How to train my puppy to use bathroom on pad?

Question

We have a 3 month old puppy and we need advice on how to get her to use the bathroom on the pads. ANY ADVICE WOULD BE GREAT

Answer 1

Remember dogs need absolute consistancy and desire its owners aproval and positive attention. So make sure the pads stay in the same place dont put them in a bunch of different places. Also, crate training is the absolute best way to potty train a dog. A general rule of thumb is a dog can hold it for 1 hour per month of age. So if your dog is 3 months old she will need to go to the bathroom every 3 hours. (obviously this rule stops at about 8 hours) Also after playing, eating, napping, and when you take her out of her crate you should always take your dog to the potty area. Anytime that you leave the house, you cant watch your dog, or when you go to sleep you need to crate your dog.(when your dog is housebroken you can leave it out when you go to sleep) When your dog needs to go take her to the area you have chosen and use a command like "hurry up" or "bathroom". Remember you might have to use this command in public so dont chose anything you would feel uncomfortable saying in public. The keys are to not let your dog leave until it goes(it could take 1min or 20min but the dog needs to know you are the boss) and make sure you use positive reinforcement when she goes (happy high pitched "good girl" and a small treat works very well). If you use this method I promise your dog will be pad trained in no time at all. As far as crate training goes it is important to read the instructions that come with the crate, at first only put your dog in the crate for small amounts of time and gradually increase the time. Also the first 1-5 nights depending on the dog, will be misrable for you. Your dog will whine non stop but it is absoultely imperative you dont respond otherwise your dog will know if it whines it gets what it wants and it will always whine. (my german shephard took 2 days and my bullmastiff took 4) Use a command like "go to bed" when you put your dog in the crate and give her a treat when she goes in it. Good luck!!
P.S. I just read "dog love"s advice, it is good advice as well.

Answer 2

well, it may be frustrating because it take time. We hhave a 6 month old puppy who is FINALLY trained. we started out by placing 5 or 6 pads all around the house.. usually in 1 room, with no access to any other room. And each time the dog uses the restroom, praise him and move the pad closer to the door. eventually, you'll move the pad outside and the dog will move with it! but don't forget to take it outside to do it's business anyway!

Answer 3

Use a training pad/pee pad. Try to watch him as much as possible.

Put him on the pad:
When he looks like he's about to go (sniffing, circling, etc.)
After every meal
After he wakes up
After playtime
Generally every 2-3 hours

Say something like, "go potty" or "use the bathroom". He'll learn to associate the phrase with using the bathroom. After he goes on the pad, PRAISE him. This is important! He will associate going on the pad with good things. Never rub his nose in anything or beat him. Don't scold him after he's done his business. Dogs have short attention spans and he won't know what you're yelling at him about, and eventually he'll be afraid of you.

If you catch him peeing somewhere, pick him up quickly and place him on the pad. After he's done, praise him as usual.

Once he's going on the pad consistently, (say, 95% or better), then you can start to move the pad. You can take it outside, and he will learn to go outside. You can remove the pad after a day or two and he'll know to go outside. The nice thing is that he'll start to go to the door to signal that he needs to do his business.


Gating him to do the above might be helpful. Buy a baby gate and put him in the kitchen, and then it will be easier to clean up messes and you won't have poop/pee all over the house.

Answer 4

Put pad down where you want it to go. Put puppy on leash.
Feed and water puppy while on leash. After it eats, lead it to pad. Physically hold it on pad using leash or your hands until it goes. When it goes give it a treat and a lot of praise.
Don't clean up pad. Scent attracts puppies.
Repeat until it goes all the time on the pad. Do not allow it off leash or out of crate unsupervised until it goes there al the time.

Answer 5

The pads are designed to naturally attract the dog to them, however, the easiest way to train a dog to go to the bathroom where you want it to is to crate train. Dogs will hold it as long as possible in their crates, so you use that to your advantage. When the puppy has held it for a couple hours you can be sure he needs to relieve himself, so take him out of the crate and take him to where you want him to go. When he goes there, praise the daylights out of him. If he has a accident somewhere else, catch him in the act and tell him NO, then take him where you do want him to go. He will learn quickly that he gets praised in that certain area and will try to go there from then on. If you decide to crate train, make sure the crate is only large enough for him to comforably turn around and no larger, or they will use one end as a potty.
Good luck!

Answer 6

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Answer 7

I bought puppy pads for my dog when she was 2 months old and I still have the box. She would shred them into pieces. The only thing that worked was to bring her outside after eating, playing and sleeping each time consistenly and then she just got it.

Answer 8

the same way you train it to go out side when it goes in floor pick it up and tell it no no and put it on pad

Answer 9

Line the floor with them. When she has to go, she'll feel the flooring and remeber the feeling. When you take away the florring, she'll look (feel) for the pad then do her thing there.

Answer 10

i still got pads from when they was pups, they like to tear them up, i used normal newspaper with special spray on it which i got from pet shop. it attracts them to the paper, worked great, gradually made paper area smaller then evetually they weed on one paper, we then moved this paper closer to back door and then into garden, its trial and error really they will make mistakes but pick them up if you catch them and put them back on newspaer evntually they will cotton on good luck!:-)