Help on potty training puppy

[Anonymous]

Our Shih Tzu is 13 weeks old. Everytime he pees/poops outside, he gets a treat and a lot of praise. It's to the point now where as soon as he goes pee or poo outside, he looks up at us for the treat, because he's expecting it. Awesome! So, how do we get him to NOT pee inside? He doesn't get treats for it and gets a stern "no potty inside". Is there anything else we can do to aide in his training? I admit it is getting better, he has less accidents than he did weeks ago, just want to make sure we're doing all we can to ensure success down the road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our Shih Tzu is 13 weeks old. Everytime he pees/poops outside, he gets a treat and a lot of praise. It's to the point now where as soon as he goes pee or poo outside, he looks up at us for the treat, because he's expecting it. Awesome! So, how do we get him to NOT pee inside? He doesn't get treats for it and gets a stern "no potty inside". Is there anything else we can do to aide in his training? I admit it is getting better, he has less accidents than he did weeks ago, just want to make sure we're doing all we can to ensure success down the road.

Ideally keep taking him out every hour so that he has the opportunity to pee outside and won't need to go inside. Be sure that if you are giving negative feedback for peeing inside you do it right when it happens. Otherwise, it is worthless.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our Shih Tzu is 13 weeks old. Everytime he pees/poops outside, he gets a treat and a lot of praise. It's to the point now where as soon as he goes pee or poo outside, he looks up at us for the treat, because he's expecting it. Awesome! So, how do we get him to NOT pee inside? He doesn't get treats for it and gets a stern "no potty inside". Is there anything else we can do to aide in his training? I admit it is getting better, he has less accidents than he did weeks ago, just want to make sure we're doing all we can to ensure success down the road.

Ideally keep taking him out every hour so that he has the opportunity to pee outside and won't need to go inside. Be sure that if you are giving negative feedback for peeing inside you do it right when it happens. Otherwise, it is worthless.

Thank you. At what age should we start stretching the outside breaks?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our Shih Tzu is 13 weeks old. Everytime he pees/poops outside, he gets a treat and a lot of praise. It's to the point now where as soon as he goes pee or poo outside, he looks up at us for the treat, because he's expecting it. Awesome! So, how do we get him to NOT pee inside? He doesn't get treats for it and gets a stern "no potty inside". Is there anything else we can do to aide in his training? I admit it is getting better, he has less accidents than he did weeks ago, just want to make sure we're doing all we can to ensure success down the road.

Ideally keep taking him out every hour so that he has the opportunity to pee outside and won't need to go inside. Be sure that if you are giving negative feedback for peeing inside you do it right when it happens. Otherwise, it is worthless.

Thank you. At what age should we start stretching the outside breaks?

Are you using a crate? We used Ian Dunbar's training method with our puppies and it worked well. Once you establish a routine - crate - pee/poop - play and back into crate, you can keep the dog in the crate longer and get a better sense of when he needs to eliminate. This is a short summary but you can find much more information online.

https://www.siriuspup.com/blog/puppy-house-training-tips-dr-ian-dunbar-how-teach-your-puppy-eliminate-cue

[Anonymous]

Until your puppy is reliably potty trained he should either be outside, in his crate, or fully supervised at every moment. Tether him to you with a leash if you need to. Then he won't have the opportunity to make mistakes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our Shih Tzu is 13 weeks old. Everytime he pees/poops outside, he gets a treat and a lot of praise. It's to the point now where as soon as he goes pee or poo outside, he looks up at us for the treat, because he's expecting it. Awesome! So, how do we get him to NOT pee inside? He doesn't get treats for it and gets a stern "no potty inside". Is there anything else we can do to aide in his training? I admit it is getting better, he has less accidents than he did weeks ago, just want to make sure we're doing all we can to ensure success down the road.

Ideally keep taking him out every hour so that he has the opportunity to pee outside and won't need to go inside. Be sure that if you are giving negative feedback for peeing inside you do it right when it happens. Otherwise, it is worthless.

Thank you. At what age should we start stretching the outside breaks?

Are you using a crate? We used Ian Dunbar's training method with our puppies and it worked well. Once you establish a routine - crate - pee/poop - play and back into crate, you can keep the dog in the crate longer and get a better sense of when he needs to eliminate. This is a short summary but you can find much more information online.

https://www.siriuspup.com/blog/puppy-house-training-tips-dr-ian-dunbar-how-teach-your-puppy-eliminate-cue

This is pretty much the routine we followed for our puppy and it worked pretty well.

[Anonymous]

Listen to this https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dog-puppy-training-savvy-city-dog/id1492449580?i=1000460297329

It goes into a lot of detail about what exactly to do.