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How would you diaper train a dog?

My puppy has problems with going to the bathroom all over the house and my parents and I were thinking of diaper training her, but I don't see how it would actually train her. To me it seems like all it would do is stop her from going alll over the place and it wouldn't really teach her anything. Can some one give me some input please.

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1. You don't diaper train a dog, it's not a baby, what you do it read everything you can on how to housebreak a dog properly, it sounds like you haven't and the dog hasn't made the association between the outside as potty and the inside as his living space. The dog has to be made to learn the association and has to know that you want him to go outside NOT inside. Buy a book on housebreaking or google it. See where you might have gone wrong.
2. Your dog should be house trained. I think that diapering her would just make matters worse. Perhaps you'll have to take over the roll of teaching her to use the potty outside. Just stay through, keep an eye on her, and don't let her seeing you clean up her messes. She sees you do that over time, she will think that that is your job. Just follow your vet's recommended technique for training the pup to go outside and stick with it. Consider crate training her at night also. Its helped me a bundle when it comes to house training.
3. I wouldn't Why is your puppy allowed all over the house? If your puppy is allowed to go wherever it wants, of course it's going to find a nice little place to pee and poo. How often are you all taking the puppy outside? When you take him outside, do you go with him or do you just let him outside assuming that "he knows what to do"? First: stop letting your puppy have the roam of the house, he either needs to be with you in the same room watching him (you can leash him to yourself if you feel that you would get distracted) or he needs to be in a kennel Second: clean up the poo and pee with a 50/50 mixture of white vinegar and water. Douse the pee areas with the mixture, dab up, douse, dab, cover with a towel and let dry. I do NOT recommend Nature's Miracle. Vinegar is an acid that is far more effective at destroying the proteins in the urine which give it the smell and then encourages the puppy to return. Third: how old is your puppy? You can only expect that a puppy can hold it's bladder 1 hour past its age in months - at BEST. Since your puppy is going in the house, you need to break him of that immediately. So - every 2 hours - including ALL night long, he needs to be taken outside ON A LEASH - you MUST go with him. Say magic words: go pee pee, go potty, go poo poo and when he does praise him like he just saved all the passengers on the Titanic. Fourth: get him a crate and he needs to be in that when you leave the house for any time at all, over night, and when you are in the house but unable to supervise (e.g. you are home but want to take a shower, he doesn't get full reign of the house, he goes in his kennel). There are lots of websites on kennel training! Make it a positive experience and your puppy views it as his own little safe place, his own room to go to. Finally: expect accidents. Don't punish or rub his nose in it. Accidents happen and in your case are far more likelyto happen given that he has been going to the bathroom in the house.
4. dog will shred the diaper,,,, stop being lazy and HOUSEBREAK YOUR PET... if you have problems,, consult your breeder....... housebreaking is simple if you are consistent
5. Why don't you start training her to go on newspaper? If you catch her going in the house you can blot it with newspaper and then put the newspaper near your exit door. The puppy will return to this spot every time because it will have her scent on it. This way you can start to housetrain her because if you are vigilant you will be able to notice that every time she goes towards the door she needs to 'go potty' Then, once she has got the hang of using the paper, you can start taking her outside to a designated place and wait with her until she performs and give her lots of praise and maybe a little treat for being a 'good girl'. Keep renewing the newspaper throughout the day. She'll soon get the hang of it. You will need a lot of patience but if you put in the time you will be rewarded with a clean puppy. Just remember that puppies don't have any control over their bodily functions until they are about 5/6 months old so don't expect miracles. There will always be the odd 'accident'. It's up to you to teach your puppy what you expect it to do. Never push her outside and hope that she will do the neccessary on her own. She will only come back indoors and do it there. You need to be out there with her initially until she gets the message. I have just housetrained two puppies which I kept from my last litter in this way. They are now 6 months old and completely clean and dry. It has been a hard slog but we got there in the end. By the way I have never heard of diaper training a puppy. Good luck.
6. i hate changing a baby's diaper, do you really want to change a dogs diaper? what if it has diarrhea? do you want to wipe that off your dog? what about dingle Berry's? I'd just teach the dog to go outside.
7. The best resolution for you and your pup will be potty training her to go to the bathroom outside like all dogs. You will find that having her use a diaper will be expensive and a constant annoyance for you and anyone else that takes care of her for you. Your dog will never learn to go outside if you don't train her to do so. This isn't very hard to do. It'll take a little time, but you'll find that its worth the effort. The concept is simple: reward her when she goes to the bathroom outside, using verbal praise, petting, and the occasional doggie biscuit, and punish her when she goes to the bathroom inside, with verbal scolding and perhaps a gentle swat on the rump with a rolled up newspaper. The point here is not to spoil her, or inflict pain or harm, but to teach her that her actions will produce a predictable response, either positive or negative. Though dogs can't understand what we say, they can understand the general message through the tone of voice we use and our actions. Dogs have the average intelligence of a toddler, so they are all capable of being trained. It will be easier and most likely produce better results if you train her now, while she's still a pup. Otherwise, she'll form a habit of going inside, which will be an added difficulty to combat when potty training. Once she understands what you want her to do, she'll "ask" you to let her outside by whining and standing at the door. It is important that you pay attention and recognize this and let her out, so she knows that she can go out when she needs to. Once this habit is formed, she won't make a mess indoors anymore, and you won't get funny looks when you take her out in public. Oh, and no diaper rash. That's a big plus, too. .