Toilet Training Puppies
need help with toilet training my puppy?
I have a 16 week old maltese shih tzu my problem is I have been toilet training him for 3 weeks now to no avail I take him outside after meals and every hr or so when I do he is not very interested most of the times he just wants to play outside and eat the grass and whatever twigs are out there. I can be out there for ever sometimes. But when I give up and bring him inside he goes and does it inside. It is so frustrating. My home is open living and it is quite difficult to keep him in one spot although I try and keep an eye on him he is so fast. At night he is quite good take him outside about 10 and he will hold till 6 in the morning. I know this cause at 3am I get up all he wants to do is sleep so I put him back in his crate. Do not know what to do please can anybody help me.
My puppy used to do exactly the same thing.
When she weed or pooed in the house, we would show her what she had done and call her a bad girl (you must do this straightaway otherwise they will not know why they are getting told off).
We would then put her outside in the back garden and shut the door on her until we had cleaned up the mess.
Yes she would whine and cry at the door but it is teaching her not to do it in the house and if she does then she goes outside so therefore it’s like ‘right, i get put out here when i do it in the house so that must mean that i do it out here’.
Seriously it took us just less than three weeks for us to train her and she is perfectly fine now and she when she does need the toilet now she touches the keys with her nose (we leave the keys in the back door) so that we can hear that she wants to go outside.
Hope i helped.x.
An Introduction to Housetraining a Puppy