I’m crate training 2 puppies that are 4 months old and they keep peeing in the crate. Please advise.?
Posted on May 30th, 2010 by admin
I’ve been crate training since 8 weeks and they still continue to pee and sometimes poop in the crate. I have them on a schedule. I feed them premium dog food twice a day and I take them out every 2-3 hours religiously. I don’t keep water in their crate but they have access to water every time they get out of the crate their bowl is right there. I recently decided to limit their water intake and that hasn’t solved the problem either. They are doing well with obedience training and they see me as the pack leader. I just don’t know what I can do to train them not to pee or poop in the cage. I’ve sectioned it off so they only have enough room to turn around and sit down and that didn’t solve the problem.
To answer a few questions, the puppies are definately not from a puppy mill. They are Rottweiler mix puppies. @ Dorthy, you stated that I need to take them out every hour, well I did that until they turned 3 months but now they should be old enough to hold it for 2-3 hours that’s why I changed their schedule. Also, they only suggestion I’ve heard that I haven’t been doing is praise them everytime they go potty outside. I’ve started that today. It’s kinda hard to do with 2 pups but I will continue to do it and see what happens.
Your puppies need feeding four times a day and you need to take them into your fenced garden/yard every hour.
HOW TO TOILET TRAIN A PUPPY.
When the vet says that your dog cannot be taken out until after its injections/shots, this does not mean that it cannot be taken into your own fenced garden/yard. It simply means that your puppy must be kept away from anywhere that could have been contaminated by other dogs.
To help with it’s socialisation you can visit friends, with the proviso that they do not have a dog. Your puppy can be carried around the outside perimeter of a supermarket; you can also stand outside the school gates to get it used to children. You can take it out in a car and park where your puppy can see passers by.
Please do not be tempted to train your puppy to eliminate in the house. It must be taken into your garden/yard every hour, after it eats or drinks and when it wakes up after a nap. You should also take it out just before you go to bed, every time you see it eliminate you must praise your puppy. I use a catch phrase when my puppy has a pee, I say “get one” while it is urinating and “big job” when it passes faeces. If you do this your dog will pee on command when it is older. (Unless it’s bladder is empty)
You should set your alarm and try to take your puppy out about twice during the night. If like me you are a heavy sleeper and you don’t trust yourself to wake up, take the lazy way out. My puppy’s sleep in the laundry room until they are toilet trained, during the day I dip newspapers into the urine which it has passed in the garden and put these on top of a thick pad of newspaper at night, they are drawn to this because of the smell and they will pee on this during the night. Nevertheless I go to bed very late and get up very early when I have a puppy.
Eventually your puppy will go to the door when it knows that it wants to eliminate. In spite of the fact that I leave newspapers down at night my puppy’s are clean from an early age. However they are like babies, they have no control until they are older. Regardless of how diligent you are your puppy could still have an accident in the house during the day, it you see it stooping or peeing, pick it up and let it finish in the garden/yard.
May 30th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
try takeing them out directly after they eat and dont bring them back in til they poop or pee, or both. then when they do reward them so they know they did a good thing. they should catch on after a while
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May 30th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
when feeding them, leave there food out for only 20 minutes, if they eat then great and if not then pick up the bowls and theyll have to wait until next feeding, right after eating out them in the crate and wait a while and observe them, when you think there smellin to do there business, take them outside and wait for them to pee or poo outside.. you might have to have patience for this part.. if they use the restroom outside, praise them like youve never done before.. continue this until you think they have learned.. the crate already smells like there "bathroom spot" so they might continue to go there until you really wash off the smell good. everytime ou take them outside, take them to the same spot
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May 30th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
You need to keep them in there even if they mess there four months old they should be able to old it for a long time than that but what kind of dogs are they? O two dogs in one crate don’t do that that’s why they are because not one dog owns that crate in there mind that crate to them is like a safe house where they can get away and sleep so one dog per crate. because they do not see that crate as there home at all that’s why they mess in there and put there crate in your bed room were you sleep at night that will help them under stand more that its a bed not a mess room plus will teach them that your king alot of dogs have that problem with them thinking there king and i just really messes up thing for you and the dog.
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May 30th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Sometimes puppies from puppy mills have been left in their own excreta for so long they have become used to it. That makes it harder to crate train them. If you know first-hand that they did not come from a puppy mill, ask your vet if there is anything medically wrong with them.
Do you know when they do it? Usually, they need to go outside after they wake up from a nap, after they eat, after they get excited playing, etc. In addition to taking them out regularly, try to watch them so you see when they do it. If you are there, you could put them in a small pen so they can play a little. Then when you see them start to go, say "Uh-uh" firmly but not angrily, and take them straight outside, then praise them for doing it in the right place. To successfully train them, if the crate is not discouraging them, you need to tell them what the wrong places are, and what the right ones are! They want to please you, so when you catch them in the act and tell them it’s the wrong place, then praise them in the right place, they will try to do that.
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May 30th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Your puppies need feeding four times a day and you need to take them into your fenced garden/yard every hour.
HOW TO TOILET TRAIN A PUPPY.
When the vet says that your dog cannot be taken out until after its injections/shots, this does not mean that it cannot be taken into your own fenced garden/yard. It simply means that your puppy must be kept away from anywhere that could have been contaminated by other dogs.
To help with it’s socialisation you can visit friends, with the proviso that they do not have a dog. Your puppy can be carried around the outside perimeter of a supermarket; you can also stand outside the school gates to get it used to children. You can take it out in a car and park where your puppy can see passers by.
Please do not be tempted to train your puppy to eliminate in the house. It must be taken into your garden/yard every hour, after it eats or drinks and when it wakes up after a nap. You should also take it out just before you go to bed, every time you see it eliminate you must praise your puppy. I use a catch phrase when my puppy has a pee, I say “get one” while it is urinating and “big job” when it passes faeces. If you do this your dog will pee on command when it is older. (Unless it’s bladder is empty)
You should set your alarm and try to take your puppy out about twice during the night. If like me you are a heavy sleeper and you don’t trust yourself to wake up, take the lazy way out. My puppy’s sleep in the laundry room until they are toilet trained, during the day I dip newspapers into the urine which it has passed in the garden and put these on top of a thick pad of newspaper at night, they are drawn to this because of the smell and they will pee on this during the night. Nevertheless I go to bed very late and get up very early when I have a puppy.
Eventually your puppy will go to the door when it knows that it wants to eliminate. In spite of the fact that I leave newspapers down at night my puppy’s are clean from an early age. However they are like babies, they have no control until they are older. Regardless of how diligent you are your puppy could still have an accident in the house during the day, it you see it stooping or peeing, pick it up and let it finish in the garden/yard.
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