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Outline 2005. Dr Sing's Toilet Training book

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 2006 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 2006

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
Breed, mental development (clean slate v. rebellious adolescent) and experience.
Pack behaviour (dominance and submission),
Privacy
Security
Clean den instinct - cleanliness freak, noise nuisance after midnight.
Pee outside the newspapers
Acute sense of smell - vengeful and spiteful
Smell of newspaper
Poop and pee areas may be separate

Bladder control - N-1 formula.
Bowl control - Gastro-coelic reflex
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
Others - foot mat

Playpen
Crate(cage). Various types.
Pee Pan (tray).
Pee Pan + grilled top.
Urine neutralisers.
Carpet neutralisers.
Replellent
Electric shocks mat
Baby gate

4. TOILET TRAINING STRATEGIES
Confine, schedule and neutralise.
Spending time bonding.

Newspapers, training pads, litter tray
Crate, Playpen, Room
Leash
Combination
Time Out

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. 20 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

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Toilet Training Your First Puppy in Singapore


PART I
Introduction. Dr Sing's Be Kind To Pets Community Education.
Children, first-time puppy owners and younger vets.

Chapter 1
What is Toilet-Training?

Chapter 2
The Toilet-Training Equipment. Positioning of the Equipment

PART II
Chapter 3
Training with knowledge. Take 1 week leave.

Chapter 4
Training strategies for first-time puppy owners
Blank slate v. rebellious adolescent
Breed characteristics, experience and development stage.
Positive and negative reinforcement training
Restricted zone
Urine and stool smell

Chapter 5
Communicate clearly. Speak Good English Movement?
Body language of the owner.
Are you the leader of the pack? Nipping, growling, food protection.
Body language of the puppy.
What's in it for me?
Pleaasure - Praises and treats,
Pain - cane, spanking, scruff of the neck
Training sabotaged by children, grandparents, neighbours, domestic workers

What is Crate Training? N-1 formula.
Feeding two times per day
No water after 8 p.m
Not more than 6 hours confinement
Water bottle, special water bowl for Cocker spaniels
Neutralise smell of urine
Mask smell of urine
Clutter space
Noisy plastic sheet
Electric mat?

PART III

2 BASIC METHODS - Paper training, crate training or outdoors?

The Playpen
The Playpen + aluminium Pee Pan
The Crate
The Crate + Pee Pan
The Pee Pan

Leash

Room

Newspapers

Diapers

The bathroom
The shower room
The kitchen
The living room
The bedroom
The outside corridor for big breeds
The balcony

The leash
The Pee Pan
The Pee Pan + Puppy Training Pads.
The The Pee Pan + Grille top.
The Puppy Training Pads (diapers)
The Foot Mat
Newspapers
Combined methods

Plastic sheet to protect the marble floor
The Puppy Potty Training Spray

PART IV
Outdoor
Outdoor and indoor

PART V
Investing in the Equipment.
After buying the Equipment.
Shredding newspapers, diapers.
The puppy potty training spray is ineffective?
The mop
Vinegar: water
Baking powder
Clutter
Repellant
Male dogs showing regression?
Submissive or excitation urination
Eating poop

PART VI
Alternatives strategies
Accidents
Crate training.
Seeking professional help.

PART VII
No water after 6 p.m
No distraction 1 hour after eating
Cleanliness freak?
Two puppies.
A puppy and an older dog.
Diarrhoea within 2 days of purchase
Coughing within 2 days of purchase
Older dog

PART VIII
Success stories
High rise and large breeds
Pee pan training success
Newspaper training success
Crate training success

The single girl took 1 week's leave
Sleeping next to the confined puppy for 7-14 days

Failure stories.
Rug still attractive to the puppy.
Two cases involving the professional puppy trainer
The HDB and the AVA

The proactive role of the pet shop puppy seller/breeder
48-hour guarantee
The Chihuahua, mini-Maltese and Yorkshire Terrier

Teaching young children ( years 8-14) and youths (years 15-35) responsible pet ownership.
Parents - what can you do? Role model
Teachers & Principals - what can you do?
The Foreign Domestic Worker - educated - what can you do?


PART IX
Glossary
Acknowlegements & References
Resources for the Singapore puppy owner.
Index
About Sinpets
About The Author


Foreign Domestic Workers - www.mom.gov.sg/Legislation
www.twc2.org.sg Transient Workers Count Too
H.O.M.E Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics
www.youth.sg

www.ava.gov.sg
"Under the Animals and Birds (Dog Licensing and Control) Rules, all dogs above 3 months of age must be licensed for rabies control." - Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore