What age do puppies generally become housetrained

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The posting header says it all! I have a 14 week old Rottie puppy who is very lazy on the toilet habits! Even after walking for about 30mins he will come in and pee/poo on the paper.

He was getting very good at one point, doing his business on the newspaper but now is getting lazy and weeing not on the paper but to the side of it and pooing the other side of his room.

I am correcting him and putting him outside and doing the normal things but he still is just not getting it.

Any ideas?
 
Crikey how long is a piece of string. Having had a few different breeds over the years I have found collies to be the quickest, especially bitches, one surpassed herself and became totally housetrained at 11 weeks!!
 
Do they just generally "get it" and realise that they should be doing "toilets" outside?

Whats been the longest someone's puppy has taken.

My male JRT was totally housetrained by 12weeks.
 
Agree, Spaniel. We have a collie x lurcher bitch and got her as a 7 week old puppy. In the first couple of weeks she urinated in the house once and messed her crate a couple of times when she had a bad tummy, but since then we have not had one single accident in the house (she is now 2 years old). She learnt very quickly to ask at the back door to go out.
 
I would be tempted to only leave paper down when you are not there to supervise his toilet training. Take him outside and stay with him until he does something, then when he is performing use a phrase or word, such as 'be clean'. Then of course make a huge fuss of him, as if he has just climbed Everest rather than done a wee. He will gradually associate the phrase with the action, and it is easier for you to tell him what he is outside for. As for how long, our JRT took about 6 months...
 
It can vary so much between breed of dog, sex of dog and how persistent and consistent you are at training!
Personally I don't paper train pups, I immediately get them used to going outside. When I leave them alone I crate them with a training pad. I then put the soiled pad outside and encourage pup to use that with tonnes of gentle praising and food reward. My springer was excellent and mastered daytime toilet training by about 16 weeks old. It can take 6-9mths to master dryness overnight as it takes a while for bladder control to build up.
 
I also have a Rottie pup who is now 9 weeks old and he is very nearly housetrained now!! He still has the odd little accident but most times asks to go out and happily does his stuff. Our last Rottie took ages to train so I think it depends on the individual dog. It helps that I am at home all day so can shove him out every half hour or so. Just keep on doing what you are doing and buy lots of kitchen roll!!
 
Hi Lightning
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Agree wholeheartedly with Sooty. Crate training is certainly the way forward when it comes to housetraining and general all-round training with dogs.

Sounds like you are doing everything that could be recommended, just keep on re-inforcing the good behaviour with plenty of praise, stay consistent, the secret is pretty much akin to toilet-training a child - have the patience of a saint, remember they are quite predictable - eat, sleep and play, with the toilet habits somewhere inbetween.

First thing in morning, outside, 10 minutes after waking up during the day and after feeding, outside - and wait with him for a good 10mins plenty of praise after each little present produced.

As with some children, it takes time for maturity to kick in with bladder control, it will happen but to put a time-frame to it is impossible. Some clients find by 12 weeks everything is fine whilst others find the o/night bladder control not really established until 5 months+.

Good luck
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And remember praise the good, ignore the bad.

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Some of ours are weeks, some months and the poxy terriers all took a until a year to be 100%, although to be fair to Mouse when I took her back at 9months of age she'd had no more housetraining than when I sold her at 6 weeks >:( so we allowed her longer any way.
 
I've bred a few litters over the years and all the puppies I have sold at 8 weeks were completely housetrained (to the amazement of their new owners). They would come out of the puppy run at 4/5 weeks and have the run of the kitchen and dining room with the others. However, you do have to be very diligent and put them out after every meal and whenever they start purposefully sniffing round in circles but I have always found that you can housetrain in 2/3 days if you make the effort. Having the others helped as they followed them too.
 
My JRT was housetrained in a week (12weeks old) and he lived upstairs (in a student house) and had to jump down all the steps on his teeny legs to go out the cat flap into the garden!!
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Our boxer on the other hand took ages!! Although she was crate trained, had access into the garden etc. Had pretty much got it sorted by 5 months but still got the occational present until she was 8+ months..... and she would also get so excited whilst playing she would wee whilst running around (lovely on carpets...). She really isn't the brightest doh (but is very very pretty)
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Think it depends hugely on the individual dog.
 
It really does depends on the dog. Our first dog was 6 months old and not house trained when we got him and it took about 4 months, but he had been mistreated and his issues with people. Our black lab was 10 weeks when we got him and he only did one wee on the carpet and never did a poo inside the house. I think having an older dog to copy helped and we had perfected our training technique as the first one was tricky.
 
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