Potty Training 16 Week Old Puppy?
September 12, 2009 by admin
Filed under Care & Training Q&As
Hey we got a puppy about two months ago this week and we are trying to get him potty trained. He is a cockapoo and he does go outside if you take him out a few times every hour. But often even if you take him out and he goes and pee’s he will still come back in and poop on the floor. This is even after you wait outside with him for some time. What is bothering me is that if you leave him in his pen for a long period of time (3-4 hours) he wont even go to the bathroom. But when we are around and hes out and about he will just poop on the floor. He doesn’t go and sit at the door or anything. This is getting frustrating. Anyone have any advice?
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Smart dog, kinda like the Shih tzu’s. Since you are crate training him, and he will wait. If I were doing the training, I would moniter his food intake and see how long it usually takes before he poops and or pees. Then you can adjust his crate time to be in the crate during the time he normally poops and wait until he becomes really anxious & take him outside. If he does nothing, back into the crate right then, no running around in the house at all. And do the same thing until he eventually does go outside. (carry him if you have to so he cannot poop in the house)
He will get the idea. Be sure to have a favorite food treat for him when he does poop outside & immediately reward him right then.
it will work, it’s nothing more than stimulus response training.
pick up the poop take it out side and tell him this is where u poop