Need advice for " in house " housetraining Boston Terrier puppy ( vanity )

[pops88]

I’ve had many dogs over my lifetime, done obedience classes, read lots of books on training and consulted professional trainers. This is one of the best sites I’ve found for dog training information:

http://leerburg.com/

I highly recommend learning about clicker training. It makes training so much faster and easier. Animal Planet’s show “It’s Me or the Dog” also has some good training tips if you can tolerate the morons and gays Victoria Stilwell works with. We watched it daily when our dog was a puppy and it encouraged us a lot.

[skr]

LOL! Exactly!

[grame]

well, we have a leash hooked to the hand rail and can scoot them out to do their business and check out who's been in the yard. Then we give them a milkbone kind of as a receipt for business done.

If you only let them out of confinement, cage, where ever and make them go first before their feet hit the floor, it goes quicker than you think. Some are tougher, some are easier. My daughter just puts a toddler pull up on her little dog when they are going to be distracted, or when they can't get her outside.

[Cedar]

Put your dog in a small playpen when you leave the house. First thing you do when you get back home is take him outside to go to the bathroom.

95% of the time dogs won’t use the bathroom where they sleep. So, a small playpen is perfect for them. And they automatically begin associating going to the bathroom with the outdoors (by the time you get home they need to go potty, you take them straight from the playpen to outdoors and voila!).

My family house-trained two dogs this way. Worked great.

[sushiman]

Sorry for not being clear about this , but we do not have a yard per se and we were hoping to train him to do his thing “ in house “ until he’s old enough to be taken for a walk . etc...Right now ( from yesterday ) we have him in a large pen with open top in which is a little bed and a potty tray . So far so good ...He woke up a little while ago , did # 2 , then after we let him out for a while he marched back into the pen and did # 1 . Fingers crossed ! : )

[Cedar]

Do you have any type of outdoors...like a small flower bed at the end of a patio?

I once lived in an apartment that had a tiny enclosed patio. But it did have a little grass (mostly dirt rather) around the edge of the patio. My dog was able to “do her stuff” there.

She is a small dog, however. Wouldn’t have worked too well with large breeds.

Seems it would be difficult for a dog to ever get it out of his mind once he was “fine” to go potty indoors but not so later on. But then again, I’m not the dog whisperer.