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luvlygrl asked in PetsDogs · 1 decade ago

How do I successfully potty train and crate train my puppy?

I have a 12 week old female puppy. She is a miniature American Eskimo. I am trying to crate train her and take her out to relieve herself. Instead she only wants to play when we go outside. I know I should be taking her out after 15 minutes or so after eating and drinking. However, she plays when I take her out and ends up going in the house. What Should I do? Any experiences, tips or websites would be appretiated. :)

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I have a 6 month doberman puppy and got her at 8 weeks. I had the same problem however the best way is to crate train her which you are doing. Make sure the cage isnt too big where she can do her business on one side and sleep on the other. I bought a big cage which would could be used even when she is older so she would do her business on one side and sleep on the other. You have to teach your puppy that peeing or taking a crap in your house is wrong. This may take a few attempts and a also a few craps/pees in your house. Make sure you catch your puppy while he is doing it. Take him and bring him close to his doings and say NO. He will slowly learn that doing it in the house is wrong. It may take a few weeks but it will surely work.

  • 5 years ago

    My dogs have been by some means closer to being 'proficient', on newspaper, earlier than they went residence. From early days they might move slowly clear of the bedding to drain. You would not consider the volume of newspaper we bought via doing a muddle - for weeks earlier than they have been due, we would be scouring the neighbourhood for used paper however we usually close to ran out bty the time they went residence Actually despite the fact that I fully grasp in which you're coming from, I'd advocate it might be an excessively infrequent breeder that might have the time to 'potty instruct' the dogs in a muddle. Especially if they'd a kennel stuffed with adults as good as their muddle(s). Obviously if a dog used to be stored again till it used to be older, so the breeder might come to a decision which among the many they might stored again used to be the great, after which offered, it might have had the equal coaching as it is siblings. Otherwise I'd advocate no - after all as soon as any puppy is going to a brand new residence, it has to get used to the hobbies of his new proprietor, and in which he used to be to 'empty'. So it might essentially be unnecessary. And facet of the bonding procedure entails the learning. I on no account had any court cases from my dog shoppers re condo-coaching. Add- Looking on the different solutions right here, both individuals have honestly on no account DONE a muddle, or I ought to had been a quite horrible breeder!! Most of mine went residence from eight - 10 weeks of age, and with a typical-sized muddle of Basset dogs and different adults (as much as part a dozen) there used to be no approach I had time to remotely begin educating each and every man or woman dog approximately housetraining. Fact is they'd an eight X four whelping field, with newspaper down at one finish which they used once they were not external within the greater climate as they bought older. My homeowners got here and picked their dogs, with my support, and stale they went with their dogs - to begin the learning procedure, housetraining and the leisure, THEMSELVES. Those dogs we ran on, as soon as the others went residence, have been surely began on their man or woman coaching. If we later determined to uncover a residence for the sort of (infrequent when you consider that we usually stored what we ran on regardless) then surely that dog might had been into housetraining, dressed in a collar and so forth.and so forth. Again, I had NO court cases from my homeowners.

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