HOW TO TOILET-TRAINING YOUR FIRST PUPPY IN SINGAPORE
Be Kind To Pets community education
Dr Kong Yuen Sing, BVMS (Glasgow), MRCVS
www.toapayohvets.com
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CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
Time-pressed adult and children in Singapore. 80% in apartments. Large and small dogs. Laws. Senior Citizens. Maids. Children. Neighbours. Internet knowledge. Insufficient knowledge. Applied knowledge of use of equipment. Puppy cruelty. Puppy feeling guilty. Cleanliness freak. No instruction manuals. Different personalities of puppies. No time. Problems and solutions.
2. PUPPY DEVELOPMENT
2.1 Blank mental slate - 2 - 4 months old. Fear imprint stage.
2.2 Rebellious state --- 6-8 months old.
2.3 Mature --- 12 - 18 months old.
2.4 Who is the boss? The alpha male.
2.5 WITFM? --- What's in it for me? Whacking.
3. TOILET-TRAINING EQUIPMENT
3.1 Housebreaking aids
Newspaper with puppy urine.
3.2 Puppy diapers or training pads with attractant smell.
3.3 Litter box.
3.4 Pee tray with newspaper.
3.5 Playpen
3.6 Playpen with enclosed aluminium pee tray.
3.7 Playpen + inside pee tray.
3.8 Crate(cage) + pee tray.
Crate + inside pee tray.
Crate with no pee tray.
3.9 Grate + pee tray. Rusty and aluminium.
3.10. Urine neutralisers.
3.11 Carpet neutralisers.
3.12 Cluttered area
3.13 Electronic collar.
3.14 Electric mat (restricted zone).
3.15 Dog house.
3.16 Clicker
4. TOILET TRAINING AREAS
4.1 Confinement --- crate training/room with baby gate.
4.2 Restricted Zone --- bedroom, balcony,kitchen with ceramic tiles, bathroom. Baby gate. Living cum dining area. marble flooring problems.
4.3 Tether method --- pee tray + newspapers.
4.4 Litter box. Shih Tzu's eyes.
4.5 Portable puppy loo.
5. TOILET LOCATION
INDOOR Apartment too small - Balcony, kitchen (see people), living area, whole apartment. Bedroom messed up.
Playpen with no gates. Playpen elevated, wire flooring, pee tray below.
Playpen for large breeds. Behind sofas and main door.
OUTDOOR. Ground floor apartment
INDOOR + OUTDOOR.
6. ACCIDENTS
Inconsistent routine. Do not see signs of elimination.
Too excited, distracted by children and neighbours, too young, inconsistency, not so smart.
Too large an area to roam - whining and continuous barking.
New smells, new dogs, stress, baby.
New homes.
Pee "off target" on newspapers.
Poop everywhere.
2 puppies, same age. 1 puppy and older dog.
Family members interference or conflicts.
7. PROBLEMSShredding newspapers, training pads
Chewing bed or cloth - intestinal obstruction
Relapses - boarding, new arrivals, tiled floor, carpet.
Toilet too far away at night
Whining to go to the toilet at night and to change soiled papers.
No time to train - Take 7 days' leave. Sleep with the puppy.
With-hold water after 8 p.m
Tiled area preferred - vinegar, anti-ammonnia cleaner, repellent, commercial
products.
Infected bladder or private parts
Kennel cough, vomiting, diarrhoea
Medication, milk
Blood in stools
Loose stools and farting
Vomiting blood and blood in stools
Submissive urinaton
Eating stools, drinking urine.
Consistency of family members
Feed 2 times per day.
Irregular feeding times esp. weekends
Regression --- male dog urine marking.
8. A SCHEDULE
All puppies craved a routine.
Plan, Consistent words, Confine, Paper + urine aids/newspaper, Recommended food
from Seller. No milk. 2 times per day. Fixed feeding time. Water bottle or water bowl? Splashing water on body. Home alone puppy bored. Goes to work and train in the evenings. Takes 7 days' leave. Buy puppy over the week-end.
Signs of elimination
2 puppies
1 puppy and 1 adult using 1 pee pan.
Deaf puppy.
9. SINGAPORE CASE STUDIES. >10 cases are selected from over 500 new puppy owners interviewed by Dr Sing from 2004 - 2007. Examples are:
9.1 The aged stay-at-home mum was stressed by the Schnauzer's mess.
9.2 "How to talk to the puppy" not to step on his poop every night?
9.3 Will the labrador retriever puppy be able to hold his urine from the 19th floor to the grass every morning?
9.4 Wood shavings stuck to the eye of the Shih Tzu puppy.
9.5 "Either the puppy goes or I go," the wife gave an ultimatum.
9.6 "The crate is a prison for the puppy," the soldier said to his father.
9.7 No puppy should drink from a water bottle?
9.8 "The puppy in the HDB flat must go," the canine enforcement officer said.
9.9 The platform was best for the townhouse Golden Retriever.
9.10 Stories about the Aluminium pee tray.
9.11 The 7-month-old Golden Retriever too old to toilet-train?
10. TRAINING METHODS
10.1 Stick --- Negative Reinforcement Training. Beating the puppy. Force the puppy to smell the stools and urine. Creating fear and distrust. Pain and trauma.
10.2 Carrot --- Positive Reinforcement Training. Praise, food treats, click and treat.
10.3 Animal-human miscommunication. Recognising the signs - sniffing, circling, whining. Cannot ignore barking at night. Freedom to roam.
10.4 Paper-trained successful - what is the criteria?
11. PICTURES OF PUPPY BEHAVIOUR AND TOILET TRAINING EQUIPMENT IN SINGAPORE.
12. INDEX
13. REFERENCES
13. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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