Training a dog?

Question

I have a four month old Jack Russel and I've been trying to train her to go outside to potty.Shes very stubborn. I take her out to potty but she won't potty outside,she waits until she comes back inside. I have those training pads to train her with,and she uses them most of the time.Any suggestions?

Answer 1

The key is to be observant.

After you give her a drink, or feed her, be observant. Watching her behaviour quite closely, you will be able to tell when she's about to relieve her personal comfort. Follow her around the house if you must until she learns. When she's about to, rapidly grab her up and drop her outside, and if she relieves herself there, go nuts with praise. Act like this is the single most incredible thing any dog has ever achieved in the history of the world. Praise will do it.

As she is weeing or whatever, use your trigger word for this situation. Use one single word - say wee. Tell her what she's doing as she's doing it. Then say "done wee, good girl". This way later when she's got the hang of it, you can simply ask her if she needs to wee and she'll tell you.

If you know for sure that she does need to relieve herself, you will just have to keep her outside until she has. Leave a book and a chair outside for yourself. If you keep her outside until she's done her wee, then praised her using simple specific words like "wee outside, good girl!", she will learn quickly that she has doesn't come in again until she's relieved herself.

Eventually a smart dog in this situation will try to relieve itself to please you even if it doesn't really need to. If you can see that she's made an effort but doesn't have to, bring her back in again.

A great key in all training is to catch your dog doing the right thing accidentally, and bring in your key word as the dog's doing it, then praise. When you are certain that your dog understands your key word, then you can safely administer correction for a failure to obey.

Answer 2

If the pads are in the house that's telling her it's OK to go in the house. Here's the easiest and safest way I know how toy house train a dog. When you see the dog messing in the house Say no or hey or stop In a firm but not yelling voice. This should startle the dog and he'll stop going right away. Take her outside right away and tell her to hurry up or go potty. Something like that. When she does praise her and tell her what a good girl she is. Another trick is to take one of the soiled training pads outside. Put it where you want the dog to go. Just the smell of it will trigger her instincts and she'll potty. When she does praise her Never stick a dogs nose in it's mess. It's just cruel and it just makes them afraid to go potty at all. It's not effective. If the dog has an accident and you don't see her do it you shouldn't scold her for it. Yelling at her afterwords doesn't mean anything because she's not thinking about what she did 10 minutes ago. She has no idea what your yelling about. Just stick to it and she'll come around.

Answer 3

Well are you at work all day long?Because if you aren't then i suggest that you try to get your terrier off of the training pads.and the key to potty training is consistancy.You must take your dog outside to check if it is potty time several times a day. maybe the problem is that he can only pick up his sent in the house because that is the only placce he has gone.So just get a little crafty,and pick up his stool and put it outside before you take him out to attempt potty.if he goes potty in the house any where other than training pads then you need to go to petsmart and purchase natures miracle to assure that the urine or stool is actually getting removed from the site rather than just masked like im sure you know that some cleansers do. It will actually brake down the enzyms in the urine ad so forth so that your dog cant smell it anymore because that is why they return to a paticular spot.oh well there are alot of things that work for potty training but without consistancy success is a hard thing to come by! good luck!

Answer 4

I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/am6Cw

She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 5

First, you've made a mistake in using training pads in the house - you've allowed and rewarded her for going in the house. If her little bladder is full and she relieves herself, that behavior is self-rewarding. She feels better after she goes.

Most dogs prefer to go on a soft surface like grass or carpet rather than in the street or on tile floors. Have the carpets professional cleaned with a urine neutralizer. Any scent that remains (including what has soaked into the padding and hardwood floor underneath) will attract her back to it. You could consider taking the carpets up completely.

You have to TEACH her not to go in the house. Don't just let turn her loose and hope for the best! Pups have to go out soon after they eat or drink and about every four hours during the day. If you're lucky, she may sleep through the night, but I usually get up and take them out once in the middle of the night, too.

