Another dog question

[graham]

The pup is 4 months old, she is ok day time as she can get into the garden no mess.
Night time we had her in a dog cage but she would howl the house down when she wanted the toilet at 4 am, so we have left her free, we have puddles and poo in the morning.
I go to bed late and take them both out into the garden, the dog gets on with it cocks his leg 3-4 times, she just sits there, I'll go to the toilet when I want to :rolleyes:

Any ideas we've not had a bitch before.

[Dave-H]

4 months old is a bit young to expect an all night pee/poo free envoiroment :)

Stick with the cage idea, it really is a very good way of house training as they will not soil their own bed unless unavoidable.

Howls the house down at 4.am........ alas you must ignore it, after a few days she will get the message.

So far your action has taught her howling gets a response, so she will do it more :rolleyes:

[graham]

Thanks again for that Dave, new parents :D

Back to the cage it is :eek:

[graham]

Just to let you know the cage has worked and she's not had us up a 4am :)
Thanks Dave

[Dave-H]

No worries, been there a few times myself!

She will have a few off days, you just need to have a routine and stick to it. They soon accept it :)

[graham]

Up date tried her out of the cage last week, she's not done anything over night for a full week so I think we've got there. :)

[Dave-H]

:)

expect the odd "hiccup" though.. might do once in a while until older ;)

[graham]

Thanks for your help :)

[mossy]

Hi There,
I have a 8mth old lab, we picked him up at 3mth and cage trained him. boy did he howl at night,:eek: i slept downstairs with his cage next to me and then every night for a fortnight, i would move the cage further away. after 2 wks he was fine. we did'nt feed later than 6pm and took away his water before 9pm. he was house trained in no time. :)

What puppy do you have?

[steve@offroadin]

It is such a releif when you get them house trained. First night our lab stayed with us she was a bit stressed, we found putting her cage in a dark corner really helped, along with an old towel or blanket. Not missing hosing the cage out at 6am any more :D

[spandit]

Jarvis cried the first night and not since. He graduated from his cage fairly early on and has NEVER done a poo in our house. I think we've been really lucky. He now sleeps in the kitchen (although he did wake me at 4.00am today because he needed to go outside - better than finding a pile in the morning, I suppose...)

[SIDEEZ]

had my new dog bow (long leg course long hair) jack russel for last 6 months have not tried cage training yet she was 14 months old when i had her and she still messes by the front door every other day my last enw dog was houstrained within a week but unfortunatly it died from the dreaded parvo within 2 weeks of having him (woman said he had is jabs lying h***. she also dose not react very quickly when you call her but she is not def cause when you tell her off she soon takes notice. want to take her ratting see if it calms her down but alas my 13 year old dog had them all years ago up the farm need to find somewere new to play.