Author Topic: Toilet training terror (Read 4756 times)

doganjo · « **Reply #15 on:** November 11, 2016, 12:49:53 pm »

Have you tried other foods than grain free? Why does your vet think one breed would have more benefit than any other. That is illogical. I suspect it is causing multiple excretions

Anyway, dogs of 14 weeks upwards have some control of their motions.
For my young puppies I have a 5 hour regime - for every pup I've ever had and that's a lot !
Times can be varied to have 5 and a half or 6 hours between them, but I never leave the last meal later than 6 pm

Meals at 7 am, 12 noon, 5 pm
Toileting outside a few minutes afterwards.
Play after that, then another toilet break

I rarely have had any night-time accidents.
edit - I have used cages/crates for 40 years with no adverse effect on the pups.

Marches Farmer · « **Reply #16 on:** November 13, 2016, 05:09:06 pm »

Our red-and-white Welsh sheepdog couldn't cope with standard food and our vet advised us to switch to Chappie canned food, which worked within a couple of days. We hadn't used a crate before but did with him as he was being introduced to an older entire Border Collie X. It worked just fine and he never appeared reluctant to go into it on the command "Cage".

lord flynn · « **Reply #17 on:** November 13, 2016, 08:47:51 pm »

Quote from: DODx on November 09, 2016, 11:33:43 am

no other grain free foods available to us.

why not? you\re in South Lanarkshire (as am I), not the Falklands!

I have a 6 month old working goldie on milieus wolf heart and RAW, no overnight accidents since the first week I had him (at 10 weeks)-he is on three meals a day, three poops a day. He's in a pen overnight.

crate train him and rethink the amount/what you are feeding. my goldie (who was 20kg at 20 weeks) was only getting 100gms of MWH at that time (although its relatively high in protein).

lord flynn · « **Reply #18 on:** November 13, 2016, 08:59:15 pm »

this site is useful as a guideline to costs, ingredients etc

http://www.allaboutdogfood.co.uk

YorkshireLass · « **Reply #19 on:** November 16, 2016, 11:44:53 am »

Re food quantities, remember that high nutrition food will be more concentrated, a food with fillers will cause more bulk to pass through intestines and out the other end! I saw a big difference in output between conventional kibble, tinned meat, and proper raw feeding. Actually it's one of the ways I judge digestibility and quality of the food.