Mrs Scooby
Boxer Pal
Hi Everyone, have got a quick question on house training.
We've had Scooby for 4 days now and we're not doing too bad with the toilet training.
We take him out really regularly during the day and evening (there is always someone home with him) so we hardly ever have any accidents, accept during the night where he is shut in the kitchen but that's to be accepted.
Everytime he goes in the garden we really praise him heavily and give him a special treat (a certain one for going potty in the garden). He loves the praise (it's soooo cute seeing his little tail wagging!), but I'm wondering if we're doing it right.
Earlier on this morning the door was open to the garden and I was upstairs, I came downstairs to a lovely pile of poo on the kitchen floor (lovely!), so he's obviously not grasped that outside is to go to the loo. If we do catch him in the act we do pick him up and put him outside, saying 'outside' in a stern voice.
What I'm wondering is if we continue with this method will he eventually get it? I know we've not been training long and there is no way we can expect it to happen overnight but I'd rather be doing the right thing from the beginning rather than trying to get rid of bad habits later!
We've considered a crate but really have no space for it. We've seen posts on here about bell training, and would really like to give that a go, but need to train him to know to go outside first!
Any advice would be gratefully appreciated!
Hayley
We've had Scooby for 4 days now and we're not doing too bad with the toilet training.
We take him out really regularly during the day and evening (there is always someone home with him) so we hardly ever have any accidents, accept during the night where he is shut in the kitchen but that's to be accepted.
Everytime he goes in the garden we really praise him heavily and give him a special treat (a certain one for going potty in the garden). He loves the praise (it's soooo cute seeing his little tail wagging!), but I'm wondering if we're doing it right.
Earlier on this morning the door was open to the garden and I was upstairs, I came downstairs to a lovely pile of poo on the kitchen floor (lovely!), so he's obviously not grasped that outside is to go to the loo. If we do catch him in the act we do pick him up and put him outside, saying 'outside' in a stern voice.
What I'm wondering is if we continue with this method will he eventually get it? I know we've not been training long and there is no way we can expect it to happen overnight but I'd rather be doing the right thing from the beginning rather than trying to get rid of bad habits later!
We've considered a crate but really have no space for it. We've seen posts on here about bell training, and would really like to give that a go, but need to train him to know to go outside first!
Any advice would be gratefully appreciated!
Hayley
In fact he'll be closer to six months old before he *completely* understands the potty-outside-without-exception thing (though you may be accident-free well before that).