It's official..."Tumbles" has been renamed "Puddles"...

[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[charlie (ky)]

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[todd[ma]]

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[RustyNTX]

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[Ed SW Fla]

... puppy's require a lot of walking util they figure out where the best OUTSIDE places are to, well, you know what. Ask Art to send you some house breaking tips ... they worked really well for Jake, Jackie ... and me too!

 

[Craig in Alabama]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[Ed SW Fla]

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[Butch in Colorado]

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[deathwind1]

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[Bobbie]

If you did.......he was trained to go inside. This is hard to break and sometimes, you can't depending on the breed. You may want to try and control his water intake. Give him water....take him outside within a few minutes.....what goes in must come out.....until he gets the idea that he must go outside. You may also want to look into "Crate Training".....this often works for pee and pooh control.

 

[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[Bobbie]

As a rule, dogs will not relieve themselves where they eat and sleep, except those in a pet shop. They have been raised in cages and never saw the outdoors. They know no other place to pee and poop. He looks young enough, that he may be trainable, but don't count on it. Once a dog learns the wrong way, it is hard to break. Get a good book on crate training, this may be the only way you will be able to teach him. Keeping him confined to a very small space will make him "hold it", then when it is time to eat to do anything, the very first thing you will do is to pick him up, take him outside and place him on the grass. Let him sniff around, and he may relieve himself. If he does, lots of praise and fun and games are in order. Hopefully he will get the picture.

Pet shops are very bad places to buy a pet. These animals do not have the proper social interaction that you get when you buy from a breeder. They have no other choices other than to relieve themselves where they spend their time. They are poked at, sometimes hurt, and subjected to many things by customers of the pet shop.

I have bred and raised Shetland Sheep Dogs (Shelties)in the past, and every puppy I sold, I made sure the dog's personality matched the adoptive family. I would allow them to spend as much time with the pup as needed to make sure that both dog and person matched. When my pups where taken home, they were already halfway housebroken, and knew to hold it as long as possible and to go outside.

Raising a good dog starts at birth.

 

[Lawrence in Alabama]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

I understand what you're saying, but Tumbles is awfully cute, and seems to be a well-mannered dog, very happy and quiet. We have a book, and we are doing the crate thing, plus my daughter takes him out about every half hour. We watch him pretty closely, in the one room we allow him to be in (large rec room). We found that if we can catch him starting to go to the bathroom, and yell no, it startles him enough that he stops; we then pick him up and take him outside quickly. He seems to be catching on. Hopefully we'll be able to drop the name "Puddles" soon.

Vernon

 

[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[Bobbie]

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