Potty Training 6 Puppies!!! ARG

[sparklingfaces]

So my baby girl had 6 puppies a month ago, and instead of having 6 pee happy puppies running around, I've been trying to potty train them so I have an early start.

Any tips? I think the hardest part is that there are SIX of them.
I've been trying to do it on a one-on-one basis with each pup individually, but dang this is getting annoying!

***side note
My grown up dogs know alot of tricks, my favorite is playing dead. If you use your hand as a gun and shout "Bang!" they fall over on their bellies.... i CAN"T WAIT to have 8 dogs fall over when I shout "Bang!" eeeeek! so excited!

Puppies! Video here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSc1X_E7O_E

[jubob]

EEeeeek 6 pups, that's allot, just an idea  as I have never actually potty trained 1 pup . How about newspaper every where I mean on all the floor where they stay mainly and gradually make the area smaller and in the direction you want them to be ie: toward an outside door. :

You will probably have to weight the paper down with bricks or something or it will just get kicked around.

[jubob]

My partner's dog before I met him had 11 pups    he is at work atm, I will ask him if he has any ideas when he gets back  


Can we have pictures Please  

[reginanewsum]

I had one doggy for almost 17 years!  We got her when she was three weeks old! She passed two months before her 17th birthday. She was like my daughter and our family memeber, she even had her own bed to match our couch.   But I trained her in a training cage.  The cage needs to be only twice as large as they are, they will learn to hold them selfs and not potty in the area where they live.  It is not mean to cage a dog while you are gone from home, if you work with them they will come along really fast.  My best friend owns and operates a doggy day spa!  Hmmmm yup a spa!  And does dog training classes, she is the one who told me to get a cage, I thought it was mean but she is right. Google "how to potty train your puppy"  good luck and yes I would love to see a picture of your babies all playing dead!  My Ginger was ever so smart also, minded better than my kids!

[sparklingfaces]

lol, I will try and get pics, I have baby pics of them, but they have changed so much since then it's ridiculous!

I tried the news paper thing on the first dog I got and it did not work at all... Like you said, he kind of just kicked everything around and made it a point NOT to pee or poop on the paper.... 
He's very stubborn

[Kristal]

***side note
My grown up dogs know alot of tricks, my favorite is playing dead. If you use your hand as a gun and shout "Bang!" they fall over on their bellies.... i CAN"T WAIT to have 8 dogs fall over when I shout "Bang!" eeeeek! so excited!

YOUTUBE THIS!!!

[sparklingfaces]

recorded a video of my puppies for guys!

added it to the original first post so scroll up!

[Sherry]

So cute! 

I've only ever trained one puppy at a time and it took constant vigilance.  I would even have the puppy sleep with me, so I could monitor him.  They always have the walk off, sniff around when you know they're trying to find a place to go, so then I would rush them outside.

When they would go potty in the house, I would scold them, say "no, you go pee outside." and then rush them outside.  If they went outside, I would give them lavish praise and petting and say something like, "you go pee outside, good girl or boy!" over and over.

If they whined, I'd immediately take them outside and tell them to go pee, etc.  If they went to the door or scratched on the door, I'd do the same.  A lot of vigilance and repetition and they'd be trained to either whine at me or go to the door and they'd know they got to go outside.

It took up all my time and it was with one puppy and they were trained usually in a week or 2 I believe.  I don't know if this was the best or proper way, but that's how I did it.