when is a good time to start training a puppy to go outside?
when you people usually start training a pup to use the bathroom outside? do you reccomend using puppy training pads in the meantime?
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Chris'sFatAssedGirly
24 Dec, 2009
Train em as soon as you get em. Bring them home and start teaching them the same day.
Why waste good money on pads. Take the dog out to pee.
Goldengal
24 Dec, 2009
As soon as you get the pup home is always the right time.
Puppy pad could be used at night I suppose if the dog is very tiny breed but a bigger breed will only see it as something to chew on or shread up.
Garrettsmom
24 Dec, 2009
I started taking my puppy outside from the first night I brought her home. I never used puppy pads on her b/c I thought it may confuse her to think it was ok to pee on rugs etc. She had a handful of accidents inside before being trained and you have to constiently keep your eyes on them wherever they go.
I crate trained the rest of the time. By the time she was around 7 months I could trust her and not have to watch her 24 7. However, she is a little over a year now and she still stays in the crate while i’m gone long periods of time.
dogshop@sbcglobal.net
24 Dec, 2009
Immediately! Why use pads & just confuse the dog? First it’s ok to eliminate inside, & then it’s not? what’s with that? If you’re going to paper train a dog, you don’t need to PAY FOR p-pads. In any case, the dog can only hold urine for 1 hour per month of life—so immediately after a nap, the dog has to go out. Get the book, The Art of Raising a Puppy,” by the Monks of New Skete.
Evolrider
24 Dec, 2009
As soon as you get him home! Try crate training for the win!
Jenna
24 Dec, 2009
As soon as they get the puppy. You need to be repetitive with your training and take the pup out often. They will get the picture, but the earlier you can teach the pup the better… if not you will give the dog mixed signals!
avsaenz
24 Dec, 2009
It depends on the size of the dog. If you’re talking about a toy breed and you live in a high rise apartment then it would be in your best interest to do puppy pads. Once they can see above the grass and hold it on an elevator, then it should then be brought to the outdoors.
JOANNE C
24 Dec, 2009
I started training my pup from the first day I got him, I put him on the lead to go out to the garden and within one week I had him toilet trained. I think I lucked out with him on that score!!!!
I took him out to the toilet every hour on the hour for the first couple of weeks and kept him enclosed in a smaller room at night.
A really good book to read on toilet training and puppy training in general is ‘Before and after getting your puppy, how to raise a healthy, happy an well adjusted dog’ by Dr Ian Dunbar!
AC
24 Dec, 2009
the sooner the better
ajmommy002
24 Dec, 2009
We have 9 Great Dane puppies and even as the breeder we have been working with them since they were 5 weeks old. That’s about when their eyes are open and they can walk steadily. We just take them and mom out first thing in the morning for a short time then bring them back inside.
Jennifer P
24 Dec, 2009
I have a 9 month old Boston Terrier and we started to train them as soon as we got him. I did not use puppy training pads to train him on and do not think that they are a good idea. I did however put them in his crate at night just incase he did have an accident.
I would suggest taking your puppy outside after eating, playing and sleeping. Also, what we did with Sam during the night was to take him out every couple of hours for the first night to go to the bathroom outside. Then we waited for him to let usk now when it was time to go. Be sure to praise him when he does use the bathroom outside. Go crazy so that he/she knows that they did a good thing.
wayfaroutthere
24 Dec, 2009
As soon as the puppy knows you love it, you can start training (a lot of training is about getting the dog to respect you, so I’d keep it a day or two before getting on a real training program). At eight or ten weeks the puppy will be smart enough to learn what you are teaching.
I’d say to use the pads even though I’ve never seen one–I recommend paper training (put newspaper down near the back door and teach the puppy to use that), which sounds the same as the pads except the pads cost more and may make clean up easier (although I don’t know what could be easier than picking up a bunch of paper and throwing it in the trash, as long as it didn’t soak through).
Once you have taught the dog it can’t just go anywhere it likes and that it should pick a good spot like the paper, you can let it outside. Eventually you take away the paper (or only leave it when you leave the house) so the dog will learn to find you to tell you it needs out. Notice that there are a few things the dog has to learn–there is a right place to go, he can’t go in the wrong place, the right place is outside, he needs to find you when he needs to go, and here is how he tells you (for the last–the dog needs to train you on dog communication). If he struggles to learn it, figure out which piece he is missing and teach him a little at a time.
Shadow's Melon
24 Dec, 2009
I begin outdoor potty training the day a puppy comes home with me at 8 weeks. I never want the puppy to think it okay to go in my home, even with puppy pads.
bassetnut
24 Dec, 2009
Immediately. Heck, I start training them before they even leave for their new homes.
Marna O
24 Dec, 2009
assuming it is a puppy bought at about 8 weeks old……the day you bring them home.
I have never used training pads……it trains the puppy to potty in the house