[sdamon10]

I own a wolf hybrid named Sparta. She is 13 weeks and a handful! We are having a horrible time potty training her. We have had her since she was 7 weeks and 6 weeks later she still goes in the house. Sometimes she goes to the door and whines, so we take her out and she does nothing. As soon as we bring her back inside she runs goes to another room and does her business! Sometimes I am outside for 15 minutes with her, but she does nothing. She goes inside more than outside and it is annoying!

[shazamataz]

A wolf hybrid at 7 weeks? Oh dear, I can see this being interesting.

Any breed of dog should not leave home until at least 8 weeks of age. It's not just until they are weaned like many people think, but they learn critical life lessons in those last few weeks they are with their mother and litter mates.
Bite inhibition is the biggest and probably the most important thing they learn, they learn this from their siblings.

Too late now though, just something to think about in the future. Good breeders don't sell before 8 weeks.

I'm going to cut and paste some information I typed up about potty training for you...

When toilet training a puppy you have two options...
Start training the puppy to go do their business outside from the start, or get them to use puppy training pads.

Puppy training pads are cloth pads with a plastic backing, they encourage your dog to relieve them self in one area only without damaging your carpet. You can use something like newspaper but unless you have it on a hard surface it will soak through.
I don't usually recommend these as they can confuse the dog, but can be handy in some situations such as living in an apartment.

If you have bought your puppy from a reputable breeder they will already have had some degree of toilet training. Most breeders will use pads or paper on one side of the room as well as having blankets for bedding on the other.
The puppies naturally train themselves to go on the paper and not their bed.

If you unfortunately bought your dog from a pet store it is much harder. These dogs are generally kept on completely news-papered areas with little or no bedding, encouraging them to just urinate where ever they please. It can be remedied, it just takes a little longer, same with a lot of rescue dogs.

You can usually tell when your dog needs to go to the toilet, even puppies. Most pups will 'sniff out' the perfect spot to potty so if you catch your pup sniffing the ground and walking in circles this is the perfect time to rush them to your designated toilet spot!

If you happen to catch your puppy urinating or defecating on the floor and not in the designated area then just tell the puppy "no" in a growly voice and pick them up and move them to where they are allowed to go.

Soe pups will be naturals and catch on very quickly, others can have quite a few accidents before finally learning what is expected of them. Never lose patience with them, they are not doing it to 'spite' you, they just simply don't understand what is expected of them.

When you dog does go in the correct place, whether it be on the paper or outside on the grass the most important thing is to praise praise praise! Make them think that they have just done the best thing in the entire world. Dogs respond a lot better being praised when they have done something right than scolded when they have done something wrong.

The biggest misconception when it comes to toilet training is to rub the dogs nose in its own excrement. DO NOT do this as it has no benefit whatsoever other than to show the dog that you are just being plain mean to it, they do not understand the concept of this sort of punishment.

The best time to take your dog out to urinate is after every nap time. Whether it be a designated nap time in a crate or the pup has just fallen asleep, you need to rush them to their 'spot' as soon as they are awake.

As for defecating, the best time would be around 20-30 minutes after eating, although this does vary a lot depending on the dog.