Successfully Housebreaking Your Puppy
April 21st, 2010
It takes time and patience to housebreak a puppy. It is important to understand that the learning skills of your puppy may be entirely different from the skills of another; therefore, training should not be rushed.
To start the housebreaking process, you have to keep your puppy in a small room in your home. This place should be secured not by a closed door, but a baby gate. In this new place, your puppy will learn to stand up, run around and curl up; it must be comfortable in this place before it can begin to learn.
It is believed that the best way of housebreaking a puppy is to set a routine and stick to it. This routine should consist of habits that your puppy can be familiarized with. If you are consistent with your training methods, you will find that your puppy will learn faster. Regularly changing a puppy’s routine will confuse it, and confused puppies make slow, if any, progress.
The next step you need to take to housebreak your puppy is to determine the area of your yard that you want your puppy to use as its potty area. Your chosen place will become your puppy’s outdoors comfort zone, and is where the actual training will take place.
What you should do is take your little dog to the potty area every day. Wait around in the area until it begins to defecate or urinate, and then give the puppy a treat. You will have to do this to give your pet the cue that it is doing what you want and that you are pleased with its behavior.
Talk to your puppy as much as you can whilst its in the potty area, using phrases like ‘go pee’ and ‘go poo’. Keep the phrases short and simple, and use a consistent tone, and your puppy will quickly learn to recognize what you are saying.
Furthermore, it is important to ensure that the puppy is getting the right diet, so as to keep his bowel movement regular and his stool firm. This eliminates accidents of inadvertent pooping due to loose bowels.
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