How to POTTY TRAIN Your Italian Greyhound Puppy | 5 Useful TIPS
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
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0:00 Introduction
0:20 Who This Video Is For
0:35 Are Italian Greyhounds Hard to Potty Train?
1:41 Watch Your Puppy 24/7
2:57 Establish a Routine & Take Them Outside Immediately
5:27 Get a Puppy in Summer
6:22 Use a Potty Command & Praise Them
7:46 Don’t Use Puppy Pads or Dog Toilets
9:24 Summarization and One More Thing...
In this video we will give you 5 useful tips for potty training an Italian Greyhound (or any other dog).
How did potty training go for you and your dog? Share your experience with us in the comments below!
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Our IG was a rescue from a family who had punished him heavily (hitting him and shutting him out on a very small balcony). The result was that we had this terrified little dog that we couldn’t even approach for three years and obviously he would pee everywhere. But as soon as we understood how to calm him down and bond, he picked the “let’s go!” sign and started to pee outside. He’s now a sassy sweetest little boy and frankly the best dog we’ve ever had
Good job! He‘s so lucky to be able to live with you now!
Thanks for sharing. Good to see someone being honest about what it takes. We did something very similar ie no pee pads. At the start we took him out every 2 hours and after eating, play etc, and also set an alarm for 2 am potty runs. It was a lot of hard work but it has definitely paid off. We slowly adjusted the potty schedule as we become better aware of the signs so we could take him out when he needed ie a less frequent schedule. By 5-6 months of age he had a fairly regular schedule, needed to go out a lot less, and we no longer needed a 2 am run. We’ve had very few accidents and our boy is now also ringing bells to be taken out in case we forget/don’t notice he needs to go!
Thank you so much for sharing your experience! Once again it proves it IS possible to potty train an Italian Greyhound - you just have to be persistent!
The idea with teaching them to ring a bell is brilliant and definitely helps a lot with "silent Iggies" who don't really show that they need to go. Good job!
Wow! Please share how you got your dog trained to ring a bell. I love Italian greyhounds and and going to get one in a few weeks all the help is greatly appreciated 🙂
@@jessicagarcia88883 We did this too with our first IG. It worked really well. His sign that he needed to go out was so subtle that you really had to watch him very closely to see it. We rang the bell on the way out the door to potty and took him out immediately if he ever touched the bell. He caught on in about a week by about 5 months of age. By that time, we were on a good schedule, but not keeping our eyes on him 24/7. So hearing the bell let us come running and prevented accidents. While he took longer to potty train than many puppy owners boast, he became very reliable. We did kennel him if we we were out of the house for about the first two years, but that was also for his safety as he could find ways to get into trouble when unsupervised and home alone. Many years later, our dog began to abuse the bell priviledge and began to ring the bell when he wanted to go lay in the sun outside, not go out to potty. That is when we put the bell away. Getting an 8 week old IG puppy next month, so I am reviewing puppy procedures and puppy proofing the house once more. Will train for the bell once more as well. Last puppy was also trained to a pee pad placed in the bath tub, because we traveled a LOT and 3 flights up in a hotel room presented special challenges. That worked out fine too. Wish us luck!
I wish these videos were available a couple of years ago when I got my first dog. Soo helpful. I agree with not using pee pads, i don't want ANY pee in the house, not even on pee pads.
Thank you so much for your comment and I‘m glad you agree with me there. I know it’s a touchy subject so everybody should do what they feel most comfortable with - this is just my advice ☺️
I leashed my very tiny puppy to me in the house for 6 months! If she looked like she was squatting out we went. I released her one room at a time and then introduced the doggy door. At 14 she has never ever had an accident. It totally works! Never use pads.
Too late. 🫤
I've had 3 IGs and 3 Shih Tzus, and they were all hard to train. Also I live where winters are harsh, so I keep potty pads down for when I go grocery shopping or if I open the door to the backyard and it's zero out or a fresh foot of snow and they back up and don't want to face it. I think potty pad training is easy. Usually just blot a piece of a clean pad on a peed pad's spot when you go to throw the peed pad away, and they go to the 'clean' pad, smell it and understand they can pee on the pad. A Shih Tzu I got from the rescue as a puppy had been abused. It took a year to get her 'properly' trained. I took her out often. She would be out a long time; not go; go in and get up on the bed to pee. A rescue worker suggested I put flannel backed table cloths under the blankets/sheets to protect the mattress, which was good, but I did laundry every day. I got her to stop peeing on the bed after a year because twice in a row I pretended to cry when she peed on the bed! That was the end of it! She understood it made me unhappy. : - )
i have an iggy Pino, since he was 9, hes 15 now, and getting him a little sister. Very helpful for me. THank you!
Great video and I totally agree with having no puppy pads. I’d rather have a difficult six months of potty training than a difficult 15 years of peeing on the floor.
Great video, thanks so much for sharing
From experience, I'd also add 24/7 for first 6-12 months, so work-from-home is important !
