Comments on: Any tips on house training a puppy to go outside rather than on the mat?

By: Ham

Ham — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:13:40 +0000

Give the pup lots of praise and treats usually seem to work well.
If she goes inside, ignore it completely and then take her out immediately after.
You can buy puppy training pads that you put in the area that you want her to go in.
Mine is 14 weeks and we had her house trained within about 3 days. We still have the occassional accident but that’s due to human error more than her.
Good luck!

By: debbie d

debbie d — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:22:37 +0000

dont punish him when he does it inside give him praice when he does it outside.
if you feed her then take her striaght out she will more then likely poo its all about timing !!!!

By: veg_rose

veg_rose — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:48:19 +0000

Don’t try training the house…………train the dog instead.

By: fenlandfowl

fenlandfowl — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:21:04 +0000

well you aren’t supposed to PUT her out. You should be TAKING her out. How is she supposed to know what you want her to do outside? She isn’t psychic.
You have to TAKE her out every half hour or hour, stay with her until she DOES go, then immediately praise her and give a small treat and use a command word. I use weewee. Then eventually they learn that if you open the door and say the word, you actually want them to go to the ytoilet. Use the same word for wee and poo.
Whenever I take in a foster or rescue dog, I can have them trained in a matter of days using this method. Your puppy training book should have told you about this. Whatever you do NEVER tell it off and certainly NEVER rub her nose in it. If she wees in the house it is YOUR fault for not helping her to understand what you want from her. Good luck, although there isn’t really any luck involved, just a little time and effort but don’t be surprised if it only takes 2 or 3 days before she understands .
Dogs are not born with inbuilt obedience and understanding, they cannot read your mind and they aren’t born speaking your language and more than you will understand what her bark means. If you can treat her like a foreign person with no understanding of your language so that you have to teach them certain words and SHOW them what you want, you will be able to teach her anything with praise and reward.
BTW throw away the mat and ignore people like Sarah. I can only hope she never gets a puppy since she is so keen on abusing animals and expects them to figure it out by themselves. I reckon any pup she gets will be more intelligent than she is if it magically supposed to somehow work out for itself without any help from her. Silly mare.

By: chass_lee

chass_lee — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:30:48 +0000

Hi Bree
Use a spray that you can get from your local pet store, it takes the smell away and just bring your dog to the door every 15 mins and wait for your puppy to empty and give her a treat and praise her well

By: abze36

abze36 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:08:53 +0000

No easy way all it is wipe it up wipe it of,naughty doggy.,
after every meal out it go`s
Walkies is good.
usually good if you have older dog,that would teach pup
what to do,
So keep wiping and washing ime affraid

By: munchkin

munchkin — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:13:57 +0000

Other than the rubbing her nose in it and putting it outside, here are some other ones:
- apparently putting pepper down in that area helps.
- every time you catch her doing it, say NO! quite harshly and put her outside. every time you catch her doing it outside say Good girl! It’s all about the tone of voice. It worked for my brother’s puppy.
All the best for your potty training.

By: ellen n

ellen n — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:44:34 +0000

I am not sure what you mean by mat? However, he or she will continue to go on that mat until you teach it what you want. Take the puppy outside on a leash at his or her’s usual intervals lead the puppy to the spot you want it to go. give a command like go now. Once the puppy marks it will usually go back there. Now having said that you may not have success on the 1st time you take puppy out to the spot. be patient and consistent. The other thing with this type of training is you cannot allow the puppy to make a mistake in the house. Invest in a crate and puppy should be crated when you cannot supervise. take puppy out to the spot on scheduled bathroom breaks you’ll have puppy retrained with the crate in a week…

By: rat140

rat140 — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:53:59 +0000

newspaper take the mat away

By: michael no hairl

michael no hairl — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:08:53 +0000

keep the dog and bin the mat !!!