Hi everyone

I am new to the forum which  I have found really great.  We lost our beloved cavalier a couple of months ago, and are now considering a new pup, so I started to look on the forum for ideas on house training, as our last house training attempt, was 14 years ago, and I wondered what ideas you guys had.

My problem is, since our cavalier died our garden has become the biggest cat litter tray in the area.  We have 4 cats who frequent our garden, they even poop on the grass.  We are trying every product known to man to prevent this, but I am really starting to worry about bringing a pup into the house, without its course of injections completed.  We will want to start house training immediately, and I am frightened it may pick up all sorts of infections from the garden, because of next doors cats.  Can dogs pick up parvo etc from cats poop?

I would be really grateful on any comments

Cairo

Hi cairo, this worried me aswell when we got our gsd pup 9 weeks ago. we have 3 cats and 2 use the garden, its a small garden. I basically watched her every move when she was in the garden before jabs so she couldnt eat anything i didnt want her to. I still watch her every move now as she has a thing for stones! lol she is perfectly healthy even tho i watch her every move she still manages to kill my plants within seconds and seems to see snails from miles away, apart from once getting an upset tummy she has been fine.

I've never heard of dogs getting parvo from cats, but I could be wrong. They will, however, get worms, so keep up with the worming regime.

I've found a reasonably cheap way to deter cats is to put water filled lemonade bottles round the border area of your garden. Just where a cat would land, or come through a hedge. They don't like the way it moves when touched. Others will probably have other ways to deter these pesky things (and yes, I do have a cat myself ;) )