How do you train your dog to let you know it needs to go outside to potty?

I have an 11 week old pup, and although she goes potty outside, she does not let me know when she has to go. She occassionally still has accidents inside the house/inside crate (I am crate training her), even though I am consistent. I know she is young, but does anyone have any suggestions for how I can train her to let me know she needs to be let out?

(I live in an apartment, and let her out by leash down a few flights of stairs) Asked by sjk85 26 months ago Similar Questions: train dog potty Recent Questions About: train dog potty Pets > Dogs.

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11 weeks old is too young to expect her to do this. At 11 weeks a dog isn't old enough to learn to do what you want. She can learn to not go to the bathroom in her crate, and not to go to the bathroom inside, but the level of complex thought to learn how to tell you when she needs to go outside is too much.

If she isn't crate trained yet you need to first do that. Housetraining comes in steps, and you can't skip them without getting poor results. Once you have her crate trained you need to control her indoors so that you can pick up on visual cues that she needs to go outside.

A common technique to do this is to attach her to a leash and then the other end to your belt/waist. This will guarantee that any time she is outside the crate she is within sight of you. When she needs to pee there will be a cue, but you need to find out what it is as every dog is different.

Every time you see the cue you need to take her outside so she can go to the bathroom, use positive reenforcement when she does go outside so that she learns that outside is the correct place to go to the bathroom. When she is doing that consistently you can then work on shaping whatever cue she does have into an indication that she needs to go outside. With my last dog, if he needed something he would come and sit right in front of us, and we would then ask what he needed and when we got to what he needed he would cock his head.

He would do this for outside or for food, but he would indicate for different words for each, ie: outside, potty, bathroom, dinner, food, fed. Dentaku's Recommendations The Evans Guide for Housetraining Your Dog Amazon List Price: $17.95 Used from: $0.01 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 9 reviews) I highly recommend you get this book and read it as it should teach you everything you want to know about housetraining a dog correctly. I've used it on the three dogs I've had including my most recent 5 month puppy and it works perfectly provided you do as it says.

If a dog is taken out frequently and is praised when he relives himself outside, he'll eventually want to go out to do his business and will go to the door to alert you. It just takes time. I've crate trained pups in less than two weeks but I never allowed them space other than recommended for health and comfort.

They aren't human -- a den is a safe haven. Even after they are trained, you'll find that they use it as a place to go for privacy. My hub made a crate with a pull out patrician so we could make the pup's space larger as he grew and then finally the whole interior was his private place.

Your crate is probably too big. They should just be able to turn around inside, not have room to make a pile and get away from it. But its probably too late to change that.

If a dog is taken out frequently and is praised when he relives himself outside, he'll eventually want to go out to do his business and will go to the door to alert you. It just takes time. I've crate trained pups in less than two weeks but I never allowed them space other than recommended for health and comfort.

They aren't human -- a den is a safe haven. Even after they are trained, you'll find that they use it as a place to go for privacy. My hub made a crate with a pull out patrician so we could make the pup's space larger as he grew and then finally the whole interior was his private place.

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