Puppy Potty Training

Sometimes dogs just don’t do what you want them to and you might be at a total loss as to what to do next. Don’t despair—the aim of the Puppy potty training is two-fold:

1) It aims at preventing your pup from making mistakes.

2) It aims at establishing a routine that will slowly get
ingrained in the dog’s system.

Nowhere does it say that you have to force your dog to do your bidding. In fact you can’t. All you can do is prevent the undesirable potty behavior from happening and keep up the routine until the dog instinctively follows it. No amount of rubbing his nose in the carpet or beating his behind with a rolled up newspaper is going to help. It will only make the dog resent you, fear you, or both. This would result in the dog becoming defensive and not obeying you at all. Punishments backfire—so do not opt for it.

Instead, all you need to do is prevent the undesirable behavior by:

1) Not letting your dog run around the house unsupervised until he or she is housetrained. This will help to prevent the puddles in the corners and the pooped carpets as well as the chewed up slippers. You must understand the accidents are setbacks to the housetraining process because the accident sites are like magnets and make a dog repeat the actions there again. So no running around until the dog is trained.

2) Making sure that you keep the dog’s crate and his designated space in an area that has a tiled or linoleum floor, which can be easily cleaned—as in the kitchen.

3) Ensuring that the elimination spot is reachable and adjacent to the dog’s designated area.

4)  Praising the desirable behavior of your dog because that makes him understand that this is the behavior that he would repeat to get the praise again.

5) The reason you can only teach your dog by establishing a routine to repeat again and again is because dogs really have no sense of what is desirable and what is not desirable. They can only be trained to learn what you like and what you don’t like.

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