Puppies are very good at telling us things and that is what we need to notice in order to train. Two decisions you will need to make before embarking on house training or housebreaking are location and words to use.
Most choose a location outside, but it could be indoors on puppy pads or even a dog litter box which is useful for those who live in apartments or condos and do not have immediate access to the outdoors. Puppy pads can be a lifesaver for some Shih Tzu dogs think they may melt if they go outside in the rain.
Some even hate the idea of going out when it is really cold, snowing, and especially during thunderstorms or in freezing rain. If you want him to eliminate in a particular part of the yard, always take him to that location. Stay with him and praise him when he goes. Whichever location you choose, it is important to be consistent.
Secondly, it is important with any training to have words to use that the puppy will understand. Decide ahead of time what that word will be. Remember you will be using this word or phrase in public, so make sure what you decide to say will be comfortable to you. How do you tell? All dogs have body language that can be observed by their humans. A puppy that needs to urinate or defecate will begin to sniff the floor and walk or run in small circles, whine or begin to squat.
Any of these signals indicate the puppy is ready to go and should be taken to the designated area. Scheduling and consistency is very important in potty training your new pup. Young puppies will naturally need to eliminate after certain events:. Arrange your schedule so that you will have time to train your pup. Plan on at least a weekend of nonstop house training!
Regular feeding schedules help speed up the process of house training. While it is convenient to provide food all of the time, regular meal times are preferable for putting the puppy on a regular elimination schedule.
Water should be available for dogs at all times, except during the night. At first when you house train a Shih Tzu, you might discover that nighttime can be problematic because many small puppies cannot sleep through the night without the need to go. This means getting up in the middle of the night to take your puppy out. You might be able to restrict this behavior to some extent by feeding late in the afternoon or early evening and taking your puppy out several times before bedtime.
Some equate the acquisition of a new puppy to that of a newborn and there is much truth to this. If getting up in the middle of the night does not appeal to you, then you must make an acceptable place where the puppy can use to eliminate. This usually means confining the puppy to a small area using an exercise pen or x-pen and place wee-wee pads where you want him to eliminate.
Many people use crates to train their puppies. A crate is a type of enclosure with four sides, a top and a floor. Most crates have one or two doors that can be used by your puppy to enter or leave. There are many uses of crates. Most puppies feel very secure in their crate and will go in it whenever they want to sleep or get away from the normal commotion of a busy household. For the purposes of this article, we will assume that you have already introduced your puppy to its crate and they feel secure in going in and out of it.
Please check out the tips below if you are having difficulty getting your puppy to go to his crate. The notion about using crates as house training tools lies in the fact that instinctively dogs do not want to soil their den or nest.
This goes back long before the first dog was domesticated. Crate training is very popular and an effective method of house training. The puppy will not want to mess where he sleeps so he will learn to wait until he is released from the crate. Naturally you will not want to confine your puppy to its crate for extended periods of time.
Remember a young puppy cannot go much beyond 2 hours during the day before they need to eliminate. They can however go longer at night while asleep. This makes sense. Think about the average person. We may use the bathroom several times during the day, but sleep all night without getting up to visit the restroom. If the crate is large enough for the puppy to stand up, turn around, stretch out and lie down, it is of sufficient size and the puppy is not likely to mess in it provided it does not have to remain in it for extended periods of time.
To house train a Shih Tzu, you are going to need to restrict the area where puppy is allowed to go. Small rooms with toddler gates work well when you are not directly interacting with your puppy. A small exercise pen can be used or you may prefer to block off a small room such as a laundry room or bathroom. You can furnish your puppy's area with a bed, potty pads, toys and dishes for water and food.
Any time you can not supervise the puppy, he should be placed in this form of enclosure where he will have access to everything he needs and within close proximity to potty pads should he need them. Alternately, some prefer to use the tether or umbilical method to keep the puppy under observation.
This involves attaching one end of a leash to the puppy and the other to you, either to your belt or your wrist. You have the puppy with you at all times, so it is easy to tell if the puppy needs to eliminate. When you puppy starts to whimper, whine or show signs of needing to eliminate, you immediately take him outside and then praise him either with a food treat, a toy or your attention.
This can happen with either neutered or intact dogs. Does this describe what is happening with your shih tzu? It may take a little longer to learn the new rules, but if you are persistent with the training your shih tzu will get into the habit of going to the toilet outdoors only eventually.
With territorial marking, the pee is usually only discharged a few drops at a time rather than in puddles.
