Potty training a dog

Paper training a dog

House training your dog.

When you bring your new puppy into the house you should at first limit its run of the house. You should limit its 'teritory'. To have the run of the whole house would be to much at the beginning. When it comes to house training, giving the dog a smaller territory will help.

There are several methods you can use to successfully house train your puppy. One of the most will known methods is the paper training method. This involves putting several layers of newspaper in an area of your house. You may also want to place some layers of paper in a certain area outside (weather permitting). you may well have to anchor the four corners with stones or other weight.

Observe your puppy and you will notice that instinctively, before it relieves itself it will go to the borders of its territory, the walls and start sniffing, looking for a place to go. It might even start turning in circles. This tell tale behaviour will soon become apparent and if you are aware at the time you will be able to catch it in time. Take your puppy, give it the command, 'OUTSIDE' and take it immediately outside to the paper you laid down previously. As soon as it has finished then you should praise the puppy telling it 'GOOD OUTSIDE'.

If the puppy doesn't manage to do anything then wait a few minutes and then bring it inside. D however keep an eye on it as it will probably need to go soon.
Also keep an eye on the dog just after it wakes up, even if it has only been a short nap. The dog will almost definitely need to go upon awaking.

You will obviously not be around all of the time to check on the puppy, you will sometimes find little surprises around the room. When this happens, or when you catch the dog 0in the act' then you should take the puppy to the 'accident spot', show it what it has done and stay sternly 'BAD PUPPY - NO' and then plant the pup on its paper. After a few times of doing this the puppy will start to associate and will always head towards the paper to do relieve itself. If the weather permits and you are constantly taking the puppy outside to do its business then in time it will approach the door when it needs to go, it may even scratch at the door or start to whine or bark to get you to open the door.

House training your puppy or potty training a dog as with all aspects of dog training will be much more successful if positive reinforcement is used. That is of rewarding the dog when it performs correctly instead of punishing it for misbehaving.

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