Housetraining the Dachshund and Other Dachshund Training Tasks
October 19th, 2009
The first time your dachshund gets home, you owe it the lesson of where it could properly relieve itself. But a lot of effort will go to this, since the breed is known to be stubborn and willful. If you want the dog to fully own up housebreaking (and to give dachshund training), you will have to make the dog think it is the owner of this cool idea.
The dachshund happen to also like treats, so treats need to be part of your Dachshund training regime. For example, dogs born in the spring can often be trained with the fresh fruits of summer if these are ripe enough.
To continue with the idea of housebreaking, the first thing that needs to be kept in mind is that the dog must never develop the habit of peeing in the house. Every single spot a puppy is sniffing and circling is a potential place to pee.
A lot of people crate-train their dachshunds in order to prevent accidents from happening. If not, you will need to bring the puppy out every few minutes, and reward it with high praises when they do they relieve themselves on the spot taught to them.
Now we turn an important matter: the puppy committing an act of misdeed in the house. But there is simply no sense nor point anymore in admonishing a dog for a mess that happened even only a minute ago. Dogs simply cannot make a connection between a reprimand and something that happened “way back”! The solution? Tell them firmly “No!” only when the dog is caught in the act.
Another Dachshund training method that has its share of supporters is the paper training. In this method, an entire floor in a room is covered with newspapers and the puppy is free to pee or poo in any paper-covered area. Each day, the papers are removed bit by bit, until such time that the dog can only relieve itself in a section of the papers that is distinctly in the middle of the room. Then, this last remaining section is moved outside, with the assumption that the dog will look for it outside when it wants to relieve itself.
The challenge of paper training is that you will have to prepare a room in your house that you hav no qualms getting doused in dog urine from ten up to three weeks. This plan also assumes that the dog is aware of the link between the urge and the act (read: it will ultimately learn to pee and poo wherever the final section of papers are placed.)
Crate training houses the dog in a crate, which ought to be spacious enough to allow the dog to turn around and stand up in. Looking for the correct crate size can be a challenge, what with the dog’s unique shape!
By keeping the crate open even if the dog is out, dogs are allowed to develop a certain fondness for sleeping or hiding in the crate, though they would definitely go for the furniture if given the choice. Crating a dachshund puppy while you are out will keep out any chance of the dog nosing around and ending up chewing furniture or appliance cords.
In any case, you need a plan of attack that calls for plenty of praise plus plenty of looking out for the dog not to make mistakes.
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