Hi I have my 5 month old female chihuhua she was peeing on the pads in the house but sometimes made mistakes and she would not poop on them so i ditch the pads and take her out. But its soooo hard to train since she is a picky eater. can anyone give me some ideas? she hates her crate. IS THERE STILL HOPE?
Teach her to like her crate. Feed her in there. Make sure it's comfy. Give her special crate-only toys. Crate her occasionally with something really enjoyable that she only gets in her crate, like a stuffed Kong or Nylabone.
Here, read these three articles to learn how to properly use crating to housebreak her, and to make her at least tolerate being crated:
http://dogstardaily.com/training/errorle ... http://dogstardaily.com/training/errorle ... http://dogstardaily.com/training/home-al ... pets question and answers,www.5d2d.com As for her pickiness, ah .. Well, what impact is that making? Are you saying it's tough to reward her because she doesn't like most treats? In that case, you just need to experiment. Have you been using lousy commercial dog treats? Try using liver, chicken, hot dog, steak, cheese, etc. I'd be amazed if she didn't love at least one of those!
Housesoiling is a spatial problem, involving perfectly normal, natural, and necessary canine behaviors (peeing and pooping) performed in inappropriate places.
Housetraining is quickly and easily accomplished by praising your puppy and offering a food treat when she eliminates in an appropriate toilet area. Once your pup realizes that her eliminatory products are the equivalent of coins in a food vending machine - that feces and urine may be cashed in for tasty treats - your pup will be clamoring to eliminate in the appropriate spot, because soiling the house does not bring equivalent fringe benefits.
Housesoiling is also a temporal problem: either the puppy is in the wrong place at the right time (confined indoors with full bladder and bowels), or the puppy is in the right place at the wrong time (outdoors in the yard or on a walk , but with empty bladder and bowels).
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Timing is the essence of successful housetraining. Indeed, efficient and effective housetraining depends upon the owner being able to predict when the puppy needs to eliminate so that she may be directed to an appropriate toilet area and more than adequately rewarded for doing the right thing in the right place at the right time.
Usually, puppies urinate within half a minute of waking up from a nap and usually defecate within a couple of minutes of that. But who has the time to hang around to wait for puppy to wake up and pee and poop? Instead it's a better plan to wake up the puppy yourself, when you are ready and the time is right.
Short-term confinement to a dog crate offers a convenient means to accurately predict when your puppy needs to relieve herself. Confining a pup to a small area strongly inhibits her from urinating or defecating, since she doesn't want to soil her sleeping area. Hence, the puppy is highly likely to want to eliminate immediately after being released from confinement.
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