24. Outline 4. Toilet Training, Aug 15, 2006

PUPPY TOILET TRAINING - SINGAPORE


1. How research was done
2. Development
3. Behaviour
4. Equipment
5. Methods

6. Toilet Locations
7. FAQ
8. Success Stories
9. Vaccinations, deworming, feeding and obedience training
10. Acknowledgements
11. Feedback needed on ongoing community education project


1. How the research was done
1.1 At Surgery from 2004 - 2006. 400 puppy owners in Singapore.
1.2 Pet shops and breeders
1.3 National Library books, and pet magazines and reference librarians
1.4 E-mails
1.5 Internet
1.6 Travel to Japan, Taiwan, USA.

2. Development

2.1 First 4 months
2.2 Adolescence
2.3 Puppy temperament and selection
2.4 Puppy breed type - visual, tracking, lap dog
2.5 Alpha and leadership needed in most cases.

3. Behaviour

3.1 First 7 days at home is terrible.
3.2 Diarrhoea, coughing, dying.
3.3 Whining, howling, barking for long time. Noise nuisance to HDB neighbours.
3.4 Sleeping alone or in bedroom.
3.5 Feeding twice per day. Ad lib or wolfing down. Grazing. Thin. Small breeds 3x
3.6 Free access to apartment/house. Regression.
3.7 Water bottle, water bowls.
3.8 Urine smells.
3.9 Stool smells not neutralised by vinegar:water.
3.10 Newspaper smells, carpet, floor, near doors, outside newspapers, floor tiles
3.11 Paper/pad/diaper shredding.
3.12 Layout. Clean den. Separate eating/drinking area.
3.13 Tips: No food or drinks after 8 p.m? Midnight change of soiled papers.
3.14 Adolescence at 6 months. Urine marking.
3.15 Feeding, watering and exercise schedule.
3.16 Puppy food up to 1 year old. 1.5 years old for big breeds. Spinal ridge. Protein and fat content in food labels. Premium puppy food. All stages.

4. Equipment

4.1 Playpen without door.
4.2 Playpen with door.
4.3 Crate with top and side doors and pee pan
4.4 Crate with open top, door but no pee pan.
4.5 Crate with open top and pee pan.
4.6 Pee Pan - Aluminium
4.7 Pee Pan - Others.
4.7 Fences and crate set up.
4.8 Fences, carrier, water bowl, feed bowl.
4.9 Leash. chewable.
4.10 Room. Kitchen, living, bedroom, bathroom.
4.11 Crate training.
4.12 Repellent, clutter, noisy plastic, electric shocks.
4.13 Newspapers.
4.14 Diapers
4.15 Puppy Training Pads.
4.16 Litter box
4.17 Artificial grass.
4.18 Electric mats.
4.19 Electric collars.
4.20 Coin cans. Water Pistols.
4.21 Pieces of rugs.
4.22 Cane.

5. Methods

5.1 Positive reinforcement training. Intonation. Verbal Cues. Pat, Praise, Reward, Clicker.
5.2 Negative reinforcement training. Smell urine, spank, slapped, caned. Fear aggression (vulnerable, alert and impressionable?)
5.3 Positive and negative reinforcement
5.4 Clicker method
5.5 Performance contract? Food, drink and exercise schedule
5.6 No food and water after 8 p.m
5.7 Overnight crying to go the toilet (less than 4 months old).
5.8 Multiple dogs and puppies. Separate pee pans.

6. Toilet Locations

6.1 Indoors
6.2 Outdoors
6.3 Indoors to Outdoors


7. FAQ

7.1 Stepping onto stools, peeing onto bed. Peeing outside newspapers.
7.2 Newspaper or diaper shredding
7.3 Dislike commercial urine spray
7.4 Pee outside paper.
7.5 Feeling "guilty" when I come home
7.6 Imprisoned
7.7 Sleeping on owner's bed.
7.8 Urine marking. Rehoming.
7.9 Poop 5 x per day. Grazing. Poop only on floor tiles.

