Nearly all of the puppies owned by Americans make their home indoors. 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 is not that difficult, it doesn't have to be messy and housebreaking can be accomplished without a struggle. Training needs to receive a significant amount of time devoted to it in order for it to be successful. It requires time, involvement, and some tools of the trade such as puppy training pads.

The Puppy is Boss

Two guiding rules exist for helping puppies and dog owners in puppy training. First and most importantly, don't punish your pup for something you did not catch him do! 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/House Training your Puppy

Many methods exist for housebreaking your puppy. At the beginning, encourage the puppy to "go" on newspapers or puppy training pads. These pads are treated with chemicals that make puppies want to use them to do their business. 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. The change is made from concentrating on bathroom habits at a location inside the house to a location outside the house. You'll soon see that you won't need the training pads or papers in the house anymore.

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 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. This method usually works as most dogs treat cages and crates as their sleeping places and they do no want to soil their beds because they will be forced to lie in the mess. Leaving them in their cage or crate for very long, however, is not good to do.

The use of crates/cages and papers/puppy pads is not required if you have constant supervision. In this case, the owners elect to be with their puppies for as much time as necessary. 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. A constant watch must be kept on puppies to make sure that there are no accidents or slip-ups.

To sum up, puppy housebreaking and training should be treated as part of the 'come' and 'stay' command trainings. But puppy potty triaining and housebreaking will be the most difficult forms of dog training due to the fact that they are simply the messiest. Do not lose heart!

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