How Your Puppy Can
Liver Longer
Toilet
training your apartment puppy starts immediately using praise and rewards
rather than punishment.
Toa Payoh Vets Research Report.
How to Toilet Train An Apartment Puppy (8 weeks
- 16 weeks old) in Singapore.
A brief report based on a survey of Singaporean pet owners is written.
First-time puppy owners seldom know
how to toilet train their puppies.
 The puppy is immediately free to roam the whole apartment and some family
members are unhappy as the puppy urinates and passes stools on the rug and
everywhere except on newspapers (with or without toilet training aids
bought at the pet shop) placed on the floor. The reason is that most
puppies have had been housed on wire flooring in cages at the breeders and
pet shops and have no association of relieving themselves on newspapers.
Here is one method of paper training the puppy for first-time puppy
owners.
1. CONFINEMENT FOR 3 WEEKS. Keep the puppy confined in the
play pen (exercise pen), cage (wire or fibre-glass) or small area
(kitchen, outside toilet, balcony) fenced up by a gate for most of the
time in the first 3 weeks.
2. 100% NEWSPAPER COVER. Cover the whole floor with newspapers.
Some owners have a tray below the newspapers to prevent the soiling of the
tiles if the puppy is kept in the living area.
3. ACTION. When the puppy circles, moves forward and backward
or sniffs around, it wants to urinate or defaecate. Say to the puppy
"Pooh" or any word you like JUST BEFORE it has relieved itself.
5. LAVISH PRAISE AND/OR REWARDS. After it has relieved
itself, give it a small treat and say in a HAPPY voice "Good dog" or any
word you like.
6. Replace the soiled
newspaper. Soon, you will note that it will choose one spot as it
wants to keep its sleeping area clean.
7. Gradually remove the newspaper (e.g. 5 cm by 5 cm per day) till
only the newspaper covers only the area the puppy uses to relieve itself.
Give the puppy a towel to sleep on but it may chew the cloth. Give it one
good quality chew toy.
8. When the puppy is paper-trained, put newspapers outside the
confined area in a bigger area of the apartment so that the puppy can
relieve itself on the newspaper. This is because the puppy will not be
able to get into the play pen (if it has no door) or self locking
baby-gate. It may whine to ask you to put it in the play pen but you
may not be free. Some pet shops recommend a second water bottle to
be put on the outside of the play pen so that the puppy can still have
water to drink after it has been toilet trained. It uses the play pen as
its den.
NOTES:
1. From 8 - 20 weeks old, the puppy relieves itself around 10 times
per day.
When it stops growing at around 8 months old (for a small breed), the
number goes down to 2-4 times. When the 8-week-old puppy is taken
out to play, it will usually relieve itself after two hours.
 2.
The puppy usually relieves itself overnight, early in the morning, after
each meal, after a rest period and before sleeping. Stick to the ROUTINE
of feeding on time. It is recommended that 8-12-week-old puppies are
fed three times a day and the feed removed after 20 minutes. For
6-10-week-old chihuahuas, it may be necessary to provide feed over-night.
3. HITTING THE PUPPY AND SMELLING SHIT. Some Singaporeans use some
objects to beat the puppy when it has passed stools all over the
apartment, force the puppy to smell the stools and then bring it to the
newspaper to tell it to relieve itself there. The puppy runs away or
growls at the disciplinarian. It does not know why it is pushed to
smell its own stools or yelled at and associate the person with unpleasant
feelings. It relieves itself after the person is not around. It eats up
the stools to "hide the evidence".
4. FAMILY CO-OPERATION. Toilet training needs every member of
the family to supervise the puppy and give the same commands. If "pooh" is
used and another family member say "shit", the puppy gets confused.
5. BUSY WORKING COUPLES. Evenings and weekends may be needed to toilet
train the puppy. They will find that the newspapers have been chewed up
and in a mess when they return from home. Do not be angry. It
will be good if the new owner can take leave for a few days to train the
puppy. If not, persist in paper training and most puppies will be toilet
trained in 3 weeks.
6. YOUNG CHILDREN. Unfortunately, young children play with the
puppy for long hours and this affect the success of toilet training!
Explain to the children the need for confinement.
7. RUGS AND CARPETS. If you can't stand the puppy
whining on its first night alone, you can move the cage or play pen in
your bedroom or switch on a radio. If the puppy sleeps on your bed,
provide a rug (and several rugs in the apartment) as the puppy loves to
relieve itself on soft material. It does not want to dirty its
sleeping area.
8. BUYING TWO PUPPIES. The same toilet training procedures apply, with
each puppy being confined separately. Most owners house two puppies
together and this is hard for the cleaner puppy to relieve itself on the
same spot in the newspaper when the mate dirties the whole area.
9. ABANDONED PUPPY.
A puppy which has not been toilet trained properly may suffer from
beatings and given away. It is hoped that this education article
will help your puppy live a longer life with you.