8.Applications in real life. Success and Failure Stories

8.1 Paper trained within 1 week. Yorkshire + Professional Dog Trainer.
The lady talks to her Schnauzer
8.2 Outdoor for the Chocolate Labradror from 20th floor apartment
8.3 Golden Retrievers, Siberian Huskies.
8.3 Waiting for treats. Pees a bit
8.4 Living with Illegals. Submissive Urination.
8.5 The hatchet man.
8.6 Nipping at ladies or mum.
8.7 Two-level maisonette - 2 male Schnauzers
8.8 No two puppies are alive. Diapers and pads.
8.9 Children and aged parental distractions.
8.10 Inconsistent commands and schedules.
8.11 Re-homing, animal shelter, euthanasia.

9. Vaccinations, deworming, feeding, collar and obedience training

9.1 Cannot go out till 3rd vaccination
9.2 Loose stools, passing gas, worms seen
9.3 Choked coughing
9.4 Eating stools
9.5 Drinking urine
9.6 Aggression. Food, Nipping. Skin problems.
9.7 Chewing.
10. Urine marking stressful to homemakers.

10. On-going research for next edition.
Seek veterinary and professional trainer's advices

24. Outline 4. Toilet Training, Aug 15, 2006

PUPPY TOILET TRAINING - SINGAPORE


1. How research was done
2. Development
3. Behaviour
4. Equipment
5. Methods

6. Toilet Locations
7. FAQ
8. Success Stories
9. Vaccinations, deworming, feeding and obedience training
10. Acknowledgements
11. Feedback needed on ongoing community education project


1. How the research was done
1.1 At Surgery from 2004 - 2006. 400 puppy owners in Singapore.
1.2 Pet shops and breeders
1.3 National Library books, and pet magazines and reference librarians
1.4 E-mails
1.5 Internet
1.6 Travel to Japan, Taiwan, USA.

2. Development

2.1 First 4 months
2.2 Adolescence
2.3 Puppy temperament and selection
2.4 Puppy breed type - visual, tracking, lap dog

3. Behaviour

3.1 First 7 days at home.
3.2 Diarrhoea, coughing, dying.
3.3 Whining, howling, barking. Noise nuisance to HDB neighbours.
3.4 Sleeping alone or in bedroom.
3.5 Feeding twice per day. Ad lib or wolfing down. Grazing. Thin. Small breeds 3x
3.6 Free access to apartment/house. Regression.
3.7 Water bottle, water bowls.
3.8 Urine smells.
3.9 Stool smells.
3.10 Newspaper smells, carpet, floor, near doors, outside newspapers, floor tiles
3.11 Paper/pad/diaper shredding.
3.12 Clean den. Separate eating/drinking area. No food or drinks after 8 p.m? Midnight change of soiled papers.
3.13 Adolescence at 6 months. Urine marking.
3.14 Feeding, watering and exercise schedule.
3.15 Puppy food up to 1 year old. 1.5 years old for big breeds. Spinal ridge. Protein and fat content in food labels. Premium puppy food. All stages.

4. Equipment

4.1 Playpen without door.
4.2 Playpen with door.
4.3 Crate with top and side doors and pee pan
4.4 Crate with open top, door but no pee pan.
4.5 Crate with open top and pee pan.
4.6 Pee Pan - Aluminium
4.7 Pee Pan - Others.
4.7 Fences and crate set up.
4.8 Fences, carrier, water bowl, feed bowl.
4.9 Leash. chewable.
4.10 Room. Kitchen, living, bedroom, bathroom.
4.11 Crate training.
4.12 Repellent, clutter, noisy plastic, electric shocks.
4.13 Newspapers.
4.14 Diapers
4.15 Puppy Training Pads.
4.16 Litter box
4.17 Artificial grass.
4.18 Electric mats.
4.19 Electric collars.
4.20 Coin cans. Water Pistols.
4.21 Pieces of rugs.
4.22 Cane.

5. Methods

5.1 Positive reinforcement training. Intonation. Verbal Cues. Pat, Praise, Reward, Clicker.
5.2 Negative reinforcement training. Smell urine, spank, slapped, caned. Fear aggression (vulnerable, alert and impressionable?)
5.3 Positive and negative reinforcement
5.4 Clicker method
5.5 Performance contract? Food, drink and exercise schedule
5.6 No food and water after 8 p.m
5.7 Overnight crying to go the toilet (less than 4 months old).
5.8 Multiple dogs and puppies. Separate pee pans.

