I have a puppy that I got at 8 weeks old. A little blonde girl. She is now 17 weeks old and this puppy potty training is impossible. It wasn't this hard with my 8 year old chocolate! I have tried everything. I keep her on a leash inside the house to keep her close, I tried the puppy pad thing, I have my alarm set and she goes out every 30 minutes, but she STILL goes potty between that 30 minute interval. I am SO frustrated and SO fed up. I treat and praise when she goes outside. Tips?
I hear ya . Our Lincoln was perfect in every EXCEPT potty training. He was impossible. I nearly went insane. I am a housewife so it was all on me. I had to take him out every 15 minutes and he still went potty inside sometimes. He 9months old now and 100 % trained but it was hell. I'm sorry to tell you but I don't think there's a magic cure. You just have to push through it. Don't despair you will get there.
I had pads by the back door first I put her on the pads at 8 weeks old every 15 minuts after the first day she went on the pads after a few weeks every time she went to the pad I put her outside. It takes a lot of time and a lot of praise and a few accidents but they get it. You have to be persistent lots of praise and patience.
Please don't use puppy pads or toilet training pads. In themselves, they could be the reason you are now having so much difficulty. Think about it - you want the dog to toilet outside eventually. What message is encouraging them to toilet inside having? Dogs will learn much faster if outside is always the right place and indoors never is...
I am having the same issue with my 16wk old lab. Every hour I'm taking her outside, and she still has accidents inside. She is even going in her kennel at night and she has just enough room to stand and stretch in there. It is completely frustrating!
Is she actually toileting outside when you are taking her out? Well you don't want that to continue because it only means she is getting used to toileting where she sleeps. Once a pup loses her natural inclination to be clean, then you can't use that to help toilet train her. She will just toilet and sleep in it. You need to be taking her out during the night, waking her up before she has toileted - by setting your alarm clock and taking her out. You need to identify when, during the night, she is toileting and set your alarm clock to take her out before that time. Then, after 3 days at that time for a toilet trip, you can make it 30mins later each night until you get through the night. A 16 week old pup should be largely toilet trained so it suggests there are some things you are doing wrong, if that's not the case - that, or she has a UTI...
I had a groomer give me the best potty training advice ever on my first dog and it worked like a charm on my next two puppies. Tie a bell to the door handle you'll be using to take your puppy outside with. I used a jingle bell type and a couple shoestrings to get the right height. When you take your pup out ring the bell, show them. Lift their paw up to tap it. Then take puppy out. I always asked, do you wanna go out? And encouraged her with saying, "go potty". Then praise when they do the right thing.
Physically making your pup do something, isn't going to result in them learning to do it themselves...
I have a 6 mth old pup and was wondering if i had set meal times could i find out when he needed to go out to poop that way?
we never had a poo accident indoors with Kyko, but had frequent wees. I honestly can't remember how old he was when he started holding on, but think he was a good 20 something weeks. He was dry all night straight away & wasn't too bad through the day, but as soon as evening came I had to take him out probably around every 20 mins & there was still some accidents indoors. All of a sudden I realised he hadn't had an accident for a while & since then has been 100%. As for puppy pads I didn't use them but I had a pack for cleaning accidents as they are super absorbant
Hi Lynette and welcome to the forum. Most dogs are more likely to want to empty themselves after eating than at any other time. So regular mealtimes may help in that respect. What's your routine at the moment?
