6 Month Pup Defaecating in house

Re: 6 Month Pup Defaecating in house

bumble bee — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:43:50 GMT

Have heard this called a break down in puppy toilet training. Need to go right back to basics to break the cycle.Reward good behaviour & ignore bad as Funkyfish recommends.

Re: 6 Month Pup Defaecating in house

funkyfish — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:54:40 GMT

They need to make it more rewarding for the dog to toilet out. Toileting indoors needs to hold no value for the dog- ie- don't tell it off and lots of praise/games/treats for going outside.

If it still goes indoors there is value for the dog in going there- just make it less value.

Re: 6 Month Pup Defaecating in house

Emma Wiltshire RVN — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:33:06 GMT

Thank-you Steph! Some really good advice to pass on to the owner, fingers crossed the little lady will be toileted trained successfully!

Emma

Re: 6 Month Pup Defaecating in house

Steph Worsley — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:12:21 GMT

re going on newspaper this is something that Sarah Heath was saying at the weekend, it is much harder to break the indoor toileting of a dog trained to newspaper as it is usually lying around the house following training them to go on it, it is better to use a novel product which won't be around once the dog is trained (such as the puppy pads etc) might be worth telling them to put all newspapers in a drawer/out of the way when not being used as this may help discourage the behaviour

Re: 6 Month Pup Defaecating in house

Emma Wiltshire RVN — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:47:07 GMT

Thank-you for your reply, she does go on newspaper, I suggested using this outside but the owner has tried this. I dont think she has been traumatised but its something I will check with the owner. Thanks for the advice, I will certainley suggest these to the client and see how she gets on

Re: 6 Month Pup Defaecating in house

Steph Worsley — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:15:12 GMT

does she "go" on a specific thing such as newspaper?
has she every been traumatised whilst defaecating?

I'd suggest allowing out into the garden on her own and start training from scratch again re this side of things.....20 mins after eating when wakes up and after play allowing to go outside on her own, not even O there and bringing in after 10 mins see if that works