Puppy House Training - The Best Method 

When you first bring your new puppy home, you're going to be thrilled. But the moment your puppy makes the first mess on the floor, you're going to realize puppy house training is a serious need.

So, puppy house training is one of the first things you need to do. You'll see instructions about this everywhere, but I've used the house training methods below on dogs of many different breeds, and it always works. Just remember a few important things:

Watch your puppy at all times, always show them you're very pleased when they get it right, and never blame the puppy - just keep working your puppy house training program until it sticks! 

Rules for the Trainer: Puppy House Training

• Puppy house training is a family activity. Everyone in the house needs to know this stuff.
• Remember you're building new habits for your dog. Expect that to take some time.
• It must be done in a positive way. Avoid yelling or scolding which only makes things worse.
• The puppy instinct doesn't include, "I need to learn where the right place to poop and pee is." You can't judge your puppy for not knowing this before you teach him.
• Simply letting your puppy outside is not an effective way to house train your puppy. It doesn't teach them anything.
• You will be cleaning up some mistakes at first, so plan ahead for this. Have the proper cleaning and deodorizing products available to clean up the mistakes when they do happen.
• Young puppies have poor bladder and bowel control. If left inside alone, they're going to use the restroom indoors. They won't have a choice. Don't blame them.
• A puppy can hold their business for about one hour per month of age, plus another hour.
• Your puppy has a natural cycle: Food goes in, water goes in, poop comes out, water comes out. Consider removing their food and water bowl at night, to prevent accidents while you're asleep.

 Training Method: Puppy House Training

Let's go over an actual plan for how you can quickly house train your puppy. I suggest you mix house training with puppy crate training, and get a good quality crate to use in these steps. The crate is not a place for your puppy to use the restroom - as you'll see below. For a more detail look at puppy house training methods check out this awesome resource: Puppy House Training

1. Go outside and figure out where you want the puppy to go to the bathroom. Choose this in advance.
2. Restrain your puppy any time he's unattended, via the crate or a penned-in room. This helps you with your basic obedience training, as I've discussed in other articles.
3. Take the puppy outside about once per hour, either by carrying him or walking with a leash. Go pace around in the area where you want them to use the restroom (step carefully!) ;)
4. As your puppy starts to realize that he or she needs to go to the bathroom, and starts to do so, start establishing a verbal command, for example, "go potty." While your puppy is in the act of going to the bathroom, repeat the command over and over. Only associate that phrase with actually relieving himself. Congrats, you are mixing basic obedience training into the task!
5. Once they finish doing their business, heap praise and love on the puppy and perhaps reward them with a cookie. It's good to spend a little time playing with your pup right after a success, to reinforce a job well done. Then, take them back to the confined area, such as their crate.
6. Continue doing this each hour. (Obviously, they may not need to eliminate during every trip outside, so only use the command phrase when they do.) Also, don't assume that this scheduled trip outside will satisfy their needs - keep a close eye on the puppy so that you can react when they decide it's time to relieve themselves. Nature calls on its own schedule.
7. Plan to wake up during the night and repeat this puppy house training program, once or twice each night. You sleep six-to-eight hours per night, and your puppy cannot hold their business that long. So, overnight, it's important to give them the chance to be a good dog - by taking them outside and repeating the above steps. Set your alarm once or twice each night for this.

Don't forget: puppies have to use the bathroom soon after each meal or drink. After each meal, take them outside and use the steps above, with a reward for a job well done. This needs to happen about 10-20 minutes after having food and drink. Obviously you can't be there every single second of the day. Most people use a layer of newspapers or cardboard to provide an indoor bathroom for their puppy. I use the Wizdog Indoor Dog Toilet for that. Important: this area should be at least a few meters away from their bedding and food. If it's too close to their bedding and food, they won't want to use it. When you return home, resume the puppy house training steps above.

After a week or two, of the above you will see good results - if you've been consistent, using command words to encourage the act, and rewarding success. Soon, your puppy will start asking to go outside whenever they need to go to the restroom, freeing you from this schedule. Then, you can switch to asking your dog - "Go potty?" - and they will go to the door if they need to.

How To Train A Puppy Like A Professional Trainer

Nobody can ignore the energy and excitement of adding a new puppy to your family. You'll want to spend every available second with him or her - and, not just because they make you so happy, but because it takes consistent, correct training to help your puppy learn to fit in.

To train your puppy right, you need to train yourself to do it right. Even little humans must be taught where to go to the bathroom, and what they should and shouldn't chew on! Your puppy wants to make you happy. A dog will respond to training because they're loyal, smart animals - but they are still animals, and they don't start out very civilized. Starting from the very first hour as a member of your family, you need to take the right steps to help your puppy understand the rules.

 

How to train a puppy? Starting immediately, that's how!

The first days of your puppy's life in your home, will be with that puppy forever.

The first thing to know is this: when it comes to following the basic rules of living in a human home, there isn't a puppy alive that can train itself. Puppies are little beasts, not funny-shaped humans. They're going to do all the wrong things until you show them otherwise.

To put that another way: It's not the puppy's responsibility to become trained. It's your responsibility to train them in a loving way that builds a family relationship, with training methods that make sense to your little canine student. And, very importantly, you have to start right away.

You want a happy, smart, well-adjusted friend. Your puppy wants that too. If you let your puppy get away with bad behavior for a while, they'll be confused later when you suddenly start to correct them. Starting immediately is key, because just as training your puppy is habit-forming, non-training is habit-forming too.

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