Would you answer my question please 
So how long does it take for a German Shepherd to be potty trained? About? Your opinion matters!
The usual inexpert lot of kids giving poor advice! Some can’t even spell & punctuate the breed’s name, one wants us to believe he is a "Vetrenarian". None proved to be a competent trainer.
Firstly, no-one with any brains uses a potty for a pup – nappies & potties are shaped for human babies. Pups relieve themselves on the ground or other footing.
Secondly, well-reared pups arrive with the built-in instinct to get away from their nest before piddle-pooing. Shutting them in a crate for more than a few minutes is bad for 2 reasons – one is that it eventually FORCES them to break that instinct, the other is that pups NEED to exercise their fast-growing bones & muscles the whole time they are awake. CATCH 22: A crate small enough to invoke the nest-instinct is too small to exercise in. An enclosure big enough to exercise in is big enough to piddle-poo in.
There are 2 approaches to toilet training.
BOTH require YOU to give the pup your undivided attention throughout the first week, learning its timing & signals for such as "Wanna go toilet" and "Wanna BITE something!", so that you can take INSTANT appropriate action. The prime difference is where the pup is to be when you are asleep or at school or sports, wherever.
(1) Use a roofed security run outside, at least 12 feet between gate and raised sleeping box. The only problem with this solution is that some dogs protest noisily – so it pays to warn the neighbours to go to an all-night party or something for the night you first put Pup into the pen. Advantages are that Pup can: drink; piddle-poo; exercise; chomp the gnaw bone you supplied when you put him/her in there; experience the changing movements, scents, sights & sounds of the environment; choose whether to snooze in the sun or the box; plus is safe from all intruders and electric wires.
(2) Paper-train the pup. My last pup came inside 24/7 at 8½ weeks old and had the run of the house (except closed lounge & guest-room). She was paper-trained that afternoon, and on the same afternoon almost trained that my never-shut bedroom is forbidden to dogs (on 5 mornings I had to look in the passage for the aromatic sock she had been unable to resist while I was boringly asleep). I DID have to shut the toilet for a few nights, after she discovered that the toilet roll UNrolls – and IT GRABS YOUR LEGS!
Less-brave people can line a safe room (no wires, no plastic pipes, nothing unsafe to chew; humans don’t need to use that area while Pup is in it) with a few layers of old newspaper.
But either way: While the pup is inside you predict and NOTICE its signal – common at 8 weeks old is that, 1 minute after waking and 3 minutes after eating or drinking, it does an anxious nose-down circling.
You then pick Pup up, carry it to the designated toilet area, put Pup down, stand there still & silent WAITING until Pup remembers what it wanted to do and so does it.
THEN (despite your chattering teeth?) you praise enthusiastically (include Pup’s name and the future command-word), reward it (pats, rubs, a game) before returning to where you were before this trip.
Dogs do what they do because they WANT to. An owner’s task is to find ways that will have the pup keenly WANTing to please its humans – luckily, that is almost guaranteed to be built-in to herding dogs and bird-dogs. (But stupid, self-obsessed owners can soon wreck that instinct.)
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Les P, owner of GSD_Friendly: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/GSD_Friendly
"In GSDs" as of 1967
If you are dilligent and work really hard, you can train a dog in a few weeks or less time. Everytime the dog has an accident you have to say no and take him out. Constantly take it out (on a schedule) and praise it like crazy when it goes.
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What you do is whenever you sleep, keep the dog in a kennel. early in the morning take it outside to do its thing. whenever you are not home (even tho it may sound cruel) keep it in a kennel but dont leave food or water there. when u get home take it out to do its business. The puppy will think its gross to pee or poop in the place it stays at the most and will wait til it is outdoors. Once it has learned you can get rid of the kennel, and if u did it right, ur dog will be potty trained
p.s. make sure the kennel is small enough for the dog to barely move around. otherwise it will pee in one corner and lay down in the other and the potty training will not work.
this should only last about a month or a few weeks. it does not take too long.
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German Shepard’s are very smart animals, they learn quick. If you start training them early and stay on them, it shouldn’t take more than two weeks.
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My shepherd was potty trained in a few weeks. It shouldnt take to long as long as you are working hard at it and plus, german shepherds are really smart dogs so they will learn fast.
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I have a german shepard named zeke and it took me about a month and a half to train him. It might take you shorter if you have a different technique. plus zeke is energetic will probably take you 3 to 4 weeks
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my and my zeke love him to this very day, in fact he is sitting right beside me. i love you zeke!!!
For me, it only took about 4 weeks to get him good.
If I wanted to leave him alone at home, it took me about 2 months from getting him.
I wasn’t that experienced at the time, I’m actually a Veterinarian now though.
German Shepherds take to training very well so if you follow the training procedures and make sure you have a lot of patience then you should not have a lot of problems getting your German Shepherd puppy housebroken. Just remember that your puppy is going to require a lot of your attention during this period, so be there for your puppy and do housebreaking the right way.
