Is It Necessary to Keep My Puppy in Until Fully Vaccinated?
I have an 11 week old Border Collie, she will only go to the toilet outside, I've tried everything to make her go to the toilet on puppy training pads but she wont. She isn't fully vaccinated until 3 weeks time, is it important to keep her in or is it okay to let her in the garden to go to the toilet? am I harming her by letting her out?
Yes, it is necessary. what is not necessary is to keep her INSIDE. You can let her out into the backyard all you want, provided that the only dogs that go out there are your household dogs. what you don't want to do is expose her to other dogs and their feces. That is where she has the potential to pick up parvo, coronavirus and other things.
STOP encouraging her to go inside. It sounds like you have a pup who is almost housebroken. Use that to your advantage. It will save you a lot of headaches in the future.
When the vet says that your dog cannot be taken out until after its injections/shots, this does not mean that it cannot be taken into your own fenced garden/yard. It simply means that your puppy must be keep away from anywhere that could have been contaminated by other dogs.
A puppy must be taken into your garden/yard every hour, after it eats or drinks and when it wakes up after a nap. You should also take it out just before you go to bed, every time you see it eliminate you must praise your puppy. I use a catch phrase when my puppy has a pee, I say “get one” while it is urinating and “big job” when it passes faeces. if you do this your dog will pee on command when it is older. (Unless it’s bladder is empty)
You should set your alarm and try to take your puppy out about twice during the night. if like me you are a heavy sleeper and you don’t trust yourself to wake up, take the lazy way out. My puppy’s sleep in the laundry room until they are toilet trained, during the day I dip newspapers into the urine which it has passed in the garden and put these on top of a thick pad of newspaper at night, they are drawn to this because of the smell and they will pee on this during the night. Nevertheless I go to bed very late and get up very early when I have a puppy.
Eventually your puppy will go to the door when it knows that it wants to eliminate. In spite of the fact that I leave newspapers down at night my puppy’s are clean from an early age. However they are like babies, they have no control until they are older. regardless of how diligent you are, your puppy could still have an accident in the house during the day, it you see it stooping or peeing, pick it up and let it finish in the garden/yard.
Why would you WANT her to piss in the house? Letting her go anywhere inside merely encourages indoor elimination of ALL kinds in ALL spaces, which would completely ruin her progress.
She is perfectly fine to go outside in your private garden – the only real issue with unvaccinated pups going outside is when you're talking about taking them to public areas where other unknown dogs frequent. I was also told by my vet that my puppy could go for short walks once her second set of shots where complete, and could interact with dogs i knew personally at that point.
You have already lost very important opportunities for socialization. the idea of keeping a puppy in until it has all it s shots is an evil, ignorant idea. if your vet ordered it, I would find a new vet. yes, not only take it out to relieve itself, get it out and meet people.
You are only harming her by trying to get her to potty on potty pads. That is enormously confusing to the majority of dogs, and usually creates a major housebreaking problem.
There is no harm in taking your dog outside in its' own yard before being fully vaccinated. Lots of immunity is present from the mother already.
Provided your yard is fully fenced (which it needs to be in any case), by all means get your puppy outside. All babies need sun on their backs after all. It's just taking them out off your property that has risks. It only takes one dog after all ….. Don't use these pads – dogs are confused if started on these, and get the message that it's fine to empty indoors, which it isn't, long term.
Well i guess its ok as long as no other animals have been in your garden as your puppy can get really ill. definitely don't take her for walks or anything yet though until fully vaccinated.
no it is not necessary to let her in the garden if she is not fully vaccinated if you let her in the toilet she learn a good manner if you let her out you harm her many diseases attack her
Going outside to use the bathroom as long as you know your area is free from issues is perfectly. I wouldn't even begin to try and go the pad route.
let her go potty outside – you should just not have her near other dogs outside like dog parks etc but otherwise – go ahead.
Is it necessary to keep my puppy in until fully vaccinated?
