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Help toilet training

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  • 31-07-2009 9:40am
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    Puddleduck
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    Hey all,

    A friend of mine is having trouble toilet training her westie pup. She lets the dog out to go toilet but the dog seems to come into the house to go toilet. Anyone any helpful advice?
    Shes tried laying down paper the dog has gone toilet on and moving it slowly towards the door but this dosent seem to work


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    andreac
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    Ok firstly you have to train the dog to go outside, secondly, does she want the dog to go inside or outside? Putting paper down is only confusing the dog.

    To house train a dog you need to put a lot of time and effort in. The pup needs to be brought outside every half hour or so initially, after he eats, drinks, after a play session and after he wakes up.

    When you bring the pup out, encourage the pup to pee and say a word so it associates the wortd with going to the toilet, once it goes, PRAISE PRAISE and more Praise, even give it a little treat too and make a lot of fuss of him.

    Accidents will happen, but if you catch the pup going in the house, just say a firm no and take him straight outside to finish off and again, lots of praise.

    It can takes months to fully toilet train a dog and males can take longer, my fella was 7 months before he was fully trained.

    Crate training can also help, if you do a search on here you will find lots of info on it.

    I would take up the paper as it is only confusing the pup and its unfair.


    Hope this helps, anymore questions, just shout.


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    Toulouse
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    She needs to be going out with him, not just letting him out and hoping he'll figure out what to do. He doesn't know that he's supposed to go outside.

    Quit with the paper and start as she means to go on. Everytime she lets him out she'll have to go outside with him and when he goes give him lots and lots of praise so he knows it's goog to go outside. Tell her to take him out first thing, after sleep, after food, after play and when he goes lots and lots of praise. She should watch him like a hawk and learn his tells, like sniffing, circling etc. If he goes inside she wasn't watching so just ignore. Scolding him will make him scared to go in front of her and she'll be finding little puddles in hard to reach places.

    She has to be consistent, it won't happen overnight but if she sticks to the above it'll work.


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