Housebreaking A Puppy : A Short Guide

By Mark Walters

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 learning skills of another, and that the training cannot be rushed through.

It is believed that the best approach to housebreaking a puppy is to set, and stick to, a simple routine. If you are consistent with your training methods, 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 puppy 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, or show it some love. This is necessary to let your puppy know that it is doing what you want and that you are rewarding it for doing so.

You always have to reward your dog for a job well done. It can be great if you incorporate useful words like go poo or pee in there, so that whenever the puppy hears you say those words, he knows exactly what he is supposed to do.

Another consideration you should commit to memory is the puppy's feeding schedule. Again, consistency is important. Choose your feeding times and stick to them, even if it begs for food at other times.

Feed your puppy according to a schedule so that you can start to learn its bowel and urine habits. You decrease the chances of your puppy defecating or urinating in an appropriate place if you know when it is going to have to relieve itself. - 32167

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