First House Training Question--

[Meg]

I got Keeley the day before yesterday at 10 weeks. The breeder we got him from told us he was paper trained.

Well we are trying to pee pad train him in a storage room off of the main room. (We have made this his room... food, water, pee pads, a bed, toys ect).

Being so new to our house I knew it'd take awhile to get him used to going in there... but yesterday he walked right over to a newspaper I had left on the living room floor and went to the bathroom. I was so proud of him, but I don't know if I should reward him if it is in the wrong room. I really don't want him to go in the living room.

What are your suggestions? Should I leave a paper out in the living room for a while or should I work on only going in "his room".

I don't want him to get confused, but he is doing such a great job for only being here 2 days.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

[bld2751]

Congrats on the new little guy.

I don't pee pad train, but from what I've heard/read from those that do, I think a lot of people start of with pad in numerous places throughout the house (if the dog is allowed access to a large area). Then once he gets used to going on a pee pad, slowly take away one at a time.

Good luck!

[daisysmom]

Originally Posted by Meg

I got Keeley the day before yesterday at 10 weeks. The breeder we got him from told us he was paper trained.

Well we are trying to pee pad train him in a storage room off of the main room. (We have made this his room... food, water, pee pads, a bed, toys ect).

Being so new to our house I knew it'd take awhile to get him used to going in there... but yesterday he walked right over to a newspaper I had left on the living room floor and went to the bathroom. I was so proud of him, but I don't know if I should reward him if it is in the wrong room. I really don't want him to go in the living room.

What are your suggestions? Should I leave a paper out in the living room for a while or should I work on only going in "his room".

I don't want him to get confused, but he is doing such a great job for only being here 2 days.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

Since he is still a pup, if you are in the living room you can't expect him to get up and go to his room to do his business.
Whatever room you are in with him you should have a pee pad available to him and take him there to let him know that is where he should go. Since he's only 10 wks old he still cannot "hold it" very long. Give him lots of praise when he does make it to the pad.
If you want to have him concentrate on going in his room, try to have him spend most of his time in his room (of course with you spending time with him in there).
We did the same type of process with Pochi. Since we live in a 2 story home I couldn't expect him to run up the stairs and go in the bathroom pee pad when he was down in the living room with us. We wanted to focus on him getting to a pee pad all the time, first. So whatever rooom we were in we had a pee pad there. We had him spend most of his time in our bedroom since that is where his bed was and we had the pee pad in the bathroom(leaving the door open) he mastered the pee pad and knew it was in the bathroom and would go to it when he had to go when he was in our bedroom. When we had him go downstairs and let him roam without watching him every 30 min we only had pee pads in the living room and dining room and he sometimes would go on them but most times he would run up the stairs go to our bedroom and into our bathroom to do his business on the pee pad on there. It takes time and patience and lots of praise. I posted on another thread about how I think males are harder to train than the females but that is only my experience and opinion.

Hope this helps you and good luck!

[Meg]

THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!

That makes so much sense. And I wanted so badly to reward him when he went on the papers, but just didn't know. Now I can!

I am so pleased with him... I guess now I just need to work on trading the newspapers he is used to, to the puppy pads with the backing so it doesn't soak through to the carpet.

Also, does that spray work, you know the kind that has a smell saying "potty here"?

[daisysmom]

I haven't tried the spray. The pee pads I get already have a "scent" that tells them to pee and poop here. hehe I think most pee pads have that feature.

[GoodDogCarl]

I tried the spray this afternoon when we are outside. It didn't phase Carl, but my Rottweiler knew what to do . It seems Carl is only interested in doing his business(poop) in the front yard where the pine bark is....Go figure!

[nemom]

Originally Posted by Meg

I got Keeley the day before yesterday at 10 weeks. The breeder we got him from told us he was paper trained.

Being so new to our house I knew it'd take awhile to get him used to going in there... but yesterday he walked right over to a newspaper I had left on the living room floor and went to the bathroom. I was so proud of him, but I don't know if I should reward him if it is in the wrong room. I really don't want him to go in the living room.

What are your suggestions? Should I leave a paper out in the living room for a while or should I work on only going in "his room".

I don't want him to get confused, but he is doing such a great job for only being here 2 days.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!

Well we are trying to pee pad train him in a storage room off of the main room. (We have made this his room... food, water, pee pads, a bed, toys ect).

We started with wee wee pads and lots of them and rewarded her every time she used it, we made a big deal about it........Bella is 18 weeks now and hasn't gone anywhere other then a wee wee pad (or outside) in a while. As far as I know she is 100% .In fact tonight she noticed I took away a wee wee pad and then when to the back door to find a different one.

We slowly have taken them away and only have 1 at the back door and 1 in the family room where we hang out.

This way has worked for us!!