Potty Training a Toy Poodle?

I would take a trip to the vet. She is still a puppy, so having an accident is one thing, laying in it is another. A healthy dog should not willingly lay in her excrement. I know if my dog has an accident in her crate she stays as far away from it as she can.

To train her, take treats with you outside. Offer lots of verbal praise while she is going and offer the treat as soon as she is done. If she does both she'll get two treats. Praise her the whole time. You'll probably feel silly at first, but with a poodle you should only have to do this for a week or so. As far as training her to notify you, I would just keep doing what you are doing with the speak command. Everytime you take her out to go potty make her speak first. She should associate the two. She's still a baby though, so you have to watch her. My six month old hasn't gotten the whole signaling thing yet, so she still leaves many messes by the door.

I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/liHoN

She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.

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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

i have a 5 yr old toy poodle. I trained him to go in a dog litter box with a wee-wee pad. I put him in it every 15 mins. praised him when he went. I also took him outside every 15 after he ate and drank or if he didn't go in the box. it took alot of patience. He was about 8-9 months when he got it. When i was not home he would go in the box. now that he is 5 he can wait along time till i get home to take him out. He hasn't had an accident since he was a puppy. Hang in there your dog will get it. poodles are very smart and they love to please there masters! Good luck! i would own nothing but a toy poodle because once trained their wonderful dogs!!

Potty training starting at 6 months? That's not right at all. You can start much earlier then that. Giving her a treat AFTER coming inside is too late of a reward anyway. Praise and reward have to be given immediately. I would get a crate, it's the easiest and fastest way to housebreak