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Keys to Training Your Puppy Quickly Master the Art of Puppy Housebreaking Housebreaking Without Rubbing His Nose In It
by Help Your Pets

Puppyhood is the “formative” period for your dog. What you teach him during this time will most likely stick with him the rest of his life. One of the most important things you will be teaching him is where to potty.

Probably the most helpful tip to ease both your pup’s stress and your own is to develop a routine early on in your pup’s life. You can start by accustoming your puppy to a sleep/eat/potty routine. Try feeding your puppy around the same time every day, allowing for frequent trips outside to potty. He will soon adjust his body to the routine.

A good way to save your sanity is to admit right off the bat that your puppy will have accidents. You can help ease these by keeping some newspaper in a dedicated spot so that your pup can at least familiarize himself with going in one area if he can’t make it outside. This works particularly well if you don’t have a doggy door and your puppy relies on you to let him out.

The sooner you get to know your puppy’s “eat/potty” routine, the easier potty-training will become. A good rule to go by is to estimate that your pup will be ready for a trip outside around 15 – 20 minutes after he has been fed/watered. If you can, try to have your puppy outside at this time so he will familiarize himself with the proper “potty surroundings.”

Be sure that you separate “potty time” from “play time.” Puppies love to explore. It’s natural and should be encouraged, but only when it’s the appropriate time. Nothing is more frustrating than to be up at 2 am with your little guy running around the yard for twenty minutes, only to potty as soon as you get back inside.

This period in your puppy’s life is a great one to start administering praise and discipline techniques. Many people prefer “good boy/girl” and “no,” which can be still be used when your dog is older. Although puppies need a lot of repetition, routine, and firmness, remember that your puppy will soon grow up, so enjoy his puppyhood while you can!

Not everyone uses the same methods when it comes to house training your dog. What may work great for one dog, may not work well for another. For whatever you are trying to train your dog on, if one method is not effective over time, you might wish to try out a different method. Do this to assure you receive the greatest benefit out of training your dog.

If you ask 5 people how to go about training your dog you will probably get 5 very different replys. For whatever task it is that you are attempting to train, it is best to begin with methods that are the most commonly used to insure best success. Typically these are effective methods. Chances are that you will nor encounter any problems, but you can always try something different if you do. Training a dog can be time consuming so make sure that you are ready to give your undivided attention or this will not work out for either one of you.

If your dog needs to be potty trained outside, you can use crate training techniques. There is nothing harmful about this method of training as long as you are getting a crate of the right size, cleaning it, and making sure it is safe. There are some people out there opposed to crate training a dog. That type of people typically do not understand that dogs like to be in small enclosures.

A few guidelines can help you train your dog to avoid biting. you are never scolding your dog with violence.
You aren’t permitted to spank or strike since these techniques don’t apply to the way to house train a dog. Violence will always breed violence so be careful. Also, make sure that you are refraining from playing rough tug of war games where you are encouraging the dog to bite and growl.

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You will soon learn that punishment when training a dog is easier then thought. Your pet is always trying to make you happy and will typically do anything to make it happen. Your voice and tone can make any dog knows that they are doing wrong. Your dog will figure it out. There is never a need to hit or restrict a dog from getting its requirements for a healthy life such as food, water, and sleep.

Books have been written on house training your pet, and useful advice is everywhere — but you now have a leg up, so to speak, on the process and have made a great beginning. right away because there is never time to wast Dogs are a lot like children with their own learning curve. So be kind, be patient, and always remember to love your pet and you will find that training a dog is easier then you think. Soon you will have enough knowledge to be able to assist others in house breaking their dogs.

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No training is more basic for pet owners than that first important lesson: Do it outside!

Teaching your puppy to eliminate outside the home, not in it, often starts between six and eight weeks of age. Dogs as young as four weeks have been started on housebreaking, but at that age few have the muscular control to succeed.

Like any dog training lessons, trainer patience is as important as the dog’s temperament. ‘Sit’, ‘stay’ and other behaviors can often be learned in a few days. House training usually takes weeks – sometimes as short as two, often a month or more.

As with other learned behaviors, it helps to observant for signs of the desired actions and enforce and direct them with a voice command followed by praise. In this case that technique works even more to the trainer’s advantage, since all dogs will naturally eliminate. The trick is to get them to do it when and where you want!

Watch for circling or squatting, then pick up the pup, say ‘outside’ and sprint outside. The puppy may circle some more, but will often squat soon after. When your puppy eliiminates, say ‘Go potty’ ( or some other unique phrase) in a clear, firm (but not angry) voice. Wait until he has finished and then praise him lavishly.

You won’t always be able to catch the puppy about to begin, but don’t become angry or impatient when the dog potties indoors. It takes quite a lot of time for your puppy to learn to tell you it’s time to ‘go outside’. The puppy needs time for the muscles that control the bladder and bowels to develop.

