pottytraining
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| First off, get rid of the pee pads. Your just teaching him to pee in the house. Start from square one. Take him out as much as possible. When he goes say the word that you use for potty. Going potty outside is the best thing in the whole world! Jump up and down, play, pet, give him a treat. |
| When he wakes up from a sleep, take him out, cheer and praise when he pees. When he finishes eating take him out, cheer and praise when he pees. If he has had a very lively play session, take him out etc. etc. It is tougher in an apartment, but he is still very little so needs to go out more often and realize what a good boy he is when he goes outside. I know it is a total pain if you have to go down stairs or use an elevator, but it won't take him long to figure it out. Good luck! |
| I'm with everyone else; at this age, it's completely unrealistic to expect your puppy to be house trained. I think 6 months is more typical, and my girls actually took closer to 10 (but they were monsters). Get rid of the puppy training pads. They were used by the people that had my girls before me. As a result, everything lying on the floor was mistaken for a puppy pee pad- including blankets, rugs and their own dog bed. I did 2 loads of laundry a day because of this, and they couldn't have a dog bed until they were almost 10 months old. Consider EVERY activity a reason to go pee. Had a drink of water, a meal, a nap, a play time? Take them to pee. I had lots of luck using a string of bells on the door. The bells ring every time the door is opened, and in a short period of time they'll learn that if they want the door opened to go pee, those bells need to ring and they will ring it themselves. One of the reasons my girls took so long to house break is that the one had the most subtle "hey I have to pee" signal, and if I missed it, she'd just squat when I didn't respond. The bells made it SO much easier for me to know when she wanted to go out. Best of luck! |
| also- Mady & AnInnocentEvil are right-- praise the heck out of successful outside peeing. And that's the time to attach a word to the activity, like "Potty" or "Business" or whatever you are going to call it. I praised my girls, but never used a specific word- I just kept saying "Very Good!", "Good Girls!" and "Can you be good?" To this day, if I need the girls to pee, I take them out and tell them to "Be Good"... because I never taught them a word to associate with peeing. As you can imagine, this has made for some hilarious training mix ups. I can NEVER tell them they are good girls, or insist the be good without them thinking "Does she really want us to pee?" So all of our praise takes the form of "Good JOB".  Also important- don't scold your puppy for having an accident in the house, as hard as that is. You're merely scaring an infant for doing what comes naturally, and that they don't yet understand the alternative to. Instead, if you can catch him mid-pee, the best bet is to scoop him up and whisk him outside, praising him when he finishes in the yard. I know this is hard in an apartment, but maybe you can figure something out. I vaguely recall that scooping my girls up made the peeing stop, until I could get them into the yard. |
| Thank you all so much. It has been 30 years since my last oes puppy as I have had rescue dogs...........I keep Jessy in the the kitchen when I go to work an 8 hr shift.{I'm an RN} and have someone come in 2 x in 9 hours to walk him and my cocker rescue. As I said, he is not using the pads in the kitchen. I have picked them up last night and will not put them down again. I let him have a little more room since he is not using the pad, and seems to be able to hold it for 4 hours. is giving him more room at this point too much for him. I did this yesterday. There was no accidents in the house. Thank you all for getting back to me so soon. Ellen , Jessy and Ozzie |
| I do recall that I limited access to the whole house until our girls had potty training down. They could be in the kitchen (it was a very large kitchen) or they could be in other parts of the house for limited amounts of time, while supervised. |
| Consider crate training. In addition to being a huge help in housebreaking, it also protects your pup from getting into things that may be dangerous to Jessy and valuable to you. |
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