[DavidandCollette]

Our sprocker pup is three and a half months old. I'm trying to train her but every morning I am met with
Any tips please?

[smhowie]

If she is doing her needs in the one place put puppy pads there and when she use pad start to move outside to where it is ok for her to do her needs giving lots of praise and a small treat when she gets it right. Our seven month collie still makes the occassional pee when excited. So taked time

[DavidandCollette]

Thanks both. I do put her out last thing and first thing. Looks like the alarm them!

[in the hills]

Is she in a small crate overnight?


It really seems to work. Our bitch was clean straight away and I know of other people having difficulties and the pups have been clean within a few nights of being crated.


Of course, out last thing and not feed too late, as well.

[CarolineJ]

I second the alarm clock suggestion, it worked brilliantly with our collie - however, it did take until he was 6 or 7 months old before he could manage all night, so be prepared for some sleep deprivation!

[DavidandCollette]

Itch we tried the crate but she was very unhappy so we let her sleep on the other dogs bed ( she sleeps at the side of our bed)
I'll just have to get up in the night. I love my sleep! But she does need to be trained. Just for the record (she's not here at present) it was her idea to get another dog

[lintmill]

Crate Training......we have always done this and never had a problem.
Put them out last thing, pop them in crate and in the morning whizz them out quick style.

House trained in weeks.   


Then crate can go away until next puppy................

[Buttermilk]

Crates are so useful I had one built in under the kitchen counter.

[Womble]

Our friends had problems with their new dog pooing in the kitchen. They read on a forum somewhere that you're supposed to rub the puppy's face in it, and then throw them outside into the garden to show them that that's the proper place.

I was in their kitchen having coffee one day, when the dog crapped next to the tumble drier, sniffed at it, whimpered a little, and then jumped out of the window  .

[waddy]

Ours was dry from the start in the crate but we had problems out of it. Training pads she found were great fun to shred. I discovered the disinfectant spray I was using contained an ammonia compound. I was like spraying a go here sign all round the kitchen. You will get there eventually!


 
Helen