Potty Training

[Field Scout]

Originally Posted by H2Finally

Just when you think your puppy is nicely potty-trained, he pooped on the kitchen rug..

SIT is ok (mostly), COME HERE is intermittent (50/50), FETCH is not a concept he grasps yet.

How DO you train a 2 months old puppy? Too young to bring to Petsmart (vet said not fully immunized -- not allowed to mingle with other dogs). Any potty and other training tips? Please? Tha!

Most dogs do not gain full bladder control until minimum 11 weeks old so as stated be consistant, at such a young age you they need to go out after eating,drinking,playing, and first thing when they wake up as well as a few insurance outings every couple hours . If you use a crate it needs to be just big enough for the dog, if yours is too big put some form of partition inside to make smaller so if they go they have to sit in it, they wont want to do that. My dogs (one is 13 mo's the other 6 years, father/son my avitar)dont have a signal to go out. they know we go out at 6am, 5pm, and 9 pm they hold it till its time. Good luck

[Grape Ape]

I have found that taking them outside often and giving positive feedback(praise, treats) works the best. I think sometimes it is the breed though that makes some dogs hard to potty train. My parents have had several Yorkshire Terriers. They wanted nothing to do with going outside if the weather was bad. If you let them out on a cold, rainy,snowy or windy day they would not leave the porch until you let them back in. They would run right past you and crap on the rug. This happened regardless of how old they were.
I like to call them "sooners". Sooner **** on the rug than go outside.

[partsguy]

Bassett hound = Dog door into a fence in yard!!! Bassett = I don't hear what you just said ......Molly does what she want when she wants.
Good luck Horace!!!!! Have some kids easy to paper train them.

[Hmmm2]

What type of dog do you have? We trained our Pomeranian in 2 days to litter box train. She never leaves the home... goes straight to her litter box, just like a cat. She was 8 weeks old when she trained in 2 days. She's 2.5 yrs old now. She sniffs her litter to make sure that's her stuff ( ), then she jumps in. Just make sure your dog has his/her 'stuff' in the area you walk him/her.
Good luck.

[f5fstop]

My pup was trained in two-weeks, and has never had a setback. Which is nice, since her turds are bigger than most dogs

[KenP]

Did I say our dag is stupid?

[h2co-pilot]

Originally Posted by KenP

Did I say our dag is stupid?

Did I say my husband is too?

[H2Finally]

Originally Posted by Hmmm3

What type of dog do you have? We trained our Pomeranian in 2 days to litter box train. She never leaves the home... goes straight to her litter box, just like a cat. She was 8 weeks old when she trained in 2 days. She's 2.5 yrs old now. She sniffs her litter to make sure that's her stuff ( ), then she jumps in. Just make sure your dog has his/her 'stuff' in the area you walk him/her.
Good luck.

Ours is chihuahua (same as KenP's ). Hey, you're local in SoCal? Wanna borrow a super-cute chihuahua for 2 days?