How to housebreak a puppy

Time and patience is paramount when learning how to housebreak a puppy. Teaching your puppy a time and place to relieve itself is relatively easy, it does demand regular and sustained effort from you in the first few days of the schooling.

Most puppys will understand what is asked of them in a few weeks with consistent schooling. If you do have problems teaching your puppy, there may be a medical problem and you should visit your Vet for advice.

As with all our schooling methods, the principal is to reward the correct behavior and ignore all others.

Animals in Mind does not condone the use of cages or other artificial aids as how
 to housebreak a puppy.

How to housebreak a puppy:
Starting out
When learning how to housebreak a puppy you should encourage your puppy to use a specific area. Initial ’paper training’ will only give you an extra lesson to teach them later. They may also develop a habit of peeing on any newspaper!

A good, healthy, regular diet means that your puppy should need to “go” at roughly the same time each day, usually just after they have eaten. Remember your puppy needs to urinate at shorter intervals.

How to housebreak a puppy:
After meals
 Begin after meals by taking your puppy outside for 2 minutes or so, if he/he doesn’t go then take them back inside. try again at 10 minute intervals.

As soon as they have been, reward them with a really tasty treat and plenty of overboard praise (It’s no good if you do it 30 seconds later).

If you associate a word of command such as ’Busy’ while your puppy is going it is possible to get them to relieve on command - assuming they need to!!

Over the first few weeks while learning how to housebreak a puppy you will have mistakes, before the teaching is 100%. When mistakes happen, simply show that you are disappointed in them but do not punish them, they won’t understand what is wrong. You are more likely to cause housebreaking problems than solve them.

How to housebreak a puppy.

Make sure you take them out first thing in the morning and last thing at night, again praising & rewarding after they have relieved themselves.

If you do have difficulty with this method do not hesitate to visit your Vet as your puppy may have a medical problem.

How to housebreak a puppy:
WATCH, WATCH, WATCH!
The key to successful housebreaking is supervision. Watch your puppy constantly. Your first duty is to identify what your puppy does right before it eliminates. Does your puppy sniff? circle? hold his ears in a certain position? Some puppys provide signals that are easy to spot, while others are more difficult. Watch carefully.

How to housebreak a puppy:
PRAISE, PRAISE, PRAISE!
When you see the signs of an impending puddle, react! Quickly -before he has the chance to squat- ask him in an excited voice, "Do you have to go OUTSIDE?" Lead the way, continuing to praise all the way. Once outside, stay with him until you witness the desired results and praise him as he goes. "Good, go potty outside!" Make him feel that he is the most special puppy in the whole world.

How to housebreak a puppy:
CONFINE WHEN YOU CAN'T WATCH
  By confining him to a small place, like an airline kennel, you will teach him to wait to be let out. He will be more reluctant to soil his crate, because if he does he will be forced to

sit and look at it and smell it until you return. When you do let him out, take him directly to his assigned toilet area and praise for quick results. (See CRATE TRAINING.)

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