How did you housebreak your pup
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I got one puppy at 8 weeks old, and I crate trained him. He was "trained" by about 6 months old, and reliable alone in the house by a year old.
Our other puppy we got at 13 weeks old, and she too was crate trained. She was "trained" by about 6 months old, and is turning 1 in January, and is pretty much reliable in the house now.
Both are Jack Russells, which are notorious for taking a bit longer to house break. Not many accidents to speak of, all of which have been our fault.
Our other puppy we got at 13 weeks old, and she too was crate trained. She was "trained" by about 6 months old, and is turning 1 in January, and is pretty much reliable in the house now.
Both are Jack Russells, which are notorious for taking a bit longer to house break. Not many accidents to speak of, all of which have been our fault.
Carmenita said:
How old was your pup when you got him?
Harley was I belive 3 months; Lemon 8 weeks and Sam 3 years old.
How did you housebreak him?
With patience.
How long did it take to housebreak your pup?
Harley, he's not fully housetrained yet, one or two accidents maybe every other week, Sam came housetrained and Lemon I cannot trust even one little bit but we are working on it!
My puppy took a very short amount of time to housebreak. He is great!
Harley was I belive 3 months; Lemon 8 weeks and Sam 3 years old.
How did you housebreak him?
With patience.
How long did it take to housebreak your pup?
Harley, he's not fully housetrained yet, one or two accidents maybe every other week, Sam came housetrained and Lemon I cannot trust even one little bit but we are working on it!
My puppy took a very short amount of time to housebreak. He is great!
Harley was I belive 3 months; Lemon 8 weeks and Sam 3 years old.
How did you housebreak him?
With patience.
How long did it take to housebreak your pup?
Harley, he's not fully housetrained yet, one or two accidents maybe every other week, Sam came housetrained and Lemon I cannot trust even one little bit but we are working on it!
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Please, do not hit your puppy.
Hitting a puppy teaches it nothing except to be afraid.
Hitting puppies for eliminating in the house will not teach them to be housetrained.
It will teach them to fear and distrust you, and to sneak away quietly when they need to eliminate.
please, no hitting, hitting has no place in training a dog.
Carmenita said:
How old was your pup when you got him?
How did you housebreak him?
How long did it take to housebreak your pup?
My puppy took a very short amount of time to housebreak. He is great!
How did you housebreak him?
How long did it take to housebreak your pup?
My puppy took a very short amount of time to housebreak. He is great!
Took them both out every 10 - 30 minutes at first then slowly stretched time over next month ( I teach so I got both of them at the start of summer break)
Both were Housebroke real fast....about a month. Before I got my first Amstaff I had read they were hard to house break, I sure haven't found that to be true. Athena is afraid of storms and has held her pee for 24hrs....I even carried her outside in the rain because I was worried about her and she still would not pee. To me that is amazing because I don't think I could hold it for 24hrs....
RedyreRottweilers said:
Please, do not hit your puppy.
Hitting a puppy teaches it nothing except to be afraid.
Hitting puppies for eliminating in the house will not teach them to be housetrained.
It will teach them to fear and distrust you, and to sneak away quietly when they need to eliminate.
please, no hitting, hitting has no place in training a dog.
Good advice and completely true. I even feel guilty for yelling too loud when I saw accidents. I find that making a real big deal (+) out of their outside successes works better than scaring them.
Boris was 10 weeks. I crate trained him and he was good in the house at 5 months.
Tips was 8 weeks, he understood in 2 days that he was supposed to do outside, but didn't have total control of his bladder until 4 months (he would just pee while he was walking lol). We didn't have to crate train him. Then he started peeing on the couch so I guess he was really housetrained at 6 months also.
Tips was 8 weeks, he understood in 2 days that he was supposed to do outside, but didn't have total control of his bladder until 4 months (he would just pee while he was walking lol). We didn't have to crate train him. Then he started peeing on the couch so I guess he was really housetrained at 6 months also.