E-MAIL TO DR SING DATE SEP 14,
2010
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:04 PM, ...
wrote:
Hi Dr Sing,
I was desperately surfing the website for help when I chanced
upon your articles. Then I called your clinic and left a
message.
My dog is currently not your patient and so I would like to
ask if you provide any sort of advice/toilet training?
I just got a miniature poodle from the farm (I was told she
was vaccinated by a vet in Toa Payoh, I need to check it out).
The poor poodle must have been in the farm for the past 8
months as she is very comfortable eating, sleeping and doing
her business in the same place. And she has no problem lying
in her pee.
What I did was cordon her off in the kitchen with a pee tray
(used by my older dog) and every time I see her pee/poo, I
carried her to the pee tray. It didn't help. She has this
problem of whining till she pees when I go away. So I put the
tray where she likes to stand so that if she whines and pees,
it will end up in the tray. This is to keep the place clean
since I have to work in the day.
Other problems - she hardly does it when I watch her but the
moment I go away she will relieve herself. I take her down for
long walks and she has not done it at all. When I other dog
goes to the tray, the new dog doesn't learn as well.
I'm quite lost and wonder if you do provide some house visit
on toilet training a dog like that?
Hope to hear from you.
Thank you.
E-MAIL FROM DR SING DATE SEP 17, 2010
1. Just read your e-mail today as I was busy attending the
wake of my god-daughter who had an accident in Perth and had
returned back to Singapore.
2. I do house-calls by appointment, but the best and less
expensive method is to have a one-to-one discussion in the Q&A
format at Toa Payoh Vets. There are many management factors
affecting toilet training that cannot be written in your
e-mail. This will take up around 30 minutes of discussion at
Toa Payoh Vets. However, this may not be practical advice for
you. In the meantime, I have written some guidelines for you
and for other readers in your situation:
3. The following is my guideline for you as your dog is now an
adult dog much conditioned to its environment in which she has
lost her natural instinct to be clean. So she keeps
lying on her pee. She does not want to eliminate on
your other dog's tray or environment.
3.1 Buy a new big crate with a grated flooring and a pee
pan below.
Two examples of such crates sold in Singapore's pet shops are
shown as follows:
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Crate + grated flooring + pee pan
to confine the new puppy or
adult dog for toilet-training |
| Put
dog's urine on the newspapers on half of the pee pan,
away from sleeping area |
The
green rubber floor mats should be on half of the grated
floor |
3.2 Confine this dog inside this crate when you work.
3.3 On half the floor area of this, put non-slip rubber mats
for her as a sleeping and eating area.
3.4 On the other half is the grated floor. Below the grated
floor, in the pee pan, there are newspapers lined on the pee
pan. On the half that is below the grated floor, put this
dog's urine onto the newspapers. The other half below the
non-slip mats, you should not soil it with the dog's urine.
3.5 Try this method to restore the dog's natural instinct to
be clean. Let me know. It will take 2-4 weeks. Pl make an
appointment if you wish to discuss further with me as it takes
a book just to discuss about toilet-training an adult dog!
Each dog and owner have their own personality and that is why
it is important to meet at Toa Payoh Vets (for economic
reasons). The best way to contact me is to phone me directly
and my receptionist will give you my phone number.
Let my receptionist know if you wish to make appointment to
discuss further as there are 3 vets and many of my ordinary
cases are handled by Dr Vanessa Lin.
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TOA
PAYOH VETS
