Highly Effective Housebreaking

How to House Train a Dog Effectively
By Juana Cruz

Thousands of dog owners worldwide would like to find out how to house train a dog. If you are a dog owner it is very frustrating to see your dog messing in the places you don't want him to defecate, which causes trouble sometimes. Just think about the mess, frustration and smell you should withstand. House training your dog, therefore, is the solution if you want to get rid of all these problems, and to keep him from being confined in shelters.

House training a puppy will prove to be quite difficult, and will be challenging to you, so take the whole training period seriously, plan ahead and do not rush. You and your dog are both involved in this training program, which means that while you want to finish this program quickly your dog has its own learning pace, so therefore you need to have a lot of patience as your dog takes his time learning and becoming accustomed to another lesson. If you finish it off quickly, it will destroy the whole process, making you start start from scratch again.

You should know that the entire house training process will not be complete until the dog is at least six months old. Why? Unless you can be with your pet all day (which you can't), you need months to complete the training process, because the bodies of puppies are constantly growing and changing, and while puppies less than six months old have not yet developed their bladder and bowel control.

When you are not around, place the puppy in a small puppy-proof room and cover the floor with paper. In the beginning, he will poop anywhere and play with and chew on the papers. Consider the new scenario normal, be accustomed to it, simply clean up the whole place and replace the soiled papers with new ones. Do not hit nor punish your puppy. This is just the first phase of house training your dog, so live with it for awhile.

Remove the papers slowly
After awhile the puppy will recognize the den as its resting place, so he will eventually look for a place where he will defecate and urinate. When this happens, slowly get rid of the papers, from the area farthest from the puppy's established "toilet" area. This means you will be laying down some papers from now on. If you see your puppy missing those papers that used to be on the floor that means you have gotten rid of those papers too much and too soon.

When the only papers now are those on the place where your puppy defecates, start moving those papers slowly to the place you chose. Move them gradually one inch a day. If your puppy is missing those papers, it means you are moving them too soon and too far, so step back and begin again. At this stage you should not be too impatient when it does fail because you will get to move them to the location you want for your puppy's "toilet" with no problems.

When the owner is home
Of course, the house training will be over sooner if you have more time for it. Take your puppy to the "toilet" area whenever he relieves himself. In most cases you should do it after every forty-five minutes, after playing, after waking up, or right after he eats or drinks. Praise your puppy and give him encouraging words when he does the right thing.

When he becomes used to using the toilet area and improves his bladder and bowel control, spend more time with your puppy outside the den and take him to the other places in the house, one room at a time. Only accompany him outside when you're home, otherwise keep him in his den.

When you house train a dog, you should possess patience and consistency. Never be ill-tempered when he messes up. Do not hit him because of his mistakes. The routine will be performed repeatedly and he will get used to what you teach him, so stick to your house training program.

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