Potty Training Puppies Info

Potty training a puppy is never an easy thing, especially when you are working with your first puppy ever. It is almost as if you are taking care of a human baby, when you think about it. You have to feed it on time, you have to watch it lest it makes a mess at the end of the day, you have to keep it in a crate or box at night if you want to sleep in peace, you praise or scold it depending on where it does its business, and you have to scoop or wipe away any “accidents” in the process.

And like human babies, you can actually talk to puppies as well.

Okay, so you cannot expect a decent answer from a dog, much less a puppy. Your voice, however, does leave an imprint on its mind whenever you praise or scold it. A single phrase like “do your business, boy” or “off you go, girl” helps to encourage the puppy to go to a certain spot to do its business.

This is how it works.

First off, you have to choose a phrase to use. “Do your thing,” “do your business” and “off you go” are just some phrases you can use to tell your pet to go and do its thing in its potty or outdoors.

Once you have made your selection, you have to repeat it every single time your puppy does its business. This is to firmly imprint the words on the puppy’s mind, transforming it from a simple sound to a command telling the puppy to go do its business in that particular spot.

Oh, and one more thing. You need to know when your puppy is planning to do its business.

When a puppy feels like pooing, it will sniff then circle a particular spot in the floor. This is a sure-fire sign that it is going to defecate. If your puppy sniffs a standing item or a particular spot on the wall, then you have to watch out for it to pee.

While you are Potty Training A Puppy, it would be best for you to pick up your puppy before it does its thing and then move it to the spot where it should do its business. Once you have the puppy securely on the spot, you can then go on and give your verbal command just before it goes off on the newspaper, pad, or dirt.

Keep this up for a few days while you potty train your dog with the usual methods. The end result is a potty-trained puppy that responds to your verbal commands if and when it has to go and do its thing. Now you have a degree of control over the puppy during and out of the potty training process.

Remember to add some verbal commands when Potty Training Puppies, and you will find the job a whole lot easier and more interactive than you thought it could be.

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