6. Toilet Locations

6.1 Indoors
6.2 Outdoors
6.3 Indoors to Outdoors


7. FAQ

7.1 Stepping onto stools, peeing onto bed. Peeing outside newspapers.
7.2 Newspaper or diaper shredding
7.3 Dislike commercial urine spray
7.4 Pee outside paper.
7.5 Feeling "guilty" when I come home
7.6 Imprisoned
7.7 Sleeping on owner's bed
7.8 Urine marking. Rehoming.
7.9 Poop 5 x per day. Grazing. Poop only on floor tiles.

8. 9. Applications in real life. Some Success Stories

8.1 Paper trained within 1 week. Yorkshire + Professional Dog Trainer.
8.2 Outdoor for big breeds from 20th floor apartment
8.3 Waiting for treats. Pees a bit
8.4 Living with Illegals. Submissive Urination.
8.5 The hatchet man. Nipping at ladies or mum.
8.6 Two-level maisonette - 2 male Schnauzers

9. Vaccinations, deworming, feeding, collar and obedience training

9.1 Cannot go out till 3rd vaccination
9.2 Loose stools, passing gas, worms seen
9.3 Choked coughing
9.4 Eating stools
9.5 Drinking urine
9.6 Aggression. Food, Nipping. Skin problems.

23. Outline 3 - 2005

Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore

Some information about the book is as follows:


TOILET-TRAINING YOUR PUPPY IN SINGAPORE
Be Kind To Pets community education

Dr Kong Yuen Sing, BVMS (Glasgow), MRCVS
www.toapayohvets.com

To: Daniel, Jason and Judy Sing

First published in Singapore in 2005 by sinpets.com, an associate of Asia USA Realty (Singapore) asiahomes.com Pte Ltd, Blk 1002, Toa Payoh Lor 8, 01-1477, Singapore 319074. judy@asiahomes.com, www.asiahomes.com, +65 9668-6468

Copyright sinpets.com 2005

All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or utilised in an form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

ISBN X XXX XXXXX X

Printed and bound in Singapore

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

2. PUPPY DEVELOPMENT
3 months old, 3 hours.
Recognising the signs - sniffing, circling, whining
Negative reinforcement. Beating the puppy. Force the puppy to smell the stools and urine. Creating fear and distrust. Pain and trauma.
Positive reinforcement - praise, treats, clicker

3. TOILET TRAINING EQUIPMENT
Housebreaking aids
Newspaper with urine
Commercial pads with attractant smell, litter box, pee tray with newspaper
Playpen + pee tray
Crate(cage). Various types.
Urine neutralisers.
Carpet neutralisers.

INDOORS Papers, Pads, Litterboxes, Diapers

4. TOILET TRAINING METHODS
Newspapers, training pads, litter tray
Crate, Playpen, Confined area, Room
Leash
Combination

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
Ground floor apartment
Outdoor
Indoor
Indoor & Outdoor

6. ACCIDENTS
Too excited, distracted, too young, inconsistency, not so smart.
Too large an area to roam - whining and continuous barking.
New smells, new dogs, stress, baby.
New homes.

7. PROBLEMS
Shredding 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


8. A SCHEDULE
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.

9. 10 SINGAPORE CASE STUDIES. 10 cases are selected from over 150 new puppy owners interviewed by Dr Sing. 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.


10. PICTURES OF PUPPY BEHAVIOUR AND TOILET TRAINING EQUIPMENT IN SINGAPORE.

11. INDEX

12. REFERENCES

13. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

22. Outline 2 - Toilet Training Puppies

PUPPY TOILET TRAINING - SINGAPORE


1. Introduction.
2. Development.
3. Behaviour.
4. Equipment.
5. Methods.

6. Toilet Locations.
7. FAQ
8. Success Stories
9. Others. Vaccinations, deworming, coprophagia, nipping, barking
10. Acknowledgements
11. Feedback needed


1. How the research was done
1.1 At Surgery from 2004 - 2006. 400 puppy owners in Singapore.
1.2 Pet shops and breeders
1.3 National Library books, and pet magazines and reference librarians
1.4 E-mails
1.5 Internet
1.6 Travel to Japan, Taiwan, USA.

