Housebreaking a puppy when it's cold?

Okay I got a puppy today and she doesn’t like to go outside because it’s like 20 degrees here. I was just wondering what is a good alternative to an outside “spot”?

Answer #1

There is none…I imagine going outside is more “scary” for her than “cold”…she’s a baby. Pick her up, and take her outside…say “go pee pee” over and over…when she finally goes…love her up REAL BIG…Pretty soon she’ll eliminate as soon as you set her down.

Take her out the minute she wakes up, the minute she’s done eating…and during her playtimes, every 20 minutes or so…you’re “creating” a good habit on a “blank slate”…If she happens to go inside, DO NOT discipline her…just take her outside…(roll up newspaper, and hit self in head…repeating…”I forgot to watch the dog”…)

The problem with alternatives, is once you’ve broken the instinctive barrier of not soiling in the nest (house)…it’s hell to try to move outside when the weather is nice…I usually keep boots by the door, and it seems I don’t hardly get undressed for the first 10 days to two weeks…to ensure that my dogs KNOW and prefer to do their business outside.

phrannie

Answer #2

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What To Expect When House Training

Unless you can monitor your puppy 24 hours a day, don’t expect the house training process to be completed until your puppy is at least 6 months old. It’s normal for a young puppy to be a little ‘input-output’ machine. Since puppies are growing and developing rapidly at this stage, they eat more food, burn up more energy and seem to need to eliminate constantly! They also have not yet developed bowel and bladder control, so they can’t ‘hold it’ as long as adult dogs.

House Training When You Are NOT Home

Confine your puppy to a small, ‘puppy-proofed’ room and paper the entire floor. Put his bed, toys and food/water bowls there. At first there will be no rhyme or reason to where your pup eliminates. He will go every where and any where. He will also probably play with the papers, chew on them, and drag them around his little den. Most puppies do this and you just have to live with it. Don’t get upset; just accept it as life with a young puppy. The important thing is that when you get home, clean up the mess and lay down fresh papers.

Passive House Training or Paper Training

While your puppy is confined, he is developing a habit of eliminating on paper because no matter where he goes, it will be on paper. As time goes on, he will start to show a preferred place to do his business. When this place is well established and the rest of the papers remain clean all day, then gradually reduce the area that is papered. Start removing the paper that is furthest away from his chosen location. Eventually you will only need to leave a few sheets down in that area only. If he ever misses the paper, then you’ve reduced the area too soon. Go back to papering a larger area or even the entire room. Once your puppy is reliably going only on the papers you’ve left, then you can slowly and gradually move his papers to a location of your choice. Move the papers only an inch a day. If puppy misses the paper again, then you’re moving too fast. Go back a few steps and start over. Don’t be discouraged if your puppy seems to be making remarkable progress and then suddenly you have to return to papering the entire room. This is normal. There will always be minor set-backs. If you stick with this procedure, your puppy will be paper trained.

Answer #3

my dogs are trained to go on those bed pads that you find in the store with the depends underwear they are like the puppy pads but more padded and cheaper. also I had a chuhuahua once that went in the cats litterbox .

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