Potty Training help needed.

[GavTheMighty]

Ok so the two puppies I have are great and Marley is just fantastic when it comes to learning. The little one Chorkie was toilet trained from a very small age but Marley doesnt seem to have any and he is causing havok I have read all the books and tried to follow routines you know stop him or make a loud noise if he goes in the wrong place then pick him up and show him the correct area and praise etc. Whats very odd is if I am standing there he will go to the correct area to go potty and I can get him to go on cue pretty much if I say go potty often he will squeeze a few drops out just for my benefit. Yet the moment I leave the room or if I have to go out of the house for even 20 mins I come back to chaos and pee and poop everywhere lol.

So any suggestions or tell me how you go about doing things Marley in case any of you don't know is a 3/4 English Mastiff 1/4 Neapolitan Mastiff and is currently 11 weeks old.

All idea's, comments and suggestions welcome and appreciated.....

I do have a crate by the way in case anyone brings this up and have not used it at anypoint as I have two puppies but I have toyed with the idea of seperating them and using a crate for each.

Oh one last thing and this is my advice to anyone out there never ever ever get two puppies..............it isnt quite the disaster zone that you might read about online etc but it certainly is a very silly amount of work and very hard to train dogs when there are two of them and one of you. (The wife is at work most of the day) I did actually only want one puppy but my wife wanted the mini evil one (chorkie) Chihuahua X Yorkshire Terrier. You would be shocked at how much damage a little dog can cause I think he is worse in every respect to Marley lol.

 

[Smart_Family]

Haha I've done three puppies alone at once. I feel your pain!

 

[dpenning]

You already have the answer! Confining to a small space even if it isn't a kennel is the answer. I keep my dogs in the laundry room and back hall when we are not home and at night. Most of the time they do ok at night but will occasionally go on a walkabout and pee in the wrong spot so it is easier to put them to bed when we go. No more accidents that way.

 

[tee65]

i dont think i could handle three

 

[Smart_Family]

i dont think i could handle three

It was interesting to say the least. We also had an 8 week old kitten at that point too. When we started it all we had a three month old husky, four month old shepherd and five month old english lab. We added a three year old shepherd/husky foster too. The husky pup was with us until he was 6 months and was healthy enough to move on to a forever home. Now we have the 10 month old shepherd,11 month old lab and 9 week old EM. Chaos is a good way to describe our house haha.

 

[dsaw247]

I agree with dpenning. Use your crate. We only potty trained one puppy, I couldn't do more than that lol. However, we used the crate whenever we couldn't keep a close eye on him. Even if I was just leaving the room to go do some laundry or something and wasn't taking him with me, he would go in the crate. I was lucky in that I was home all day every day for the first 4 months or so of having him. I put him on a strict schedule and kept him on it, which helped with the training...of course that could be very difficult with two puppies. Best of luck

 

[Radhika753]

Factors in Dog Training

Fundamentally, dog training is about communication. From the human perspective, the handler is communicating to the dog what behaviors are correct, desired, or preferred in different circumstances and what behaviors are undesirable.
A handler must understand communication from the dog.