How long should toilet training take?

[lecce]

We have a 14 week old lurcher puppy. She was rescued and lived in a foster home before coming to us. They told us she was 'getting there' with toilet training. We have now had her 2 weeks and seem to be getting nowhere with it Just wondered whether we are being impatient or doing it wrong.

We take her in the garden regularly throughout the day but she specialises in doing nothing out there and then, as soon as I am distracted by a child, messing in the house. We do have successes and reward these, but they just seem to be flukes.

On the pluse side, she never does anything at night and we usually get the first 'business' of the day outside.

Any advice would be great.

[lougle]

Oh Patch was dreadful. He was around 8 months before he was really reliable.

[tabulahrasa]

How long's a piece of string? lol

When are you taking her out? It works best if you do it as soon as they, wake up as soon as they've had a wee play session, after eating and every 20-30 minutes they're awake between those things.

My puppy was about 16 weeks before it clicked, but by doing that we managed to catch most of them outside.

[Floralnomad]

Have you got a command word as sometimes that helps ,we use 'go quickly' my boy is 3 yrs old now and still wees on command ( or has a good try )

[SallyBear]

Don't use bleach. Apparently it doesn't cover the smell of wee and they will keep coming back there.

[lecce]

Thank you - we will be more diligent about taking her out at 20 minute intervals. We are both at home but it's so easy to get caught up with stuff with the dc and allow longer to go by.

About to start a new puppy-related thread now!