i have a 16 week old Newfoundland bitch and toilet training is very problematic she can be exercising for ages or out in the garden for hours at a time and will come straight into the house and mess or pass urine. She repeatedly wees on the dog bed in the living room even thougfh it has just been washed. Its to big to ut the cushion in so that has to be sponged down. This is the third bed i have brought since she has been  with us. I have a male newfoundland aged 9 months and a bloodhound and a staffy and never have any trouble with any of the others nor anyother dog i have had in 35 years. can anyone help.
I toilet her every half an hour when in the house, after each meal and drink i am running out of suggestions has anyone else experienced this problem.

I've been getting the same problem with my 15 week old DOGUE DE BORDEAUX. I got him at 9weeks old and within a few days he was trained to the training pad...... HOWEVER, getting to go outside, is now proven to be a problem. He'll do #2 out side, but the passing U is still taken place indoors. The only way I've been able to get him to do anything outside is by leave the door open all day let him the have the run of the house and garden.

I know its early days... but I would also like some training ideas.

This unfortunately is the problem with training pads and newspaper, all you are doing is training the pups that is it ok to 'go' indoors.  What happens when you take the training aids away?  He will go indoors because this is what he has been taught. Now you are in the position of untraining what he has been taught and training him what he should have been trained to do in the first place. I dont get it :(  and neither, I imagine, does the poor pup.

Take the pup outside and as soon as he has piddled or poo'd, praise him as much as you can.  He has to know that what he is doing is a good thing and is pleasing you.  A puppy does not have the mentality to know that you have left the door open for his benefit, just that he gets to go outside to play.

Ignore what he is doing wrong and praise him when he gets it right, this is the only way. You have to be with him to be able to do this.

i never used training pads as this would mean repeating the process once the pads are removed. i leave my patio doors open as much as possible weather permitting as you have to go through the living room to the garden. I am up till 3 or 4 in the morning and then get up again at 9.30am and my husband comes in from work at 7.00 so she is never left very long. I watch her like a hawk but i am sure its more to do with excitment as we have four other dogs and she loves to play.

Yes I understand that excitement with 4 other dogs can be a problem, I have 7. so each time I want to teach a  puppy to go, all other dogs stay in the house so the pup has it own 'private' time with no distractions.

hi i will try that but unfortunately poppy likes the other for company. if i put her out with one of the other dogs she creates like mad till two or three of them are out there with her. she is very playful and i will have to be a little more patience. Unfortunately she has a loose motion at present bless her.

I think training pads are great I've used them with my puppy now 18 wks and she was house trained in no time I just left the pad out at night didnt use them during the day.She is now dry during the night and waits until someone gets up to let her out in the morning.
Saying that I was constant with the training during the day for the first couple of weeks put her out every 20 -30 min to be a good girl I didnt go out with her because I find I am a distraction I watch out the glass door then after shes been I call her in and praisehave  done this with all my dogs. Puppy when in the house now sits at the door yelping to go out for a wee.

Regards
Roni

Im not a lover of training pads, i think consistency is the key, i dont use paper either just straight outside after waking, playing or eating, praise the good ignore the bad, have usually had them fully trained by 12 weeks , but if the pads work for some people thats great, we all get there in the end.