You’ve got your puppy home and are busy fussing and playing with it without realizing that it has to be properly potty trained.
Both young and adult dogs need to be trained in this aspect. Below are some quick tips for dog potty training.
- You will need plenty of paper and patience in the initial days of potty training your dog. Choose an area or “den” where the puppy will spend most part of the day, and spread papers (or wee-wee pads) across the area. Notice that the puppy chooses a particular area each day to pass potty. With each passing day you can slowly remove the paper from the other areas around the room.
- Until the training is complete, restrict the movement of the puppy to other parts of the house (such as by buying a crate for the dog). This way your puppy can be completely house trained. In case of an accident, do not scold the puppy; but reward it when it behaves properly and uses the designated place.
Tips for Dog Potty Training.
- Use a pets odor remover to clean dog urine in case the puppy passed the potty at a different place. Do this to ensure that the puppy does not go at the same wrong place.
- Puppies are not in control of their bladder until they are 12 weeks old and may poop without warning.
- Monitor your pet’s behavior to find tell-tale signs before it poops. As soon as you notice the signs (sniffing in circles, for example), firmly guide the dog to the place designated for this purpose.
- It is very important to schedule the meals of the day. This is necessary to train your dog to pass potty at the same time each day. Most dogs poo 30 minutes to a hour after having their meal. Make this a routine.
- Adult dogs tend to control their bladder much better, and you can train them to eliminate when you take them for a walk.
You can use all these tips for dog potty training, but it will require patience and love on your part until your pet is on its own.
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That’s a great post.
I tend to find that puppies always want to go at certain predictable times — when they wake, after a meal or after they have been running around and playing hard.
Yep, they are definitely creatures of habit. Just get them into that routine and that's half the work.
A puppy must be taken out more often than has been suggested. It needs to be TAKEN out into a fenced garden/yard every hour, after it eats or drinks and after a nap. If a dog is taught to eliminate in the house on pads it will be very difficult to retrain it to eliminate outside.
When vets say that your puppy should not go out until after it has received shots/injections, this means it should not be allowed anywhere that has been contaminated by other dogs. It is safe to take it into your fenced garden/yard or carry it to the school gates for socialization.
Please don’t expect a puppy to become toilet trained if it is left at home when you go to work. Some people say that if a dog is crated, it will hold on. Puppies cannot do this. If any dog tries to do this, regardless of its age, it will develop bladder and bowel problems. (Big vets bills and a very sick dog.)
In addition to this, a dog left home alone will become an anti-social hooligan.
Love your dog and don’t leave it home alone.
I agree, training a dog to inside on paper makes it much harder to get them to go outside. After all, he has been taught that it’s okay to go inside. I do agree with the poster that the pup should be confined when he can’t be supervised. When he isn’t confined, he should still only have access to a small area where you can see him all the time.
I agree with Rick that starting with pads in the house can make it very hard to break the habit. I frequently receive calls from people who started with indoor pads with the intention of stopping eventually and now have trouble convincing the dog to go outside.
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