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House breaking

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Question
Hello, I just got a Cavalier Kings charles, and I never had pets before. Please I need some help with house breaking. We have 2 little girls (3 and 4 years old), i wanted to train her to do her necesities outside and on the wee wee pads, so if we leave the house for the day, she want need to hold herself so long. She is about 14 weeks old. So far she is doing pipi /puppy outside, and pipi on the wee wee pada if she only put her there after being a while on the crate.
Thank you very much,

Answer
Well,what you would have to do is decide on what way you would prefer to go,mixing both methods will confuse her.

Crate training is the fastest way I have found of training a puppy what you do is keep them in there all of the time except to feed her and give her water,to take her outside every few hours,to play with her ect and do that for about three weeks and slowly give her more time out of the crate,but if accidents reoccur back in the crate she goes for another ten days

Now the puppy pad/paper method is an old one,but it does work as well. What works best is penning or gating off a small area of the house,and put down the papers/pads and once she learns to go on them(you can encourage her to go on them by placing her on them when she sniffs or circles ect)slowly start moving them towards the door and that will push her to go outside.

If you go with the puppy pads/paper method you can put her crate down in the little area but keep it open and don't put papers in her crate,as that will confuse her and cause her to soil her crate,thus defeating the purpose