2. Development

2.1 First 4 months. Individual differences. Nature v Nuture.
2.2 Adolescence.
2.3 Puppy temperament
2.4 Puppy breed type - visual, tracking, lap dog

3. Behaviour

3.0 Alpha, Pack behaviour. Clean den.
3.1 First 7 days at home
3.2 Whining, howling, barking. Noise nuisance to HDB neighbours.
3.3 Free access to apartment/house. Regression.
3.4 Urine smells.
3.5 Stool smells.
3.6 Newspaper smells, carpet, floor, near doors, outside newspapers
3.7 Paper/diaper shredding.
3.8 Clean den. Separate eating/drinking area. No food or drinks after 5 p.m?
3.9 Adolescence at 6 months. Urine marking.
3.10 Feeding, watering and exercise schedule.
3.11 Puppy food up to 1 year old. 1.5 years old for big breeds.

4. Equipment

4.0 Many types in Singapore.
4.1 Playpen with or without door.
4.2 Playpen with pee pan.
4.3 Crate with top and side doors and pee pan
4.4 Crate with door but no pee pan.
4.5 Crate without door + open top and pee pan.
4.6 Pee Pan. Aluminium, others.
4.7 Fences and crate
4.8 Fences and carrier, water bowl, feed bowl.
4.9 Leash. chewable.
4.10 Room. Kitchen, living, bedroom.
4.11 Crate training.
4.12 Repellent, clutter, noisy plastic, electric shocks.
4.13 Newspapers.
4.14 Diapers (Puppy Training Pads).
4.10 Artificial grass.
4.11 Electric mats.
4.12 Electric collars.
4.13 Coin cans. Water Pistols.
4.14 Pieces of rugs.
4.15 Cane.

5. Methods


5.0 Authoritative, Authoritarian, Permissive Owner Training.
5.1 Positive reinforcement training. Intonation. Verbal Cues. Pat, Praise, Reward, Clicker.
5.2 Negative reinforcement training. Smell urine, spank backside, slapped, caned. Fear aggression (vulnerable, alert and impressionable?)
5.3 Positive and negative reinforcement
5.4 Crate Training. Every 3 hours to the toilet. N-1 formula.

5.4 Clicker method
5.5 Performance contract? Food, drink and exercise schedule
5.6 No food and water after 5 p.m.
5.7 Limit food and water 3-4 times per day for 15 minutes.
5.7 Overnight crying to go the toilet (less than 4 months old).
5.8 Fixed schedule, feeding, water and exercise. Brings to toilet every 3 hours for 4-month-old. N-1 formula.
5.9 Multiple dogs and puppies. Separate pee pans. Bigger newspapers areas. Change frequently.

6. Toilet Locations

6.1 Indoors
6.2 Outdoors
6.3 Indoors to Outdoors
6.4 Indoors and Outdoors


7. FAQ

7.0 When to start training?
7.1 Stepping onto stools, peeing onto bed. Peeing outside newspapers.
7.2 Newspaper or diaper shredding
7.3 Dislike commercial urine spray
7.4 Pee outside paper
7.5 Feeling "guilty" when I come home
7.6 Imprisoned
7.7 Sleeping on owner's bed.
7.8 Urine marking. Hypersexed.


8. 9. Applications in real life. Some Success Stories

8.1 Paper trained within 1 week. Yorkshire + Professional Dog Trainer.
8.2 Outdoor for big breeds from 20th floor apartment
8.3 Waiting for treats. Pees a bit
8.4 Living with Illegals. Submissive Urination.
8.5 The hatchet man. Nipping at ladies or mum.
8.6 My father was committing child abuse.
8.7 The boy with the ear stud.
8.8 The boy who fails examinations regularly.
8.9 The army boy who thinks that crating is imprisonment.
8.10 The performance contract without penalties.
8.11 Time Out, Grounding.
8.12 Stars and sweets for Primary 1 and 2.
8.13 Speak Good English Movement. "Pee already" "Poop lah!" "Want to pee or not?" = "Please notify us of your peeing?"

8.14 Living with Illegals. Submissive urination. Excitation urination.
8.15 Who poops and pees most. 2 puppies.
8.16 Nip the problem in the bud.
8.17


9. Others.

9.0 Vaccinations, deworming, socialisation, basic obedience training, professional advices
9.1 Cannot go out till 3rd vaccination
9.2 Loose stools, passing gas, worms seen
9.3 Choked coughing
9.4 Eating stools
9.5 Drinking urine
9.6 Aggression. Food, nipping, tug of war.