House training question...

kit

We are going to be adopting a dog in the next few weeks.

As I have a 2 year old daughter, I would like to get the dog to 'do his business' in a certain place in the garden. Is there a way of doing this?

moj1966

The aim is to put your dog out when they are most likely to need to go to the toilet . eg on wakeing or after eating, When they do what you want say a certain phase I use "be quick" and make a fuss of the dog if thay go else where just ignore it and clean up any mess straight away. in the place you wish the dog to go leave some of there mess there and it will encourage them to go back to that spot.

hope this helps

FRUGAL_4

moj1966 wrote: »

The aim is to put your dog out when they are most likely to need to go to the toilet . eg on wakeing or after eating, When they do what you want say a certain phase I use "be quick" and make a fuss of the dog if thay go else where just ignore it and clean up any mess straight away. in the place you wish the dog to go leave some of there mess there and it will encourage them to go back to that spot.

hope this helps

i am reading this thread with interest, I have a puppy and I have tried in vain to get my puppy to do his business in a certain place, I have been out in the rain at 6.00 am with an umbrella and bath robe and saying be quick to the dog, my neighbours think I have lost the plot, and I have even bought puppy training spray which I sprayed in the area I wanted him to do his business, but that didn't work either, however after 2 months of trying to get him to do his business in a certain place I have fenced off a section of the garden for him as I have two children and I want them to play in the garden without the constant fear of stepping into something, if you get a b*tch be careful they can ruin the lawn if they pee on that.

FRUGAL

ZootHornRollo

a quicker way to achieve this is to take the dog out on a lead when they are most likely to need - like the previous post, shortly after eating, playing or waking usually but frequently througout the day. take them to the place you'd like them to do their business - it helps if this is a different 'texture' to the rest of the garden, for example, if your garden is grass then an area of sand might be good. when they do what you want, praise and treat, then introduce a command once they get the idea.

you don't say how old the dogs is or if it already house trained.

ZootHornRollo

p.s. some dogs will only go on the surface you train them on. i have a friend who trained their dog to go on sand and it just won;t go on anthing else unless it is desperate. we, on the other hand, have had no problems what so ever training on sand.

moj1966

going back to my previous reply his is the way that i taught al my dogs, Its worked for us.
It really depends on how clever a dog is and how vigalant you are of getting the timing right.
When we first got the dogs we all got a hour when it was our responabilty to clean up after the dogs if they made a mess in the wrong area.

It was the best way as there was no arguing who should have let the dogs out etc.
It takes time and patience be firm and give loads of praise when they get it right and ignore the wrong behaviour. Don't shout or be angry otherwise they will go when your not looking

Westywoodpecker

We haven't had our new puppy long, but he very quickly learnt that we wanted him to wee whilst on walks & not in the garden.

I bought the book " Me or the dog " by Victoria Stilwell from a cheap book shop, which gives lots of useful tips & advise which we have found very useful.

Have lots of fun with your new dog!

Volcano

The initial problem may be in getting your dog to do it outside rather than in, never mind about where in the garden!

I was recently introduced to 'crate training'. Worked a treat though you do have to be disciplined (as ever with dogs) or it just won't work.

Google it or see: http://www.inch.com/~dogs/cratetraining.html

I was a bit sceptical at first, but was recommended it by a breeder who uses it all the time.

System

When we first introduced Millie into our home she was 8 weeks old, i had never had a dog before and it was all pretty new to me. I used to carry her out to the one spot (where i wanted her to do her business) every 2 hours or if she had just woken up or had a drink. Every time she 'performed' i said "good girl millie". I praised her with a stroke of the head and immediately rewarded her with a treat. I carried her to the spot i wanted her to wee/poo because i only wanted her to go in the one particular place so i carried her there in case she squatted before we got there. Of course there was still accidents in the home but she got to realize she didnt get 'treated' for these. After a time i didnt have to carry her as she got used to the same spot and of course the scent got stronger so she started weeing in the same spot.

At night time her crate was enclosed in a puppy pen with a wooden base and lined with training sheets. It took her quite a while for her to stop needing her early in the morning wee and poo but she always came out of her crate to do it on the paper. After a few months she began to stop soiling the training sheets and it was then that i finally took her crate out of the puppy pen and shut the door when we went to bed.

I shouldnt laugh really but she is approaching her second birthday, but if its been raining particularly heavily she goes round and round in circles in her 'toilet area' trying to locate her scent before finally realizing that she needs to replace it with a fresh scent.

kr15snw

At least your dog goes out in the rain, ours refuses! We get the 'Do you think Im mad?' look then they walk off.

With all our dogs we have took them outside every few hours or when theyve eaten / woken up. We put them on the spot and repeat 'go peepee, whos a good boy / girl' When they go they get tonnes of praise. Obviously there are some accidents in the house but if we see them doing this then they get shouted at and put outside. We dont shout at them unless we see them doing it, as they dont know what theyve done wrong.

The only time we had problems was when our parrot started imitating my mums voice saying 'go peepee'. So the puppies started to do it in front of his cage Silly parrot. Lol