Just so you know I live in Ohio, the puppy is only 2 weeks past being able to live without its mother and its currently -7* outside.
I know i probably wont be able to get it going outside in middle of winter but if not, what can i do temporarily so that it doesn’t continue doing its business all over the house..
Use puppy pads or artifical turf at the door where you want the pup to go outside of. This will at least have the dog knowing the place to go to, and then you will need to reteach the dog to go outside. The most important thing is to not give the pup the opportunity to go anywhere except where you want him to go. When you cannot supervise him 100% then you need to have him in a crate, but you cannot expect a young pup to hold for more than 2 hours duing the day, and about 4 hours overnight.
THe best thing to do is to take the pup to their spot every hour when you are home, and wait until they go, when they do, praise them and give them a treat, and play with them. Going on his spot means the world comes to him, and this is what you want him to learn. Make sure you take himt to his spot immediatly on waking and about 20 minutes after eating. By doing this you are doing your best to prevent him from going anywhere else.
IF and only if you actually see him doing something somewhere else, while he is doing it, not after wards, pick him up with a load, "ARH, and immediately carry him to his spot. Dogs will stop going if they are in mid air, and so you are then catching the act and placing him in the correct location.
Punishing him after the act is useless as dogs have no concept of what they are being punished for. They do not understand why you are rubbing their noses in it or any other such cruel act.
Young pups need to toilet on regular intervals and the best way to teach them is to praise and reward them when they go in the right place. They want to please you, but they are not born knowing that you want them to go outside or in a particualr place. Yes if you catch them in the act of doing it then by all means interupt it, but if it is 1 second later you have missed the chance and instead you need to hit yourself over the head for allowing the pup to have an accident.
Dogs are born not wanting to toilet where they sleep and so asking them to hold in such a place for short periods of time is the best option when you cannot be there to supervise him. But, if you cannot let him out at regular intervals he will learn to go where he sleeps and then you will have an even bigger problem.
If you need to leave him for longer than 2-3 hours at a time, then you really should put the pup in a puppy play pen, where he can have a toilet in one corner and a bed in another, and hence you are giving him the option to go somewhere else other than where he sleeps. If you use the same surface as you will be teaching him to go on, then he will want to go there.
Dogs smell where they have gone, and so if they have an accident you want to make sure it is cleaned up with a pet emzine cleaner, which will make sure that he cannot smell where he has been. Normal household cleaners can actually make the smell stronger to him, and so will do more harm than good.
Puppy pads have a smell which is designed to encourage the pups to go on them. Articifial turf will give the dog the idea of going onto grass which is what you may want him doing when he does go outside.
Newspaper, can be used, but if you ever leave newspaper around the pup will think that it is its toilet, and you cannot expect him to think anything else as this is what you have taught him. The biggest mistake people make with newspaper is to lay it down everywhere. This does not teach the pup where to go, and what you want to teach the pup is that when it wants to go it needs to walk to a specific place.
Litter trays can be used, but like anything else it is simply giving the pup the idea that this is where they should be going. Any surface can be used providing it is different to other household surfaces and it is clearly obvious as to where the pup should be going and that you are prepared to take the pup there at regualr intervals and to praise and reward him for going in the right place.
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