Jukee Doodles
06-02-2011, 06:54 PM
Following on from - "Tales from The Dog House" earlier (a lighter-hearted folly) - I thought I'd mention something that I have learnt over the years (through actual repeated observation) and something that I value and pass-on to all of our customers.
Again - I must point out that these are just my own meanderings - they are open and honest views I hold and actually think relevant enough about to share - and am more than willing to listen and take-on anyone else's views especially if they don't exactly match my own.
With puppy toilet training - we ourselves suggest that a 36" crate is fitted out with a piece of Vet-Bed (cut to the size of the base of the crate - but folded in half for puppy) with the front half of the crate lined with newspaper - so if puppy needs to go to the toilet during the night - they will normally go on the newspaper. Bearing in mind that (in our own personal experience) that the crate is the first place that puppy will want to keep clean - it's their sanctuary - their den - and they understand that very quickly..............but this is another thread if need be. x
IF your young puppy has an accident and goes for a No 2 in your house when let free to play in it's early days - then (if you can actually deal with it) pick it up in a piece of tissue paper (whilst the puppy can't witness you doing it) - and place it in a part of your garden that you actually WANT your puppy to use as it's "toilet" (say in a quiet corner or just behind the shed - or near your compost heap etc etc) and leave it there for a few days before disposing of it.
IF you take your puppy outside and it goes for a No 2 as a matter of course - again pick it up (when not in puppy's sight) as soon a you can and put it in the same place as before (for a couple of days again) - you may only need to do this for say a week (but make sure to do it every time it goes) - and you may then find that puppy will go to "that" place automatically - without prompting (and if so give praise).
What you have done (if you stick to the regime) is "scent-mark" that area - and then your dog should always associate that area as "dumping ground" so to speak.........Please note that this is only for No2's - as all dogs will wee as and when it is needed.
We have passed this snippet on to several people who have come back with amazement that it works - and some people with beautifully manicured gardens - or several very young children who may be concerned about letting them run the gauntlet in a possible "Poo mine-field" have found this info more than valuable.
Stephen x
Again - I must point out that these are just my own meanderings - they are open and honest views I hold and actually think relevant enough about to share - and am more than willing to listen and take-on anyone else's views especially if they don't exactly match my own.
With puppy toilet training - we ourselves suggest that a 36" crate is fitted out with a piece of Vet-Bed (cut to the size of the base of the crate - but folded in half for puppy) with the front half of the crate lined with newspaper - so if puppy needs to go to the toilet during the night - they will normally go on the newspaper. Bearing in mind that (in our own personal experience) that the crate is the first place that puppy will want to keep clean - it's their sanctuary - their den - and they understand that very quickly..............but this is another thread if need be. x
IF your young puppy has an accident and goes for a No 2 in your house when let free to play in it's early days - then (if you can actually deal with it) pick it up in a piece of tissue paper (whilst the puppy can't witness you doing it) - and place it in a part of your garden that you actually WANT your puppy to use as it's "toilet" (say in a quiet corner or just behind the shed - or near your compost heap etc etc) and leave it there for a few days before disposing of it.
IF you take your puppy outside and it goes for a No 2 as a matter of course - again pick it up (when not in puppy's sight) as soon a you can and put it in the same place as before (for a couple of days again) - you may only need to do this for say a week (but make sure to do it every time it goes) - and you may then find that puppy will go to "that" place automatically - without prompting (and if so give praise).
What you have done (if you stick to the regime) is "scent-mark" that area - and then your dog should always associate that area as "dumping ground" so to speak.........Please note that this is only for No2's - as all dogs will wee as and when it is needed.
We have passed this snippet on to several people who have come back with amazement that it works - and some people with beautifully manicured gardens - or several very young children who may be concerned about letting them run the gauntlet in a possible "Poo mine-field" have found this info more than valuable.
Stephen x