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What is the best way to start potty training a puppy and make them pee on the pads until I get home2007-11-25 2:52:33

What we used to do is lock the puppy in the kitchen (using a child gate, if there is no door). Pickup everything off the ground that a puppy could chew or eat, and place newspaper on the entire floor, with a bed on one corner and food/water nearby.

Then she would go somewhere on the paper, and we would pick up most of the paper, but keep a small piece with the smell. Then on the second day, we put paper on one half of the floor, put the bed and food on the other half, in a corner, and put the smelly paper on the fresh paper side, on the opposite corner from the food.

If there were no accidents, we left the food and bed in the same place, and only covered one quarter of the floor in the corner that the puppy went... adding new smelly paper each day (and disposing of the older smelly paper).

The puppy will have some accidents, but should be house broken in two weeks. However.

If you leave a puppy alone in a house, then she might eat electric wires, carpetting, table legs, etc. So I recommend that you leave her in the crate all day, after she is 9 months old. You might get someone to let her out to go during lunch when she is 6 months old. Also, you might take her for a walk before you go to work.

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you can get the puppy pads & the spray to spray on them which attracks the pup to the pad but you would want to put down a few as you will be away for 10 hours if thats every day for a week while you work i don't want to be mean but why get a dog if it's alone for most of it life. what kind of dog is it.

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The answer you want: I feel the best way to potty train a puppy is crate training and a strict feeding schedule (that has already been explained so I won't do it again)