How difficult is it to house break a puppy in a wooden floor apartment?
Question by leanana: How difficult is it to house break a puppy in a wooden floor apartment? Experiences?
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Answer by Lori It’s not that hard, just make sure you buy plenty of those puppy training pads so it doesn’t ruin your floor.
It took mine about a month, but letting it out every 2 hours I believe helped as well as rewarding when they do go outside.
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The type of flooring makes absolutely no difference in house breaking a dog.
The house breaking is how the dog is trained & that is totally on your back. You need to learn what to do & how to do it & train the dog to go potty outside. There are thousands of sites on the internet on this subject, just google it, Bing it, Yahoo search it….your choice.
As another poster has stated, the floor type makes no difference in how a puppy learns house-breaking. If anything, it will make clean-up of mistakes even easier!
Crate training is invaluable, especially early in a dog’s life. Keep them in their crate for about an hour (it varies depending on your dog’s needs/age), then take them outside, wait until they do their business, and praise them profusely with treats and such. Bring them back inside for about half an hour or so, then back in the crate for an hour.
Crate training uses a dog’s natural instinct of not wanting to soil their own “burrow” to extend that to your house. Used properly it’s quite effective. My suggestion would be to NEVER teach your dog to use indoor potty pads, that goes against the instinct and may confuse them.
I also just dealt with this same problem. I have a three month old black lab and she just seemed to not care and go wherever she wanted…If you have the time the best way is to take him or her out every half hour and have a treat in your hand right after they go…they will soon learn that going outside is much more fun than getting in trouble in the house. CRATE TRAIN!!! is the most important thing they will not lay in their own waste so get a cage small enough that they can just fit in it until they are trained this will teach them to wine or give you some sort of warning that they have to go. Good Luck!!
If you know what you’re doing, and you have the right supplies it’s fairly easy. (Not instant, but do able.) If you don’t know what your doing or you don’t have the right supplies, then it’s very frustrating.
If you don’t have a crate, I’d invest in some doggy pads. When s/he eats, wait a few minutes and then take her/him to the pad and wait for her/him to do his business. When s/he’s done reward him/her, and repeat until dog understand what you want.
I’d invest in some stuff to clean up after him/her though, if not for stains then for the smell.
It’s not too difficult to house break a puppy. I have house trained many of my own dogs and many of my friends and families dogs too. It takes a lot of time and determination but it is possible!! First of all the easiest way i have found to house break a dog is using a crate/kennel. As others have stated dogs do not like soiling their sleeping areas. What I have always done is keep my puppy crated when I am not having play time with them, feeding them or taking them outside. My puppy is NEVER left out of the crate unsupervised. I mean I don’t even go to the next room. I actually managed to train one dog with only 2 accidents the whole time and he was trained in 10 days (super smart lab/border collie mix that I still have) Puppies need to be fed smaller amounts several times a day, you should schedule your feeding/watering times to be about the same time each day (this helps you know when your puppy will need to go outside). First thing in the morning it would get my puppy out and and take him outside to go potty(he’s been digesting his dinner during the night) usually will go but not always. Then I would bring him in and feed and water him then put him back up in the crate for about 20 minutes and take him back outside. If he goes potty praise him! and once inside have some play time. Do not have play time if he hasn’t gone potty one because it will reinforce the idea when i go potty I get to play and again you may end up with an accident on the floor. Then put him back up until you feed again or just to let out for another potty break. ALWAYS take your puppy outside when you release him from the crate. If he didn’t go potty then put him back in the crate and wait about 10 minutes and let him outside again you know he needs to go cause you fed him! the longer you are on your daily schedule (whatever you decide that to be) the more regularly he’ll go outside. To recap: Feed, take outside, play, or feed take outside, put back in crate, take outside, play. Always praise your puppy when he goes out side!! If you do have an accident show the puppy his mess and tell him No sternly and take him outside to go if he still needs to. Clean up the mess promptly and disinfect it. Get a good cleaner so that no smell or residue will be left behind for the puppy to go there again. They are drawn to go in the same places.
Note: when picking out a crate for housebreaking your going to need a smaller one than what you will use for the rest of your dogs life. The kennel should not be big enough for him to completely turn around in. If he can turn around then he can get away from any accidents he may have in the crate. If he can get away from an accident he may go in the crate and just sleep at the other end. Always clean up accidents right away of course but being unable to get away from a mess will deter him from going in the crate. Again this isn’t long term just for housebreaking purposes which should take longer than 2-3 weeks.
