My puppy! Oh my I need help with her!?

Question

Ok well I already asked about potty training my puppy and I got some really good answers. I meant to also ask though when I take her out side should I have her on her harness and leash or just let her go free but keep an eye on her. We also have an outside dog and every time I take her outside to try and potty train her she gets distracted and wants to play with my other dog. Also about meal times for my puppy. Since we got her she has a little bit of dog food in her bowl 24-7 so she can eat when she wants to. I've heard that is bad and ur only supposed to feed them twice a day and take up the food in 15 minutes if they don't eat it. Well I tries that and well it confused her. She didn't understand when to eat and wouldn't eat when I gave it to her. She also constantly gets into the cat food. I scold her for that because I know its bad for her. How can I keep her away? And also I'm supposed to take her out after meal times to potty train her but she doesnt have meal times! SOMEONE HELP

Answer 1

Ok, first of all, you need to feed your puppy about four times a day, depending how old she is, when she gets older you can start feeding her two or three times a day. But for now - In the morning after she went potty, then about right before lunch, once at about 3 o'clock and then in the evening between 5 pm and 7 pm. Take the cat food away so she won't eat that, wait about 20 minutes and if she doesn't finish just take the food. Puppies go through growth periods where they will eat a lot when they are growing and then they will eat very little when their growing slows down which happens once in a while. So I guess about four times. Take her out to go potty just a few minutes after she had a meal, play with her to get her digestion going. Wait until she went

You can put a leash on her if you feel safer to do so, but if you have a fenced yard or the possibility to let her go free she will learn that she has to stay with you eventually. Take the other dog in the house or in the barn or whatever you got so it doesn't distract the puppy when you want to go outside with her, it will probably be good for her to play with an adult dog though because they teach the puppies the rules for a dogs life and it will make her more sociable.

So just start putting her on a regular schedule right away, you can write it down for yourself on a piece of paper but remember that a puppy needs a lot of attention and care. She will probably need to go out at night too, we were lucky that our puppy always started going to the door and made noise to let us know that he needed to go. You can hang a little bell by the doorframe and train her to make a noise when she needs to go out. Just make her get used to it by opening the door every time she touches the bell and makes a noise with it. She will learn after a while that the door will open when she does that.

Also what's really important is that you have to praise her when she did her potty job and give her treats and lots of attention and hug her or pet her or whatever so she knows that it's a good thing that she goes outside but don't scold her when she has an accident because she will associate that with just having to pee or poop and she will start to think it's a bad thing to do that. When she has an accident just grab her and take her outside immediately even if she is still doing what she's doing.

I recommend that you get a book about raising a puppy or even one for the breed of dog you have if it's a pure bred, it helped us a lot.

Answer 2

When you take the puppy out, keep her on a leash and take her to the exact spot you want her to do her business. Praise her when she does her thing.

Put the other dog in a crate or something before you take the puppy out. Puppy is out there to do a job, do everything you can to make sure it isn't distracted. The better job you do with this, the faster the pup will be house trained.

Effective house training involves meals. Generally speaking a dog will do it's business shortly after eating, new food in pushes old food out (my theory). If the dog has constant access to food, you will never get the house training thing ironed out. The pup may not be happy at first, but it won't take it to long to figure out that it's food is only available for a few minutes - it will chow when it has a chance.

Remove the cat food from the equation. Move the cat's dish to a place the puppy can't get to it. While house training, the puppy should be spending the majority of it's time in a crate anyway. Don't feel bad about keeping the puppy in a crate, dogs by nature want a den to live in.

When we stopped using the crate with my dog, she just took up hanging out under our corner desk - which to her must look like a cave. She sleeps there all the time.

PS -

Regarding the scheduled feeding times. We feed our dog at 7ish AM and 4ish PM everyday. That dog has an internal clock you could set your watch to. At about 3:50 everyday she goes and sits by her dish and gives that look - yo, daddy-o, it's dinner time.

Answer 3

1. When you take out the puppy to potty leave her on the leash. You want to be close by when she eliminates so you can give her a cookie and lots of praise for doing her business outside. Later when she is housebroken you can let her free in the backyard.
2. To avoid distraction during this training phase take her to a quiet place away from your other dog or potty your dogs seperately.
3. Having a set meal time will greatly help with housebreaking. If your dog eats on a schedule they will poop and pee on a schedule. Free feeding your dog will make potty training more difficult. After a few dasy with a set schedule your dog will learn the schedule and you both will be much happier.
4. PUt the cat food out of reach, up high. Dogs are notorious for wanting to eat cat food and cat poop. Your dog would have uncanny self-control to be abel to avoid it.
5. Set the meal times this will help with potty training.