This is commonly done again and again in one or more noticeable areas, usually on vertical surfaces, often the legs or sides of furniture, lamp standards, and floor-length drapes. Although marking is mostly the work of intact dogs, there are cases of it happening with neutered or spayed dogs.
What mostly causes a dog to start a campaign of marking is the need he feels to claim his territory because of an insecurity issue of some sort. Often this insecurity is initiated by a new addition to the house such as a baby, a new dog or other pet, or even some new furniture or appliance.
To be totally successful with completely removing the territorial marking issue from inside your house, you need to follow all of the following ten actions and guidelines. Instead, try to distract him by calling him, or by making a noise such as clapping your hands together or squeezing an empty plastic bottle. Choose one easily accessible area outside of your house that you can assign to your shih tzu for his potty needs.
Ideally, this area should be somewhere you can bring him whatever the weather brings you. In addition to this, other visits will have to be made depending upon the age of the dog.
This varies from every hour for a very young pup, up to every four hours for an adult. Each time he pees or poops within the designated area, reward him with one of his extra special treats. It will prove very difficult to end indoor peeing if you allow your shih tzu freedom of movement throughout the house. For this period of retraining, your shih tzu should be given his own little space and largely kept within it, especially at times when he is left unattended.
For this purpose, a dog crate or pet playpen is the ideal solution, though you can improvise by re-arranging the furniture. Whichever option you choose, it should be situated in your main living space so that the dog has as much company to interact with as possible. At times when you are present, you can let your shih tzu out of his area under your supervision and on a leash.
At the first sign that he may want to go to the toilet, you must rush him to the outside designated area. Over time and as the training becomes effective, you can let him out more and more often. At all times that your shih tzu is left unattended, and this includes bedtime, he must be confined to his restricted area.
This will not only help end the peeing inside the house problem but will also help with any separation anxiety issues that your shih tzu may have. Click here to see my no. For the restricted area to work, it needs to be set up in a certain way. First of all, the size of the area. If you are crate training a puppy from scratch , the crate should be just big enough for the puppy to stand up and turn around inside.
However, for this training, the area should be just big enough to fit in four shih tzus arranged in a 2 x 2 formation. For the average shih tzu 3-feet 1m square is most suitable. Click to view an example of an appropriately sized pet playpen. The inside of the area will need to be arranged in a certain way to ensure that if your shih tzu needs to go to the toilet while you are out or asleep, that he goes in the right place.
As this is where he will be sleeping, make it as comfortable as possible. Follow this link to see a good sized comfortable bed for the playpen. Make sure the water bowl is topped up with clean water at all times but especially last thing at night and when you are going out leaving your shih tzu behind.
If you are going to be out for a long time, consider using a treat-dispensing toy to make the food supply last longer and to keep your shih tzu occupied.
Click here to view an example of each. I recommend that this selection includes one or two interactive toys and one comfort toy, all to help avert boredom and anxiety. Follow this link for suggestions for some toys that will keep your shih tzu amused and content in the pen. That leaves one vacant corner opposite the bed. Most dogs will not urinate on, or defecate on their own possessions, so the vacant corner should become their toilet area of choice.
For hygiene purposes, I recommend using puppy training pads placed in a puppy litter tray to help reduce the chances of the pad being destroyed in play. Do not put sand or absorbent granules in the tray, just the puppy pads. Click here to view a dog litter tray that will fit in the pen, plus some puppy pads that will fit in the litter tray.
I stay up til 11 to put her out. She whines and barks until we get up!! We are so tired after we let her out and back in, we are wide awake and can't go back to sleep. She was just at the vet last month and no problem. Sleepless in IA!! I need help with my mantle and tv area. I hate it! I need my bathroom updated it is the original 70's bathroom I hate it. I hate the way my tile guys laid my brick shocker I know. Could be a UTI. The vet visit last month would have no bearing if this is the case.
I've also had dogs with upset stomach and they want to go out to eat grass in the middle of the night. And UTI's can develop from one day to the next. I've had my gorgeous "Princess" for 5 and a half years now. I felt everyone's pain with potty training her for the first 2 years. I believe the pee pads confused her. She was never one to chew on things and be mischievous. I guess I got Lucky - Lol! She is the perfect companion as she follows me from room to room. She's a lap dog and sleeps with me as well.
It's always when they reach out to pet her, because she looks like a toy. She knows she's done wrong too, because she immediately cowers. I've now had to resort to leaving her in our bedroom with the door closed when company comes over. An adult biting dog has gradually reached the status of pack leader as the owner was never the master and the problem did not develop overnight. At this stage, dogs are dangerous and a liability suit waiting to happen. I suggest that you consult a qualified obedience instructor or dog behaviorist for immediate intervention as there's little margin for error at this point.
