Noelle, We spent a week off when we got Brutus. #1 was easily done with the praise. #2 was more of an effort of just staying on top of the situation. We use the pad and outside. Some say it confuses the dog but I don't think he has a problem with it. We always say "potty". We put him outside or on the pad after he comes out of the crate and/or when he wakes up from a nap. With #2, it sounds a little weird, but we always watched his mannerisms (sniffing and spinning in circles) and looked at his anus to see if it was puffy (watching is butt is the weird part). Puffy meaning if he has one on deck. LOL! We then immediately put him on the pad and tell him "potty". When he did go on the pad on really close to it, we gave him a treat and praise him. The pad is in the kitchen and we are able to block off the kitchen. So if he didn't go yet, we block him in the kitchen and spend time tapping the pad and saying potty. When he does, praise and treat come! This started when he was eight weeks old and now at eleven we don't have a problem. The praising continues and the treats are about every three poops now, but Brutus is pretty automatic right now. We will continue to reinforce this behavior with other good behaviors/trick/commands as well. I guess reinforcing this behavior comes from the years of constant training our late Miniturature Schnauzer Ziggy. Ziggy was ADD at best and was always a training and retraining session. LOL! Steve Akron, OH (Home of the 80's band Devo!) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 6:12 AM Subject: [Chihuahuas] Training Issues....
I have a 12 week old chihuahua. I love him dearly and could not be happier with him. I am having some trouble training him though. I amusing the wee wee pads and when he pees he will go right over to them no problem and pees. Going #2 is another story he just goes wherever he wants. I am usually catching him and putting him on the pad just in time and prasing him very much, but he is just not catching on quite yet. Any tips you have would be so great! thanks Noelle ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.
