Help with house training..
Just needing some advice from all you dog lovers. We recently got a young (13 week) long haired chihuahua. We've had plenty of outside dogs, but this is our first house pup. We're retired and am re...
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Anytime he does a #2 somewhere other than the pad I'd pick it up and place it on the pad. Give him a chance to see and sniff it. Repeat as necessary. He'll likely get the idea fairly soon that #2 goes there. You might also try putting down two pads side by side, so he has one for pee and one for poop and see how that goes.
FWIW -- I got a Shih Tzu puppy a couple of years ago, the first small dog I've ever had. At first I planned on training him to go outside, because that's what I've always done with my previous dogs and fosters (all medium/large dogs), and I'd never had any trouble house training any of them. But I soon discovered that small dogs really are a different matter. Within a few days of bringing him home I went out and bought some pee pads. He caught on within a couple of days. But he also went outside every time my bigger dog went. Soon he was consistently pooping on the pad but doing some pees on the pad and some outside. But he had absolutely no confusion about it--he totally understood that pees were allowed outside or on the pad. Gradually he got to the point that he almost always pees outside, but he still prefers to poop on a pad.
FWIW -- I got a Shih Tzu puppy a couple of years ago, the first small dog I've ever had. At first I planned on training him to go outside, because that's what I've always done with my previous dogs and fosters (all medium/large dogs), and I'd never had any trouble house training any of them. But I soon discovered that small dogs really are a different matter. Within a few days of bringing him home I went out and bought some pee pads. He caught on within a couple of days. But he also went outside every time my bigger dog went. Soon he was consistently pooping on the pad but doing some pees on the pad and some outside. But he had absolutely no confusion about it--he totally understood that pees were allowed outside or on the pad. Gradually he got to the point that he almost always pees outside, but he still prefers to poop on a pad.