 Extracts from the
Asiahomes.com Book:
Puppies in Singapore: How Your puppy can live longer.
Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS (Glasgow), MRCVS.
Buyers interested in this book to be published in 2004, email to
judy@asiahomes.com or tel
9668-6468.
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you a believer?
"The market has been very quiet," commented Realtor Jane. The
Straits Times Index had reached its 3 month low in the end of May 2000.
Nobody seems to be buying houses. How about the rental market?
My company has more queries than usual as expats come into Singapore
around mid-year but associates have difficulties closing.
Therefore, I would farm out cases which suits the temperament of the
associates and Jane was the type who preferred the smaller accounts like
$2,000 - $4,000 rental expats.
"Many expats nowadays see hundreds of houses and apartments with several
agents and then find something with other agents" complained Jane .
The residential properties for rent in May 2000 are a buffet dinner where
the diner has so many choices and become dazed and choosy.
"Would you prefer to advertise Housing & Development Board
apartments on behalf of Owners and get no response?" I said.
Realtors pay the advertisement fees and over a period of 3 months'
exclusive marketing contract, could spend $1,000. No sale as
Owners want more cash down payment, as much as $20,000 sometimes.
Jane wasn't keen on taking up HDB sales and prefer the rental business.
She had advertised "Dover Park" view for an Owner till the cows come home
and had incurred a loss after 3 months with no results.
As Jane does not make use of the internet, she does not realise that
rental realtors seldom contact "Dover Park" agents when there are numerous
Dover Park owners advertising and their info is easily obtained from the
Internet.
It is financially suicidal to advertise for Owners unless the property is
in demand. I recommend to associates that we get the Owner to
pay the advertisement costs. This is practised in Australia.
"I am sick," said Jane, asking me to take over her case at the last
minute. This was an internet surfer from Australia. The
expat assigned to her had seen various properties in the East Coast with
other agents and now wanted her to show more of the ones at Telok Kurau.
It is the same situation with other realtors. There is no more
prompt decision or loyalty. The customer is king.
"Why don't you buy a computer so that expats can get you via the email?".
Many of our clients use email. Jane is one of the older generation
of realtors who abhors the computers, the Y2K bug and would not want to
have anything to do with information technology. She did not want to
have anything to do with computers. Y2K bug might have gone
but she does not want to have anything to do with computers. The upper
crust like senior doctors will not need to learn about the internet, as
there are personal assistants to do for them, but small-time over forties
realtors are caught in this new age technology.
Some realty firms do fax a list of Owner's listings, but the most
convenient time saving tip is to have your own computer and get the latest
Owner's listings via the internethttp://www.asiahomes.com/dogpix
The expat did not need condo facilities, a walk up 3-bedroom near town at
$2,500 or less. Would there be such an apartment near
downtown?
"Just show him 2 listings which I got from the Internet," I said.
"One of them was a Botanic Gardens View 3+1 1800 sq. ft advertising
$2,500. Being self-employed, you have to work even if you are sick
but you do need the revenue to bring up your family."
The expat liked the apartment. The "Owner" advertising it was a
realtor in disguise and wanted to increase the rent and wanted to deduct
advertisement fees from the marketing commission. The expat would
not pay more than one month's deposit for a 2-year lease. The Owner would
not yield. So it was a one-year lease for one month's deposit.
The expat was in China but Jane had no email to contact him.
My computer crashed as the virus came in. I could not help her.
"Just be relaxed and don't follow up too aggressively," I told Jane.
The expat was excited in getting a good renovated apartment at a great
location within his budget. The Owner was hoping for better offers.
The expat even give a promissory note to enable the Agency to pay the
first month's deposit so as to secure the unit.
So much hassles. The case was closed with the expat just shown one
apartment by Jane in 2 hours.
The owner paying Jane some marketing fees. It was hard earned money
for a "sick" realtor, but this was bread for the family.
Learn how to use the internet to source for properties and market yourself
to the expats or other customers.
The Internet is said to level the playing field.
It gives you access to customers that once were the catch of big firms
with expensive advertising budgets and international links. Owners'
information was once out of the reach of the small mom-and-dad realty
firms, but not anymore. Get what the customer wants, you close the
case.
Are you a believer in the power of the Internet or not? Jane is in
the era of the black and white television. It is very difficult to
learn new techniques involved in the internet era. The younger
realtors will be the ones who will harness the power and make a living and
the money in the new millennium.
Update in 2004. All professional realtors now use the internet to source
information to earn a living in a very competitive environment.
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a FREE house-hunting for expats relocating to Singapore, email
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The puppy is immediately free to roam the whole apartment and some family
members are unhappy as the puppy urinates and passes stools on the rug and
everywhere except on newspapers (with or without toilet training aids
bought at the pet shop) placed on the floor. The reason is that most
puppies have had been housed on wire flooring in cages at the breeders and
pet shops and have no association of relieving themselves on newspapers.
Here is one method of paper training the puppy for first-time puppy
owners.
