 Dec 2008, the puppy knows where to go to do its business.

PUPPY IS USED TO THIS ROUTINE FOR 2 DAYS. IT KNOWS THE TOILET LOCATION AND KNOWS WHAT TO DO. IT HAD POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT FROM YOU. THEN YOU START ANOTHER ROUTINE. YOU SHOULD HAVE GIVEN IT 2 WEEKS TO BE FULLY TRAINED BEFORE SWITCHING TO ANOTHER ROUTINE.

Then we bought a baby gate and sealed off a section of the kitchen ( The sealed area is for the puppy. The cage and toilet is there too. ) The questions are:
1) The puppy now does not want to go back to the cage to sleep. We need to "force" it back in. We still wake up to bring it to the toilet. Why does the puppy "hates" its cage now?

PUPPIES PREFER FREEDOM TO RUN AROUND. IT ASSOCIATES THE CAGE WITH BEING LOCKED UP AND NEGATIVE FEELINGS.

2) We intend to let the puppy free roam the sealed section and the cage unlocked. So it can walk around and go to the toilet by itself.

PUPPY WILL TAKE TIME TO GO TO THE PROPER TOILET LOCATION.

Now the puppy goes and tear the newspaper in the toilet and eats them. Is it safe? How can we make the puppy go to the toilet with the newspaper and not tear and eat them?

PAPER SHREDDING IS THE MOST COMMON COMPLAINT from puppy owners. There is nothing much you can do. Some owners do tape the newspapers to the floor, edges of pee pan etc. Not safe if the puppy eats lots of newspapers.

3) We noticed the puppy tends to step on its urine or poo if its not cleared immediately) and walks all over its area thus dirtying the area.

STEPPING ON STOOLS IS ANOTHER COMMON COMPLAINT from puppy owners. Possible cause could be insufficient space or that the puppy is not particularly clean due to previous confinement in the cages in the pet shop or breeder's place.

Thus, I removed the wire floor of the cage and placed it on top of the newspaper and pee-tray in the toilet and secured it with cable-tie (At least it will not step on its own urine. But if it steps on the poo, no choice). This is done as I do not want the puppy to tear and eat the newspaper.

ANOTHER NEW ROUTINE USING THE GRATE (WIRE FLOOR) SERVES TO CONFUSE THE PUPPY.

But worse off, it now refuse or "is scared" to go to the toilet to do its business.

PUPPY PROBABLY GETS SCOLDING/SPANKING FROM YOU when it does not step on the Grate to pee and poo. Grate may be too small, too dirty and does not feel right to the puppy.

I tried the same routine again, command it to go, coax it and praise it when its there but the puppy just refuse to do its business on top of the wire floor with both soiled and new newspaper below it with the pee-tray.

GRATE + PEE PAN METHOD you are using. First, you need to confine the puppy such that it has no space but to go to the grate to eliminate. A clean place to sleep and eat. I presume your puppy has a lot of space and so does not need to go to the grate to eliminate.

THE FLOOR OF THE KITCHEN AND NEARBY AREAS IS FULL OF SMELLS OF URINE AND POO. Did you manage to neutralise the smells? White vinegar: water 1:3 with a piece of cloth (not mop which is full of urine smells) to wipe whole floor. Mop needs to be free of urine smell if you want to use mop.

I experimented by removing the wire floor and it goes back to pee but now choose to poo on the kitchen tiles. Why does the puppy refuses just by adding the wire floor. Must I toilet-train it again?

THE GRATE (WIRE FLOOR) is NOT accepted by this puppy. I suspect it is too small, not frequently cleaned when soiled and the puppy does not know how to use it.

Too much space to roam around for the first 7 days and no ROUTINE for the first 7-14 days. You keep changing toilet location, toilet and sleeping areas and the puppy is just confused.

What are your recommendations? Your help is greatly appreciated. I look forward to yr earliest reply.

YES, YOU NEED TO START ALLOVER AGAIN. Confine for 14 days. Neutralise smells and a fixed routine. Not all puppies are comfortable with the grate and pee pan method. If you want to use the grate and pee pan method, put puppy in one area e.g. bathroom. Put urine smell into the pee pan. Other floor area has no urine or poo smell (not always possible). Floor area to sleep is restricted to a small area. Baby gate can be put outside bathroom door. After 14 days or less, let the puppy out to the kitchen (baby gate outside the kitchen door). Then more and more free areas as the puppy goes back to the bathroom grate. Obviously, you need to keep the soiled grate clean.

