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Hello all,
Does anyone have advice on what I can do to help my little Mia learn that she must tell me when she want to go to the toliet. There's no signs given from her, so I want her to bark tell me somehow.
Mia is 4 months old and she will go to the toliet outside if I let her too. I litterally stand in the garden with her saying the word toliet and she squats on command and wees. Excellent.
She will also sometimes go outside on her own and do it when the urge takes her if the back door is open, so it's not all bad.
The trouble is, it's getting colder so I don't want to leave the door open all of the time. I take her out as often as I can but she still wees inside if the doors closed. Then looks at me like she doesn't know what the problem is. I can even take her for a walk, she'll do a wee whilst she's out, then come back in doors and do another one inside straight after the walk.
I've been told that puppies should be able to hold their bladder for 1 hour for every month old they are, which means 4 hours in Mia case, but I don't think she can hold herself for longer than 2 hours and she doesn't seem to have the knowledge that she should hold it in, it just comes out whereever she is, whenever the urge takes her.
I praise her like a mad women when she does it outside, so she knows this is good and tell her off (not harshly) when she does it inside, but nothing has improved.
I also don't get up in the night to let her out, so there's always a puddle of wee for me in the morning, so I'm going to start getting up during the night to help her understand that she needs to wait, but what else can I do?
Any little jems of advise for me anyone?
Thanks
Does anyone have advice on what I can do to help my little Mia learn that she must tell me when she want to go to the toliet. There's no signs given from her, so I want her to bark tell me somehow.
Mia is 4 months old and she will go to the toliet outside if I let her too. I litterally stand in the garden with her saying the word toliet and she squats on command and wees. Excellent.
She will also sometimes go outside on her own and do it when the urge takes her if the back door is open, so it's not all bad.
The trouble is, it's getting colder so I don't want to leave the door open all of the time. I take her out as often as I can but she still wees inside if the doors closed. Then looks at me like she doesn't know what the problem is. I can even take her for a walk, she'll do a wee whilst she's out, then come back in doors and do another one inside straight after the walk.
I've been told that puppies should be able to hold their bladder for 1 hour for every month old they are, which means 4 hours in Mia case, but I don't think she can hold herself for longer than 2 hours and she doesn't seem to have the knowledge that she should hold it in, it just comes out whereever she is, whenever the urge takes her.
I praise her like a mad women when she does it outside, so she knows this is good and tell her off (not harshly) when she does it inside, but nothing has improved.
I also don't get up in the night to let her out, so there's always a puddle of wee for me in the morning, so I'm going to start getting up during the night to help her understand that she needs to wait, but what else can I do?
Any little jems of advise for me anyone?
Thanks