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.