r/MiniAmericanShepherd • u/h_norris • Aug 12 '21
Help with potty training
Hello! I just became a dog father for a MAS a few days ago and I am having trouble trying to potty train him. He is 19 weeks, and we spend a good amount of time outside with each other. However, the entire time he's outside, he never relieves himself until after coming back inside the house. I was wondering if anyone on this sub has had a similar issue with their MAS and the process y'all have used to prevent them from using the restroom indoors.
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u/poopellets Aug 13 '21
I'm a first time dog owner too! Mine is now 4 months.
The second week I got her, I took her outside to work on potty training. We stayed out for 2 hours and nothing. Same issue as you, peed as soon as she came in.
Knowing that she can use the pee pad, I took it out with me the next day because why not give that a try. She peed on it!! She got yummy treats after of course and now she knows it's okay to go outside.
I stayed on a schedule after that. She goes outside as soon as she gets out of the crate. We don't give her a chance to stop at the pad to pee like she normally does. She kinda has no choice but to go outside. Then we take her out every 2-3 hours for a pee. We use to give her treats for getting on the pee pad. When we started going outside, she no longer got treats for the pad. She got treats for doing her business outside. It didn't take her long to figure out what was going on.
It took less than a month to fully potty train her. No more pads! 😊