8 week old Rottie Puppy - Pissing and sh....tng everywhere at night time?

Question

Obviously I have have not trained him to speak English yet so I cant explain to him to go toilet before bed time and piss in the garden - so what do I do??? Anyideas on training this little beast.

Answer 1

Try taking him for a walk before he goes to bed. After a week of carefully watching her and walking her, she finally got the hang of the whole "pee pee and doo doo outside thing.

Answer 2

crate crate crate

Crate with newspapers and a blanket in one part for his bed. Put in a toy or two. Water dish secured to the crate.

Puppies don't develop the control to hold their bowels and bladder for more than 2-3 hours until nearly 6 months.

At 8 weeks old - not a prayer of making him wait all night. At the age, they relieve themselves every hour or so.

Answer 3

Two Words: Crate Training

You take the dog out before bed and then you put him in a crate just for his size. If you get one that is big enough for him to sleep in he won't want to pee where he sleeps and he will wait until the morning. this is a great method to get a dog trained. I used it on my litter of pups I sold a few months ago, one lady called me back and was shocked that the dog didn't pee and poop in the house, the pup was only 6 weeks old.

Answer 4

A) Walk him right before lights out.
B) Restrict his intake of food and water after this last walk of the night.
C) Get the pup a crate/cage and restrict him to it at nights.
D) If you need instructions on crate training, ask in this same forum.
Good Luck.

Answer 5

absolutely crate training. unless you want to buy two or three crates in his lifetime i would get one that he can grow into. i got two for my dogs when they were 11weeks old and have never had a problem with them using the bathroom in the house. plus unless you want an 80-100lb dog sleeping with you its a good way to let him know that his crate is his bed. throw a blanket or a dog bed in with him and he will be good to go. wal-mart sells the crate for about 70 bucks

Answer 6

you are not walking him enough, take a real good walk before your bedtime and make sure he goes and if necessary, get up in the middle of the night and take him outside, in a few more weeks he will be able to hold it longer and you can eliminate the middle of the night walk, remember, he's a little baby!

Answer 7

Yes. Immediately after your puppy wakes up, take him outside. EVERY time he wakes up. He'll eventually get the idea that outside means "toilet".This is how I potty-trained my pit bulls. It works.

Answer 8

read about the 8 million articles on potty training BEFORE you got the dog

Answer 9

Just for some background, I am a former AKC kennel owner (until I got a divorce :P), professional obedience, tracking, and area/personal protection trainer. I have also been a show handler with multiple AKC obedience titles to my dogs' credit. I am a founding member, former Chairman of the National Association of Professional Canine Trainers and Handlers (NAPCaTH) and certified Canine Behaviorist. I have also trained Search and Rescue dogs which have worked around the world. I'm not just spouting something I heard from Uncle Jake, saw posted in a forum on the internet, or saw on "The Dog Whisperer". (shudder)

A puppy can be successfully housebroken starting at the age of 6 weeks, but it is a serious responsibility and requires constant attention. The time it takes to housebreak a puppy in my home is 2-5 days. If it's taking longer than that then YOU are doing something wrong.

I'm going to use the term "poo" to cover both urine and feces.

Incidentally, I used to own a Rottie kennel so I know what you are going thru. They are HIGHLY intelligent but at the same time VERY hard-headed. That means that it's sometimes hard to get the message thru to a rottie, but once it's there, it may as well be set in stone.

Here is the recipe for successful housebreaking:

#1 Get on a schedule. – Bring him outside often (about every 2-4 hours) for the first week or so. Stay outside until he does his business. If you can't dedicate yourself to going outside with your puppy for 15 minutes every 4 hours for a few days then please take the puppy to a shelter and get a cat. Also, he should make a potty run every time he wakes up from a nap and about 5-15 minutes after he eats. NEVER withhold water from any animal without specific directions to do so from a veterinarian. Dehydration can happen _very_ quickly in a puppy and it’s known in most states as “animal abuse”, “cruelty to animals”, or “criminal neglect” (usually a FELONY) if an animal suffers because its owner is too lazy to get off their butt and take them outside.

#2 Praise early, praise often. - Make a BIG pleasant deal about what a wonderful thing it is that he has done his business outside **as soon** as he has done so. If you wait until a puppy wanders up to you to praise him, then he thinks you are praising him for coming to you and has forgotten all about the big stinky load he dropped a few minutes before. Your praise to correction ratio should be about 20:1. That means that you should be telling him that he is good for doing all kinds of little things about 20 times more often than you are scolding him for doing something wrong. This will teach him very quickly the boundaries of what acceptable behavior is and what is not.

#3 DO NOT RUB THE DOG'S NOSE IN POO! A dog has no way of getting the poo off of his nose except by licking it off. If he does this then before you know it, you have a poo eating dog on your hands b/c he has developed a taste for it! Instead, remember that a dog's nose is at least 150 times more powerful than your own (depending upon the breed) and use that to your advantage. Make the dog down-stay (lay down and stay there) in position for 1 minute per month of age very near but not in the poo. If your dog is 3 months old, then he stays with his nose next to the poo for 3 minutes while you clean it up. He will very soon associate pooing in the house with having to lay still for (what seems like to a puppy) a VERY long time and will instead wait for his next regularly scheduled potty break.

#4 Be consistent. The pup needs to know that if he poos in the house that there are consequences and, more importantly, that if he does it outside that there will be praise.

#5 NEVER call a dog to you for punishment. When you find the dog has dropped a load, go get him, pull him carefully but firmly to the site of the poo, and then scold him. If you call a dog to you for punishment then you are, in the dog's mind, punishing him for coming to you when you call him b/c that's the last thing he did before you lit into him with your loud, scolding mommy (or daddy) voice. If the dog's nose is filled with the aroma of his own poo, then it's pretty clear to him what you are bent out of shape about. If I had a dollar for every time someone has called me up and can't figure out why their dog doesn't come when he's called but yet they call the dog before they punish him, I'd be a VERY rich man. :D

The most important thing to remember with canine behavior:
Dogs LOVE praise. They LIVE for praise. If your pup knows that he will be praised for good behavior then he will do absolutely ANYTHING that will earn him "good luvins".

Good luck and please feel free to email me if you have any further questions.

Torin

Answer 10

dogs have trouble controling their bowel and bladder until they are 16 wks old. take hime out before bed and then kennel him @ night. when he wakes up and starts to whine take him out. if you don't want to kennel him set the alarm to take him out several times during the night. I know it will affect your sleep, you are dealing w/ a baby after all