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Hello everyone,
Since in my last post you were all so helpful, I am here with some questions about potty training.
I have a 7/8 weeks mini poodle Otto, as explained earlier he was given to us very young for a varied number of reasons. He is growing up fast and is a lively happy puppy. I am a bit confused about his potty training learning as it feels we are going forward one day and then unlearning everything the next day.
To give you a bit of context. We live in an apartment building and we cannot yet go out because Otto hasn't completed his vaccination cycle yet. We live in Peru and the Vet has advised against taking him out as there might be stray dogs here carrying nasty stuff, even if not too common in our hood. Given this we have decided to train him to go on a pad on the balcony, which is good but involves us having to allow him to go (it is winter here).
Otto is pretty good with peeing on the pad, he rarely has accidents. Unfortunately, his n.2 is more problematic. A few days ago we reached a point where he would only want to go on the carpet in the living room. Fo this I bought an enzyme breaking product, cleaned everything and put a piece of his poop on the pad. Since then he has been consistent to go on the pad, but then last night and this morning he started pooing around again. The problem I have is that he is pretty unreliable with timing. Though he eats on a schedule, he takes longer to go than what most sites say (from 1 to 4 hours after he eats) and I don't know how to organise his potty sessions. We tried to leave him longer on the balcony when he shows signs of having to go, but he would then cry and beg to come back in without producing anything. I would like him to go before bedtime but it is not working. He sleeps in a dog bed next to us and sleeps through the night ok, only sometimes wake up and goes on the floor (despite he has his pad next to his dog bed). A couple of nights he surprisingly made it through the night.
While I am not desperate as I know he is very young, I think I would appreciate some advice, also thinking that one day we will have to switch from puppy pad to street potty.
Thanks so much
Since in my last post you were all so helpful, I am here with some questions about potty training.
I have a 7/8 weeks mini poodle Otto, as explained earlier he was given to us very young for a varied number of reasons. He is growing up fast and is a lively happy puppy. I am a bit confused about his potty training learning as it feels we are going forward one day and then unlearning everything the next day.
To give you a bit of context. We live in an apartment building and we cannot yet go out because Otto hasn't completed his vaccination cycle yet. We live in Peru and the Vet has advised against taking him out as there might be stray dogs here carrying nasty stuff, even if not too common in our hood. Given this we have decided to train him to go on a pad on the balcony, which is good but involves us having to allow him to go (it is winter here).
Otto is pretty good with peeing on the pad, he rarely has accidents. Unfortunately, his n.2 is more problematic. A few days ago we reached a point where he would only want to go on the carpet in the living room. Fo this I bought an enzyme breaking product, cleaned everything and put a piece of his poop on the pad. Since then he has been consistent to go on the pad, but then last night and this morning he started pooing around again. The problem I have is that he is pretty unreliable with timing. Though he eats on a schedule, he takes longer to go than what most sites say (from 1 to 4 hours after he eats) and I don't know how to organise his potty sessions. We tried to leave him longer on the balcony when he shows signs of having to go, but he would then cry and beg to come back in without producing anything. I would like him to go before bedtime but it is not working. He sleeps in a dog bed next to us and sleeps through the night ok, only sometimes wake up and goes on the floor (despite he has his pad next to his dog bed). A couple of nights he surprisingly made it through the night.
While I am not desperate as I know he is very young, I think I would appreciate some advice, also thinking that one day we will have to switch from puppy pad to street potty.
Thanks so much