How many accidents do you expect?

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When you have a fresh new puppy, say 9-12 weeks sort of age, how many accidents would you expect your puppy to have?

In week one we had 2 accidents.
So far in week two (we are on day two) we have had 1 accident.

Now I swear all my previous puppies have made a lot more mistakes. I like to think this is because I have become better at seeing the signs, knowing when to take them out etc, but perhaps this is just a particularly good puppy?

So please let me hear your toilet training highs and lows. Any puppies you have had that have absolutely aced it. Any that have driven you to despair?
 
Our current 2 yr old Labs were just about the easiest we have ever had tohousetrain. They were 8 weeks old when we brought them home, born in June, they had been able to play out in the garden with mum, their older sister and another adult dog, who had almost house-trained them before we bought them.
The worst were a pair of JRT's farm-bred, winter pups born inthe kitchen with no access to outside, who were a complete nightmare and never fully reliable all their lives.
 
First 2 took forever, until my parents in law dogs at early on and confined them to the hallway for 2 days. Perfect after that. 2nd were easy, summer puppies, door was never closed. These 2 were tricky the first few weeks, but owner error, mostly, not taking them out often enough, plus there's 2 of them, double trouble!
 
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God, you lot do go on.
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Sooo cute! Your dog looks so pleased with the new addition :D

No experience with the puppy phase myself though so can't comment on the toilet training. Ivy had a few accidents while she was settling in and these were our error not hers, she worked out how to 'ask' to go out quite quickly.

There was also the time she did the biggest poo of her life on OH's parents' very expensive silk rug. They took it in good humour and still think Ivy is the perfect dog that can do no wrong. I was mortified!
 
The last puppy I had had 2 accidents in his first year. He was and still is a really easy going super clean dog. The previous one was an absolute nightmare but I didnt get him till he was 12 weeks and he'd been passed about a lot so that didnt help at all.
 
Fizz had no accidents as a baby but regressed as a 6 - 18 months old with either protest poos or peeing on my kitchen floor with her front feet outside in the heavy rain ?

Dobby had 3 in his first month at home but 2 of those were as a result of the wormer flushing out his worm burden as opposed to him having an accident.
 
Well puppy is welcome to come and wee in my house - soooo cute with the wrinkley face. How nice that he is so easy
I never ever had problems with any of ours until the latest one. She took me 9 months and had an "accident" every day. Luckily we adore her anyway and she is 99% reliable now thank goodness. She is 2 and a bit and I don't think she will ever be 100% as she just doesn't seem to have a sense of "shame" even as an adult dog. She just looks at us and wags her tail hopefully. All my other dogs have been so simple and reliable! She is just a bit of a character and we just accept it. Send your pup over - she would love him!
 
What a gorgeous pup! Obviously your success with toilet training is because you were wise enough to get a brindle whippet! (I may be slightly biased!). Our current dog (a brindle whippet bitch) only had three wee sprinkles in the house in the first two weeks we had her and none at all after that. She never had poo accidents in the house as a pup, although there has been a couple of occasions when she was older when she had an upset tum and messed overnight. (Even then she cried to go out but I just didn't get downstairs fast enough).

I was very disciplined in my approach to toilet training in the first few weeks though. I watched her like a hawk most of the time and if I couldn't give her my full attention for some reason I would pop her in her crate.
 
Beautiful pup!

My two smaller dogs were difficult to toilet train and it took them a good few months to get the hang of it, although accidents did lessen. I think it was around 8-9 months before we knew accidents were a thing of the past.
My big dog, who we got at 16 weeks, was fully toilet trained and never once had any accidents in the house.
 
Willow was 8 weeks and never had an accident in the house mind you she was a summer pup and she slept beside me I am a light sleeper so heard her if she moved she was in a crate or next to me almost 24 hours until she was 12 weeks by then the job was done
 
I have had one puppy that never once soiled in the house, not even at 8 weeks on her first night home. She was, however, otherwise completely mad. My present 7 year old has an entirely cavalier attitude to widdling wherever she pleases, and she is a delightful person in every other way.
 
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