How to use a Puppy Potty tray with your new Puppy 

Oh dear, I apologize that I am late responding. That is a loaded question since I don't know your dogs set up. Does it use a crate or is it confined to a nap during naptime. There is so much that has to be in place. Look at the video of my potty training schedule, so that you start with that first. When your puppy knows the go potty on command you can tell her to go potty on the tray. But at 8 months there are a lot of habits in place and this will take a discussion to know what your situation is.

@@growingpuppies1773 I don't even know where to start. Thanks for your supportive comment! Tsetse is going to be a year old at the end of this month. And she is not trained at all. The worse issues we have is aggressive behaviors, destruction of valued antique chairs and such, and biting us. attacking us at times. She still goes outside on a leash with Bill...but comes in and goes on the floor. Even after a nice long walk. Before we even went to look at puppies after my husband and I were unsuccessful at finding a small middle aged dog at the shelters (we looked for months! so hard to find smaller dogs for adoption). I fell for one at the humane soc. and I am still mourning not being able to get him. They told us at the counter that he was spoken for and nothing would change their minds even though I was blubbering and standing there shattering before them. I hope his new owner loves him as much as I would have. Bill will not follow any of the research I did for many hours on how to train a pup. To crate train her...he thinks that is cruel. I think it makes perfect sense. Instead he puts her in his bed and closes all the doors leading into the rest of the house...I know this is long, but I appreciate you listening. I can't fix this as this is HIS dog. She kinda loves me, but only if he is away from home. And at times she has attacked me. She's not big, but neither am I! I am not able to keep up with her, so it is better that she is confined in the nice bedroom and I go in and check on her. Sometimes I do lay down with her, but usually not. It's sad, but it is what it is. I still have hope for her. If anything were to happen to my husband I would adopt her out...Should have gotten a cat! I told him so!

@@lorenrobertson8039 oh dear. It’s your husband that needs dog training before the dog can be trained. But as you said, it is his dog. So he is in charge. But honestly that is terrible that the dog is aggressive to you. Hubby should get training in how to address this or he should not have a dog. It’s just not fair to you. I am sorry you are going through this. But I guess you are being patient with it. In my house I am the dog trainer and my husband knows that I understand dogs. My dogs love their crates and will take naps there in their own. But the older a puppy gets…the harder it is to break bad habits. Good luck to you. Hope you are doing well otherwise.

@@growingpuppies1773 She bites him too, sometimes it's play, but at other times it's a strange aggression...I think we are too old to give her enough exercise tbh. If it were up to me we would re-home her and get us a nice older cat that we could love on and give a good home to. We do love her and give her a lot of attention and positive reinforcement. When able we play with her...but she tore up all of the toys we got her but two hard ones. I'm going to order her some more sturdy ones for her upcoming birthday. Thank you for speaking with me!!! You are a blessing. I am trying to train her. But unless we are both using the same words and behaviors it won't help train her much. He loves her so much...I know she will grow up to be a good companion one day. She is well fed, well loved, and we have a lot of patience with her. It is not a hopeless situation. Pray for all the folks dealing with major flooding and tornado devastation. ty