MrNiceGuy
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Sep 2, 2003, 5:59 PM
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First of all, I'm a newbies when comes to dog training, so I need some advice from all the experts/sifu over here about potty training.
I've just adopted a b!tch, 7-8 mths old, a Finnish Spitz mixed breed and I have a hard time to train her to go to toilet for pee and poo. She will pee and poo everywhere. I bought the repellent kit, after i clean her poo/pee i will spray some repellent liquid on that place but still she will pee and poo everywhere  even on the place where i sprayed the repellent. Please advice.
By the way, I did search and check out some previous thread and posting regarding potty training and I found that one of the training is soaking a towel with puppies urine and placing the towel into desired area. I did the same but instead of towel, i used tissue paper. But it won't work for me, may i know is there any other way that i can try?
Actually i started to train her when I got her home at the first day. What i will do is that everytime when I notice that she is sniffing around, i know that she's looking for place to pee/poo, i will shout at her "NO" and say " go to TOILET!".Sometimes it's too late, she'll just pee/poo at that place, i will then shout at her again "NO" and use some rolled up newpaper to make a loud sound (hit on my own hand) to scare her, then I will shout at her "Go to TOILET!". But this method doesn't seem to work for me, sometimes when I shouted at her to go to toilet, she will go to toilet and sit or lie inside the toilet but just don't wanna pee/poo. Sometimes i will just close the door of the toilet and let her stay alone inside the toilet, but I feel it's cruel to do that so normally i won't let her stay alone inside the toilet for more than 5 mins. The purpose to put her alone inside the toilet is to teach her that, that's the correct place to pee/poo, but won't work.Sometimes I will just carry her to the toilet after she pee/poo and shout "go to TOILET" and then carry/show her way to the toilet.
But the above method just won't work for me,she still pee/poo everywhere. May i know what have I done wrong? Is this the correct method?
Most of the time, I'm dilemma to shout or not to shout at her because I afraid, she'll be scare when i shouted at her and she will hold on her poo/pee (scare that I will beat her) and i think it's not good for her to hold on her pee/poo for a long time right? .SIGH. Please help me on this.
Everytime when I try to carry her, she give me a facial expression that so scare that I will harm her.
Thanks a million in advance.
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-Brownie- Mongrel (Mixed Finnish Spitz)
-Baby- Mongrel (Mixed Shih Tzu)
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... From your posting - it appears that the doggie is starting to get frightened ... And try not to close the door of toilet - locking pup alone will only make pup frightened of the toilet and make matters worse ... and even if she pees or poops - you are not there to see, praise & reward. 