Part of doing housebreaking the right way is knowing that German Shepherd puppy wants to do the right thing and wants to make you happy. So if there is an accident somewhere in your house, don’t assume this is the puppy acting out. It is only an accident and you cannot punish a puppy for an accident. Punishment only confuses the puppy and may cause behavioral problems later in life so do not punish your puppy.
When it comes to German Shepherd potty training many people use the crate method and, if done correctly, this method is both humane and effective. You can crate your dog at night to sleep or when you are not home but be sure to not leave it in the crate too long and also to let it out as soon as you get home or wake up. A crate will force the dog to hold it until it can be let outside and teaches it to keep its area clean. Always have the dog out of the crate when you are home and watch the dog for signs that it will need to go outside.
You can help your own housebreaking cause by feeding the dog on a regular schedule so that you know when you can expect the dog to need to relieve itself and you can take it to its spot outside. Also keep an eye on the dog after it drinks water and make sure you get it outside as soon as possible so it can do its thing.
You are going to need to spend a lot of time with your dog while you are German Shepherd potty training. You should take your dog out to its designated spot constantly, potentially every forty-five minutes or so, and let it know that the designated spot outside is where it is supposed to do its thing. If you praise the dog profusely when it uses its designated spot outside then you will find better results with the potty training effort.
If you do things as you are supposed to, and show the dog unconditional love and patience, you should be able to accomplish German Shepherd potty training without much problem. There may be accidents but just clean them up and move on. Remember that anything you do when they are pups could come out later in life as bad behavior so always do your best with your German Shepherd potty training.
Good Luck!!
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Co-workers and my college. (Vetrenarian Bachelor’s Degree)
The usual inexpert lot of kids giving poor advice! Some can’t even spell & punctuate the breed’s name, one wants us to believe he is a "Vetrenarian". None proved to be a competent trainer.
Firstly, no-one with any brains uses a potty for a pup – nappies & potties are shaped for human babies. Pups relieve themselves on the ground or other footing.
Secondly, well-reared pups arrive with the built-in instinct to get away from their nest before piddle-pooing. Shutting them in a crate for more than a few minutes is bad for 2 reasons – one is that it eventually FORCES them to break that instinct, the other is that pups NEED to exercise their fast-growing bones & muscles the whole time they are awake. CATCH 22: A crate small enough to invoke the nest-instinct is too small to exercise in. An enclosure big enough to exercise in is big enough to piddle-poo in.
There are 2 approaches to toilet training.
BOTH require YOU to give the pup your undivided attention throughout the first week, learning its timing & signals for such as "Wanna go toilet" and "Wanna BITE something!", so that you can take INSTANT appropriate action. The prime difference is where the pup is to be when you are asleep or at school or sports, wherever.
(1) Use a roofed security run outside, at least 12 feet between gate and raised sleeping box. The only problem with this solution is that some dogs protest noisily – so it pays to warn the neighbours to go to an all-night party or something for the night you first put Pup into the pen. Advantages are that Pup can: drink; piddle-poo; exercise; chomp the gnaw bone you supplied when you put him/her in there; experience the changing movements, scents, sights & sounds of the environment; choose whether to snooze in the sun or the box; plus is safe from all intruders and electric wires.
(2) Paper-train the pup. My last pup came inside 24/7 at 8½ weeks old and had the run of the house (except closed lounge & guest-room). She was paper-trained that afternoon, and on the same afternoon almost trained that my never-shut bedroom is forbidden to dogs (on 5 mornings I had to look in the passage for the aromatic sock she had been unable to resist while I was boringly asleep). I DID have to shut the toilet for a few nights, after she discovered that the toilet roll UNrolls – and IT GRABS YOUR LEGS!
Less-brave people can line a safe room (no wires, no plastic pipes, nothing unsafe to chew; humans don’t need to use that area while Pup is in it) with a few layers of old newspaper.
But either way: While the pup is inside you predict and NOTICE its signal – common at 8 weeks old is that, 1 minute after waking and 3 minutes after eating or drinking, it does an anxious nose-down circling.
You then pick Pup up, carry it to the designated toilet area, put Pup down, stand there still & silent WAITING until Pup remembers what it wanted to do and so does it.
THEN (despite your chattering teeth?) you praise enthusiastically (include Pup’s name and the future command-word), reward it (pats, rubs, a game) before returning to where you were before this trip.
Dogs do what they do because they WANT to. An owner’s task is to find ways that will have the pup keenly WANTing to please its humans – luckily, that is almost guaranteed to be built-in to herding dogs and bird-dogs. (But stupid, self-obsessed owners can soon wreck that instinct.)
• Add http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/The_GSD_Source to your browser’s Bookmarks or Favorites so that you can easily look up such as feeding, vaccinations, worming, clubs, weights, teething, neutering, disorders, genetics in the public section.
• To ask about GSDs, join some of the 400+ YahooGroups dedicated to various aspects of living with GSDs. Each group’s Home page tells you which aspects they like to discuss, and how active they are. Unlike YA, they are set up so that you can have an ongoing discussion with follow-up questions for clarification. Most allow you to include photos.
Les P, owner of GSD_Friendly: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/GSD_Friendly
"In GSDs" as of 1967
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