Question by .: Is it okay to put baby nappies on my puppy during the potty training process?
the puppy is 8 weeks old lab and she sleeps in my room. i dont want her to wee or poo on my bed. is it oky to put baby nappies on her?
also do u hav any tips for potty training?
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Answer by Pilot
It would probably be uncomfortable and she might just take it off and try to eat it.
You can get absorbant mats in most petshops.
It is unlikely that your lab will ‘wet the bed’, she would more likely get up and go in the corner or somewhere far from where she sleeps.
If you want to help prevent her peeing, don’t give her water before bed and take her out just before.
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No, the only dog who should wear nappies indoors are incontinent dogs! Housebreaking can be difficult enough as it is, without adding the extra risk of teaching the puppy that it is okay to just pee and poo indoors wherever she is in some nappies.
If your bed cover etc., aren’t washable then either cover your bed with something that directly translated from Swedish becomes plastic Terrycloth OR you don’t allow her up in your bed until she is housebroken.
I know that some prefer to not use newspapers or anything, with the belief that it is never okay for their puppies to have indoor accidents, but personally I prefer that my puppies have their accidents on a newspaper that I can throw away.
I prefer to begin with covering the floor with newspapers in a large area leading up to the front and/or back door, then day by day, week by week, I simply make the area covered with newspapers smaller and smaller, until the newspapers are only inside the door where the doormat usually are.
That way, even if the puppies begins to learn that having accidents on newspapers is okay, to be able to do it on the newspaper, they have to go to the door, thereby if I haven’t noticed that they might be needing to go out, then hopefully I at least realise that they’re going to the door.
The only way to housebreak a puppy = teaching them that we want them to pee and poo outdoors, is to take them outdoors and back indoors, outdoors again and then back indoors, outdoors again and back indoors…
I take them out :
When they wake up after sleeping.
Before eating.
After eating.
When they’ve played for a while.
When they’ve been awake for a while.
The last thing I do before I go to bed at night.
And sometimes in between those times too…
Usually so often, that it feels as if I might as well invest in a revolving door and no matter how many times in a row I’ve been outdoors with the puppy and just came back indoors, after being out with a puppy that was only interested in playing and investigating the surroundings, it is always the time when I’ve just managed to sit down and decides that the puppy will simply have to play indoors for a while, that their going to the door/sitting inside the door, actually doesn’t mean “I want to go out and play” without that time is when it really means “My bladder is bursting full!”
Actually with my first puppies, I worried about it, almost every accident made me think “What if they never become housebroken” and I’m sure that they sensed my concern, which made them somewhat stressed and they took months to housebreak, but with my last puppies, I’ve had a much more relaxed attitude, accidents only makes me sigh and think “They’ll learn, sooner or later”, “I have to be more observant” and if I keep calm, the puppies have kept calm and they’ve been housebroken on weeks.
But, there are no shortcuts, there is no easy way to get a fully housebroken puppy, it is just the most simple and down to basic method of persisting, being focused on the goal and doing your best so that the puppy simply doesn’t get many chances of having indoor accidents.