Arcticfox

So I've had Tesla for nearly 2 weeks now, and I feel like we're not making any headway with the house training. She's sleeping through the night just fine, about 7 hours on average, but during the day her pee/poop schedule is all kinda random from day to day. I try to read her signs and catch her if she's about to go, but she doesn't seem to do the same thing when she's indoors. Outside, she does the classic sniff and run in circles before squatting to pee/poop but inside she just squats down with no warning and goes. I've seen her get up from laying flat on her side and then squat to pee without moving away at all. I'm trying to schedule her water intake but sometimes she doesn't pee for 30 min after drinking, sometimes she pees less than a minute after, and so far, she's peed in her crate twice already, within about 1.5 hours after her last walk without having any water in between. She's pooped twice inside earlier on but that seems to have stopped after the first week, I'm really keeping my fingers crossed for that one.
Also, what doesn't help at all is, when she's indoors (and on leash all the time if not in her crate) her favorite thing to do is just wander around and sniff things so it looks like she's looking for a place to potty all the time. But she doesn't do it when she's actually about to go >.< She was paper trained before leaving the breeders, and I have pee pads set in a corner for her, but she wont go on that at all. I'm not sure what to do now.

petitpie

Everything is different for Tesla. Same kind of paper and placed the same way? Lots of new sights, smells, sounds to get used to. Keep as much "old" as possible and change gradually.

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Arcticfox

Well, at the breeders, she had newspaper in her pen, and pee pads scattered in various spots in the kitchen, I don't know what kind of pads she had before. I have newspaper with just normal blue absorbant pads on it, like the ones used in hospitals. They're just in a corner of her room, perhaps I should put a few in other rooms as well? I'm just a little stumped by the lack of warning when she needs to go. So far the earliest I've been able to interupt her is mid squat, and there's no stopping her then, whether with her no-no noise (I don't know if it's spell-able), loud clapping, leash pop, etc, she's not getting up till she's done peeing.

petitpie

Many knowlegable people on Poodle Forum can suggest potty training schedules and crate training schedules. Try searching for those posts and threads, also. They are very helpful.

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all that jazz

I have the same issues. Zoe is 12 weeks now and I've had her for 3 weeks. She too, does not used the pads. She did once or twice, but no longer, even if I move it to where she just peed. She also squats and it is too late then. In the last 3-4 days she sometimes whimpers ever so low and I take her out and she goes. Yesterday was a bad day and she peed 3 times on the floor. But I have had 3 days now without any accidents. BUt to do that I have to constantly watch her. I take her out every 1-1/2 hours, whenever I take her out of the crate, whenever she wakes up from a nap and about 25 minutes after eating. I too had not had a problem with #2 after the first week. For that she will go to or near the door and sometimes jump up on it.
At this point I am cautiously certain she will not do #2 in the house, since she either goes to or jumps up on the door, and her behavior is easily seen. Urination, however, is not yet toilet trained. When we have a dry day it is because I have been diligent, not because she always gives me signals. I thought of hanging the bell on the door but I am afraid of strangulation.

Arcticfox

It's good to know I'm not the only one. I'm a litle confused by how she can hold for 6-8 hours at night without accidents but she'll go on the floor an hour after coming back from her last walk? I am trying to be diligent too, I keep her on a leash tied to my belt or looped around my wrist, so she's not able to run to the door whenever she needs to. I can't let her loose without the lease or she'll just go pee in another room. She doesn't give me a signal for needing to go out for #2 either but typically it's 3 times a day about an hour after eating, except dinner. She gets fed around 5ish for dinner but she doesn't poop till around 10pm... I'm very puzzled by her bathroom behaviours.

sgeorge

Well we haven't had an accident since the first day but I take Fleur out every hour/hour and a half. If she's had more than half an hour nap time, I take her straight out, and half an hour after she's eaten. She doesn't signal to go out yet so I just stick with prefer to err on the side of caution.

#2's are also done 3 times a day, coming out of crate, midday and late at night, and are signaled by more frantic sniffing than usual. I don't think it really correlates with her meal times.

Maybe try barricading off some of the other rooms, so you can prevent her from sneaking off?

For the first two days, I made a schedule of her toilet times, naps etc so I could see if there was any pattern as to when she needed to go. That might help?

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JE-UK

I did the same as sgeorge when training mine .... very frequent trips outside, and praise, praise, praise (and treats) if the dog did anything. Constant supervision so that if he did make a move, I was running out to the back with him before he could finish (a couple of times with puppy pee dribbling ).

A regular feeding/play schedule can help, but a lot of it is just puppyhood. Like little kids, they have to learn to be aware of the feelings associated with needing to urinate/defecate, and then they have to learn to act on them. The interval between "hey! I have to pee" and actually peeing will get longer, I promise!

I spent two weeks doing NOTHING other than housetraining the puppy (that's what it felt like, anyway), but ended up with rock-solid housetraining.

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TTUSpoo

Can her crate be made smaller so she doesn't have room to pee in it and avoid it? If so, I would try having her in the crate during the day rather than strapped to you.

Hugs- potty training kids and dogs is constantly a work in progress and everyone learns it differently.

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Arcticfox

Well, she is in the crate on and off, quite often throughout the day. It has a divider so She's only using about 60% of the sapce right now, just enough room for her to lie down and stretch a bit. She can't avoid her puddles when she makes them, so she's had a bath each time she messes the crate. I don't want to keep her in there ALL day except for walks, so I leash her to me for a while each day so she gets used to being around the apartment. She's also out and about for her training sessions.