Help required with Puppy training

david39

Where did you get this pup from? - not an accredited breeder, I fear.

No pup should be separated from their mother and siblings until eight weeks old and if the breeder is Kennel Club registered he/she has flouted their rules and should be reported to them.

onetomany

i used traing pads for my lab worked a treat x

ali-t

the face licking is a submissive gesture. Lots of dogs try to lick my staffy's face and she hates it although she will take it from my rottie pup and often goes up to him so he can lick her face.

The key to getting the pup to toilet outdoors is the same as the others have said - patience and little and often. If you are cleaning the floors after the pup has gone inside there may be some residual smell. Biological washing powder can breakdown the enzymes left behind removing the odour that the pup can smell (even though humans can't)

good luck and make sure your dog has space away from the pup - they really are a handful at that age.

Joyful

Well she's away home now so I can rest! Now to steam clean the floor. LOL

She came from a home not a breeder. My Daughter was told, when we found her true age out, that they had not broken any laws! In actual fact she had given a pup away a week before!

I have been using biological washing powder all weekend but it did not help. After I took her to the garden today as we stepped over the door to come back in she wee'd. I have suggested to my Daughter that as well as giving lots of praise outside she also gives a treat. Hopefully she will finally connect that it's good to go outside.

ali-t

Joyful wrote: »

I have been using biological washing powder all weekend but it did not help. After I took her to the garden today as we stepped over the door to come back in she wee'd. I have suggested to my Daughter that as well as giving lots of praise outside she also gives a treat. Hopefully she will finally connect that it's good to go outside.

The best advice I got in relation to my first dog was to give the dog a command to go to the toilet. It was a woman with a guide dog that told me and I dismissed it as nonsense but after a few months of having an untoilet-trained dog I decided to give it a go and what a difference it makes. Go pee and go poo revolutionised my life

My next dog was clean in the house much quicker and now both dogs I have will pee and poo on command.

Joyful

Yep I've been using the command that my Daughter gives her every time with little success.

supermezzo

I cannot suggest strongly enough that you put the pup back on 4 feeds a day for the next 3/4 weeks.
Their tummies and digestion simply cannot cope with the right amount of food they need in such big quantities in one go. You'll most likely find that she's a lot calmer with more, smaller feeds too and a lot easier to toilet train too as her system won't be overloaded.
And please take this large kick up the a*se to whomever was giving away puppies at such a young age.

ali-t

Joyful wrote: »

Yep I've been using the command that my Daughter gives her every time with little success.

The pup is still young and knowing where her own back door is, is different from working out where yours is and having to go out there. One day it will all click and you will be going whoop whoop when it all falls into place :beer:

border_collie

There is no point thinking of it as giving a command at the moment.

Rather you need to think that you are teaching puppy the word for poo and wee.

Therefore you need to stay quiet until the dog poos or wees then say it whilst puppy is actually doing it.

After puppy has finished you should be really over the top excited with puppy so he knows EXACTLY what to do to earn praise.

Raksha

border_collie wrote: »

There is no point thinking of it as giving a command at the moment.

Rather you need to think that you are teaching puppy the word for poo and wee.

Therefore you need to stay quiet until the dog poos or wees then say it whilst puppy is actually doing it.

After puppy has finished you should be really over the top excited with puppy so he knows EXACTLY what to do to earn praise.

Agree 99% the only problem with being really OTT with the excitement and praise is that some shy puppies will then stop peeing when you're around because you scare them

I believe it is against the law to transport a puppy under a certain age without its mother - or at least to sell a puppy under 6 weeks would be an offence under the Animal Welfare Act of 2006 - but I'm on my lunch break at the moment and can't find a reference for you.