How to Potty Train Your Puppy
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How Long It Takes to Potty Train Your Puppy Depends on you
Successful puppy potty training depends on how much time and effort you put into training your puppy; it can take a week to six months before a puppy is completely potty trained. You need to be patient and consistent. Your puppy will learn faster if they got positive reinforcement for good behavior and negative enforcement of bad behavior. Hitting your dog does nothing to teach them and in fact can cause long term negative behavior problems later. Praise and treats for good behavior teaches your dog that what he or she is doing is good. Telling them "No!" firmly and clapping your hands will get their attention and they will realize what they are doing is wrong. The following tips are quite accurate as I have used these methods with more than 20 puppies and dogs and they work.
Why Punishment Should Not Be a Way to Potty Train Your Puppy
Hitting, kicking or physically disciplining your puppy does not encourage positive behavior, in fact, it only teaches your puppy to fear you.
Signs That Your Puppy Needs to Go Potty
Your puppy has a natural instinct not to potty where they live. They may not have established that your whole house is where they live, especially if you just got the puppy. So it is important to watch for the signs that signal they need to go potty which are, pacing, circling, whining, sniffing, even barking for no apparent reason. When you notice these behaviors, take your puppy outdoors immediately. This will help them to understand that they need to signal you so they can go outdoors.
If You Catch Your Puppy Trying to Potty inside Your House-Do This
If you catch your puppy squatting or lifting their leg to go potty, clap your hands loudly to get their attention and say "No!" then take the puppy outside to do their business.
How Praising Your Puppy For Going Potty Outside Helps
Give your puppy lots of praise and even a treat after going potty outdoors to reinforce positive behavior. You can also stay outside with your puppy until they do go potty as some puppies will potty in the house right after you bring them back indoors. "I have potty trained many dogs and the fastest way to get them to understand was to clap and loudly and say "No" then I took them outside. After the puppy pottied outside I praised him or her telling the puppy what a good dog they were and gave them lots of pets and attention. In the beginning they just thought they were getting attention but quickly made the connection that I approved of them going potty outdoors and that it upset me when they pottied indoors. It took a few days but worked very quickly with most of the ones I have worked with".--Rev. Penny Dean
What Not to Do If You Found Evidence But Didn't See The Act
"If you found the evidence but didn’t see the act, don’t react angrily by yelling or rubbing his nose in it. Puppies aren’t intellectually capable of connecting your anger with their accident" (WebMD, 2017).
Cleaning Puppy Potty Up Correctly Can Deter Your Puppy From Doing It In The Same Place Again
Cleaning up puppy potty with an enzymatic cleaner will remove the scent of their feces so they will be less likely to potty in that place again. An enzymatic cleaner is protein based. "Clean up accidents with an enzymatic cleanser rather than an ammonia-based cleaner to minimize odors that might attract the puppy back to the same spot" (WebMD, 2017).
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References:
- Tips for how to house training your puppy. Retrieved on Mar. 8, 2017 from WebMD. http://pets.webmd.com/dogs/guide/house-training-your-puppy?page=2#3
- Video. How to potty train your dog in 7 days/Super awesome dogs. (Oct.14,2014).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6k0zkRUt_Q
- My Dog: Ciko photo by Vico Pradipta (@viconjepret) on Unsplash. (2019). Unsplash.com. Retrieved 14 March 2019.