Potty Training Puppies Info

Potty training a puppy can sometimes be a daunting task for the first-time puppy owner, especially if you have little to no experience with dogs. The effort, however, is well worth it all when you consider the security you will get knowing you won’t have to clean up after a whole mess of poo in and around your house.

So without further ado, here are a few simple tips to help teach your little pup where to go when he has to go:

1.    Reserve a lot of time for the potty training process. A few days up to a week is more than enough for your puppy to learn where to go, but you need to ensure that you spend this time carefully supervising the puppy. This is especially true after it eats, wakes up or has gone through a few hours without excreting. Taking a few days off from work or sucking the time away from your vacation will be for nothing if you don’t keep a careful eye on your puppy, so keep the puppy in sight at all times.

2.    Know when a puppy is going to go and you will be able to speed up the training process while preventing an accident from happening. When a dog has to go, it will start sniffing the ground and go around in circles. Once you spot this, immediately pick the puppy up and bring it to its potty spot. This is precisely why you need to keep your untrained puppy in sight at all times.

3.    Keep a crate or cage ready when you have to go to sleep or leave the house. Dogs don’t like to excrete near their sleeping area, which makes a crate or cage perfect for the potty training process when you need to turn in for the night. This also teaches them the ability to hold in their poo or pee for a period of time, which is a plus when you let the puppy sleep indoors.

4.    Acknowledge the power of words when it comes to cueing your puppy. Use a phrase like “go outside” or “do your thing” as the puppy urinates or defecates. After about a dozen or so times, the dog will begin to pick up on the verbal cue. This verbal cue increases your influence on the pup’s timing of when to excrete and is easy to reinforce while Potty Training Puppies.

5.    Remember that puppies have a low attention span and be careful with your rewards and punishments. You only have 30 seconds, give or take, to reinforce or punish a behavior. If you spot a “puddle” or “landmine” somewhere inside your home, don’t go around whaling on your puppy. They would not know why they are being punished, and they would end up neurotic. Likewise for rewards.

So there you have it, five simple tips to help you in Potty Training A Puppy. Keep them in mind, and you will have a puppy who knows where to go when he has to go!

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