475. Puppy to pee Outside article

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How to Train a Puppy to Pee Outside

This article is designed to give you just the facts, no fluff. This is dog training simplified

Start Small - Don't give the puppy free reign of the whole house. Dogs do not like to pee where they live, if he has access to two rooms he will play in one and pee in the other one.

Watch your puppy - Puppies generally give signs when they have to go to the washroom. If the puppy starts sniffing around, whimpering, is sitting for a while and then suddenly gets up, or leaves the area where they like to play - The puppy may have to go. Take the dog outside or to their litter box.

Timing - Timing is important. Take your puppy outside first thing in the morning and after long naps. Puppies will generally have to pee shortly after drinking and eating, take the puppy outside a few minutes after meals.

Discipline and Praise - When your puppy pees outside, praise it, give it treats let it know it did a good job. When it goes pee inside let it know your not happy. Make sure the puppy know's why it's in trouble, take it to the puddle of pee and let him know in a stern voice that he did something bad.

Consistency - Be consistent! If you are not consistent with your training it will take a lot longer to get the message through to your puppy. Also it is a good idea to take the dog to the same spot to pee each time. This way they know what they have to do when they are there.

Using a Leash - It is not a bad idea to use a leash when you take the puppy outside. This way he wont just go outside and get distracted and forget to pee. When you take the puppy outside to pee, keep it on the leash until it goes pee.

During this process your puppy will surely make mistakes, so it is a good idea to know How to Clean Dog Pee From Carpets

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474. Paper-training 6-month-old Westie

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--- On Wed, 11/25/09, ...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: Picture of my pet cage- requested by Dr Sing
To: judy@toapayohvets.com
Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 6:38 PM

Dear Dr Sing,
Attached please find the pictures of the cage where I put my pet dog, Westie
Pic 1 shows cage with 2 handles on the top. Top lid can be flipped open. Bottom Tray is like a drawer. My pet was sitting on the steel grating, which can be removed. Front door of the cage can be opened.
Pic 5 shows the opening for the bottom tray to slide out.
Pic 11 shows the steel grating can be removed. Pet is now sitting on newspaper put on the tray
Pic 12 shows the steel grating with side hooks, put atop the tray



--- On Thu, 26/11/09, David Sing wrote:

Subject: Re: Picture of my pet cage- requested by Dr Sing
To: ...@yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, 26 November, 2009, 5:40 AM

Thank you for your pictures. I will be emailing you some pic of your 6-month-old Westie soon.

Please let me know how long it takes to grate-train her successfully (i.e. 100% pee and poop on the grate), starting from yesterday, Nov 25, 2009 and how you do it.


Best wishes.


E-MAIL REPLY NOV 26, 2009

Dr Sing,
I think mine would take a long time to toilet train. Yesterday she was quite dull. I think it was because of the vaccination. I would try to put her outside of the cage tonite, in the balcony and then put the grating atop the tray just to try it. Will let you know the good news next time. She had refused to take the Antibiotics liquid as well as the Multi-vit. Refuses to open her mouth, so I have to mixed the multi-vit together with water in her drinking bowl.
Maybe u can ask other people also to try the same method of toilet training which you had recommended for my dog, so that in case the other dog owners might have an earlier success.
Presently she would bark whenever she pee or pass motion, which means she wanted people to change the soiled newspapers in the tray
See you again next week.

Regards
XXX








SUMMARY
The adult Westie is communicating with the owner to change soiled newspapers below the grate and on top of the pee pan. In this situation, the owner should just have 2 pee pans with newspapers. One inside the crate. Place this pee pan with newspapers in the balcony when the Westie is confined there. Change soilded newspapers promptly. The Westie should be paper-trained within 14 days, in my opinion. Home situation differs for each puppy. In this case, my proposal of grate + pee pan training may not be ideal as the Westie barks for fresh newspapers when inside the crate (I presume, with the floor grate taken out). Will ask the owner when he comes next week.

473. The 2nd puppy is more intelligent

Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore

Caucasian lady 20-30 years old
Miniature Poodle 5 months (X) bought first.
Miniature Poodle 3 months (Y) bought 1 month after the first.
Apartment living
Playpen with bed + newspapers.

This case illustrates the common thinking of puppy owners all over the world as regards toilet training.


Thinking No. 1
"X is not as intelligent as Y as X still pees and poop all over the apartment. Y just goes to the newspapers," the slim and tall fair European lady commented when I asked how she managed to train two puppies. This was part of my research in toilet training of puppies in Singapore.

Based on performance, Y appears more intelligent. He knows what the owner wanted.
It is like having 2 children. One will be smarter than the other. However, the circumstances of upbringing will be different as you can see here.

I asked, "How long have you confined the second pup (Y) to the playpen to train her to use the newspapers?"

"4 weeks," she said.

"I guess you only confined the first pup (X) for less than 2 weeks," I said.

"Yes," the young lady replied. "Around 2 weeks."

"There is insufficient time for X to be paper-trained," I concluded that the puppy was given much freedom to roam around the apartment. This is a common practice of new puppy owners. X was the first puppy and he was given more freedom.

"The whole apartment will be full of urine smells," I said.

"I mop the floor with detergent," the lady said.

"The mop will be full of urine smells," I explained. "A canine nose is very sensitive to urine smells. He will pee anywhere as the whole apartment is full of smells.

"The 2nd pup is presently paper-trained. But later, he would emulate the first pup and eliminate everywhere."

"What should I do?" the lady asked.

"Confine the first pup. Neutralise the puppy's urine smell on the apartment floor with white vinegar at a part of vinegar to 3 parts of water. Use a rag or cloth to wipe the floor with this mixture, not the mop."

Will this advice work?

Thinking No. 2

"The first puppy knows he had done something wrong," the young lady said during the course of our conversation. "He feels guilty and quickly runs away when he has peed outside the newspapers!"

I commented about this urination accidents, "The puppy runs away because he sees that you are very angry. You may spank him, as many Singapore's puppy owner do."

"I don't do it," the young lady said. She was not entirely convinced about my explanation that the puppy ran away out of fear, rather than out of guilt.

"We think that puppies experience guilt for misbehaviour," I said. "Some puppy book authors explain that the puppies are worried about being beaten up and therefore runs away to hide on seeing an angry face of the owner."

This hypothesis was not really acceptable to the lady as she did not physically injure the puppy. So, I was at a loss as to what explanation to give as regards the running away of the "guilty" puppy.



"As the first puppy is now 5 months old, it is important that you confine him in the playpen to paper-train him again. When he is mature at 6 months of age, he will be rebellious and very difficult to paper-train," I advised. "This is like children who have grown up. It is very difficult to impart to them good values when they are in the rebellious growth period." It is like a bud. Surroundings affecting its blossom into a beautiful flower depends on its environment as much as on its genetics.