From the article: Housebreaking Your Puppy
Housebreaking is one of the first things you need to teach your dog. While essential, housebreaking can also be a time-consuming and frustrating experience. How did you housebreak your puppy? Do you have any tips or tricks that can help others? Share Tips and Tricks
Sharing Tips
- Get the Doggie Pads, take it to pad when you think it has to go. Then it will go by himself.
- —Guest Dorothy
Trial and error!!
- I got my mini dachshund at 6 weeks and hadn't a clue where to start. I did everything wrong and tore my hair out trying to train her. Eventually I realized that by leaving her with my sisters little doggies when I went to work they trained her and after a month she was either going on the paper when my door was closed or running onto the balcony and going there when it was open. I think all dogs prefer going outside but repitition is the key. Put puppy pads and paper down in the area you see they go the most.. Then when they are used to the paper move it to where you WANT them to go.. Hope that helped. :)
- —Guest Tam
Bells are ringing!
- I hung sleigh bells on the door knob. Every time I took my 7 week old Papillon puppy out, I would put her paw on the bells to make them ring. A few days later, I heard bells ringing as my puppy had rung the bells to let me know she wanted to go out.
- —drvjmj
kennel
- put your puppy in a small pen and when u let it out take it right outside that helps alot!!!!!!
- —Guest hally
house training
- I got my puppy when he was 4 weeks old, still a baby. The first night I got him he relieved himself everywhere, so I put out puppy training pads and put him there after he ate and played and woke up. The next day he recognized the pad and would run to it or he would start crying for me to put him on there. He's had a few accidents off the pad. Use a lot of praise when they behave it helps a lot.
- —Guest laaaby
how i house trained two great dane puppy
- I got a brother and sister at 5 weeks and just put down the last at 11 years old. I house trained them from pooping on the floor by taking them both as puppies to bed with me each night. When they had to go they would cry and wake me up and I then carried them outside. They would not go in the bed they slept with me for 11 years. I had a king size bed they were the loves of my life. I bought 120.00 dollars a week of pedigree jumbones for them - they ate 5 jumbones a day. I cooked their dinner every night of beef liver and mixed it into purina crunchies. They were pampered kings.
- —Guest amy smith
my smart pug baby
- I got my puppy when she was 6 1/2 weeks old. I live in an upstairs apartment, so I decided to potty box train her. I brought her to the box at the appropriate times and said 'go potty'. By the next day she was going to the box herself! She is 8 weeks old now and has a few accidents. Never gets punished. She sleeps with me and will wake up, and cry when she has to go in the middle of the night.
- —Guest puglover
Housetraining
- It has never taken me longer than a week to housetrain a pup of about 8 to 12 weeks old. I am home all the time or pup is confined/crated when I'm out. Keep track of their schedules, when they wake, eat, go number one or number two. They will have to go upon waking, after eating. A very young pup can hold it for about one hour per months old. Don't give pups free run of the house! Gate off the kitchen/dining room area and puppy proof it. Get the pup to like his crate by feeding him in it. Place piddle pads in a far away corner of the area in case he needs to go when you can't watch him. Put soiled piddle pads outside in designated area. When he goes potty outside in designated area, quietly praise with cue word "Good boy go potty". Don't immediately whisk pup back inside or he will learn to hold it because he doesn't want to go back inside! Don't crate pup overnight until at least 4 months old, he can't hold it that long. Use piddle pads in meantime for overnight.
- —Dogtrainerlady
potty training my puppy
- A little treat and lots of praise when they did their job. Watching for little signs like sniffing around. Mine will stop playing and head for the patio door and then sit and wait for me. It took about 2 months to train but I broke my leg after I had him a month which make it a lot harder on me.
- —Guest Judy Liggett
Housebreaking puppies.
- When my dogs were puppies, I never used a crate, but as soon as they would wake up I took them out, and during the day went out to potty. If I would wake up at night to go for myself, they went out too. They get so they know when they have to go and they will let you know they have to go. I really had no trouble with mine. If you understand the signals your dog or dogs give you for wanting to go out or anything else you can do what they want, they try to talk in there way to let you know.
- —Guest Dianne Sahakian
Greyhoundlover
- If you want to avoid housebreaking adopt a retired racing greyhound. Most of the dogs are about 2 when they are put up for adoption & are crate trained.
- —debbieorth
Puppy House "Training"
- I never consider it house breaking, I trained my babies. To do so I practiced patience and paid lots of attention. I took the pups out often and just kept saying potty. Once they went they went they got praised a lot, and we would play. This is how I've always "trained" my dogs. When my car broke down and I was stuck away from home for over 24 hours away my girls actually waited. I fully expected a mess but instead I got a very happy dog, lots of kisses and a very grateful dog when I let her out. This proved to me that my method works. I never scolded if there was an accident, they always knew they had done the wrong thing and remembering that they are just babies helps. I've learned that after awhile just by watching and I recognized the signs and just took them out. Now I have two small dogs and was told it would take possibly a year but I've been fortunate, they trained and now demand to be put out. They are relentless when they have to go.
- —jackieg53
Find A Good Breeder
- All my pups are potty trained by 8 weeks when they go to their new homes. Of course that is contingent on owning a doggy door.
- —wldorchidnv