Startin immediately, and stop smacking your dog in the nose. Smacking their nose will make them more prone to bite approaching hands. Children have a tendency to crowd little dogs, like you said they look like a toy, but for a little dog it can be very intimidating, especially when there is more than one child. You need to be a supervisor and not allow this to happen.
By now she is likely reacting to this learned panic she feels when someone tries to touch her. I would not allow children to pat her, full stop, she has likely learned to distrust them and it's just not good for her or the children. Smacking her or punishing her for reacting out of fear will not achieve anything, she is doing what any dog will do when it feels scared or intimidated.
The only way she will get over this is by introducing her to people adults in a non threatening way so that she overcomes her fear. By smacking her you are just reinforcing even more that when people come over it is a negative experience, first they try to touch her which scares her, when she reacts you smack her and she cowers.
All you are doing is more damage to her confidence when she is around your visitors. Please stop smacking her, she must be so confused why she is being hit and scolded when all she is doing is trying in her mind to defend herself. I do own a shih tzu male breed too. He is 3 yo. I got him 4weeks before but he's not quite well listening to my instructions.
Apparently he's making my house as a mess with peeing and using toilet wherever he wants. I do reward him many times still he's not obeying. Running over and here, sometimes, do ran over outside of my house too. How do i make him listen? Dogs typically do not eliminate in their crate. Even though you've had him for 4 weeks, it's not too late to start.
Take him out every hours for bathroom breaks. He needs to "earn" all his rewards eating, playing, walking so have him "sit" before he gets them. Since he's established himself as the leader of his "pack" , this will take time and LOTS of patient effort. I have a 5 year old Shih Tzu and I just got a Dachshund pup. I got her at 8 wks old, she is now 5 months old. The 5 year old is just vicious towards the pup.
How long does it take for them to get a long? Going by my cats, it is asking how long is a piece of string. Beata cat still hates Jacob after a year As long as no blood is shed.. Dont know if crate training will do any good now!! Unless you let him go live somewhr else to start the crate training starting from scratch new house new owners!! Well your first mistake was getting a shih tzu. Their brains are the size of a grape. Bladders too honestly. My mother in law had four at one point!
Worthless little ankle bitters, constantly peeing and pooping where ever they feel like it. We give them human attributes like "stubbornness" to explain their behavior but the reality is decades of breeding for small and cute has taken the already under developed brain of a dog and shrunken it down by at least half, maybe more.
What did we expect to happen? We have a three year old male who was not hard to train! We have him crossed trained to pads and outside, too!
I read this could confuse him but he was paper trained when we got him at 9 weeks. The pad training is wonderful when the weather is bad!
He is also walked twice a day for around 2 miles total! The main thing is to be consistent and you have to be the Alpha dog! Good luck! I have had her ever since she was 10 weeks old.
Another friend gave me her thorough bred Shih Tzu also a female - not spayed, who was almost a year old when I got her, and barely weighs 3.
They constantly pee and poop where ever they please. I am blessed to have a job where I work from my home, but I do have to go out on appointments, sometimes once a day, sometimes all day.
If I am gone, I leave them in the mud room where their crates are as well as comfortable sleeping mats. The room is comfortable, warm in the winter, cool in the summer. They have food and water when I am out all day. I don't mind them using the tile floor, if they are there all day.
I can clean that up quickly. They actually do not potty when I am gone, so I know they can hold it. I have tried scolding them, and putting them in "time out" when I actually catch them using my house as their personal bathroom, tried getting down on their level and being the "mom dog" I read somewhere that this works - NOT.
I have had all kinds of tests ran, blood work, full physical examinations, including x-rays and scans they have become extremely expensive by several veterinarians - NOTHING has been found wrong with either of them.
I have tried child gates, tried being "the alpha female", tried keeping them on a very long leash while with me in my "office", tried keeping them around me and watching them, but they manage to sneak into the living room and pee and poop on my very expensive Persian rug.
Other times, they "tag team" and one will pee in one room while the other pees in another room. These are not "seldom used rooms". These rooms are used all the time, so it is not a matter of going to a room where no one goes.
My house is beginning to smell of dog urine. I have used so much Urine Remover and top of the line urine deodorizers that My house should smell some what normal. I have had a dog trainer - who actually raises Shih Tzu's and Yorkies -, who said she had never had such difficult dogs to train, and gave my money back.
