Help with night training

[FredK9]

Hi everyone!

 

We have a new puppy since three days ago and she’s 7 weeks old. 

 

We have started potty training outside and she is doing so well with very little mistakes inside the house. 

 

We have also a play den with kennel and litter box with turf inside our bedroom. 

 

She sleeps there at night and we take her out every our which has been very challenging but she doesn’t seems to want to use the toilet inside the play den but only want to go outside. 

 

Is there a way of let her use her turf toilet inside the den at night so we don’t need to wake up all the times or what we’re currently doing is the best way?

 

Thanks!!

 

[Tassie]

Sounds like you are  doing a good job with the training.  The basic rule with a young puppy is take them outside after they wake up, after they've eaten, after they've been playing .. and don't leave them unsupervised in anything except their play pen, where you'd have newspapers ..and maybe pee pads or fake grass.   Pups have preferences for what they like under their feet when they toilet.

You should know that 7 weeks is actually a bit too young for a puppy to go to its new home.  The law in most states requires the pup not to go to the new home till 8 weeks ..and it's often later in small breeds.  One of the reasons for this is that the pup is usually not vaccinated or microchipped until 6 weeks, and then a 2 week period is advised for the vaccine to achieve the maximum effect it can give puppy at that age, before the pup is allowed to go to the new home.   Even then,  although the pup can and should be taken out to experience the world safely, in the owner's car, or arms, or in the homes of friends with fully vaccinated pups, it's safer not to allow the puppy to put its feet on the ground in areas where diseases , particularly parvovirus, may be present.

It would probably be wise for you to check the pup's vaccination and worming status .. making sure the breeder was keeping up with all those requirements. .. and you should also have the microchip papers .. so make sure the microchip is registered in your name and with a couple of valid phone numbers just in case.

I really wouldn't be waking the pup to take her out in the night, but it's lovely that you have her sleeping in your bedroom, so that you will hear her stir or cry if she wakes up .. which might at that young age be once or twice a night.  Just quietly take her out to where she likes to toilet - some prefer grass, then quiet praise, and bring her quietly inside, and pop her back in her kennel, with a little treat.  Oh and of course take her out to toilet just before she goes to bed.

Don't know what breed your pup is, but as a guide, by 9 weeks, my Border Collies were only waking to toilet once a night .. and by 10 weeks they would sleep through 8 or more hours.

 

Hope that helps … and please tell us more about your pup .. and we like to see photos.

[Rebanne]

Yes, no need to get up hourly overnight. But I would take her out at least twice at such a young age. If need be set an alarm so you get her out there before she stirs and pee's. But usually it doesn't take long to be only once a night then sleeping the night through. Pups are much easier then children! As Tassie says above make sure pup is wormed, vaccinated and microchipped.  And we like to see photo's