Playing ruff with kids and housebreaking

MayaNewJersey · Young Weim Joined: 16 Oct 2008 Posts: 117 Fur Kids: Maya

Hi- I am new to the site and have a few questions...

First- At what age should I stop making excuses for accidents(peeing) in the house? She is almost 5 moths old and she does very good except when we are not paying 100% attention on her. I know its my fault I am just wondering when do they really get the idea?

Second- we have no kids at the moment but i do have a 3 year old nephew who comes over often. Maya is great with us no jumping or biting, but with my nephew she is all over him. My nephew isn't scared and just keeps playing but I am afraid Maya will accidentally hurt him any advice on how to get Maya to be more calm/ easy with kids?

Thanks for any advice you have!

Symon · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:44 am Post subject:

I am sure there are some more experienced weim owners who can provide a ton of advice on this. But since I too have a 5 month old wein and a 2.5 year old daughter I will offer my 2 cents.
I would think she should to trained by now. Being on it 100% of the time is key. When you can't be, put her in the crate or outside for that matter for those times. We would even put our guy in the crate for 5 minutes if I couldn't have an eye on him. He trained very quickly and even rings a wind chime on the door handle to go out and do his business (which he learned in less than a week). Maybe we were just lucky but weims learn very quickly with consistency. We weren't afraid to gently scold him either (we knew it was really our fault for not watching but they are sneaky aren't they). I know, they say you have to catch them in the act but we would take him over to the scene of the crime if it was very recent , let him sniff, tell him no and business outside and immediately take him outside. And, whenever we are outside, if he does his business we tell him good business (still).
As for the toddler. If I sit on the floor my guy thinks it's play time and he can either get pretty rough or play very gentle. My daughter is close to the floor so he thinks it's always play time with her! We did a little training exercise a couple of times and it corrected alot of it (outside he still gets running and bumps her and sends her air born!). I put him on the leash and we all played together, if he jumped or nipped, we said "no bite", "no jump" encouraged a gentle behavior and praised him "good gentle". We also taught our daughter those phrases so she could tell him as well. Again, it is all consistency, keep it simple, they learn very quickly.

MayaNewJersey · Young Weim Joined: 16 Oct 2008 Posts: 117 Fur Kids: Maya

Thanks for the respond. I love the idea of a wind chime- I have been looking for bells, which believe it or not is not easy to find. The wind chime seems much more pleasant!
As for the kids... that was a great point you made and I will try it all! thanks!

anne

MayaNewJersey · Young Weim Joined: 16 Oct 2008 Posts: 117 Fur Kids: Maya

You are right- I have to be a better owner! thanks

anne · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:08 pm Post subject:

It's not a matter of being a "good" or "bad" or "better" owner, it's just that Weims are smart and need a LOT of consistency or they take advantage! Smile