About 90% of American pet puppies live indoors with their owners. Dogs kept inside with your family and you need to be housebroken. The process of potty training a puppy is a prospect that intimidates many dog owners. It’s not that bad and it’s not too messy; and do not need to battle with your dog in order to housebreak him. Training needs to receive a significant amount of time devoted to it in order for it to be successful. You will need time for this, become a little more involved, and get some training tools like puppy training pads.
The Puppy is Boss
For those who own dogs or puppies, there are two major puppy training guidelines to follow. Remember to never punish your puppy for something you didn’t see him do. Secondly, always tell puppy how good he is for the things he did correctly. Do not train by only using “no” when you see your dog doing something it should not be doing. Praise them or offer them a reward when they do the right thing.
Housebreaking Guidelines for Your New Puppy
There are many different techniques to house train your pup. When starting indoors, encourage your pup to use puppy training pads or papers to go to the bathroom on. Puppy pads are usually scented with chemicals that attract little doggies to use them. When you notice them doing their pre-potty routine of sniffing and walking around, take them gently, without saying a word, to the puppy training pads or newspaper and praise them for going to the bathroom correctly.
When the new dog is comfortable with the papers or puppy training pads, they can then be put near the door or even outside. This transition is done from focusing toilet habits at one spot inside the home to one spot outside the home. Soon, you’ll have no use for training papers and pads inside the house.
The drawback of this approach to housebreaking is that more time is required to get the pup to do his business inside. When house training puppies, other widely used techniques might work; you could, for example, use puppy crate training or cages, always accompanied by the owner’s close supervision.
When using a cage or crate to housebreak your puppy, realize that puppies can’t go for more than about seven to eight hours without using the bathroom. Crate training usually works because dogs do not like to mess their sleeping places, then have to lie in it. However it is not recommended to leave them in a cage or crate longer than necessary.
The use of crates/cages and papers/puppy pads is not required if you have constant supervision. It is here that dog owners opt to spend whatever time is necessary with their pups. This works good for those who are retired, work from home, or any owner that can spend lots of time with the puppy. Pet owners can normally usher their dog outside as soon as the pre-potty signs are noticed with this technique. Puppies should be watched at all times to ensure that no accidents or slip-ups occur.
To summarize, housebreaking and training your puppy should be included along with teaching them the basic commands like ‘come’ and ’stay’. However, housebreaking and potty training a puppy are always the messiest lessons, and will usually give you more problems than any other form of dog training. Do not lose heart!
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