Puppy beach training

[Vincentc]

Marie's new puppy went with us for the first time on Lilly Marie to the island yesterday. He is a 3 month old Cavalier/Poodle named Bates. He did fine on the boat; however after the hour boat ride, I took Bates to the island for him to take care of business. He enjoyed the beach, played, ran and sniffed around, but no intended activity. Over a 3 hour span I took Bates on the beach 3 times, but it never happened. He did fine on the boat ride home and after being on hold for about 5 hours, did as expected once on the grass by the dock.

There is no lawn grass on the sand island, any suggestions for the next trip. I am tempted to bring a square of sod.

Thanks,

 

[magnawake]

Sounds like a good idea. Our Lab was used to going on pine straw. We had a pine forrest behind our house. I had strongly encouraged him NOT to go on the grass, because Lab urine burns the grass. We then moved, he kept looking for pine straw (but couldnt find any). I then decided he needed to do his business in one particular area of the yard. I bought some pine straw, spread it around, and the Lab was happy as a kid in a candy store. I think some people have fake grass they throw out on their deck on long cruises. Jeff seigal, who manages "active captain" website cruises with two large Labs. You might read what they do. I cant imagine how they do it.

 

[bigbill]

vincent, get a door mat that looks like grass,punch a hole in it and tie a piece of string through it. train him to use it, after he is done, throw the mat overboard to wash it and retrieve it with the string. dont do this close to shore, you might get in trouble

 

[Vincentc]

Thanks,
A door mat sounds easier than a square of grass sod.

 

[Canuck Dennis]

We had same issue, finally found that taking him over to shrubs, stumps of trees etc, finally did the job.

 

[doc g]

I have litter box trained our new puppy. He will go on command now. It's great !!It was the ONLY way I was having a dog onboard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7YfOLqQJts This guy is annoying but this what we did. We move it around so its the litterbox not the spot.I use a cut up mattress pad instead of litter we just have 5-6 of them and change them out every other day...........Pat