Puppy Potty Training Tips

Puppy potty training can be done using two different methods. The first method of puppy house training is the direct outdoor method. This method is ideal if you have easy access to a garden or yard. The second puppy potty training method involves using newspaper to teach your puppy to pee or poo in a certain place inside your house. This method is useful if you have limited access to an outside area such as if you are high up in a block of flats or apartment.

Puppy Potty Training Method 1 – Teaching your puppy to pee or poo outside

There are certain times when a puppy is most likely to pee or poo such as soon after eating or drinking after playing or exercise. After these times it is important that you take your puppy outside and wait for it to pee or poo. If they do give them lots of praise, if they don’t take them inside and take them out again at least every hour or if they look like they might need to go (sniffing the floor and moving round). If they do have an accident inside, scold them and take them outside to where they last peed or pood outside. Make sure you clear the pee or poo indoor accident up thoroughly and use a specialist product to remove the odour or your puppy may be tempted to use this area again.If your puppy still continues to go in this area of your house try feeding it there. Dogs and puppies don’t like to wet and soil the area where they eat.

Continue your puppy potty training by regularly taking your puppy outside throughout the day. Try to catch your dog in the process of peeing or pooing and start adding a command to it such as “go pee” or “hurry up” so that your puppy starts to understand what it is being taken outside for. At first don’t clear up any poo your puppy does outside but keep taking your puppy to this same area so it understands that is what it is for. Remember that your puppy will have the occasional accident – a puppy cannot hold its pee for as long as an older dog.

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Crate training can also help accelerate the puppy potty training process as most dogs and puppies do not like to wet or soil their living/sleeping area.

Puppy Potty Training Method 2 – Teaching your puppy to pee or poo on newspaper

If access to outdoors is difficult you can teach your puppy to pee and poo on newspapers. Start by covering the entire floor of a small non carpeted room. Wen your puppy has eaten or drank place it the room covered in newspapers. If your puppy pees on the newspapers praise it. Clean up the newspapers apart from one sheet and put fresh ones down with the one old one on top. The next time you put your puppy in the room it should return to that old newspaper and pee or poo on it give it lots of praise. Once your puppy is consistently peeing or pooing on the same spot reduce the number of newspapers on the floor and continue the puppy potty training. Gradually reduce the newspapers down to just one sheet. If your puppy does have an accident tell it off then straight away take it to the room with the sheet of newspaper. Start adding a command such as “go pee” or “hurry up” when you catch your dog peeing or pooing on the newspaper along with lots of praise.

Puppy Potty Training Tips

Try to keep your puppy’s feeding times consistent, this will give you a much better idea when your puppy will need to relieve itself so you know when to either let take it out or put it in the room with newspapers (depending which method you are using). When you take your puppy outside to pee or poo make sure you are with it. It will feel more secure while you are outside with it and be more likely to go.

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