My husband has left and moved to another home that we have, since he cant tolerate the dog's behavior and the smell, I cant tolerate it either. All of my carpets will have to be replaced and the hardwood floors are going to be impossible to sand down enough to remove the stains. I have had dogs, cats, and many other kinds of critters all of my life, most have all been larger dogs, but were easy to train.
I am a major animal lover, but this has been the most horrible experience ever. I have had a pet Opossum who was badly injured when I found him , a pet Raccoon also severely injured as a very small baby , squirrels, and at one time even a monkey someone gave to me about 30 years ago.
All of the wild critters were rehabbed, and released back to their natural habitat. I am located right next to a acre walking trail with deep woods and several small creeks. None of those animals, even the wild ones were this much trouble. I have had it, and am totally over these dogs and am ready to get rid of them. They are impossible to train.
They are lovable, but I am becoming extremely resentful of both of them and want them out of my house. My children, both older teenagers, have moved in with their dad because they are fed up with these dogs peeing and pooping in their rooms.
I will not resort to putting them down. I have tried giving them to friends who I know would love them and take good care of them, but they have seen how these dogs are, and want no part of them. The full blood Shih Tzu will come in, after being outside for almost an hour, will pee outside, but come in, squat right in front of me, and run like hell to hide where I cant get her. I know she is doing it out of spite. After coming in after pottying, she will literally jump on my lap, get down, sit down right beside me and pee - then run, She is extremely intelligent, both are very intelligent pups She hates to go out, will sit down, toss her head like a petulant teenage girl, like "talk to the paw", but eventually she will pee.
I have crated her, that makes her worse. They seriously act like two out of control 2 year olds. I'm having thoughts of just checking into a hotel, and leaving my "Birthday gift" 6 week old Shihtzu I'm losing my mind with my shihtzu.
She is a bitter. My arms look like hamburger. Totally not able to wear short sleeves in degree weather. Anyone know where I can sell her or where to find d a trainer with Kevlar or chain mail outerwear? I have found that little Shihtzu puppies like to chew mostly due to their underbite. Does your baby have soft toys to chew on?
A friend of mine actually bought a paci for her pup, and it worked great. Also, correct her when she is bitting you - gently tap the top of her muzzle and a strong NO! She is establishing her boundaries and also this is a sign of trust.
She is bonding with you and trusts you, but, like babies, they dont have an understanding that bitting skin hurts. Both of mine have finally settled down and I am not having the messes in the house as much. I, like you, was at my wits end. I have also found that Shihtzus are very bad about throwing up a lot. I talked to my vet and was told that since their stomach is only about the size of their paw, they pass food through very quickly, then actually throw up bile because the tummy is empty.
I have been making sure that mine always have some type of food available and before bedtime, actually give a small portion of Tums Smoothies - which keeps the stomach acid and bile at bay. Preventing acid reflux is actually what it does. Please feel free to correspond as you want. It always helps to have someone to talk to. From threads that I have read, it seems that the male puppies are easier to train than the females. The females tend to "rule the roost" and are very independent.
As silly as it sounds, my vet told me that sometimes the dogs do not see their "parents" as being alpha, so he actually got in her face and let out a low growl, and she backed up and laid down. So, I have been trying that when I see one of them about to go in the house - after just coming in from outside, and it works. They both see me as alpha female now. Things are much better. My family thinks I'm ready for a longed sleeved white coat.
We just adopted a 3year old shih Tzu we put him in the crate when we leave max 2 hours when we go out. He is good dog we tell him to go to the crate bec we are going out he will go straight inside but starts growling if we closes his crate and wont stop growling not until we leave the room.
We have a routine for him on weekdays and diff on weekends. Just today we my shih tzu and I were sitting in the front porch this afternoon he started acting weird he started playing with a rock so thats just fine with me but when its about to go in he doesnt want i have to hide the rock so he went in but he stayed behind the door with a sad face.
He forgot the words- come eat play dance drink sit treat and etc. So I put him in the crate bec I have to pick up my daughter when we came back he was fine and following all the commands and even plays with us again. Anybody knows whats with shih tzu and a rock? HU He's a SZ and they love toys and play things, he was upset since you took his new toy away.
I'm pretty wise when it comes to training dogs, I too own a 3 year old Tzu. All the comments that have ben given you, about their dogs, is not helping you with your problem. When you come back, open his crate, praise him and another treat. You don't want to make the crate a punishment, but I think , in time, he will be happy that he's pleasing you. Oh my goodness.
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