Successfully Housebreaking Your Puppy

It takes time and patience to housebreak a puppy. You need to understand that the learning skills of your puppy can be entirely different from the learning skills of another; therefore, training should not be rushed.

To start the housebreaking process, you should keep your puppy in a crate or a small room in your home. It should be secured by a baby gate rather than a closed door. In this new place, your puppy is going to learn to stand up, run around and curl up. It must find comfort in this place before it can begin to learn.

It is believed that the best way of housebreaking a puppy is to set a routine and stick to it. If you are consistent with your training methods, you will find that your puppy will learn faster and better. Regularly changing a puppy's routine will confuse it, and confused puppies make slow, if any, progress.

The next step in housebreaking a puppy is determining the area of your yard that will become the dogs potty area. Your chosen place will become your puppy's outdoors comfort zone, and is where the actual training will take place.

What you should do is take your little dog to the potty area every so often. When it begins to urinate or defecate, give the puppy a treat, or show it some love. You will have to do this to give your pet the cue that it is doing what you want and that you are rewarding it for doing so.

You always have to reward your dog for a job well done. It can be great if you incorporate useful words like go poo or pee in there, so that whenever the puppy hears you say those words, he knows exactly what he is supposed to do.

Finally, it is important to ensure that the puppy is getting the right diet, so as to keep his bowel movement regular and his stool firm. This eliminates accidents of inadvertent pooping due to loose bowels.

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