May 15
Sleep through the night without needing to pee and poop.
OR should I put her in a big pen that she can pee and poop inside?
Posted by Marcie on 2009-05-15 03:56:13
OR should I put her in a big pen that she can pee and poop inside?
Posted by Marcie on 2009-05-15 03:56:13
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May 15th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Posted by caregrl
3-4 months old
May 16th, 2009 at 4:20 am
It depends on the puppy and the training it is recieving.
May 16th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Posted by wishnuwelltoo
puppies train at their own pace. The bladder is not grown until 6-months-old. Here are some potty training tips, use what helps and leave the rest.
I use a crate* to potty train with, but only for potty training and then I break it down and store it. I put blankets and a small food and water dish in the crate. Dogs don’t potty where they eat and sleep. When they are first little, I only expect them to hold their potty for 4 hours, and then 6 hours, then 8 hours and so on. So when they are first little, I set a timer or alarm clock to wake myself up at night to take them out. I only allow my puppy in the bedroom* or the living room, only one room at a time. They have to graduate to more space. If I allow them to have full run of the house, it will overwhelm them. I take them out the same door each time. I tie a dinner bell to the door handle. Do not use a jingle bell as they could get their toe caught in it. So when they are little, I ring the bell for them, and then open the door to go outside to potty. When they get bigger, I take their paw and whack the bell and open the door to go potty. Eventually getting to the place where the puppy will ring the bell and let me know when they need to go potty. Dogs want to please you, so it is your job to let them know what behaviors please you and what doesn’t. So when my puppy goes potty, I give her a treat*, and clap, and make a fuss and praise her. So she learns that going potty outside makes me happy. If she has an accident I use a word like “shame” and take her out right away. When correcting, I use a stern, firm voice, but I never yell* or spank* my puppies. Take them out when they first wake up, after they eat or drink, or when they are sniffing around. Some puppies go pee right away, but may not go poop until 10 minutes later, so wait for the poop. I have a little play time here, because sometimes I think they are done, and they are not. Puppies train at their own pace. While I may have a puppy that hasn’t had an accident in several weeks, I don’t let my guard down. I don’t expect my puppies to be “fully potty trained” until the 6 to 8-month-old time frame, and depending on the puppy, one-year-old. If they have a setback, shake it off, and start over. I only have my puppies in the crate when I am not watching them. When I am sleeping, cooking, ironing, doing chores, basically when I am not watching her. All other times, she is out of the crate practicing being a “big girl.” This is the time I train her how to behave in the house. So we are practicing “no barking”, ‘no biting”, “no jumping”, and “don’t eat the furniture.” I also have to practice “playing inside” so she doesn’t knock over things. Some puppies can sleep through the night around 3-months-old, but their bladder is grown around 6-months-old.
REVISIONS:
*I use a crate to train with. It is the method I prefer, compared to other methods I have tried. While personally, the crate traumatizes me, (it looks like a doggie jail), my puppies do better in the crate. They like it, I guess for the den like feeling, but I noticed that if they are in the crate, while I am doing chores, they are o.k., because the crate allows them to see me and be re-assured. The crate can also be a comfort when stored in the basement for dogs who live in areas where thunderstorms and tornados are an issue. It is a safe secure place for them. However, use the method that works best for you…..a laundry basket, a cardboard box, a woof-woof house, child gates……whatever works for you.
*Bedrooms, I use the bedroom and living room for training, because it works for me. Choose rooms that work for you, but watch for rooms that are damp, or drafty. While my puppies sleep in the bedroom during training, once they are trained, I let them sleep where they want to. They don’t have to sleep in the bedroom forever.
*Treats. While I use treats for training, you don’t have to. I like Charlee Bears for training (a little cracker for a little mouth,) I use them for training, but once they are trained, I cut back on them. Although I use them to give pills too. I used different treats for different things. We use one bone at bedtime to let the dogs know it is time to go to bed. We use a big rawhide for when we go on long trips, so they have a bone to amuse them, and they will be expected to hold their potty. When they get the rawhide, they will not eat their food and water, until we get home from our trip. (dogs are funny) Do what works best for you.
