Dog Training: Housetraining Puppy

Puppy Potty Training:

Just like babies, puppies need to be ”Potty Trained.“ Puppies do not come into the world knowing everything and housetraining puppy is one of the very first ”training“ tasks ahead of you when you get your puppy. You can get yourself a good e-book such as SitStayFetch to help you with all the info you need on training your dog. This article is meant to be an introduction to give you an idea of how to housetrain your puppy.

It is a funny thing if you come to think of it, but, just like babies, dogs need a routine to make them feel comfortable.  Keeping to a routine also makes housetraining your puppy easier. Keep things to the same routine everyday and puppy should settle in very soon making housetraining much easier.

Remember that that young puppies need to go to the toilet more than older dogs. There is an easy way to work out how often you need to take puppy to the potty. You have to take puppies age and add one, this will give you the number of hours that puppy can wait before you take him to the potty again. 

Set feeding times when you can be home to take puppy to the bathroom.  The hard part will be to maintain the same schedule on the weekends.  You may be tempted to sleep in, but for the sake of puppy and the various corners of your home, keep to the status quo.

When you get an e-book such as SitStayFetch you will know how to use praise and humane discipline when puppy deserves it. When you take puppy out, always take him to the same spot that you have designated as puppy’s ”bathroom.“ You have to be patient and give puppy enough time to finish his business. Use the same demand every time you take puppy out to reinforce the training and praise him when he is doing well.

Do this as many times a day as you need until puppy has been trained to remember the spot. This also means that you have to use the same route to the spot every time you take puppy to the bathroom.  Keeping everything the same will help speed up the process and make it easier for puppy to learn.  Be patient with puppy as he learns this all new routine. For more tips and advice you can have a look at SitStayFetch.

Remember, puppy will make mistakes; he is only a puppy after all. Yelling at puppy will only make the situation worse.  Rubbing his nose in his mess, besides being gross, is no way to discipline puppy. Make sure you know exactly how to handle each situation by getting SitStayFetch to offer you much needed advice. Training puppy right from the very beginning makes life easier for everyone.

Wait until puppy is somewhere else in the room and then clean up his mistake.  Continue with your housetraining routine as before.  Cleaning up all of the mess keeps puppy from coming back to that spot later.  He is little, but he will learn.

Another very important factor you have to remember is to be able to see the tell-tale signs when puppy needs to go to the bathroom. Every puppy will have his own way, he may whine, scratch at the floor or the door or he may wiggle. Pay attention and you’ll soon be able to see the tell-tale sign with ease. Don’t trust puppy to make it outside by himself.  If he starts to go in the house, scoot him outside quickly to the bathroom area so he can finish. Housetraining puppy can be trying at times and patience is a virtue in this case.  As you continue with the routine, your hard work will pay off with a well trained puppy.

Housetraining puppy may be difficult, but the reward afterward is well worth the effort. Doing this the wrong way can really make life very difficult for you and your family, not even to mention poor puppy! Educate yourself with a book such as SitStayFetch and set puppy and the whole family up for a long and happy relationship.

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