what can i put on carpets to stop pup keep going to same spot to do her wee wees

clean the area thoroughly with a biological washing powder solution to remove all traces of pee and then i think you wipe over the area with something else like white vinegar or is it spirit...... cant remember which now as ive not had to do it myself. perhaps someone else can help with that bit :D

Hi Tisha,

Warm water & bio powder are ideal - but only if you've cleaned up quickly enough to stop any urine going through to the underlay    If the underlay has copped for it, it's too late  -  she'll pick up on the odour regardless of how clean the carpet is :(

Regards Teri

You can buy some stuff in good pet shops called simple solution. It cleans the mess and removes all trace of smell.

you could try feeding her where she is doing her business - just for a few days, it might work

Pets at home do puppy training pads,they are about a fiver for a pack of 12,i found them very helpful.I used to put one in the lounge and one at the back door.

Sheila.

Please do NOT use these so called 'puppy pads' as all you are doing is telling your dog it's OK to go in the house - you should be aiming at NEVER having these accidents by watching your dog far more closely.

Hi Digger ,I would like to think that i know what i am doing reguarding house training dogs,all my dogs have been fully house trained at 6 months,with using these training pads as you cannot have your eye one a puppy every minute of the day,all puppies have accidents and i would rather have wee on the pad then the carpet,you may think that six months is a long time ,as i have Labradors they do take a bit longer to house train.i train them with kindness and all my dogs have ended up were they wont even wee in our garden so we have to take them out,they are very crafty.

Sheila.

Digger, unfortunately some of us are disabled! The best way I found to train a pup is to use the pads, better that than the carpets...then as they get older, reward for the right results! Having 2 tiny Yorkies, who are notorious for being hard to house train! it's best to train them to those pads first, especially as they also intensely dislike getting cold!! LOL I have trouble getting to them quick enough anyways, so don't be so dismissive, we aren't all able bodied and able to leap through air in a second to grab a pup and haul it outside! So a little tolerance to our 'methods' would be nice?? :D All the best, Dawn

Dawn I don't know you, but likewise, you don't know me - I'm not a fit and able bodied person either, although not registered 'disabled'.  All I am doing is advising all who read this board of the most effective methods of house training for most puppies and most owners - obviously you are free to pick and choose that advice as you see fit, but I'd hate anyone to think pads are a short cut to having a perfectly house trained puppy - as other threads show, they often confuse the pup who may not have learnt there are two different sorts of place - places you 'go' and places you don't.

Hi Sheila,

I think Digger's advice is excellent and a method myself and several on the forum whole heartedly agree with ;)  Yes, everyone has differing methods and varying degrees of experience in employing same but I know I speak for many regular posters on the forum when I say you're not alone in the "I train them with kindness" department - kind, consistent and rapidly effective house training is very much (more) achievable without the necessity to use puppy pads, newspapers, urine scented sprays etc ;)  Of several dogs I've trained over the years I've never used a sheet of paper nor training pad and yet in my medium sized but slow maturing breed I have not had any indoor accidents so late in life as you say you've been having with your Labs ....

The fact that this method has served you well over many years and many dogs is all well and good if you don't have the desire to raise your expectations of when most dogs can be reliable to ask out or hold on of course.  However most posters asking info on how best to house train clearly wouldn't be doing so if they'd done it regularly over a number of years with a number of dogs ;)

IMO it is therefore better to encourage such new owners to be ever vigilant in watching their pups and to not risk confusing them with "sometimes indoors, sometimes outdoors is OK" messages as the same posters almost invariably come back a few weeks/months later with queries as to why their double-standards technique doesn't seem to be reaping the desired reward :)

Regards, Teri

Hi Sheila, yes, you're right to say that all puppies have accidents, but 100% of these accidents are down to the owner's lack of vigilance. ;) The first dog I had when away from my parents' home was fully house-trained, day and night, by 10 weeks of age - mainly because I refused to allow anything to distract me from watching her while she was awake. She was a labrador, a breed which you suggest takes longer to housetrain ... ;)

The longest I've had a dog take to housetrain was when I had two puppies at the same time, and the accidents didn't stop completely till they were 4½ months; this was purely down to the fact that I couldn't concentrate fully on both at the same time, as well as give my other dogs their fair share of attention. If it had gone on as long as 6 months I'd be desperate!

All my dogs are also 'trained with kindness' ; no crates, no pads, no paper - just vigilance.

Have to agree with Digger on this one - I would not recommend these pads.  I havent used them and my puppy was fully house trained by 15 weeks.  She took longer than her mother but that was down to me.  I know if I used them I would STILL be housetraining.  I know some dogs take longer to train than others but for all of your dogs to have taken 6 months suggests these pads may not be the best method? 

I agree with the get outside method as you only have to train them the once then! My boy was fantastic, I was in shock when I got him home and he took to toileting sraight away (or maybe I was just a little over cautious) but I can honestly say that he had 2 accidents in the first 24 hours and that was it. (he was 7 weeks and 5 days when I picked him up)  He did have a crate too which probably also helped along the way. But the best method for us was having a hawk eye and the garden :-)

>But the best method for us was having a hawk eye and the garden

Couldn't agree more! I've never used any sort of training pad since I really can't see that they do other than send mixed messages to the dog and invariably the result is widdled on carpets. And no, I'm not particularly "able" either after seriously and permanently mangling one of my ankles. However, I'd rather limp out to the garden than I would limp around the house mopping wees off carpets!

I just kept my pup in my sight every minute i could then when we saw her squatting we would rush and pick her up and place her in the garden.Inevitably there would be a trail of pee on the way outside but she eventually got the hang of it.At night we put the two dogs in the kitchen,much to Guiness's discust as hes never been shut in anywhere.Its easier to clean lino than carpet.I also took her out at certain times of the day,ignoring her so she didnt think it was play time.

yes i am also vigilant,when pups they are taken out after meals rest and play and throughout the day as well,and yes JJ labs can take up to even 8 months to fully house train,my friend has a Bernese and she is having problems with weeing and pooing during the night with her and she is 12 months,and she has plenty of expierence with dogs like a few on here.

Sheila.

I've learned from personal experience that the more effort put in by the owner the quicker the results.

I too have found these pads dont work. My pup who is 10weeks is not responding to them at all. Now this may be strange but from the day I got her (8weeks) she has never soiled her crate. I'm up very early though. It is right next to my bed & thats where I want her. My other b/c used to lay there too. I gave up with the pads after the 1st week, She still hasnt quite got it but I'm just waiting til the end of her injections so we can get out of our yard. At the moment GET BUSY means pull my trouser leg in more ways than one. The rest of training is going great though.