Unfortunately, the cleanliness of the puppy to sleep and eat in a clean area depends on its upbringing by the Seller. If it has been forced to sleep in dirt, it will step on poop. Generally, you will note that the puppy will prefer a clean sleeping and eating area and a toilet location further. However, if you give it a lot of space, it will eliminate anywhere except its eating and sleeping area.

Hope above suggestions help.





P.S

Case Study 1 is recorded here as a draft owing to lack of time. This case and the other 3 case studies of the floor grate + pee pan method are updated and are at:
http://www.bekindtopets.com/dogs/20081234Golden_Retriever_Toilet_Training_ToaPayohVets.htm

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

468. Milk production is not an indicator of imminent birth of puppies

Most little girls don't talk much to the vet. What is there to talk about? But this little slim girl with porcelain fair complexion of a Caucasian and black eyes in an attractive oval-shaped fair was only 4 years old. She would chatter to me forever as I vaccinated her puppy.

"I can't stop her talking," Mum said. "You are fortunate to have such a daughter as 99% of the children are not so advanced in their social behaviour!" I congratulated the apparently stress-out and hectic Singapore Chinese parents.

"How many teeth do you have?" I asked the little girl. She thought but could not answer as she had correctly told me she was four years old. "She can count up to 20 in English but not to that number in Mandarin," the mother intervened.

"How many teeth do you have?" I teased the little girl again to see how she would respond. "Many teeth," she put her right hand on her forehead as if she was thinking hard as to how to reply to this stranger. That was excellent answer. I mean, adults will also not know the answer and you can't expect her to count her teeth deep inside the mouth.

"Our children grow up so fast," I said to the lucky parents of a child who has mentally developed well beyond her age. A child prodigy whose talents the parents had not discovered. "When children are 20 years old, they don't talk much to the parents. As parents, we hope we have had brought them up well even if they don't talk to us much."

One aspect of training which I think is important is teaching the child to be frugal and save up for a rainy day. Honest money is hard earned but how many of the children in Singapore knows this.

Take Singapore undergraduates in Perth for example. How many of them will sacrifice their spare time to earn some money being a waiter or give tuition? To work their way through university? To be able to relate well to prospective clients who want tuition for their children.

Do Caucasian parents in Australia bother to get tutors for their children in the first place? I was under the impression that they don't want to stress their children. "Be Happy, Don't Worry," is an Australian saying that seemed to have ingrained into my mind. After all, unemployed gets welfare and could surf all day at Bondi Beach and Australia is endowed with minerals.

So, it was a surprise to me to know that a Singaporean undergraduate was giving tuition to a Caucasian family during my visit to Perth's Murdoch University in October 2009. I got to meet this family as the father of the boy being tutored wanted a vet to check on his pregnant Golden Retriever. He came over to where I stayed with the tuition teacher to invite me to see his dog. It was the same dog I had photographed at the park yesterday!



This white Golden Retriever had spotted me at the same time as I zoomed my lens to take a picture of dogs socialising in the park in Australia. This was a good picture as the evening sun was present and the timing was just right as the Miniature Schnauzer came over to befriend the two Golden Retrievers while the two lady owners had a brief chat.

The female dog was obviously pregnant as she had a big swollen belly. I checked the dog as she laid down on the floor. I pressed the dog's nipple to check whether milk had been produced. This was her 2nd pregnancy. Copious production of white milk oozed out from her nipples. "With so much milk, birth should be in the next 2 days," I thought. I checked for vaginal discharge but there was none.

"When was the mating seen?" I asked. Its date was marked with a "X" on the calendar on the wall of this beautiful house with a swimming pool and big floor tiles. Most Australians would carpet the floors but this gentleman used large cream-coloured floor tiles of 3 feet x 3 feet. "Floor tiles are practical and easy to clean when one has big dogs," the man said to me when I expressed surprise that carpet was not used for the living and dining area.

"Based on the date of observed mating in your calendar, the dog is 56 days pregnant," I said. "Pups should be due soon," I based on milk production as a sign of imminent birth. But I was mistaken. The pups were not born till another 7-10 days later.

"Can the male do it?" I asked. The male Golden Retriever was only 1 year old. He was slim and trim and was waiting nearby, being wary of a stranger examining his mate. Large breeds are said to mature slower than small breeds and to be fully grown at 1.5 years of age. Some dog book authors even state that large breeds are not sexually mature till they are 1.5 years old!