We got our eight week old boy 6 weeks ago! Would have loved to see your video then hahaha. He’s doing so well now though! 😍
Happy to hear ☺️ just hang in there, it will be worth it 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
You're right about them wanting to please you and make you happy. That is all dogs live for is to make you happy. Once had a lab bring me home a groundhog he caught. He dropped it at the front door and sat there wagging his tail looking at me. They just want to give you unconditional love.
Thank you so much for your advices.
I text from Spain and my english isn't perfect. Sorry for mistakes.
I have a puppy of italian greyhound since last week and I am totaly in love with him. I Will practice the five tips with him. I Will tell you the resulta.Regards
I am loving your posts and Nello is just a beautiful Iggy. I am on a waiting list for one, but listening to lots of posts. And I also agree with what you say about potty pads. Looking forward to future posts. Thank you,.
Thank you so much for your comment. Keeping our fingers crossed that you‘ll soon have your own little Iggy ✨
Great video, thank you! :)
Thank you very much for the feedback :)
Excellent advice, thankyou..my mother never agreed with pads either... just another thing to train them away from!
Great advice, thanks
Thank you for your feedback!
have been looking into getting another Italian Greyhound puppy since our sweet boy died on January 04th from advanced kidney disease, a little more than three months shy of his sixteenth birthday. One of the things holding me back (plus needing some additional time to grieve) is remembering all the time & effort it took to potty train Vaughan. We would never want our dog using pee pads or an indoor doggie bathroom, and after a good deal of working hard with Vaughan, and having him neutered about five months of age, he always asked to go out by standing at the door or looking at us beseechingly. He got two fairly long walks a day and we are lucky to have a fenced in yard where he went in between. I really appreciate your excellent advice & suggestions, and now I'm feeling a bit better about taking on that responsibility again in a few months. We have some trips planned during the summer so I am going to wait until we know we will be home for a while. I hope that the next pup we get will be a superstar like Nello - he is such a wonderful boy💙🐾💙
Thank you Julie for sharing your experience with Vaughan. Once again this proves potty training an Italian greyhound is possible - if you are willing to put in the work it takes.
Fingers & paws crossed for you that you will soon have your own little Iggy again. I’m sure you are still missing Vaughan so much 🤍 (PS: All Iggies are superstars🤍✨) have a great week!
I have never owned an Iggy, but was lucky enough to have a beautiful rescued Lurcher and a Whippet... When the lovely duo eventuallypassed away we were heartbroken.
However many years have passed, and now have a Whippet {Ordered before she was even conceived} She is a dear little thing, but is trickier to house train than our other two {The Whippet we had just copied the Lurcher, so it was easy peasy!
Lovely little Wiglet is 13 weeks now, and is going 5 days between accidents, but she still has them.
She will get there..
She sleeps next to me on the bed, and has been very good at waking me up if she needs to wee by snuffling her nose in my face gently.
Wees are definitely harder than poos to train for..
I have never used any paper or potty pads for house training.. yuck! who wants to train a dog to wee or poo indoors!
@@Oakleaf700 you‘d be surprised how many people do that - especially small dog owners. It‘s up for every owner to decide but I wouldn’t want it either.
All three of my iggy’s through the years responded well to a doggy door. They love their independence. They hated the crate. Also, have on hand a urine destroyer. Accident’s happen and one drop of urine in the house can backtrack the potty training process. As long as they can smell the urine (even though you cleaned it up) they will more than likely have an accident in the house. 🐶
Iggies are very difficult to potty train. We ended up getting rid of all of our carpets and just have tile floors so we could mop it up and get rid of all of the urine. Our iggies rarely have accidents these days, but it still does happen from time to time. It mainly happens when they have been inside for a long time, or right after they have been playing for a long time.
It's been 15 years since I have had a puppy. I have a miniature American Eskimo. She is getting up there in year's after her liver cancer surgery her blood work is starting to spike again. So time is starting to wind down unfortunately. Been thinking of getting an Iggy when I am ready. These definitely seem higher maintenance than my Eskimo. She has been the best dog. May just end up with another eski. Best piece of side advice I can give anyone is make your own dog food. You'll have to get some blood work done as you dial it in and or see a nutritionist. Smaller dogs are nice you can go all organic its not super expensive and so much better than anything in a bag.
Love your channel! Where did you get that sweatshirt? :-)
This is really helpful thanks for your amazing tips
But I still have a question. If my puppy does her business accidentally indoor what I should do?
Just let her does her job or take her out right away
You're absolutely correct about dogs being able to tell the difference. The same is true about chew toys. Don't give your dog a toy shoe to chew on because they cannot tell the difference between a toy shoe and your shoe.
Great job 👍 my PaChino is 15. Give Nello kisses from us
My dog would squat down and pretend to pee even if she didn't have to when I told her to "go potty", because she knew she was going to get a treat.
Mine does that when its raining so she can come straight in haha
Thaaaankss!!! How much time do you need to get him 100% potty trained?
We have had pound puppies and a dachshund for 15 years and used dog bells hung on our back door successfully. We have even been able to train various breeds of foster dogs with the dog bells. Do they work for iggy's as well?
