My Dad is a puppy-toilet trainer

My dad is a puppy toilet trainer
PUPPY TOILET TRAINING BOOK


Thursday, November 02, 2006
1. Dr Sing's Toilet Training Secrets (Singapore Puppies) - Contents

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Jan 11, 2009
CONTENTS

1. Introduction. Research into the over 600 case studies of puppies at Dr Sing's Veterinary Surgery and interviews of the breeders, pet shop operators and the puppy sellers in the Singapore pet industry from 2003 - 2006 are presented in this book.

2. What is Toilet Training?
2.1 Definitions - housebreaking, housetraining, toilet training, toilet learning.

3. Equipment needed for Toilet Training -
3.1 Playpen
3.2 Playpen & Pee Pan - with legs, with encircling pan.
3.3 Crate with Open Top and Pee Pan
3.4 Crate with Door and Pee Pan
3.5 Crate with Grate and Pee Pan
3.6 Grate + Pee Pan
3.7 Leash
3.8 Pee Pan.
3.9 Puppy Urine Spray
3.10 Urine Neutralisers, Fragrance, Baking Powder
3.11 Puppy Diapers
3.12 Newspapers
3.13 Wood Shavings
3.14 Flushing Puppy Potty

4. Who Toilet Trains the puppy?
4.1 The Owner --- The First-Time Puppy Owner.
4.2 The Children --- Less than 8 years old. Pre-school child. Toddler. DISTRACTIONS. NO PEACE.
4.3 The Parents --- The Harrassed Mother.
4.4 The Working Couple.
4.5 The Maid --- Foreign Domestic Worker.
4.6 The Siblings and other Family Members.
4.7 Advices from friends.
4.8 Advices from the veterinarian, puppy seller and others.

5. When to start Toilet Training?
5.1 The First Night.
5.2 The First 2 Weeks.
5.3 The First 4 Weeks.
5.4 Wakened up after midnight.
5.5 Older dog.

6. When to stop Toilet Training?
6.1 Success defined.
6.2 Urine and poop marking.

7. Where should the puppy pee and poo?
7.1 Outdoors. Garden grass yellowed. Bag up poop.
7.2 Indoors. ROOMS. Balcony, kitchen, living room, utility room, bathroom. PRIVACY AND PEACE.
7.3 Indoors & Outdoors.
7.4 Big breeds in High-Rise Apartments.
7.5 Second Piece of Newspaper.
7.6 Plastic Sheet, Floor mat.
7.7 Puppy Diapers --- Puppy Training Pads or equivalent.
7.8 Crate + Grate + Pee Pan.
7.9 Grate + Pee Pan.
7.10 Newspapers. Shredding. No urine smell. Newspapers & Crate + Pee Pan problem.

8. How to Toilet Train the puppy?
8.1 A Daily Routine --- feeding, water, exercise 3x/day for first 7 days (to make him tired), sleeping (awake past midnight, barking). Know the history.
8.2 Proposed Routine. Sleep at 11 pm. Wake up at 7am. Eats 8 am, 6 pm. Exercise 10 min 3x/day. First 7 days. Watch for signs of elimination. (See Accidents).

8.2 Feeding 2 times per day except small breeds. Water restriction after 8 p.m.
8.3. How the puppy talks to you --- Elimination Signs, Clean den, Gastro-colic reflex, N-1 formula. Supervision, Persistence, Breed difference.
8.4 Hand signals for deaf puppies.
8.5 Confinement and Training --- Room by Room method/Playpen/Crate+Pee Pan/Combination.
8.6 The Leash Method.
8.7 N-1. Every 3 hours.
8.8 Clicker method.
8.9 Electrical shock.
8.10 How to Crate Train the puppy?
8.11 How to Toilet Train 2 or more puppies? Same age, Different ages.
8.12 Motivation. What is it in for the puppy? Food treats, praises, play-time. Wacking newspapers, smacking. Guilty conscience.

8.12.1 The Mind is a blank slate. Rebellious stage. Incorrigible (not able to reason).
8.12.2 Positive experiences --- Positive Reinforcement Training.
8.12.3 Negative experiences --- Negative Reinforcement Training.
8.12. 4 Carrot and stick method --- Time Out, Scruff of Neck.
8.12.5 The Puppy has a "Guilty Look".
8.12.6 The Puppy is a "Cleanliness Freak".

9. What benefits do the puppy get?
9.1 CLEAN DEN OR TOILET AREA IF CONFINED.
9.2 Attention. Food treats, praises and play fun from the leader of the pack.
9.3. Most puppies want you to be his boss. Some wants to boss you.
9.4 Seeking professional help but hard to advise as each owner is different.
9.5 Re-homing.

10. Time Management.
10.1 Taking leave for 7 days. Purchase over the weekend.
10.2 The Home-alone puppy.
10.3 Crate Training Method.


11. What Benefits to You?
11.1 Saving labour. Smelly house. Family members upset. Nose sensitised. Visitors complain. Selling the house.
11.2 Clean companion and best friend.
11.3 Goes to new home if you are unable to care for him.
11.4 Homeless puppies are like homeless men?

12. Common problems.
12.1 The dominant male. Growling, biting, food aggression. Respect.
12.2 Health problems - Diarrhoea, Vomiting, Coughing, Skin itchiness.
12.3 Behavioural problems - submissive, excitation urination, separation anxiety.
Paper shredding, Eating poop, Drinking pee.
12.4 Eye injuries due to spanking.
12.5 Canine laws for the HDB apartment puppy.

13. How to Handle Accidents?
13.1 Shifting and collapse of the Playpen. Escape.
13.2 Neutralisers, Floor cleaners, Enzymatic cleaners, Masking Fragrances, Baking Soda.
13.3. Clutter --- The Aluminium Pee Pan behind the Door.
13.4 The Smelly Mop.
13.5 Please Beat/Shout at me --- Negative Experiences is better than no attention.
13.6 Discipline within a few seconds.

14. Learning from experiences of others.
14.1 Regression? --- Urine marking Miniature Schnauzers.
14.2 The Chocolate Labrador Retriever from the 20th floor.
14.3 The Army Boy and the Imprisoned puppy.
14.4 The Poop-eating Shih Tzu.
14.5 The Howling Siberian Husky.
14.6 Each puppy is different.
14.7 Advices from the veterinarian?
14.8 The Yorkshire Terrier and the Professional Dog Trainer.
14.9 The Mother Pestered the Pet Shop Operator.
14.10 E-Mail Advices for a Silkie Terrier to a Vet.
14.11 The Two Cavalier King Charles
14.12 The Golden Retrievers hop out of the Play Pen.
14.13 Diarrhoea

15. Conflicts.
15.1 Dirty paws and body.
15.2 Dirty floor. Continual mopping.
15.3 Peeing in front of the playpen - dual drinker/newspapers.
15.4 Aged mum and urine-marking. Daughter and urine-marked beds.
15.5 Gripping legs. Bites.

16. More information.

17. Glossary
Pee, poo, poop.

17. Index