This video is on housetraining puppies and dogs. It covers teaching a dog where you want him to go to the bathroom, how to teach a cue to go to the bathroom, managing the dog in the house, what to do if your dog goes to the toilet in the house, pros and cons of using a litter box for separation training, how to set up a pen with a litter box, setting up a pen or litter box for a dog who is peeing and pooping everywhere.
Housetraining consists of essentially 2 things:
1 Teaching the puppy where to go
2 Management and prevention
Tips- If your puppy does pee in the house, hang out in area that was peed on, train and play with your puppy on that spot after it has been cleaned and dried, put a bed over it (if your puppy doesn’t like to pee in his bed) or a food or water bowl there telling them this is not a toilet! It’s the den!
When the puppy has a FULL bladder, have them on leash in the area that they are prone to want to go in the house and say “outside” and show him the route to the RIGHT location. Some dogs just don’t seem to get that when they are upstairs they should go all the way down the stairs to out the door. By showing him the way, he will be more likely to think of it on his own.
Some puppies need to pee twice in a row. So if you are blessed with a puppy like this, you must praise and reward for going to the bathroom and then wait another minute. With a previous puppy I helped raise, we would walk him to one area in the yard where he would pee, then walk him to a second area where he would pee again 30 seconds later.
Some people find that bringing the puppy in and then going directly out again if a puppy is taking forever to go to the bathroom can speed up the process if you have a puppy that won’t go outside, but immediately wants to go when inside the house again.
Litter box training:
The key is taking the dog out so frequently and strategically that they don’t even go in their litter. Once the dog is reliably not going in the box the box can be removed. But it’s nice I think to have it for times where you are gone longer than normal or when say the dog might end up having a bladder infection.
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Great video, as always.
The potty surface/location re-training is also useful when you move house, or travel with your dog.
You mentioned fireworks. Do you have advice for dogs that are terrified of fireworks or thunderstorms (besides Thundershirts)?
What do you think of using a bell (we used to hang one on the doorknob) that the dog can ring with her paw or nose to alert the humans that she has to go potty?
I suggest working on a bunch of different sounds you can control like in this video first – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkHuLK5UyAI
@Beach Girl I think that is a great idea. Unless your dog starts to use it to get your attention. Because I have 5, it would be a little exhausting taking them all out when any of the 5 wanted to go, so I like to take my dogs out BEFORE they think they need to go, so when I wake up, after breakfast, then they get a walk later after I have done some work, then a a couple times midday(maybe a second walk), then before after dinner and then before bed. So they never really need to tell me unless they have an issue, and all my dogs have a way of telling me to go out, some will go stand by the door, others will try to get my attention then go to the door. But say if you didnt have your dog go upstairs a bell would be great for a dog to be able to say he needs to go out.
Thank you for discussing this subject.
This information is really hard to find.
People laughed at me because I tried to learn our dog to pee on cue.
Good to know that we are not the only one.
Lovely! Very thorough. I love the idea of circling outdoors. That also gives the waiting human something to do instead of just trying to be patient. The human peeing can also help if you aren’t grossed out or in danger of indecency charges haha. (A tiny dab onto a pee pad saved my sanity in a hotel recently when we needed to switch to indoor peeing fast after being out of practice with pee pads.) We had some overgeneralizing when we started litterboxes after moving climates and there are two large areas of carpet that have upside-down waterproof outdoor rugs (with the rubber bottoms up) that will be there until we can rip out the carpet and put in hard floors! I tried the Nature’s Miracle, the feeding there and hanging out there, and the crates are even adjacent, but once that smell got into the carpet pad it was just too confusing. The texture of the rubber mat was a big enough change to stop them using the spots before my sweetie kicked us all out of his new house 😂
Lol I’d never have thought of that. I guess desperate times call for desperate measures.
Really appreciate the information about both outside training and indoor training. Also where to place the pee pads inside the pen. I’m getting a puppy in early November and this has been a concern of mine. My house is configured with my kitchen, family room, and master bedroom upstairs. This is where I spend most of my time and where I’ll have the pen. I plan to take a month off work so I can work with her training. My worry with doing only outside training is that I have to go down the stairs and then through the width of the ground floor to the front door where the yard is. I’m not as young as I once was and so can’t just pick her up and dash out the house quickly if she starts to have an accident. So the idea of focusing primarily on outdoor but also having an indoor potty place is really helpful.