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The type of flooring makes absolutely no difference in house breaking a dog.
The house breaking is how the dog is trained & that is totally on your back. You need to learn what to do & how to do it & train the dog to go potty outside. There are thousands of sites on the internet on this subject, just google it, Bing it, Yahoo search it….your choice.
As another poster has stated, the floor type makes no difference in how a puppy learns house-breaking. If anything, it will make clean-up of mistakes even easier!
Crate training is invaluable, especially early in a dog’s life. Keep them in their crate for about an hour (it varies depending on your dog’s needs/age), then take them outside, wait until they do their business, and praise them profusely with treats and such. Bring them back inside for about half an hour or so, then back in the crate for an hour.
Crate training uses a dog’s natural instinct of not wanting to soil their own “burrow” to extend that to your house. Used properly it’s quite effective.
My suggestion would be to NEVER teach your dog to use indoor potty pads, that goes against the instinct and may confuse them.
I also just dealt with this same problem. I have a three month old black lab and she just seemed to not care and go wherever she wanted…If you have the time the best way is to take him or her out every half hour and have a treat in your hand right after they go…they will soon learn that going outside is much more fun than getting in trouble in the house. CRATE TRAIN!!! is the most important thing they will not lay in their own waste so get a cage small enough that they can just fit in it until they are trained this will teach them to wine or give you some sort of warning that they have to go.
Good Luck!!
If you know what you’re doing, and you have the right supplies it’s fairly easy. (Not instant, but do able.)
If you don’t know what your doing or you don’t have the right supplies, then it’s very frustrating.
If you don’t have a crate, I’d invest in some doggy pads. When s/he eats, wait a few minutes and then take her/him to the pad and wait for her/him to do his business. When s/he’s done reward him/her, and repeat until dog understand what you want.
I’d invest in some stuff to clean up after him/her though, if not for stains then for the smell.
I used puppy pads with my dogs and they were not confused. Just keep moving them closer to the door. They are completely house trained now.
It’s not too difficult to house break a puppy. I have house trained many of my own dogs and many of my friends and families dogs too. It takes a lot of time and determination but it is possible!! First of all the easiest way i have found to house break a dog is using a crate/kennel. As others have stated dogs do not like soiling their sleeping areas. What I have always done is keep my puppy crated when I am not having play time with them, feeding them or taking them outside. My puppy is NEVER left out of the crate unsupervised. I mean I don’t even go to the next room. I actually managed to train one dog with only 2 accidents the whole time and he was trained in 10 days (super smart lab/border collie mix that I still have) Puppies need to be fed smaller amounts several times a day, you should schedule your feeding/watering times to be about the same time each day (this helps you know when your puppy will need to go outside).
First thing in the morning it would get my puppy out and and take him outside to go potty(he’s been digesting his dinner during the night) usually will go but not always. Then I would bring him in and feed and water him then put him back up in the crate for about 20 minutes and take him back outside. If he goes potty praise him! and once inside have some play time. Do not have play time if he hasn’t gone potty one because it will reinforce the idea when i go potty I get to play and again you may end up with an accident on the floor. Then put him back up until you feed again or just to let out for another potty break. ALWAYS take your puppy outside when you release him from the crate. If he didn’t go potty then put him back in the crate and wait about 10 minutes and let him outside again you know he needs to go cause you fed him! the longer you are on your daily schedule (whatever you decide that to be) the more regularly he’ll go outside.
To recap: Feed, take outside, play, or feed take outside, put back in crate, take outside, play. Always praise your puppy when he goes out side!!
If you do have an accident show the puppy his mess and tell him No sternly and take him outside to go if he still needs to. Clean up the mess promptly and disinfect it. Get a good cleaner so that no smell or residue will be left behind for the puppy to go there again. They are drawn to go in the same places.
Note: when picking out a crate for housebreaking your going to need a smaller one than what you will use for the rest of your dogs life. The kennel should not be big enough for him to completely turn around in. If he can turn around then he can get away from any accidents he may have in the crate. If he can get away from an accident he may go in the crate and just sleep at the other end. Always clean up accidents right away of course but being unable to get away from a mess will deter him from going in the crate. Again this isn’t long term just for housebreaking purposes which should take longer than 2-3 weeks.