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At what age did toilet training click and accidents stop?

15 replies

IntensiveCareBear · 05/10/2018 07:05

Sick of stepping in puddles Sad

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MardyMavis · 05/10/2018 10:32

Realistically depends on the breed but I'd say 5 months

shapeshifter88 · 05/10/2018 10:33

6/7 months for absolutely no accidents

MardyMavis · 05/10/2018 10:40

Actually that's probably more right! At 5 months they can still have the very odd accident. But depends on the breed again as some breeds are cleverer than others.

missbattenburg · 05/10/2018 10:52

Battendog was reliable indoors for the most part at around 5 months. Last accident at around 7 months.

whateveryousay · 07/10/2018 21:25

My GSD has never poo’d indoors. And he didn’t wee indoors from 9 weeks. However, I rarely left him on his own, I kept him tied to my belt, and I watched him like a hawk, and took him out every 20 mins initially. I crated him in a small crate if I had to leave him for short periods (to go to the loo myself for eg!) It was HARD WORK, but paid off quickly.

whateveryousay · 07/10/2018 21:28

Just to add, my Golden Retriever, who I was not so regimented with, still peed indoors regularly until 6 months, and I ended up having to buy new carpets!
Hence the intensive training for GSD!

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 07/10/2018 21:30

My boy lab, he was very young. Girl lab about 9 months. It varies so much.

EastCoastDamsel · 07/10/2018 21:36

For us it was 20 weeks BUT he had actually been fine from 16 weeks but then had a bout of collitis. Whch resulted in a midnight poo accident

BiteyShark · 07/10/2018 21:36

Hard to remember exactly but I think mostly toilet trained around 5 months old. He did have a couple of accidents after that up to 1 year old but they were isolated and probably caused by 'stressful' events. He's never been a dog that can hold it for many hours either so whilst I see some people saying their dogs can last hours and hours mine can't.

adaline · 08/10/2018 06:52

Five months.

Lucisky · 11/10/2018 11:01

5 months generally, perhaps 2 accidents up to about 7 months.

DeadCertain · 12/10/2018 12:28

Neither of my current dogs have ever had a poo indoors and I have only ever had one wee indoors (my fault for taking my eye off the ball) once when he had been with me for a few days. Took a huge amount of effort for the first week but was absolutely worth it. They both started going to the door to go out almost straight away; cracked it really fast.

SlothMama · 12/10/2018 12:50

About 5 months

BrokenWing · 12/10/2018 20:54

We got our lab at 12 weeks, we literally had 2 (very runny) poos and half a dozen wees inside and then he was trained. The breeder must have done a great job before we got him 👍🏻 and we followed it up by being there with him consistently day and night for the first 4 weeks he was home.

DramaAlpaca · 12/10/2018 20:57

Mine were both around 6 or 7 months.

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