Tips and Tricks to Potty Training Your Dog: The Essential Guide. Daniel Inc. William

      Tips and Tricks to Potty Training Your Dog: The Essential Guide

      Daniel William

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      © 2012 by Daniel William

      ISBN 9781456611576

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      Any information provided in this book is through the author’s interpretation. The author has done strenuous work to reassure the accuracy of this subject. If you wish you attempt any of the practices provided in this book, you are doing so with your own responsibility. The author will not be held accountable for any misinterpretations or misrepresentations of the information provided here.

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      Contents

      Introduction

      Housetraining Approach for a New Adult Dog

      Consistency: An Important Element of a Successful Housetraining

      Right Ways of Using Crates in Potty Training a Puppy

      Punishments are Cruel Tactics to Unsuccessful Housetraining

      How to Discipline a Puppy in Making Messes

      Using Positive Methods in Potty Training a Puppy

      Housebreaking Versus Housetraining

      How to Potty Train Small Dogs

      Creating a Potty Schedule Break

      Mix Crate and Leash Potty Training Tools

      How to Set Up Proper Feeding Time Matching the Housetraining

      Other Potty Methods Than Using Crate Training

      Conclusion

      Introduction

      In the dogs’ world, the structure of their social lives depends on their packs. They take orders and follow only one leader.

      We, the humans, controlling them don’t mean it’s unfair on their nature. They live with us and we should teach some well-structured environment in order to become happy and feel that they belong to a family pack.

      It may surprise you but dogs know and learn from right and wrong, teaching dogs could lead into a better life and easier for you in taking care of them.

      Potty training is one of the vital dog obedience trainings that a dog or puppy should learn. This is a training that teaches your dog some manners in living indoors with you without causing any mess.

      In spite of what age your dog, puppy or adult, it is not late to start training them. As for puppies, as early as possible, you need to install the values of potty training so it should last forever.

      This potty training requires patience because often times it’s difficult to potty train your dog or puppy. Remember, almost this task will last one year just to perfect your dog or puppy in becoming potty trained. There are many methods and techniques regarding potty training that you can use. But there is only one central idea that these methods use. Later in the next pages you can read and eventually use some tricks and tips on potty training your dog. This training should be fun and rewarding for both you and your companion.

      Housetraining Approach for a New Adult Dog

      Like bringing a puppy at home, house training a new adult dog can be very crucial and need great effort from you and your family.

      It is wrong to think that when a dog is already potty trained in another house, it will do the same as in your home too. This can be a disastrous idea.

      When a dog is brought to a new home, it will undergo too many adjustments to its new environment. The dog won’t know in an instant that you do not allow peeing or pooping on the floor and most especially it won’t know whether you mind or care about it.

      Never assume that an adult dog would get by and knows what to do, especially when some bad habits are already around for some time. What can you do is apply the basic puppy potty training and teach him your own potty schedule at home.

      Here are some ways and tools on how you can teach your adult dog:

      The first tool that you can use in the training is the crate or the restriction to a bathroom. After that, you can start setting the schedule of potty breaks. Adult dogs are often particular of the place to conduct potty outside from the place they are playing. They do not particularly do it on the place near where they are sleeping or eating. Look for a place in your yard or outside your home and return him afterwards where the dog can do its successive potty breaks. Keeping a journal to track your dog’s learning of elimination patterns is a way to monitor the potty breaks for several weeks.

      Set the dog’s feeding time, during morning and evening. Not like us, dogs do not have a schedule in its life so the adjustments might be long before it is learned. But eventually, it is not about the age but the consistency you impose as its owner.

      A dog that came from an abusive environment will take longer to train. This is because the dog will have trust issues due to its past experiences. The first thing you can do is win the dog’s confidence and that you are there to help get comfortable at its new home.

      At the first stage of training, expect to have accidents and be always prepared to clean the mess and move on. Keep in mind that training an adult dog is as much as difficult in training a puppy. You start on the basic and ends like you end the training on a puppy. Both types of dogs will go through an adjustment periods. You need to be affectionate about the training and very consistent on the repetition.

      Just always remember this one fact, an older male dog is habituated on marking his territory through urinating on it. This is a natural behavior that you will not break from it or you’ll break his spirit.