Training Puppies |Must Know Tips to Housetraining Your Puppy
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Most people associate training puppies with housetraining or housebreaking their own puppy. In my opinion, puppy training and puppy training techniques certainly start at that most basic step. I want to reassure you that this does not have to be a nightmare. Yes, you,me, we all do have to face a measure of pee and pooh. But if you start training your puppy properly, both you and your puppy can make it through this stage with a minimum of stress.
Training puppies, whether or not it is housebreaking or crate training or any other basic technique, reauires inexhaustible patience, a willingness to repeat training routines again and again with getting angry, and a consistent application of gentle firmness. This is especially true in housetraining your puppy because you will be setting the tone for your relationship with your dog. Keep in mind that it may take two or three weeks to housebreak your puppy, and many professional trainers do not consider a dog reliably housetrained until it has not had an accident for two or three months. Again, you must patiently apply gentle and firm reinforcement in your housebreaking.
The key to training puppies lies in routine:
Take your puppy outside on a consistent schedule, approximately every hour or every two hours depending on puppy.
Try to take your puppy on a leash to a specific spot outside to be used for elimination. If possible, play with your puppy and take it for a short walk. This will help accomplish leash training, and it will also allow your puppy to associate elimination with other pleasurable activities.
Praise your puppy every time it “goes” outside. You can even give it a treat.
Establish a regular feeding schedule. This will also allow you to predict when the puppy will need to go outside.
Generally speaking, if you are unable to watch your puppy, it is a good idea to confine it in an area large enough for it to move around but small enough that it won’t want to go to the bathroom. If your puppy is at least 8 weeks old, you may want to start crate training at this time, as well.
If your puppy goes in the house, don’t punish it. However, be sure to clean the area well. You might also want to take the paper towel or rags that you use to clean up and put them outside in the dog’s toilet spot.
When you do observe your puppy preparing to go to the bathroom inside, get its attention with a sharp noise or distracting action, and then take it outside. If possible, get it to follow you outside. Preferably, you will be able to leash it and lead it to its bathroom spot.
In some cases, it may be necessary to train your puppy to use paper. I don’t recommend this for training puppies because it lengthens the housebreaking process, but sometimes it is simply unavoidable. If you have to be away from your residence for long periods of time, make a space large enough for your puppy to have a sleeping space, a walking around space, and a toilet space. You will need to put down a plastic floor cover and on top of that papers or other absorbent material. You can put down dog litter materials, or even a box or something along the lines of a toddlers inflatable swimming pool and fill this with absorbent material for the dog to eliminate in. When you clean up after your dog, you can put some of the soiled papers in the dog toilet spot to help tell it that this is where it needs to eliminate.
If you follow this guide with common sense, I think you’ll do just fine. However, I can’t recommend enough how important it is to learn as much as you can about dog behavior. This will provide you with the foundation to understand how dog training works and insight into many other puppy training techniques.
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