new girl on the block

[maggiesmum]

Hello All, wet and windy greetings from the miserable UK !

I have a 4 month old Cavelier King Charles Spaniel puppy and her name is Maggie. Like me, my children are getting the oppertunity to grow up with a dog in the household. I had a king charles called Snoopy when I was growing up and I love seeing my kids play with maggie. it makes all the wee and poop seem worth while. well sometimes anyway.

I'm here now, begging for any advice on toilet training her, she's very good at night and only leaves a small puddle for me to see to when i wake up, but, she's still weeing and pooing in the living room during the day. I let her outside every half hour and i think she goes, but she still insists on leaving me presents. The trouble is, this is quite a pain because I have young children. So the easiest option is to keep her in the kitchen, but thats not fair, because the kids so love to play with her.

If anyone has any handy hints about stopping her from leaving me these little presents, i would much appreciate it. My parents dealt with snoopy when I was younger, so this is all quite new to me, and a lot harder than I was expecting.

Thankyou, and hello to everyone here.

Naimi xx

[JRT_Rattie_Mom]

Hello All, wet and windy greetings from the miserable UK !



Welcome Naimi & Maggie!

I had never seen a Cavelier King Charles Spaniel until this summer, but got the chance to meet 2 of them this past summer at our local off-leash dog park... and such great dogs!

My first thought on your potty training problem is that you mentioned the wet, windy... miserable weather! You might very well have a "fair weather" potty girl! :rolleyes: Our Holly (that we adopted from a rescue at 3 1/2 months, and is definitely a fair weather potty gal!)

If you are taking Maggie out every 1/2 hour, she shouldn't need to be leaving "presents" for you inside! Are you going outside "with" Maggie, and watching to make sure she goes potty (and then make a HUGE deal out of it when she does.. using very HAPPY words and voice tone.. and even a food treat reward while she is still learning?) With our "fair weather" potty girl she would go out in the rain/cold shaking and picking her legs up like the wet grass was more like burning hot fire! I soon learned that she was NOT going to even go outside.. let alone go potty, unless I went with her... and waited for her to go! Lucky for me she did learn very quickly to do a "potty on command" so she could get back in the warm house fast... and get her treats & praises.

Using words like "let's go potty outside" when you go out lets her know she has a "job" to do, and you're not just going out there to play! Holly has had very few accidents in the house, but when she did, she was there to watch me clean them up (since the dogs follow me like glue anywhere I am!) and I would tell her "Holly forgot to go potty OUTSIDE" and I would take her out again after "we" cleaned up her accident. There are also certain times they are more likely to need to go. Always offer to go out with her after sleeping, soon after eating... and after a big play session.

I hope some of this will help you with Maggie!

[Renee750il]

That was excellent advice from Karen. Maggie probably needs to know that you don't like her presents, so I'll suggest you do something that another member came up with: scold the presents. Really give it to those nasty little presents so that Maggie gets the idea they're not welcome.

Let us know how things progress. We'll be pulling for you!

[milo]

HI YA AND WELCOME TO THE SITE!!!!!HOPE YOU ENJOY TALKING TO US DOOGIES!!lol :D
Ps im from the uk too!!!The south in Portsmouth!!!!! :D

[suzanne118]

hi i have 2 cavaliers i have one ruby cavalier called rosie and one blenhiem cavalier called Emz

[princess_poppy]

hi welcome
Hello All, wet and windy greetings from the miserable UK !
dont i know it, ive bin in norfolk for the last week and wet is one way to put it, lol!

[Denaluvscorgis]

Hi & welcome to Chaz....it's really nice to have you here!!:)