Unfortunately, I haven’t raised a Boxer. Based on my experience with my dogs most 6-8 week old puppies will have plenty of accidents during training. Most puppies that young do not have full control of their bladder and often won’t know they have to potty until it’s too late. If you’re having any specific problems with potty training your Boxer pup then let me know and I’ll try to get you an answer.

After about 10 minutes or so having my puppy outside in a designated area to do her business without success, why does she go in the house after about a minute or so of coming in? So frustrating!
Thank you, Cynthia

I would love to hear the outcome of this situation. Has it changed? What did you do? I’m having the same issue!

I’ll go back through the article and try to clarify. Here’s what we do with our puppies: When we first get them home we get them into a routine of using the same door and take them to the same potty spot every time until they start getting the hang of potty training and understand that the outside spot is the place to go. Once they start to “get” that outside is the place to go potty we start introducing new surfaces. Our current puppy, Anna first learned to potty directly on the concrete in our side yard. We like starting with concrete as our first surface because puppies usually have a more difficult time going potty on concrete vs grass. After about 2 weeks we started taking her to the grass to potty then later we started taking her to a gravel area in our backyard. Since then we’ve also had her potty on the blacktop, mulch, and artificial grass surfaces. Thank you for bringing this up. I’ll go back through the article and make clarifications.

You say to train them to go on a variety of surfaces but then later say to take them to same spot every time?

This blog post is one of the best resources, other than buying a book, we have found for puppy owners to learn the basics of potty training a puppy. Taking your new puppy out every 10 min while they are actively playing is a great idea to start to build the habit for them to go potty outside. We will share the link to this blog post with new puppy owners.

Sorry for the confusion. You want to take your puppy out about every 10 minutes (sometimes more often) when they are playing. If they are quietly relaxing or chewing on a toy they usually won’t need to go out as often. I try to extend the amount of time between potty breaks in the first week, however, every puppy is different. Some will pee more often while others will be able to hold it longer earlier on. Keep an eye on your puppy and you’ll start to notice their pre-potty behaviors and that’s when you want to be sure to get them outside to their potty spot. Good luck with you training!