This post can help you with dogs potty training. You can potty train dogs of any age, not just puppies. You might need to give special treatment to older dogs that have been outside dogs or were never housetrained.

In case your dog does have an accident in the house, you will have to get rid of the urine and eliminate the odor or the dog will continue to go back to that place. To wash the spot, try products with active enzymes in them rather then products that just mask the odor for a few days.

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Potty training is one of the most important things your puppy must learn. Common sense should tell you why it is the most vital part of raising a puppy and has to be done consistently to be effective. Apart from the maintenance of your household hygiene, trained dogs are happy dogs.

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Puppy potty training is a full-time job…

The good news is it only lasts for a few weeks and has great benefits!

In exchange for your time, energy, and attention you can have a perfectly house trained dog for 10+ years.

…It doesn’t get any better than that.

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Puppy Potty Training is not so unusual from training older dogs. It is true that teaching old dogs new tricks would be more challenging because they already learned routines from the past. Patience is all you need to make your potty training successful. Although, it is still much better to start off training a puppy that never experienced training at all than a dog that has been trained many times and may have holdups and hindrances to not learn potty training the right way.

It has been believed that mature dogs can do better bowel control than new puppies. Soon after the dog has learned that it is not tolerable to do it inside the house, impediments on potty training will be occasional. Contrary to training puppies, it can begin its training right away.

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We have a puppy that is almost 4 months old….my vet has advised that puppies should always be on a leash outside and that training can begin at 6 months. My spouse is of a different opinion and feels that the dog should be off the leash early? Our puppy does not fully follow commands yet and has run away from me a few times. My spouse feels that we must train him off the leash…..any experts out there have advise for me (or my husband)? Off leash this early…good idea? bad idea? Vet also warned me about Fishercats, Turkey Vultures & Hawks-all near our home…..Our vet said a leash on a small dog could save it from attacks by these animals….?

I got a 10 week old puppy three days ago. Mind you that I have trained JRT’s, German Sheperds, Australians Sheperds, I decided to check out what the new school of dog training advice was out there. I am kind of dissapointed in advice people are dispensing about training dogs. I was wondering if anyone feels the same way? I think the trainers forget that people have different ideals. For instance, training a hunting dog is different from training a hunting breed to live as a family pet. There is this one guy who went on and on about not allowing a puppy/dog to sit on your lap. I have never had a problem with any of my dogs, and they were all allowed to sit/rest-head on my lap. I think he just didn’t want a dog that sat next to him, or maybe he had a bad experience. What one considers misbehaving can be considered appropriate to another person. This goes for how people raise children as well.

I also don’t want my dog to like all people, and have no problem if my dog growls at strangers. I don’t want strangers touching my dogs without me interacting with the person first. There are many trainers who want to take this form of aggression out of dogs. If my dog bites someone who approaches my dog while I have her on a leash after I told them she is not good with strangers, shame on that person. I would teach my child, to not interact with strangers as well. This is what I consider ideal. Maybe some say, “what if my dog escapses”. Well shame on me. I have not had it happen yet over 20 years of owning and training dogs.

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If you search online you will find good puppy house training manuals which will show you how to potty train a young puppy in several different ways and you can choose for yourself which method suits you and your puppy best. There are many ways to go about house training your puppy, whether you are crate training him or her or not, the two most popular and probably most effective are the direct method and the paper method.

All good puppy house training manuals will have variations of these two methods and your circumstances will pretty much decide which to use in some cases. For instance, if your puppy is going to have easy access to the outside, as in your garden, the direct method is generally the way to go. If you live in a high rise building or somewhere where it is not as simple to get outside quickly then the paper method will be more suitable.

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Me and my wife just got a cute cocker named Huey and he is always biting at our fingers and tearing up the carpet, eating cardboard, chewing the wood on windowseals, even eating and tearing up the puppy pads….will the training classes at PetSmart stop him from doing that or will they just teach him treats and such?

Housebreaking a dog is one of the first things to do when you bring him or her home unless you want to spend all your time following her around with a plastic bag. Your dog will not know she shouldn’t go to the toilet in the house until you train her otherwise so expect to find plenty of presents around the house until you have trained her.

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Potty training a puppy is a task that requires time and a lot of patience, there will be accidents. Choose areas that you are happy for the puppy to use as a toilet and place newspaper or mat there. Whenever your puppy appears to need the toilet take it to the area and wait with it, you can use short encouraging phrases if you wish. When the puppy starts to go then use a short phrase, or single word, which will become their toilet instruction. When they have completed the task, successfully, tell them how clever they have been and make a fuss of them. It can be helpful to place a dog urine scent on the paper. To achieve this is fairly easy. When the puppy wets the carpet or floor and you sponge it up, just wipe the cloth onto the paper. This should have the effect that when needing to relieve itself the puppy will smell the scent and think ahh dog wee this seems a good place to go.

As with all puppy training it is important to remember that praise is essential when a task is done correctly, toileting is no exception. When the puppy toilets in an acceptable place give them plenty of fuss and attention. Never get upset or angry, this will only confuse and upset the puppy.

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