You never know you could be blessed with an easy puppy. Some are just so easy to house train, Like my Halo and Splash. Its like they came housetrained. So I will hope you dont get a pup that is too tricky 🙂
I will most definitely come back to watch and “study” this video. I will be critter sitting soon for four days and later for two weeks. Two of the dogs (males) look like Shi Tzu mix. They get to come in the large “sun room” in the evening and overnight (they sleep in nice large crates at night). While they are allowed to be out of their crates until bedtime they will relieve themselves as the urge hits them. I am hoping to stop this with lots of kindness and consistency. It will probably work better during the two weeks. I am so excited that you uploaded this now! Great timing and I am certain great instruction. Thank you so much Emily!
Another great video. So helpful! Thank you. Can’t wait for more!
Great tips. Good to learn to use peepads and lawn and look out for rugs that are similar to rugs or grass, lol, we have had that issue.
I have a puppy that’s 5 months old now and we’re trying to give him a little more freedom around the house. He’s had a few more accidents since we decided to try to give him more freedom because we didn’t initially follow him nonstop (we do so now, continuing what we used to do). He hasn’t ever shown any sort of cue for when he needs to go (his butt puckers when he needs to poo), so we’ve just been keeping him on a every 2 hour schedule, but we’re wondering on average how long this *constant* supervision needs to occur.
As always, excellent advice! <3
Man I wish I found your channel a month ago! Trying to use the same old techniques my mum used on our family dog years ago just wasn’t working out for my new puppy Albie! He’s very smart but just didn’t seem to be getting things like “don’t chew that” and “go pee outside”. Now we’ve already figured out “stay” and “calm down”, and hopefully potty training will be next!
No worries. All dogs are different, so no matter what you do there will be times when something doesnt work and youll need to problem solve.
Fantastic video, thank you! A question I have is how do you know when your puppy is ready to have less frequent toilet breaks and/or less intensive supervision? Your videos have been a huge help to me as I prepare for my puppy and form a game plan!
Hi Emily! Thank you so much for these videos.
I have a question- we’re in NYC trying to deal with a rescue puppy whose vaccinations got delayed and can’t go for walks. We don’t have a private outdoor area, and she is very easily excited by the smells/noises/people outside (we just stick to the sidewalk in front of our building). When I get her to sniff around, she’s usually just desperately looking for food and will pick up and eat leaves, sticks, paper, etc. or trying to say hello to every person walking past. I’ve tried the walking in circles, I praise and treat generously when she goes potty outside, I’ve tried using the attention noise to keep her focused, trying to incorporate the cue word… but really struggling.
We’re working on using a pen inside, but at this point she finds it punishing to be closed in. We have pee pads in the house which she does use pretty well, but unfortunately she also uses a few different spots on our rugs (we always clean w/Nature’s Miracle.)
Any advice for how to deal with an excitable pup with limited space and no option for privacy?
Thank you so much for this! You are absolutely amazing. I am sharing!
Hi Emily. Great videos. You have helped me so much with my anxiety on training our rescue Malinois mix puppy. But one thing, I can’t seem to get the puppy to go potty outside. Not even on long walks.
My poodle circles before a poo but just wees randomly. Going to use some of these tips. Excellent advice as always.
I live in an apartment with a balcony – would you recommend using a pee pad or grass pad on the balcony for when it might not be feasible to go all the way down to pee? And if so, is there a way to do this that causes the least amount of confusion possible for the puppy?
Thank you for this video! I’m 36 and just got a puppy (never had a dog before in my life) and was clueless. This is wonderful advice and direction.
I do have a question, how do you teach your puppy to signal that they need to go?
She will walk to the door, but doesnt whine, bark, or scratch. She just stands in front of the door silently. It’s ok while we’re all diligently watching her, but our house is typically full of loud activity (6 kids)
I suggest taking her out frequently then she doesn’t need to ask. If you’re desperate to get her to offer some behavior you can then say “do you need to go out?“ excite her a little saying it a couple times then call her to you and ask her to do the behavior
You want for her to tell you, like just coming over, or touching you or whatever. Then go
Let her out
@Dog Training by Kikopup thank you! Your videos have been so helpful