Pee pad worked well for my female Iggy - we had no choice, she broke her leg at 5 months and we had to keep her contained and that is where she learned to use the pee pad. We still take her outside for most of her business but keep a pee pad down at all times just in case
It might work in very rare cases but still I would not recommend it ☺️
i have a question, is it ever too late? our whippeg is 9 months old now and she will go outside and i try take her out as often as possible considering we live in an apartment.
but as I said she's 9 months now and she will just go on the carpet or hardflooring whenever. we made the mistake of using pads early on and she uses them most of the time but not always. now we're in a state where she just goes whenever and wherever takes her fancy, honestly lost on what to do. any advise would be appreciated. thank you
Thanks for the video. Our Iggy (13months) is trained well during the day. He never pees inside. However, during the night he always has to Poop (around 4am). We just gave up and he regularly poops in the bathroom in the night. His dinner time is 18:00 as we found he has most appetite then. Is it normal that Iggies poop during the night?
Really useful video, thank you 💗 I would like to know how long it took you to potty train Nello so he asked to go outside?
Thank you very much for your comment and I'm glad it was helpful for you. It's really hard to tell because Nello's signs have always been (and still are) very subtle. It took some time until I learned to read them and for me to really trust him. So I would say it took until he was around 6 months old
I took my pup outside stood for about 15 mins. I have been taking her out every 1.5-2 hours while saying “go use the bathroom” repeatedly. She started showing signs she was uninterested and ready to go back inside. She stopped sniffing and laid down. So I figured she didn’t have to go since I took her out so many times that day. As soon as I bought her back inside she went right beside her crate. I’m confused. 🤔🤔🤔 it’s still day 1.
After u take 2 weeks off of work, what happens when u hv to go back to a full day of work?
i putt pee pads by my back door for around 2 months and now she doesnt even tell me when she needs to go out. she just holds it until we go out. saying that we do go out quite often but there has been times where shes not been out for 15 hours and shes still not peed or pood. shes brilliant.
were you able to take him outside from the very first day you got him? we're about to have our own iggy in a week and we're not going to be able to take her outside for another month as she still will not have all of her vaccinations, so there isn't really an option for us not to use pads at all...
Have you heard of the puppy apartment potty training device and if it works well for IGs? Please let me know! Thank you!
I don’t know which device you mean but what I‘m saying about pee pads applies to all indoor potty options. But that‘s just my advice, that doesn’t mean you can‘t do it differently ☺️
What about a cat litter box? Definitely no risk of confusion with any other indoor surface and always in the same position, i.e. bathroom - where their humans would poop, too. That should work, no?
Can i use these tips to train my 6 months old doberman?
Of course!
What do you suggest after taking the 2 weeks off and having to go to work for 8 hours and coming back to keeping them from holding it ?
She's done other videos advising not to get an Iggy if you plan on leaving them alone all day while you're at work. They're not a breed that you can leave for longer than 3-4 hours max
Nonsense. All dogs can have separation anxiety. It’s how you raise them and get them into a routine.
I know a family that uses potty pads for their dogs. They know the pad is safe, but that doesn't mean their aim is always spot on, yk what i mean...
The only time you should "punish" a dog for going inside and thats WHEN YOU CATCH THEM IN THE ACT.
And it shouldn't be an actual "punishment" it should be a reprimand.
If you try and reprimand them AFTER you've found the accident, they wont understand why you're doing so. Reprimanding is getting big and loud, teaching them that a sharp No or uh-uh is a negative response, pretending to cry, etc. Anything you can do to communicate that what they're doing makes you unhappy without being violent will help with potty training a lot!
I will often pick them up, and very quickly take them outside, with a firm- almost angry sounding- voice tell them to potty outside- pretend to ignore them until they go (dont actually ignore them, just pretend to). The SECOND they do what you want, PRAISE PRAISE PRAISE. Treats, pets, cuddles, anything that lets them know you're HAPPY with them. You can't cling to your anger with a dog, they won't understand. Their attention spans are too short for that.
French bulldogs are also known for being stubborn about potty training and I got my lil man basically potty trained by 4-5 months old. The only accidents we have are from me not doing my job as an owner, recognizing the signs when he's asking to go out which is pretty hard because i taught him to ring a bell to get my attention to go outside. My mom recently got a mini-schnauzer/Italian grey hound mix, and it's nice to know that I should do more of the same with her, since I'm the one who's with her most right now.
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Do you have any questions regarding potty training your Italian Greyhound? Let us know in the comments below. We will reply to all of them :)
“Don’t use pee pad” me with two 5 year old Italian greyhounds that we did that with who arnt potty trained.
Potty training advice that starts with 'you should literally watch your puppy 24/7' is worse than useless because no one can do that.
Why always tell viewers not to get an Italian greyhound? Then you say mine is 100% trained but yours won’t be 👎
You need to work on your listing comprehension skills 😅
If you cant puppy train a puppy, youve got no chance of teaching him/her anything else
It’s not really potty training. Don’t you mean house training? Come on, let’s get it right. Good tips though!
You’re picking on her. Stop.