Sunday, September 7, 2008

No Diapers Please - Eight Steps to Take to Toilet Train Your Dog

By Bonnie Feltz

1. First time your puppy comes home familarize them with there surroundings. This will get your dog comfortable with his new environment.

2. Take them to the place you want them to use for their potty area. Allow them time to sniff around and if they are excited enough they may go. Many times the puppy will need to after the car ride home.

2. When calling your dog to go potty. You need to be consistent. Use a word or short phrase ie. potty or go potty. Does not matter what you say as long as it is the same words each time.

3. When your dog goes potty praise him. Act excited and happy. They will respond positively to this. Your puppy wants to please you.

4. Remember puppies have small bladders and need to go more often. Make sure you take them outside frequently.

5. If you can ask a friend to look in on the puppy if you are gone for the day. This would be great.

6. When no one is home and watching them. It is a good idea to put puppy in a room. Any accidents can be mopped easily. Such as a bathroom with tiled floor for easy cleanup.

7. Paper training or cage training are the methods used in house training your puppy.

8. If the dog gets excited when you get home. Let him out as soon as possible. This will prevent accidents. If someone is home ask that the dog be taken out before you get home.

9. Dogs are individuals. Some dogs take longer to train than others. Some breeds of dog are more easily trained than other breeds.

10. Love and patience is the most important part of training. With out that you will not have a happy house trained dog.

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