Put her on a leash and tie it to your belt. That way you will (hopefully!) notice when she starts sniffing around like she has to go. When she's THINKING about it, correct her with a sharp leash jerk and yell "NO!" - pick her up and take her outside. Until she gets the idea, take the training pads outside with you and let her pee on them out there. Praise her for being good when she goes in the right places. Keep her in a dog crate when you can't supervise her - just like you'd use a plapen for a baby.

I don't fully trust my terrier puppies loose in the house until they're about two years old.

Answer 6

Jack Russells are very intelligent, very independent, and very hard to train. Of course, it CAN be done!

Try putting the training pads outside (before you take her out)?

Try not to make it a battle of wills. Keep her outside and play with her (if you have time), and then when she finally goes, praise her like crazy.

If she starts to go in the house, immediately pick her up and carry her to the door (even as she goes!), saying "Out! Out! Out!" all the way to the door and out the door. Then let her finish outside, and praise her.

Best of luck to you!

It is always important to establish dominance over a dog, but with Jack Russells, particularly so. If you don't take charge, she WILL.

Answer 7

Try taking the training pads outside, and after a few times of her going outside on them, take it away as she is going. don't let her use them in the house anymore. Always take her to the same spot to do her business. Take her out very frequently! Give lots and lots and lots of praise when she does go outside. If she does go inside then, don't say anything to her, clean it up and take what ever you cleaned it up with and put it outside in her spot, have her smell it and say... "yes, potty outside!" or whatever you normally say. Never, ever yell at her for going inside. This work very well with my pup, and he was trained very quickly!!! hope this helps!!! good luck! =)

Answer 8

Let her use the pad and every day move it an inch or two closer to the door, but not where it is noticable to her. It may take a while but it's a sure fire way to get her to go outside.
P.S. the reason that she prefers that pad is because it has a scent on it that is put there to attract dogs to pee on it, so they won't have accidents in house.

Answer 9

The easiest way is to go out every half hour for visits don't come back in until she does something and then increase the time between visits as she responds in the correct way, and then after-wards praise and fuss her even play with her favorite toy as a reward but the trick is to be patient and they soon learn positive behavior.

Answer 10

Using training pads or newspaper only teach your pup that it is ok to empty herself in the house. Get rid of them and try this......

House training is very easy because dogs naturally dislike soiling in their ‘den’. Lots of owners become very frustrated when their pup has an accident and they shout at, punish or worse – rub the pup’s nose in the mess!! None of us would dream of doing this with a child and would make an increased effort with the child’s potty training. So it should be with a pup. He/she is still learning about our ‘human’ world and what is acceptable and what is not.
If you shout at or punish your pup when he/she has an accident, he/she will not understand why. It is, after all, a most natural act. They will just find somewhere out of your sight to relieve themselves, perhaps behind the couch or under the bed.
The secret to successful house training lies in you getting the timing right. Pups generally want to empty themselves after they have just woken up, after eating a meal or after a play.
Try to anticipate when your pup wants to ‘go’. He/she may start sniffing or turning in circles. When you see your pup behaving like this, stop what you are doing and take him/her outside immediately. Take him/her to the spot where you want him/her to ‘go’ and wait. Don’t distract him/her by talking or playing just let him/her get on with it. As soon as he/she has finished hand out a treat and give him/her lots of praise. Remember to treat and praise within ONE SECOND so the pup can make the association between the action and the reward. Be prepared and keep treats in your pocket and an umbrella/raincoat by the door. This way you will not miss an opportunity to teach your pup the house rules.
If your pup has an accident, say NOTHING. Just clean it up then hit yourself over the head with a newspaper for missing the opportunity and not anticipating your pup.

Using an indoor crate can be very useful for house training as well as having many other benefits. Dogs like the security of the crate and feel quite happy in one if you have visitors that don’t like dogs. Your pup will not mess in his/her bed and providing you train him/her to the crate properly and don’t leave him/her too long, you can take him/her out when you are ready. Crates are particularly good for house training over night. You can let your pup out first thing in the morning, treat and praise and have instant success.