Housetraining - help please!

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My two jacks are doing really well - they are almost fully paper trained now and the only accidents they have are my fault!

Now I need them to stop going in the house - and start waiting to go out the garden.

Can anyone help me with this? We have always used positive methods to teach them to poo/pee where appropriate - but how now do I STOP them doing it in the house completely and get them to go outside exclusively?

Any help appreciated!!!
 
Sorry to be a pain, but paper training makes it a bit more difficult as they have to un-learn the paper and many will hold it in when they are outside waiting to come back in where the paper is.

Try placing the paper outside and if you are lucky that might work. If it doesn't you have to teach them from the beginning, i.e. pick them up and take them out when they wake up, after food or drink, after play and at least once an hour. That way you will (almost) never have accidents and they will only get it right, which will allow you to praise and treat them.
 
I have never used paper training, all my puppies have been taken outside every time they woke up, every time they have eaten, everytime they had a drink and anytime they looked a bit restless. Yes there was accidents but all the pups were housetrained within a few months.
Obviously at night there was accidents but it wasn't long until they managed to hold all night.
I agree maybe take the paper outside although I do think paper training must confuse them.
 
Hi both - I have never paper trained a dog before either, but I have had to train them this way as my garden is shared and I can't always put them out there as I please.
They always go out when they wake, when I get home from work and after food - very often they DO do their business outside - but I agree I have confused them with letting them think inside is Ok too!
Back to basics it is then (lucky they are clever because Id be stuck otherwise!!)
 
I never use paper training either, it just makes it more difficult. I would just tell them off when they go indoors and when you let them out, give them loads of fuss and maybe treats when they go outside. Thats how we tought our three.

ETA: We also do what the people above have said. Whenever we think the puppies are looking restless (I.e walking in circles/sniffing), in the morning they go straight out, in the evenings before they go to sleep, after they have had naps, after they have eaten/had a drink or played, the puppies were taken staight out and praised when they did something.
 
A crate is brilliant for night training (and very useful in other ways). Puppies will rarely soil where they sleep, so as long as you have the patience to get up and take them out every time they cry, they can stay clean all night. By about four months they should be managing about six hours without needing toilet overnight, which is not bad!
 
But I do know someone who did the paper training bit inside and then slowly lured them outside with it until they only used one area of the garden to poop. Great for clearing up!
 
I have never used the paper training method but know people who did with their weirnamer (sp) and poor thing was so confused by the end of it that if he was left in the house on his own in the living room and he needed to go, if there was a newspaper there he went on it.

I use the method of putting out every hour, lots of praise when they go, out before bed and first thing in the morning and after eating or drinking or when they look restless, sniffing around etc.

I may also get shot down for this as it's a very old fashioned method but I have put dogs noses in the mess they have made. Not so that it is touching just that it is close along with a firm no. If they are not cottoning on from the first technique, I will resort to this and find it very effective but as I said, I use the first method andhope it works!
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