How long did it take to potty train your French Bulldog, Or dog?

The key to rock-solid housetraining is to start the day your pup comes home and stick with the program. Using a crate is the easiest method.

Here’s a link that gives you out the guidelines. good luck!

You are doing great. i think if you stick with that it’ll work. Eventually he’ll do it on his own. Remember it’s only been a week. Good luck!

-We have an English Bulldog, and used crate training! BESt thing I have ever done for potty-training, and for keeping him out of trouble when we are away. Don;t use it since he is grown, but great tool for a puppy! We got him at 11 weeks, and it was pretty quick when he realized that outside was the place to go! Just be very consistent, and praise him whenever he does his business outside. When he goes out, and it’s a false alarm, be patient! When he takes forever, be patient. He’ll get it if you are concistent and patient!

Would you mind coming over to my house and teaching that to some of my dogs? I have a doggie door and I still get the pees in the house!

Very good training. Excellent. He is certainly on the right path in the fat little head!

I do the bell to but if still goes on the carpet you should have a metal coffee can filed with loose change when he (she) is about to go shake the can so it scare him (her) then you show her the bell take him (her) out and reward him (her)

My boyfriend and I had our dogs trained within a month. We were constantly on them, taking them outside, crate training, but we skipped the part where they told us when they wanted out because we had a doggie dog installed and they quickly learned they could go into the backyard whenever they wanted or needed to…..best thing we ever put in the house.

No matter how you do it, it’s just time and patience. I’ve had friends who spent months getting their dogs house broke and others who spent weeks. Just keep on him and it’ll happen, good luck

My dog is 2. It took about 3 weeks to potty train my Bulldog/Boxer mix. When I caught him doing his thing in the house, I took him to it and said “NO!” Then immediately took him outside. Started taking him for a walk at regular times and saying, “Come on. Let’s go ***.” When he did, I did a lot of “Good boy! Good ***.” Seems the walk stimulates the urge… Now, he just comes and looks at me and I ask him and we go out. Also, for night-time, I started taking him out and then giving him a treat when we got back in. It was a special treat I ONLY used at night. This solved the middle of the night whinings. Good luck to you!

My 9 week old puppy isn’t fully potty trained yet, but he started going to the door on his own a day after I got him. I’ve had him 5 days now and he only had one half accident early this morning (I caught him halfway and brought him outside) so he’s getting really great at going outside to potty and letting me know he needs to.

I use the same method as you but instead of a bell I just have him scratch the door. I’d love to use a bell, but, I didn’t have time to go out and find one. I needed something quick so I just taped cardboard to the door to protect it. When he’s a bit older and knows not to potty in the house I’ll teach him to stop scratching.

Sooo….yea, your dog will get there eventually
It’s the most effective method, imo.

I have never owned a French Bulldog, but I do own a bully breed. I own a 3 year old male American Pit Bull Terrier that my husband and I bought when he was about 8 weeks old. Our APBT was very easy to housebreak. Out of all of the dogs I have owned (Labs, various mixed breeds, etc), our APBT has been the easiest to train and has learned the fastest.

To housebreak Brooklyn we just took him out every couple hours and right after he ate or drank a significant amount of water. We would closely monitor when and how much he ate and drank. We fed him twice a day and we fed him a set amount of food at each meal (we still do that to this day). And would give him a certain amount of time to finish each meal before taking his bowl up, that way he didn’t just eat randomly throughout the day (we also still do that). Also, at night, about a hour before bed, we would make sure he drank plenty of water and then take the water bowl up for the night. We got a crate that we would put him in at night, if we had to go somewhere or if we were too busy at the moment to be able to watch him very closely. We would let him out every time before he went in his crate and as soon as we took him out of his crate.

Now, to go into some more detail, when we would let him out every couple hours, we would tell him “let’s go outside” or “let’s go potty” and then take him straight outside. When we were outside we would tell him to “go potty” and once he went we would praise him and then take him back inside. Because of that, now he knows exactly what “let’s go outside” and “go potty” means. During the day, when he was out and around the house with us, we kept a very close eye on him. We paid close attention to when he drank some water, that way we could take him out after, etc. And we would watch for signs that he needed to go out. For example, if he started to sniff around a lot, circle around in one spot, etc, we knew he most likely needed to go out and would take him out before he had an accident. If Brooklyn did have an accident in the house, we would clap once loudly to startle him while he was in the act, then we would say “no” in a stern, but not mean voice, and take him straight outside to finish. While outside, just like with his regular potty breaks, we would tell him to “go potty”, praise him when he was done and then take him back inside. Another thing that we did that I personally feel is very important is we never ever punished him for an accident in the house, we corrected him. Also, we only corrected him if we caught him in the act. To correct him after the fact does nothing but confuse him. And last but not least, we would clean up any accidents extremely well with cleaner that was made especially for puppy/dog accidents. That way he wouldn’t smell that spot and be tempted to go there again.

So, that is basically what we did to housebreak our dog, and it worked very well for us. We only had a few accidents in the beginning, and he was basically 100% house broken within a week. Anyway, I hope this helps you out some. Good luck with your pup and enjoy being a dog owner! : )

Kay H, I haven’t had any problems with my french bulldog.

my french bulldog is almost 9 months and he just now is starting to use the puppy pads!! I have had him for almost 2 months and he just now is learning!! Any hints would be great to get him trained completly!!