"Yes, he can do it!" the Australian man smiled while his wife poured me a cup of tea. "We saw him doing it."

It is part of the pleasure of travel to know a bit of the locals and their culture but it is not possible in tourist travel packages.

While the tuition teacher worked, I had a good chat with the Australian man who had a beautiful photograph of Kimberley mines.

"I had visited Singapore some 10 years back," I remembered the man saying that it was his honeymoon. "My tour guide pointed to the University and told us it has the highest suicide rate." I was surprised to hear this.

I did not ask what he thought of this 23-year-old Singaporean undergraduate who earned some money presumed to defray his living expenses as I knew he had no need to work at all. I had The Australian man said of him as I said my farewell, "XXX is a good boy." That parting comment was brief but testified much about this young adult tuition teacher's upbringing and maturity. His mum was a lucky parent. She would have been proud of him if I had told her about this compliment.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

467. Toilet training cases highlighted by Daphne

Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore
Views from a young adult and intern, Daphne

Puppy Toilet Training Summary

1. Confinement - Confine your pup to a small area (with a puppy training pad and just enough space for it to eat and sleep – only allowed to come out to play for 10mins 3 times a day) for at least two weeks to ensure that it knows it has to poo and pee on the pad. Note down the timing that your pup usually poos and pees

To save cost:
• For the first week, use the disposable puppy training
• For the second and third week, place a piece of newspaper on top of the disposable pad
• Subsequently, you can just use newspaper once your pup knows that the newspaper is the place for it to poo and pee

2. Observation – By confining a pup to a small area, it may develop its favorite spot for pooing and peeing. Place newspaper at that spot for it to familiarize that newspaper is the place for it too poo and pee.

3. Routine – Once your pup is allowed to roam around the house, bring it to the designated area around the timing that it usually poos and pees or as and when sniffing or squatting is observed. Strict routine must be observed so as not to confuse the pup. Another alternative is to bring your pup out every evening for a walk so that it can poo and pee outside the house.

Point to note: Puppies usually poo within an hour after eating. Ensure that your pup eats within 15 minutes by removing the bowl after 15 minutes of feeding – even if your pup hasn’t eaten. This may sound cruel but it will teach it to eat within 15 minutes or she will not have any food to eat as well as give you an indication of when she might poo which makes toilet training easier.

4. Discipline - Firmly tell your pup 'NO' when it poos or pees at the wrong place. Bring it to the correct place (placed with a puppy training pad/newspaper) so that your pup will know where to go next time.

5. Disinfect – Disinfect the place immediately if your pup poos or pees at the wrong place. Use Vinegar:Water in 1:3 ratio to neutralize the smell.

6. Patience - Toilet training does not happen over night, it requires a lot of time and effort especially with the stress it has trying to adapt to the new environment.

7. Appraisal - Give it a treat when it does its business at the correct place

8. Interaction - Spend time playing with your pup so that it will slowly understand what you are trying to say. The more time you spend with your pup, the faster it will be toilet trained.

9. Have fun!


Case Studies
1. http://toilettrainingpuppy2.blogspot.com/2007/07/1-success-story-how-to-paper-train-4.html
2. http://puppytoilettraining.blogspot.com/2005_09_18_archive.html
case 81
3. http://puppytoilettraining.blogspot.com/2005_08_28_archive.html
case 31
4. http://www.bekindtopets.com/dogs/20081234Golden_Retriever_Toilet_Training_ToaPayohVets.htm
5. http://toilettrainingpuppy2.blogspot.com/2008/05/toilet-training-adopt-basic-principles.html
6. http://puppytoilettraining.blogspot.com/2005_09_18_archive.html
case 83
7. http://puppytoilettraining.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html
case 234
8. http://puppytoilettraining.blogspot.com/2006_08_06_archive.html
case 364
9. http://maids-puppies.blogspot.com/2007/03/59-golden-retriever-puppy-pees-inside.html
10. http://puppytoilettraining.blogspot.com/2005/09/39-single-lady-and-her-shih-tzu.html


Interesting Case Studies
1. http://puppytoilettraining.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html
case 228
2. http://puppytoilettraining.blogspot.com/2006_03_26_archive.html
case 281
3. http://puppytoilettraining.blogspot.com/2007_06_24_archive.html
case 454