How Do You Prevent Accidents Around The House?
September 13, 2009 by admin
Filed under Care & Training Q&As
I have a 4 1/2 month cockapoo and as long as I’m well trained, he doesn’t have any accidents, ie. I take him out frequently enough. So how can I be sure he’s safe to go to other people’s homes and know to go to the door to go out?
When he’s in his “room”, he knows to go to the door but when I’ve let him out around the house, he “forgets” and does it right there.
So it’s frustrating as I’d like to have him with me around the house but can’t when he just does it without running to the door to get let out.
Any suggestions on how to get him to connect that going inside is not good and that he should run to the door? I know he’s on the young side but how do you train this anyway?
Thanks.
momster
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I hung jingle bells down low from our back door handle. Everytime I put our puppy out to go potty, I took her paw and rang the bells. She quickly learned to ring them herself and I can hear the bells from anywhere in the house. She rings them whenever she needs to go out. You could even take them to a friend’s house and hang them and show her where the door is and retrain her there by ringing them and putting her out to go potty. We also crate trained our dog and she loves her crate now, so I put her in there when we leave the house and at night when we sleep since those are times she might have accidents and I don’t want her to relieve herself in the house. Hope this helps!
He’s awfully young to be reliable yet. I would recommend crate training.
still too young to be reliable,, i have also heard that these mixed breeds are notoriously hard to housebreak, as the backyard breeders/millers have not reared them properly
take the dog into the garden ona leash 3 times a day morning lunch and dinner w8 until the dog pees maybe take a step back and giv the dog sum room once he pees giv him a reward ( dogy treat or even just and pat and the head or a cuddle) do this 3 times aay he should get into routine also try fitting a catflap to your door i think u can now get biger dogflaps that can be locked he might be a lil shy of it at first but he’ll get use to it when takin him to friend houses let him pee b4 u go in and ask if its ok once in a while to let him out but b4 u do that try getting him in routine hopethis helps ^^