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Kelly:
Our last project was a 14-month-old dog who was not previously housetrained and had some known bad habits.
We thought we would be in for a long ordeal, but she really surprised us. We only ever had one accident in the daytime and never in her restricted area over night.
When we started trying more freedom around the house overnight she did well for the first few weeks. Then, she got spooked by a noisy event, had an accident, and regressed to having another the next night and the next. Back to the restricted overnight area for 6 weeks, and she's never had another overnight accident since.
It has helped that she has really obvious "tells" that she needs to go out, including turning around and looking at her own tail with a silly, startled expression!
Bluebonnet:
All my rescues have been adult dogs & for years they were outside
dogs & when I decided to allow them in the house, I never had a
mess to clean up.
I installed a dog door & that was the best thing I
could ever have done. As far as I know none of them had been house
trained but they never messed or peed in the house.
It isn't like house breaking is an alien to dog owners, all puppies have to be house broken if they are going to live in the house. It is just something that all puppy owners have to do. Like teaching a pup not to bite. All puppy owners have to teach their pups not to bite.
It isn't like house breaking is an alien to dog owners, all puppies have to be house broken if they are going to live in the house. It is just something that all puppy owners have to do. Like teaching a pup not to bite. All puppy owners have to teach their pups not to bite.
Nobby:
The
fastest was 4 hours for a young 6 mo dog raised in kennels, the slowest
finally understood what was wanted at about 4 months. And yes, they
learn faster by following the example of the other dogs.
When dogs play, they all stop and politely queue to drink, or pee.
When dogs play, they all stop and politely queue to drink, or pee.
Charle:
Best housetraining tool I used was a bell tied on a string, to the back door's doorknob. Before letting the dog out, I shook the bell, ringing it, then opened the door.
Within days, the dog figured out that the bell rings, the door opens - so when she wanted out, she started ringing the bell. That sped up housetraining super fast!
I think the longest I took was 2 months, and that was a dog that had never had a home - was in a kennel all her life, with few walks, so she'd gotten used to soiling her own "den" areas. =(
Larry:
Our pup was doing pretty good at 6 months but he followed out other 2 dogs so that really helped. Now with the snow he wants out every 5 minutes so you don't know if he really has to go or if he just wants to play in the snow so to be safe we get up and let him out.
Rossie:
My last puppy was fully trained by 5 months.
My current puppy just turned a year old, and she is still a work in progress. She was started on pads by the people we got her from. Yet another reason not to use pads.
