She is about 3 months old, but she weighs about 19 lbs. already..so she's kinda hard to control. PLEASE HELP!
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I agree praise her when a job is well done, i found that if you telkl her to use the bathroom as you take her out, its like teaching her to use the bathroom, to this day my 2 yr old german shepherd uses it as a command. Also if you catch her in the act only then can you tell her no. puppies are like children, they can only be punished for what they just did, not what they did 20 mins ago. If this dosent work for you, perhaps try crate training. a dog will not use the bathroom in their bed, so this helps a lot when your working, or away from home, also at night. however keep in mind a puppy can only hold their pee 1 hour to how many months they are. example 3 months = 3 hours.
Well, she will never be house trained using pee pads. You're only teaching her to pee on the floor.
Take her outside about every 30 minutes and wait until she pees. The praise the bejeepers out of her! Puppies always go as soon as they wake up and as soon as they eat. So be prepared to whisk her out the door immediately.
She will catch on really fast, most of mine have been house trained in less than two weeks. It helps to crate her at night, since no dog will pee in their sleeping quarters. Then scoot her outdoors as soon as she wakes up. This will teach her to let you know when she has to go.
If you have a puppy, you have to watch them constantly. If you catch them peeing tell them no, then take them outside and tell them to pee. Carefull when they get big they pee a lot!!!
I took my dog to that Petsmart training class thing and it really helped! I don't have a Boxer tho.
Get rid of the pee pads. You might want to consider utilizing a kennel cab for when she is unable to be supervised. Also, you will want to take her out an average an hr for every one month of age, so every three to four hours at this point, at least. It is possible she may make it overnight or with one potty break in the night.
The biggest help to potty training is routine. Get her on a schedule with some of her activities like feeding times, yard time or park time, walks, bed time and potty breaks.
Take her anytime that she sniffs like she is considering going. It helps to take her to the same general area for a potty break at least to start.
Praise and reward her when she goes outside where she should. After a few weeks of doing this, she should have control between her regular breaks, which the time between can be lengthened with age.
IF you decide to use a kennel cab for unsupervised time, do not leave her in there for hours and do not put any bedding or towels or pads or food or water in the cab with her. You can put a Kong in there with her or a Nylabone or something to keep her busy and make a pleasant association of a kennel cab. Keeping her in there too long will defeat the purpose of house training. You can get a cab that has a divider that makes a smaller space while she is smaller and then a larger space for when she is grown. Too much space and the puppy may potty in it.
Why in the world do you want to train your dog to go to the bathroom in the house?
Potty training is suppose to be about teaching the dog that it is NOT OK to go in the house.
You might find this article interesting.
http://www.retrievertraining.net/crate/k...
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