Answer 4

1. Don't give her food 24-7. "Free-feeding" your dog will only lead to weight problems.

2. Train her with a leash at first, then when she is older you can let her free. She needs to know at a young age that you are in control, not her.

3. Keep her in a quiet area to potty train where there are no distractions, and keep her on the leash. Keep the other dog away so that she will focus on potty, not play time.

4. Keep the cat food up high, like on top of the washing machine or kitchen table - cats can climb up there to eat, but not the puppy.

5. Take a grammer class or English class.

Answer 5

You should definitely have her on a leash or harness because then she'll know it's not play time. Also it helps to go to the same area everytime. Just stand there with her leash, and don't do anything, until she goes. You should try to take the other dog away, maybe put her inside or in her crate because if she's distracted she's not going to go. I wish I had an enclosed yard because we live in an apartment complex and I have no choice but to take where there are distractions everywhere. It takes twice as long just because she can't focus. Feed your dog 2 or 3 times a day. She just needs time to get used to it. She won't starve herself. You just need to be consistent. She won't eat at scheduled meal times unless you consistently enforce it. Leila has been resistent to the scheduling, but now that she's used to it, she eats when I put her food out. I don't know what to do about the cat food though. I would try calling her away anytime she goes near.

Answer 6

We have a new puppy that is almost 4 months old... we got her when she was only 7 weeks.

Regarding house breaking its best to put her on YOUR schedule. Try to take her out every two hours...show her where she should be going and in time that is where she will wonder when the time arises. When she was little we just let her roam around but now that she is getting inquisitive about things we have to have her on a leash or put her on the tie out that gives her plenty of room to roam... for the yard is not fenced in totally yet. She is now pretty much fully housebroken. We only had maybe 3 miss hap's.

Regarding feeding...we feed her 3 times aday and when the food is put down she has no problem gobbling it all up. She basically gets her breakfast, lunch and dinner. As she gets a little older we will be cutting out the mid day meal and then eventually the morning one so she will eat one time a day. That has always worked will with all of our other dogs.

Having a puppy is alot of work but worth it all in the end. Just remember that they will eventually go to your schedule if you train them to. Don't let them run the time frame its much better if you show them how and when things will be done.

Best of luck to you!!!

Answer 7

If you have a fenced yard, you can let her go free, and she'll eventually go on her own. It's usually best to keep her on leash and put her in the same spot in the yard every time to potty.. in my experience, they learn best this way.

Not much you can do about the outside dog other than bringing him inside, too. Puppies like to play, there's not much you can really do about that. You can take her to your front yard to potty, if it's really a problem.

It doesn't matter if you free feed or schedule feed her.. just keep an eye on her so you can know when she stops eating and take her out after she's finished.

It's hard to keep dogs out of cat food, especially if it's left out all day. You can put the cat food on an elevated surface, such as a table or cat tree if you have one, and she won't be able to get to it. Or, if you have a room blocked off by a baby gate or where she cannot get in, you can feed your cats in there.

Answer 8

She's a puppy, so let her eat when she is hungry. The cat food won't kill her; it's just that she really needs puppy food right now. Take her to the same spot every time outside where you want her to go. She will learn this is her territory and eventually will go there on her own. Then, she gets a little treat and lots of praise from you. For now keep her on her leash until she learns " her spot". This takes a lot... and I do mean lot... on training, but one day you will have a well trained dog who will go on her own and come back when called. Just keep working with her so she'll know what you want her to do. Remember that dogs really do want to please.

Answer 9

OK first move the cat food to some where he cant get to it! LOL remember he is a baby and sometimes they just dont get what the word no means!
now if you take him out where there is not a fence(like your back yard) the most for sure put him on a leash! Always! most states have leash laws and you could get into trouble for not doing it not to mention he could get hurt!
OK now the food. Ask you vet about the best idea about feeding him. with my first dog we left food out all the time and he was fine. We have a toy poodle now and I give him 1/2 a cup of food(what the vet said he needs a day) and then when its gone its gone till tomorrow.
Good luck I hope I helped some
God bless

Answer 10

I say leave the puppy food down, thats what I do with my little one and she just eats when she wants, but then again that is what I have always been doing so she knows when to eat and when not to eat. About the potty training, is there anywhere to keep the supposed "outside dog", (I do not agree with having a dog inside and a diff dog outside whatsoever)? Do not keep them on a leash unless you are going to have them on a leach all of the time.