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I Have a 3 month old lab/ retriever puppy. We have had him for 2 weeks and we are currently trying to toilet train him. I need some advice on this. We have another dog and hoped he would learn from him, but so far no such luck. We go out walking 3 times a day and then we let them out for a wee before bed.

How do I get his to stop peeing after walks, and get him to hold it. I let him outside regularly inbetween walks but sometimes he goes out, comes back in then wees inside. How do I get this to stop? Please help!
 
If he's only 3 months old then he's still very much a baby and isn't likely to be able to hold his urine at this stage for much longer than half an hour when he's awake.

Do you reward him for peeing outside? Does he wee on paper inside, or puppy pads?

Have you tried putting one of the pads or wet paper outside and then encouraging him to wee on it again?
 
Welcome to Dog Forum!! :)

You just have to persevere and keep taking him outside every 20/30 minutes or so.

Don't come back in until he wees and use lots and lots of praise when he does, we also say 'Be Quick' in a high pitched voice when our puppy actually drops and wees and then when we take her outside and say those words, she knows what we want her to do...

Can we see a picture of him and whats his name?
 
At 3 months he is still a baby and I suggest you take him out for a wee and stay with him even if its raining or cold every time he wakes up, after every meal and drink and after playing with him. Then when he does a pee or poo makes a big fuss of him by stroking him and tell him what a clever boy he is. If he toilets in the house it means your not quick enough to get him out side, and he can't hold it in because he's to young.
 
We don't use puppy pads, I'm not sure what they are! We leave the door open all day and he goes out but he comes back in to pee sometimes, most times he goes outside, we just need to get him to stop peeing inside on the odd occasion, mainly at night when the door is shut. His name is Marley, will try and get pictures up! Thank you for all your advice so far! :)
 
Leaving the door open means nothing to him, he doesn't understand that you want him to pee and poo outside you have to show him by training. :)

When we trained our puppies we put them outside for a wee & poo just before we went to bed, and set the alarm for 6.30am in the morning so we could get them outside for a wee before we even put the kettle on for a cup of tea.
 
We still take him out when we think he needs to go and i think he does get it when the doors open because he will just take himself outside to go and we praise him all the time when he goes outside. He's a really smart puppy so im hoping we will get him potty trained soon! What should we do if he goes in the house? tell him off or ignore it? If he goes in the house i put him straight outside, not sure if this is the right way to do it. i've never had a puppy before so im new to this! Any advice about puppys would be really helpful!

marley.jpg
 
Ignore it I would say - but you really need to try and take him out as often as possible - its the only way they learn.

He is gorgeous!!!
 
Another thing to think about is how your other dog asks to go out. Along with being able to hold the urine for a bit longer as they grow, they also start to get an understanding of when they need to go, so I'd start encouraging your other dog to ask properly to go outside and seeing if your little one will copy them, so that the little one will understand what to do to alert you to the fact that they need to go (and as with all babies, when they need to go it's NOW NOW NOW!).

You also need to be cleaning the spots where your pup has been to the loo to doggy standards rather than human ones (since their nose is a hell of a lot better than ours) so I'd recommend cleaning with a weak biological clothes washing liquid solution, rinsing properly, then following with a steamer or an odour killing spray made for the job like Safe4.

I'm sure it will come together over the next month or two. Good luck :)
 
All of this has been really helpful and I think we are slowly getting there! He woke us up last night to tell us he needed to go out. But he only seems to cry to go out if he's in his crate. When he's out he goes to the door and then runs away from it so I'm constantly watching him now!

How old are they when they start getting adult teeth?

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Hi

We got an Austrialian Kelpie pup a few weeks ago,(11 weeks old).He is what we now refer to as our remote control puppy! lol

When we first took him outside and when he did a wee we would praise him heavily in silly voices using the words, "wee wee.good boy!

When he wanted to doo doo we would watch him do it and then say "doo doo! good boy!". He soon got used to the praise and now goes on command lol.

They get there in the end. Making it a game has really helped.

Now working on his recall!
 
Adult teeth happen from about 6 months to about 10 or 11 months, but you have to understand that you have a breed that is known to be a heavy chewer, and also that especially with larger dogs the chewing which results from teething can last until they're 18-24 months, so be warned, you have all this to come! ;)

If he's finding a way to let you know when he needs to go out then you need to get really cute and squeaky rewards voices, along with fuss, cuddles, games and treats so that he knows he's doing something you're happy for him to do. As soon as he gets the message then that will be him set for life. He will still have accidents when he's caught short but they should get a lot less frequent in a matter of weeks and then his body and his bladder will be able to hold more and give him more warning of him needing to go.

Molly doesn't sit by the door or bark when she wants to go out. She comes and asks for a single person's attention, pushing her nose around your hands and arms and nuzzling in a big fuss. The first few days we had her we thought that she was just being affectionate so we missed her cues that she was bursting for a wee, poor girl, so she ended up weeing on the floor and it was all our fault. These days she comes and asks someone to come and open the door and if we're in any doubt we ask her whether she wants to go out into the garden and she answers with a bark and running to the door, so we have to bear in mind that a cute and cuddly affectionate shepherd may be a cute and cuddly affectionate shepherd, or it may be a shepherd who can't get to the loo without some assistance :)
 
I am the proudest puppy mummy ever today! He cried for the first time while he was out of his crate and came over to me to tell me he needed to go out, I put him out and he went! Good job Marley moo :)

Thought I would let you all know as your advise has been so helpfull!
 
That's brilliant! Go Marley :)

Teaching for puppies is very much like if you're a manager of adults in a company- if you can catch them when they're doing something RIGHT and then show them that you're happy with that then that is a huge amount easier than catching them doing something WRONG and then trying to explain to them what the right thing would be.

Keep at it :)
 
This has been a great thread to read, I will be reading this back in a couple weeks when I try to toilet train my boy.
 
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