Simple House Training Advice
One of your first jobs as a dog owner is house training your puppy, and even if you do nothing else in terms of dog training, you’ll have to do this. That is, unless you are prepared to live with an animal that has no control over her toilet habits.
Fortunately, house training is not that difficult. All it takes is a proper method, plus some patience and success is literally guaranteed.
In fact, all you have to do to ensure success, is to tap into your dog’s natural behavior. For starters, dogs are, by nature, clean animals and will never “do their business” close to where they eat and sleep, except in extreme circumstances.
Secondly, dogs love to please us and will do whatever it takes to make us happy.
There are a number of common methods for house training a dog, but whichever method you choose, keeping these two principles in mind will greatly increase your prospects of success.
Here are the most common puppy house training methods;
Constant Supervision
Crate Training
Paper Training Method
Litter Box Method
Now the method you choose is up to you, but as someone who has trained many dogs, using all of these techniques, I’ve found crate training to be most effective. Crate training just plain works, because it draws strongly on the aspects of canine behavior I mentioned earlier.
With crate training your puppy you use these behavioral aspects to your advantage – a much better approach than chasing your dog and trying to haul him outdoors, or to the paper every time he squats down.
Don’t feel you have to go with crate training though, because the other methods also work. Just choose the one you feel comfortable with. Whichever method you choose though, you will need to remain consistent, patient and positive. Shouting will achieve nothing other than making the dog afraid of you.
Never forget that she’s just a baby. You wouldn’t punish a baby that messed her diaper, or scream at her and rub her nose in it. So why would you do that to a little dog?
The puppy doesn’t yet know that she has done something wrong. But persist with your training and she’ll soon get the picture. Dogs are a lot smarter than we give them credit for. So stick with it and you’ll see results.
Want to get even faster results?
Then give credit where it’s due.
Your dog is desperate for your approval. So praise her when she gets it right and she will want to repeat the action over and over again just to earn more praise.
And don’t be stingy with the praise either. You need to make it very obvious that you are pleased with her behavior, so be enthusiastic, be effusive, be downright over the top!
Later, when you start obedience training, your puppy will already know that obedience equals praise, so in effect house training actually sets the scene for all your training efforts to come.
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