MO
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Jun 11, 2011, 12:43 AM
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Wee2 pad not working...praising not working...the toilet train is going nowhere - help pls.
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Hi All,
I'd really appreciate if some of you can teach me what to try next.
I've brought my pup home for 1 week now, he is 4 months old Shih Tzu. I stay in a landed house but with no private garden, only a common garden at the back and it is small.
First, when I am at home I wish for him to run around and sleep in the house, and pee/poo in the specific toilet tray I placed near the door. This is my wish.
When I brought him back, I put him in cage for sense of security because that was what he was familiar before. The next day I started bringing him to the common garden behind my house after every meal for about 5 minutes. But it didn't work. He would still pee/poo as and when he feels like it, when he happened to poo on the grass I did use an extremely happy tone + treats to praise him, but I guess he still didn't get my message because the next round of poo went back to the unintended place, cage as well as on the house floor. So my problem number 1: How do I train him to know where to poo besides the rewards method?
Btw, he did not pee at the right place too, in fact he can't hold his bladder to the extent that he'd get so excited that he pees every time he sees me or get excited that the food is coming.
Now I gave him a gated small place that allows him to go outside, or go into his cage. I then lay the weewee pad in the cage, and I also placed the toilet tray near the door going out with weewee pad too. My plan was to get him to either pee/poo in the cage or outside as long it is on the weewee pad of outside on the grass. I tried both methods of using just the pad, and the pad+the toilet trained drops. But guess what, he ended biting the weewee pad! And still pee/poo like before. My next problem: How can I get him to use the toiley tray? Either with or without weewee pad would be fine.
Last question is, before he is trained I just cannot allow him to sleep on the cushion or get close my living room yet coz I have a toddler, will there be a problem to teach him to sleep back on the cushion in future after he's trained?
Thanks in advance, and hope to hear some practical advise soon possible.
M.O.
(This post was edited by MO on Jun 11, 2011, 12:49 AM)
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