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Can anyone give me good advice about toilet training a puppy?

i have a 9 week old fox terrier x and would like some advice on how to toilet train him. I have floor boards and carpet in the bedrooms.

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1. Take him outside a lot, on lead. If he goes potty out there, praise him like crazy. Make it a HUGE deal. He'll learn that going outside is great! If you catch him in the house, say something like "EH EH!" pick him up and take him outside. He'll learn that going outside is good and going inside isn't.
2. perserverance.try taking it ouside every 2-3 hours...your puppy soon will know 'its time to go toilet ' 'outside'
3. http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=2&cat=1548&articleid=157 This site has a lot of information about house breaking a pup. Hope you find what you need there. House breaking a pup is hard work & you have to be consistent in how you go about it. You will get lots of tips from the above site.
4. Take a careful look at him to see when he normally needs to 'go'. Then take him outside, and STAY outside until he goes, a walk may help him 'go' if it looks like he's not wanting to do his thing. (Normally other dog's scent will assist in this, where they go he'll want to go). Positive reinforcement, with lots of praise, and he;ll soon get the idea. To facilitate him 'going' without you having to walk him every time, leave his defecate on your lawn or where you would like him to go, so next time you bring him outside, the scent is there, and he'll be far easier to get to go. You can incorporate crate training, but crate training doesn't make him want to necessarily 'go' when he gets outside, and I;ve heard of a lot of dogs that miss the point and do their thing inside the crate, which is why I don't recommend it. Consistency and patience is what's the most important, you don't need to box a dog to teach him where to go potty, or to feel more secure (just my experience)
5. no-one has yet mentioned that this pup does NOT have sphincter muscles on either bowel or bladder yet - he will Not have them for another 3 weeks. (12 weeks age.) until then, he is on AUTO - when full? he empties. he has only limited control over WHERE - here, or there? ** Not!! ** 'when' - that is all beyond his control. even AFTER he has sphincter-muscles... he must learn to USE them. this, too, is not an instant thing. it is learned, and muscle tone is BUILT over time. consider that, if he were human, he'd be still be in diapers! U probably were not potty-trained before 18 to 24 mos age - give him a break, let him grow-up, and stop expecting too much of an infant. Crate-train: --------------------------------------- U need a crate to safely confine the pup in an easy-to-clean, SMALL area that they will not soil - big enuf to enter, U-turn, and exit is big enuf! LOOK for help: ==================== Best Answers here! (-: HSUS.org has pages on housetraining for pups. so does dog-star daily, Dr Dunbar's website. happy training! (smile)