*Some puppies will go potty in the same spot each time. Some puppies have to be told to go potty. A command like “go out” for #1, or “go finish” for #2 might work for you. This is a good thing to train if you travel with your dogs. By using commands, the puppy won’t get confused when you are visiting someone, on vacation with you, or when you get to a new home. The command will tell them what you want them to do in an unfamiliar place.
*Yelling. It is not a good idea to “yell” or “spank” your puppy and then take them outside when they have an accident. They may get confused and think that going outside is punishment. While you want to correct them, if you are extreme, they may not want to go outside again.
*Sometimes it seems like you take your puppy out 5 million times a day. You can sit on a bench, or folding chair, or a 5 gallon bucket turned upside down to stay in the shade. I use an umbrella for shade too. You can always tape your favorite tv shows. In the winter I microwave a gel pack heating pad, (sold at walmart in the pharmacy, made by Kaz, I think.) I put the heating pad under my jacket so I won’t freeze to death. In the summer, I freeze bottles of water, so we can grab one real fast on our way out the door. I have a mini back pack by the door I can just grab with doggie treats, a flash light, a rubber band for my hair when the wind is bad, etc. Do what works for you.
*Time lines. Keep it real. Puppies train at their own pace, so while your last 2 dogs may have trained faster, this puppy might take longer. Training is all about routines, and repeating yourself. It is about rewarding good behaviors, and correcting bad ones. If you have a setback, shake it off, and keep going. Good luck.
May 19th, 2009 at 6:35 am
My puppy slept through the night at months old.
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May 21st, 2009 at 11:06 am
At age six i know because my dog is six and she doesn’t always go to the bathroom before bed and she can hold it in
May 21st, 2009 at 8:35 pm
WHat I did was start crate training 2-3 days after I got my puppy. He was only 7 weeks old so I figured that he would keep messing his crate up. SO instead I put him in the bathroom that has door entrances from both sides and a door that leads to the toilet in the middle. I left the toilet door in there with his pads to pee on. I put his crate [door left open and toys and large palnket in his play/sleep area. THis way he only pees on his pads.
May 24th, 2009 at 5:33 am
Every puppy is different. Keep in the current crate. Upgrading will only cause you problems with cleaning out the crate daily, because of allowing to do her business where she sleeps. Don’t put food or water inside the crate with her. I was lucky with my rottie. He was 10 weeks when I got him and he slept throughout the night. Infact, I had to wake him up at 10am to go out to go potty. Don’t feed or give water too close to bedtime. It will get better.
May 27th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Each puppy is different . It took our Boxer about eight months to finally get to sleep through the night and not have to pee.
May 30th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Posted by Susan K
Puppies (and dogs) really respond well to being fed and watered on a schedule. Puppy bladders are small so to get the pup to be able to “hold” through the night, don’t feed it before 6 p.m. and only give it little sips of water after 5 p.m. (don’t let pup gulp water).
Water, we were told, goes through a pup in about three hours so water at 5 p.m. means that you can take him out to tinkle at bedtime and he should be “dry” through out the night. If you give him water when you go to bed, say 11:00 p.m., he’ll have to pee three hours later at 2:00 a.m.
Food takes about 12 hours to go through. So if you feed him at eight in the morning, he should poop about 8 at night. Feed him at 7:00 at night, and he’ll be ready to poop at 7:00 in the morning. If you let him “graze” which is to have a bowl of food available to him at all times, you’ll never be able to predict when he has to “go.”
Both my husband and I work, and our four dogs are inside, so it was very crucial that we knew that our dogs had eliminated. This schedule works great because we see them poop in the morning and know they wouldn’t have to poop (unless they were sick) until we got home. Worked for 8-9 week old puppies.
Don’t buy a crate too big so they’ll poop in it. It’s not going to teach them to poop and pee outside.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:01 am
Posted by Jessy B
It all depends on the dog. I got my dog at 8 weeks exactly, and she was crate trained by the end of that week.
Make sure if it’s a puppy, you have one of those crate seperators. That way they don’t pee/poop in the back and sleep in the front.
My dog is a little priss, so she wanted nothing to do with sleeping in her own mess.
Good luck! And I hope you have one of the crates where you can pull out the bottom to clean it.