Hi all,

Im getting ready for Mollys great arrival next Saturday, been out and bought all sorts for her, SPOILT already......

PS: She is still called Molly up to now!!!!

What is the best wat to go about toilet training?

I bought some of those training pad things you put on the floor......

How have you lot gone about toilet training?

I'm sure theres alot of stuff on google.

My own personal experience would be to use the pads as a last resort really, as it encourages them to wee inside.

I'd set up there base near the outside door or a cat litter tray full of mud with abit of grass (to associte weeing on grass very early on).

Then praise heavily for wees outside.

I never used puppy pads or newspaper. I took mine outside to the garden every 1 1/2 hours at first and every time they woke up, finished eating or stopped playing and waited for them to go to the toilet - sometimes I was stood in the rain for 30 mins or more
Then as they got older every 2 hours etc eventually they just started taking themselves to the back door.
At night they slept in a crate in my bedroom so if they woke I could take them out in the garden.
Both were fully toilet trained by 4 months.
You can give a command to "go potty" or "be quick" or whatever you want to say and if you say it every time they go they will associate the command with the act and therefore go on command - which can be very handy if its raining - however I never mastered that one.
Good luck with the training and congratulations on your new puppy.

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Hi,
You need to be consistant and have bucket loads of patience when toilet training
Pups don't have any control over there bladder until they are around 5/6 months old.They need to go out often every 1/2 hour or so,then after playing,feeding,waking etc.

Go out with your pup and stay outside till she performs,give lots of praise and reward with a treat,maybe link a word while she going such as clean.

We used to take both ours upstairs at night and settle them down in their crates by our bed,if they woke during the night,we used to get up and take them out but extending the time each night by 5-10 minutes.

I'm not a fan of using puppy pads or newspaper as I personally think it takes longer to train the puppy as you are giving signals it's ok for them to toilet indoors.

Just a tip NEVER tell your pup off for toileting indoors,just take her out clean the area with bio washing powder and ignore what she has done.By telling a puppy off you will just encourage her to do it where she can't be seen or hide the evidence.
Just remember if she does have accidents it's your fault for not reading the signs,circling and sniffing etc.
Toilet training can be frustrating at times but you will get there eventually

Good Luck with your new pup and remember we want to see pics

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I have had my puppy for nearly 6 weeks, and I haven't used any newspaper or puppy training pads. As someone else said, this in a way is encouraging them to toilet inside... which isn't what you want.

As soon as I got my puppy home I took her out into the garden to do a wee and show her where her toilet area was. I then would take her out every 30 - 60 minutes throughout the day to let her relieve herself. Even if I felt she didn't need to go, I would still take her out.

I would suggest crate training your puppy, this is what I have done and can help with toilet training.

Young puppies wont let you know they need to go to the toilet, so you need to look out for the warning signs, like circling indoors and sniffing the floor. If you see this, quickly take them to them outside to go to the toilet. Foxy doesn't really do this, she just goes! So I have to make sure I give her PLENTY of opportunities to go outside. Like I said, you need to make regular trips to the garden throughout the day to give the puppy plenty of chances to relieve itself in the correct place. Whenever your puppy does do a toilet in the correct place make sure you reward and give lots of praise straight away!

I also wouldn't suggest letting your puppy outside alone (while you wait indoors) when wanting it to go to the toilet, because it may ask to come back in and you might think it's done it's stuff when probably it hasn't... so it then comes back indoors and does it there! So supervise the puppy outside when it's time for toilets. Even if you are out there for 20 minutes, you just have to wait until they go! I've been doing this alot, but it's getting better. If they don't go, bring the puppy back in and try again in a few minutes time.

So if you decide not to use training pads or newspaper, you will need to be making trips to the garden during the night too. I did, I used to get up twice during the night. She'd go out at around 12am then I would go to bed, then I'd set my alarm for around 2:30am and so on... and get up and take her out for a wee. It was tiring, but it needs to be done. She now goes through the night (has done for a good few weeks now). She'll go from around 12am to 7am, then she wakes me up to be let out (she sleeps in her crate at night time).

Toilet training takes ALOT of time and patience. You really have to be very dedicated to getting it done proplerly and very consistent with it all too.

We all know that puppies cannot hold onto their stuff for very long, so need to go quite often.

Good luck! New puppies are fun but also lots of hard work too hehe

And of course, I forgot to mention the main things! Take your puppy outside after sleep, eating, drinking, playing etc!

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hi ,i am puppy toilet training too,
my puppy takes herself out in the day time( my back door is open all the time with the kids coming in and out).she gets lots of praise and cuddles.she learnt to do this very quick(i have only had her 2 weeks).
now night time is a different matter.i bought the puppy pads and spray and lock her in the kitchen at night but she just wees and poos all over the place.will this be a short term thing ? do i realy have to get up several times at night?and if so for how long?
please help

You don't have to get up in the night,we did though as I firmly believed it would help which it did.
Have you thought about using a crate at night,these can be placed in your bedroom so you can hear your pup in the night if she needs to go out.

We took ours out at bedtime around 11pm then settled them upstairs in our room in their crates,they would wake around 2am,so we used to get up,take them out,then settle them back down again,every night extending the time by 5 or 10 minutes,it worked well for us and both mine were clean and slept right through after a few weeks.

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ruardeanstaffords

i`ve never realy thought of getting a crate.i am a very heavy sleeper too.well it`s something i will have to consider
would my pup eventualy hold on til i got up if i carried on leaving her in the kitchen over night(i take her out about 11.00 then at 7.00).?i don`t tell her off in the morning i just give the whole kitchen a good mop and hope one day i will get up to a wee,poo free kitchen

Do you use crates just for puppies for training them ?or are they a permanant thing? do people put their dogs in them every night?
If i put one in my bedroom would my dog want to sleep in my room when she is an adult?

How old is your puppy? I have had mine 6 weeks and for the first 2 - 3 weeks of having her I was up a couple of times during the night to take her outside. She now goes through the night... roughly about 6 hours... 7 tops. She has her last wee/poo at about 12am and wakes me up at about 6am to go outside.

Foxy is crate trained now. As soon as I got her I had a crate. Her crate is in my bedroom so I can hear her moving around to let me know she needs to go. Personally that is where she will sleep all the time... I don't mind having her in my room. I think she will end up sleeping in her crate for the rest of her time, unless when she's completely house trained she chooses another spot to sleep. She is in her crate every night.

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