How do i potty train my 8 week old american bulldog?

Take up ALL the paper and pads, for starters. Using them may seem convenient for you, but fact is you are sending him mixed messages. One minute it's fine to empty indoors, and the next it's not. You need to crate him overnight, door shut, and GET UP during the night, at least once, and take him outside to empty. He should not be given the opportunity to mess indoors - ever. There will be mistakes, and when that happens, just clean it up without comment, unless you catch him in the act in which case you say No! and carry him outside immediately. As far as the steps are concerned - make a ramp!! It comes as part and parcel with puppy Bassets - and we still have a ramp for ours, at over 2 years now, to use outside the back door. He can make it down the three steps, obviously, but he's a bit reluctant, so I've left the ramp in place. He's a baby, and some find new experiences more difficult to cope with than others. Just go with it, encourage him and reassure him, without babying him so he starts to think new things are scary!! And take him out every hour during the day, after every nap (don't wake him up if he sleeps on beyond an hour lol), feed and short periods of play. The fewer opportunity he has to mess (make a mistake) indoors, the faster he'll get the hang of where he's meant to empty. There will be mistakes, but his mistakes are your mistakes!!

Crate your puppy 15-20 hours a day. When you get up in am take him out to do his Buisness, bring him back in, let him eat and drink and then back out, then straight to the kennel, after about 2-3 hours in the Kennedy take him back outside and give him water. Play some and them back outside for potty them straight back to crate. Not letting him out more than 2 hours. Crate for 2-3 more hours and keep repeating. Just remember crate, eat/water, outside, crate. At night get up once or twice with him.

Stop using the pads, they are teaching him that it's ok to go inside the house. Next, you need to constantly watch him - he will need to pee: After drinking After eating After sleeping After playing Watch for a distracted look on his face, if he stops playing or loses interest in what he's doing, he probably needs to go. If he starts to sniff the ground, he needs to pee. If he starts to circle, he needs to poop. It's hard, but you literally need to watch him every second. When you see that he needs to go, pick him up and put him outside, as he might pee on the way to the garden if not. Keep him confined to the room that you are in, so that you can always see what he's doing. If he has an accident in the house, just totally ignore it. By punishing him you are only teaching him to hide and pee when you are not around. When he goes outside make a huge fuss. As for the night time, you will need to get up every 4 hours and let him outside. Most dogs will last through the night after about 16 weeks.

Your question is entirely too wordy and too long. I have also read a lot about training and found that there is little, if any, contradiction, so I must assume you are using this as an excuse for your inability, or unwillingness to train properly. In addition, 8 weeks is very young for a dog to be taken from its mother. I'm sure you read that 12 weeks is now the accepted standard to allow for critical socialization and behavioral lessons by the puppy's mother. Finally, an 8-week old puppy's organs and brain are not yet mature enough to hold its pee or poop. Many first timers spend countless amounts of money on all the latest gimmicks, and in frustration, either quit or begin punishing their dogs, or worse yet, rehoming them.

Here's what's worked for me. You don't want to start off with him pottying in the house especially considering his eventual adult size. 1. Crate train. Wilson should be confined, preferably in a crate, or tethered to you (I use both) most of the time. He should have absolutely no unsupervised freedom at this age. 2. Schedule everything including food, water, play, training, etc. Now that does not mean giving less food or less water or even less play and fun. It just means scheduling when it's given so you know when he'll need to go out. 3. Take the pup out to wherever you want him to do his business. Then wait for him to do it. While waiting, repeat a word or phrase such as "do your business." When he does it, praise and treat. 4. If he sometimes does his business and then comes inside and does it again right away try this. After her he does his business, play a short game of any kind that gets him moving. Then go back to the potty area and repeat #3. 5. IF you catch him in the act of going in the house, give a firm voice correction (or at MOST a slight scruff shake), pick him up mid business and take him outside to finish. Then reward. Take him out often including at least once during the night at this young age.