How many accidents a day is "normal" for a new puppy?

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Hi,

Perhaps a silly question, but our puppy is 9 weeks old, is really good during the night. Doesn't even use her puppy pad!! But in the day is weeing on the floor between 2-4 times a day. I take her outside all the time! Every 30 minutes, maximum and always goes to the toilet outside. She doesn't give any indication she needs to go inside when she does. No whining. Nothing. Just quickly squats and has a wee quicker than I can get to her.

I know this is probably normally puppy stuff, but any tips on how to attempt to knock this on the head?

Get some chew toys for her and bring them out on rotation so she doesn't get bored of them.

Yeah.....I'm thinking I should postpone, but then this could go on for a long time, so will it ever be the right time?

Are you crate training?

We have a cocker and we crate trained her which helped on a variety of levels.

Anyway-take her outside every hour and say 'wee' or whatever word you want to use. When she's been to the toilet give her a treat and praise.

I'd get rid of the pads immediately as you're basically showing her she can wee in the house on something.

Our cocker wee'd in the house maybe a dozen times at most.

Lizzie, very good point. I took her out straight away and she did a wee and I brought her straight back in. My bad.

I think the period you are in expect frequent accidents no matter how hard you try.

As to when is the right time I would say when you have been a week with no accidents and they are telling you they want to go out so it isn't just you picking them up and waiting for them to go.

As a sensible timeline could you wait another month for the carpets then at least you would have probably been through the hardest bit....

Oh mine is a spaniel as well and he also likes to pee every time he gets excited and meets someone new just to warn you that might happen as well

Not crate training, but she is put in her pen, with her bed at night and when I go out. She has one puppy pad in there. I have taken away the one next to the door.

I actually take her out every 20 minutes or so.

How many accidents?
All the bloody time, for the first few weeks. Our puppy arrived at a similar chilly time of year, and I suspect she didn't like going out in the cold! Once the weather cheered up and I could leave the door open, she was absolutely fine.

I would second getting rid of the puppy pads (or just having them for car journeys). Hard to train a dog to go outside only, if it's used to having a puppy pad inside.

I would ditch the puppy pads. I think they are confusing. It's ok to go in the house but just sometimes!
And if pup can't hold it at night then you need to get up and take it out when it needs to go.

Ours improved massively at about 12/13 weeks, hardly any indoor peeing after that. Behaviour wise he really turned a corner at 15 weeks. Then at about 22/23 weeks (when he was teething) he had a few peeing incidents.
The first couple of weeks after we got him I thought I was going insane getting up and down to take him out, he'd quickly cottoned on that if he rattled his 'pee bell' he'd be allowed out, then just want to come straight back in...I lost a stone in five weeks!

My cocker spaniel was reliable at always going outside at 10 months old. It coincided exactly with her first season. Chewing and mouthing also reduced at the same time - it's like the season marked her growing up in temperament, as well as physically

Tons of wees and pops inside until then.

We did paper train. I know it's not recommended and I suspect this is part of the reason toilet training took ours do long. The one benefit of paper training though was that her accidents stayed off the carpets. Right from coming home, she went on the paper which was on the (easily moppable) kitchen floor. Do no accidents on my carpets or elsewhere.

She is managing overnight because her body is slowing down urine production as she sleeps. Follow the Facebook group's guide and stop telling her off. If he has an accident inside it is YOUR fault.

We've just got a springer pup and took the carpet up specifically because we knew there would be lots of wee and poo accidents