Train My Puppy: A How-To on Puppy Training
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. You have to keep in mind though that this is a training issue and you have to put in a little more than just casual effort. You will need time for this, become a little more involved, and get some training tools like puppy training pads.
The New Doggie is the Boss
Two guiding rules exist for helping puppies and dog owners in puppy training. The first and most important rule is not to punish your puppy unless you actually catch her in the act! Two, always remember to praise your puppy for good behavior. Don’t fall into the trap of only responding with ‘no’ when you see your pet doing something you don’t want them to do. Let them know through praises and rewards when they do something right.
Housebreaking Guidelines for Your New Puppy
There are different ways to housebreak puppies. When starting indoors, encourage your pup to use puppy training pads or papers to go to the bathroom on. Puppy pads generally are treated with scented chemicals that lure pups and get them to use the pads. 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.
After things are progressing well and the puppy is using the puppy training pads or newspapers regularly, you can then locate them a little closer to the door and eventually 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. Some other popular techniques used for house training your puppy are puppy crate training or using cages which require constant looking after by the owner.
When you opt to use a crate or a cage for housebreaking your dog, take note that dogs can only hold their bladders and bowels for about seven to eight hours. Crate training usually works because dogs do not like to mess their sleeping places, then have to lie in it. Leaving them in their cage or crate for very long, however, is not good to do.
This is not to say, though, that continual supervision involves crates or cages, and paper or puppy pads. Here pet owners choose to spend all the time necessary with their pet puppies. This works good for those who are retired, work from home, or any owner that can spend lots of time with the puppy. With this method, pet owners usually hustle their puppy outside as soon as they notice the pre-potty signs. You need to keep a constant eye on your puppy to prevent any accidents or slip-ups.
To sum up, puppy housebreaking and training should be treated as part of the ‘come’ and ‘stay’ command trainings. However, toilet training and housebreaking your puppy will be the messiest types of training, and generally have more headaches than other sorts of dog training. Do not lose heart!
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