i have a 3 month old chihuhua and a two year ols jack russell the two year old always pees and gets into things while i am at work and now my new puppy is doing the same thing! how do i stop this from happening?
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You can't housebreak a puppy before its about 4 months old. It's like trying to get an infant to hold its bladder.
Once the puppy is old enough try this method:
Confine your puppy to a small area of your home. Use boards or child safety gates to keep it in the area. Cover the entire floor with newspaper. At first the puppy will pee everywhere, but soon you'll find he has a favorite spot. Once that happens, start taking the other newspaper away. When you clean, save a piece of the pee scented paper and put it under the clean paper you put down. This will allow the puppy to smell his pee and stop him from going on the areas you don't have paper on now. Once the puppy goes only in that spot, start taking it outside to toilet every 2 hours or so. Have a word you want the dog to associate with toileting (like potty). When the puppy starts to do its business say the word and praise the dog. Soon it will learn the word means 'go' and that it makes its owner happy. This will help you get the dog to go where you want it to and keep you from having to spend hours outside if its freezing. Once you start to see the dog go less and less inside, take all the newspaper away and clean the area with an enzyme based animal urine cleaner. If you catch the dog going in the house, say, "No!" firmly (You don't have to scream, dogs aren't deaf), immediately take it outside and say "potty". Clean all accidents with the urine cleaner.
I've used this method to housebreak many dogs over the years. They learn it quickly and almost never have accidents.
As for the two year old. The smell of its urine all over your house will only teach the puppy that it's OK to go there. Dogs pee to mark and will always try to pee over another dog's scent. You can try the same type of training, but the habit might be too ingrained to fix. Your only hope might have to be to crate it when you're not home. Chose a crate that's only big enough for the dog to stand and lay in. Put food and water in the crate with the dog. Dogs don't like to eat where they. go, and may learn to control its bowel/bladder for the amount of time you're usually gone. Worst thing that could happen is you don't have to search and clean messes from all over. Some/plenty of dogs are poorly trained or never get it. It's often the reason people ditch them and they end up in a shelter.
Put a diaper on him.
That's normal, the puppy will grow out ot it.
let it pee outside when they back
crate training is good..
after eating, playing, sleeping, puppies need to go pee.
try that. and give them praise when they go outside..
Piss on them
Buy a large crate and put them in it while you are away. When they are house broke you can leave them out.
First, put them in a cage while you are at work. Second, use Nature's Miracle to clean up the pee spots.
If you don't want to cage them, buy the pee mats. They are mats that you can get at any pet store that have a scent for the dog to pee on.
Try crate training them. Leave them in a crate while you are at work and then let them out when they get home. Dogs generally won't pee if they are in a cage.
He needs an outdoor area. Actually puppies dont do well when ppl are gone all day.it wont stop if he is alone that much.
I know my puppy (3 y.o., but I call him puppy) only has about a 1 hour span where he is "pee pee clear" or "safe".
I take him out, he goes, then he's got 1 hr.
If he doesn't want to go again in 1 hr, or I take him out %26 he won't go, I put him in his or my room (with a nice blanket, heater, water, etc.) %26 close door. He barks a little once in a while for a minute or if it's the first time, maybe 5 min but then he will get used to it %26 know if he didn't go, he can't be loose.
After 2 hrs or whatever, I get him out of room %26 if he pees, he's free again. good luck %26 kiss them a lot.
Kill it. (I hate dogs anyways)
get those puppy pads and when they go, hold them under it so they know thats where you want them to go and then you just throw them away when they are done.put them where its o.k. for them to go and then start early putting it at the front or back door to train them to go outside inless you plan on buying the pads from now on and its kindof like a pups litter box..lol
kill em - there problem solved
puppy pads in the create at first then move them in spots in the house and they treat it like the grass outside
You are probablly setting a bad example for them while you are home. Straighten up, dud!!
The 2 yr old is training the new puppy, and both of them are training you. if you don't train them. your home will smell like a pisspot. They can't pee every where if they can't get every where. Stop giving them access to the entire house while you are at work.
When you leave the house, put them in a play pen or section off a very small part of a room with a child safety gate. Place food and bedding in one section and newspaper in another. As they learn to paper train, increase the sectioned area to a few feet. and then room by room. When you come home, feed them and then take them outside the house so they can pee. You will need to teach them using a word association and reward system. This is a slow process, but if you are at work it's the only way of keeping your home in order.
Your 2yo is still too young to have the run of the house while you are gone. Would you leave a preschool child home alone? The JR needs lots and lots of exercise. When you think you have walked/played enough.do it some more. Dogs like routine and they need a job also. Walking with small pack etc.
If you can catch them doing it, this is a good method: wipe up the mess with a paper towel, then take the dog and the wet paper towel out to the yard, or the area you WANT him to use. Then lay the paper towel down and let him smell it. No pushing noses into it, no matter how much you want to! Then use a command word like "go potty", and be consistant about it. Every time you take him out to pee say "go potty" and take him to that spot. He will get the idea eventually that THIS is where he pees. Be patient. Housebreaking is alot easier on everyone when the cooler head prevails. I have trained 3 dogs this way, and I know it works!
Good luck!
chain them to a tree until they learn
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