Puppy housetraining problems.?
We have a young (approaching 4 months), male dog and we’ve inadvertantly paper trained him when going to the toilet and we pretty much CANNOT get him to eliminate outside! We can have him out and about for 6 hours (friends houses etc) and he will always hold it in until he gets to our house and his ‘spot’. We had him going in my boyfriends parents garden over Christmas and New Year without paper, but now we’re home, we’re finding it impossible. one problem is he can be whining and turning in circles, ready to go, but a jogger will run past or someone with a pram will go by and his attention is broken and it’s back to the start! We can be outside with him for 2 hours in one place, not playing and he’ll hold it in. We don’t have a garden, so moving the paper outside may not be a solution for us. Any advice will be mucho appreciated!!
Also, I’d like to add, that although we don’t have a garden we live on the edge of a very large park (hence the joggers, children, other dogs etc)!
Are you crate training him? That is really the most effective way of housetraining. You’ll have to get him on a schedule of eating, drinking and pottying, then take it from there. Puppies in general can hold their bladders and bowels for their age in months plus one. That means yours can hold it about 5 hours, so that should help you to establish a good schedule. Dogs are creatures of habit and work greatly on a schedule and with rewards and positive training. Praise him like crazy when he goes outside and give him a treat. He’ll soon learn he can “trade” his poos for some treats and hugs.
He is probably going in the same spot in your house because he smells his prior accidents and believes that is where he has to go. There is a great product here in the US called OUT that will eliminate all pet stains and odors, I’m guessing you are in the UK from your use of the word “pram” 
so look for something similar, if you don’t get OUT. Thoroughly clean the area that he tends to go and that may help as well. And as gross as it may sound, you may want to leave a few piles of his waste in the backyard as a reminder to him that that is where he is meant to go. He can smell it and identify it as his.
When he’s out of the crate in your home, keep an eye on him at all times. The idea is he’s either in the crate or you are watching him. He can’t have an accident if you’re watching him, and if he does start to go, simply say a firm NO and take him outside and praise like crazy. He should catch on quickly!
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