How can i house train a escape artist border collie pup?
i have a 10 week old border collie puppy and a 4 months old english springer spaniel. My springer learned how to be house train by using a playpen so when i got the border i attempted to use the playpen for the same reason. However my border is a lil escape artist within 15 mins of being in the pen she realized she is able to climb out of the thing. So i went out and bought her a crate and used the same techniques to get her to like the crate and be her "own" safe spot. Shes ok in it as long as the door is open and if you close the door she cries so bad you think shes being murdered or something. Eventually she figured out how to open that door. Mean while my poor carpet and house is suffering she poops and pees everywhere (even if i just let her out) and manages to get thru the pet/baby gates and her bad behavior is rubbing of on my springer and now shes peeing in the house… Any ideas on how to get the border to do her thing outside and not on my carpets?
4 Comments on “How can i house train a escape artist border collie pup?”
Ok first be patient and get an enzyme cleaner, other cleaners will nto remove the odor the dogs can smell .. thats why your other dog is going inside as well.
Second feed her on a schedule, she will need to potty shortly after she eats so watch her for signs and then whisk her out. Put a name to it and when she goes give her lots of praise, good potties or whatever you want to call it in public lol
She can’t come back in until she goes and after coming in supervise her play and if she starts to sniff or squat outside you go again. Tell her to potty and praise her when she does. When she is done playing then she can go to crate to nap, when she wakes outside right away till potty is done.
Its all about scheduling, if she can eat and drink all day she will potty all day. She will need to potty after meals and after naps and she will forgot to ask a few times. Never try to punish her when you find a spot .. she won’t understand what you mean, just clean it up right You can only discipline for this if you catch her in the act and then the best course is to move her outside and say good dog.
otis can open his crate door too. put a caliper clip on the door. he can’t open it now.
take outside after eating, sleeping and playing. stay outside until business is done. what really helped with mine was to walk her on leash telling her to potty. she picked it up faster than just letting her sniff on her own.
When our dog began to escape the crate, we took the clip off and old leash and clipped the door shut in addition to locking it- it seemed to do the trick! Also, with our terrier, once we get her outside, she’d rather sniff and play instead of doing her business. We were told by her breeder to crate her if she didn’t go- for like 10 or 15 minutes and then bring her back outside again. The crate doesn’t seem like punishment because when she gets out, she gets to go back outside and if she does her business, she gets to stay out and play. It didn’t take very long for her to figure it out! And she would CRY in the crate and whine and scratch, but you have to ignore it and eventually they will figure out that their tantrum gets them nowhere and they will stop.
Yeah, you take the dog out to pee every 20 minutes until it gets the idea that is where to do the deed. You gotta train it and that takes time.