YNP #079: Are You Still Struggling With Potty Training?
Your New Puppy: Dog Training and Dog Behavior Lessons to Help You Turn Your New Puppy into a Well-Behaved Dog
Debbie Cilento: Dog Trainer | Dog Behavior Consultant | Owner of Playtime Paws | Belly Rub Specialist
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🗓️ 15 April 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Potty training is hard. It can take anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 months. Even then you can still have a random accident here and there up to a year.
It’s a process that we can’t rush our puppy through. We can set them up for success as much as we can but it usually takes as long as it takes.
If you’ve been
It can be very disheartening especially when the kids don’t want to play with the puppy anymore.
That’s why I’m giving you my three favorite games that I teach my clients to help with a nipping puppy.
Each one is designed to give you a way to interact and play with your puppy while keeping sharp teach away from sensitive fingers.
Each of these games are great for kids and adults.
The the games I teach are:
- Puppy Soccer
- Freeze Tag
- Flirt Pole (this one is actually a toy which I have pictured below)
In this episode I talk about:
- Why puppies nip and bite.
- To prevent nipping it’s sometimes about changing the game.
- My three favorite games to play with a nipping puppy.
- How to teach your puppy each game.
- When to involve the kids.
Press play and enjoy!
Other resources mentioned and related to this episode:
YNP #046: Puppy Biting and Why You Might Still be Struggling
Playtime Paws Academy: A brand new program for dog and humans no matter where you are in your training journey.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to your new puppies podcast. Starting you and your dog off on the right paw. Here's your |
| 0:16.8 | host Debbie Salento. Hello and welcome to episode 79 of your new puppies podcast. I'm Debbie and today I'm going to give |
| 0:36.7 | you some things to look at if you are still struggling with potty training. Now when I say still struggling with potty training, I mean you've been doing |
| 0:46.2 | it for a couple months, your dogs, you know, five or six months by now and you've either |
| 0:52.2 | plateaued and you haven't seen any kind of improvement for a while or maybe |
| 0:57.1 | you've regressed and you're having multiple accidents a week. Now by five or six months I don't expect your puppy to be fully |
| 1:05.4 | potty trained. You know you're still going to have a random accident here or |
| 1:09.6 | there you know even up to a year that could happen what I'm talking about is you know consistent |
| 1:16.7 | accidents that you can't seem to figure out how to stop whenever I have a client or a student come to me and they're just still struggling |
| 1:26.4 | with potty training even though they've been doing it for a couple months, there's three things |
| 1:31.6 | that I look at. Now this could be happening for multiple reasons, but this is |
| 1:38.6 | where I always start with them. Before we jump into there, there's just two things I want to quickly mention. |
| 1:45.6 | One, if your puppy has all of a sudden regressed in potty training, |
| 1:50.6 | like they're having accidents in the crate crate they're having accidents all over the place |
| 1:54.4 | where they never did before we also want to rule out anything that's physical like a |
| 2:00.4 | bladder infection could be causing these accidents and it has nothing to do with |
| 2:06.2 | potty training it's just their body reacting to this infection that they have. |
| 2:12.1 | Usually they're peeing a lot more often, they're |
| 2:15.0 | drinking more water, and when they do go only a little bit comes out, especially if |
| 2:21.6 | they've all of a sudden started having accidents in the crate where they never had before, this is something to think about and look at a possibility that's happening. |
| 2:30.0 | And the second thing is this is also where we start to look for our dog to be signaling us to go outside. |
| 2:37.5 | And that's what we actually want. |
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