Most young dogs need to eliminate every 2-3 hours, on average. If you haven’t spotted pre-elimination behavior within that time, take the dog outside anyway. Issue the command ‘Go potty’ and wait. At first, usually, the dog will have no clue what you want.

Again, even when outside, it helps to wait and watch for the desired behavior then issue the proper command. That helps the dog associate the command with the behavior. If the dog hasn’t eliminated after a few minutes and a few ‘Go potty’ commands, take it back inside for an hour. Of course, if you see the pre-elimination behavior sooner, go outside again immediately.

Dogs have an astounding ability to quickly learn what their ‘alpha’ (the leader of the pack) wants. This is almost always accomplished by associating a verbal command with behavior, followed by praise. Punishment is usually counter-productive, and nowhere more so than in waste elimination training. Never rub a dog’s nose in the accident.

Paper and/or crate training is preferred by some. A pup can be trained to potty on a newspaper, or on one of the chemically treated housetraining pads designed for the purpose. Some small breeds that live all day in the home may not need to go outside at all.

The technique has a couple of downsides however. Unlike cats, dogs prefer not to go in a scented litter box. Newspapers (even with the top layer removed after the dog goes) will eventually leave an unpleasant odor in the house.

Also, long before the odor becomes perceptible to humans, dogs can smell their own distinctive odor. Dogs don’t find it unattractive – quite the opposite. And that is where the problem lays.

Dogs that are paper trained will often prefer to eliminate indoors. Occasionally they’ll miss the paper by only an inch, creating a smelly mess to clean up.

Once the scent is in the carpet, the dog will often seek that area out as its proper ‘place to go’. This makes training the dog to eliminate outside even more difficult. Best to suffer a few accidents than to create a hard-to-overcome habit.

Key factors to any dog training programs are patience, praise and consistency. House breaking is the first test for you and your dog.

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As humans and the more intelligent of the species, we must learn how dogs communicate in order to communicate with them. The human half of the pair is usually the smarter party, but watching the usual training sessions one can have legitimate reason to wonder.

Dogs understand and respond at roughly the mental level of a human two-year-old, but there the similarity ends. Their senses operate differently – their color vision has a different response pattern to reds and greens, for example, and obviously their noses are infinitely more sensitive – and their minds process information differently as well. Anyone training dogs has to take this into account in order to avoid human frustration and canine misbehavior.

Dogs are by nature pack animals. Descendant from wolves – where even the ‘lone wolf’ is an anomaly – they’re social and function best with active interplay and within a strict hierarchy.

So, set aside half-an-hour per day, an hour would be better, for at least the first few months of training. Start training your dog as soon as possible. Four weeks is not too early with some breeds, provided one doesn’t expect too much.

Elimination (‘potty’) training details we leave for elsewhere, but all training follows similar guidelines.

The sooner you establish your dominance, the fewer problems you will have to correct. Dogs have a natural hiearchy- there are alpha dogs, beta dogs, and the bottom dog is the omega. For a sane household, and a well-adjusted dog, the human (whether male or female) must always be the alpha male of the pack.

Depending on the breed, this will be either more difficult or easier. Like humans, some are simply more assertive than others. The most important training aid is your attitude, followed by collars, leashes and other training aids. You are the “alpha dog” in your house, not your dog.

Physical force is not necessary to enforce your dominance. Sometimes, used appropriately, that will be necessary. Usually, simply being firm and willing to wait for compliance will be enough.

For many, placing them on their backs when young and placing a firm hand in the middle of the chest until they lower their paws – a sign of submission – will be enough. With some, reinforcing this by putting your face close to theirs, emulating dominant dog behavior, can help.

Keep the leash short to discourage your dog to run, and pay attention to you. Allow plenty of time for free running behavior, essential to dog health, but that’s before or after training, not during. At least, not at first.

Start simply by choosing short, clear commands that sound distinctly different: sit, stay, down, come. Use a firm, but not harsh voice. You’re in charge, but not angry. Avoid double-word commands like ‘sit down’ or ‘stay down’. These sound too much alike and quickly confuse the dog.

Accompany each verbal command with the same tone, look and hand gesture. Eventually these can separate, but at first it’s essential to provide the simplest, most consistent form of communication.

Just like two-year old humans, dogs have limited capacity for grasping the subtleties of language. Assist their understanding by rigid consistency. Don’t use a single command word to mean more than one thing. The command ‘Down’ can mean ‘don’t jump on me’, or it can mean ‘lay on your stomach’, but it has to mean one thng only.

Be clear, be patient and be committed and the result will be a dog who trusts and listens to you. And that makes it worth the effort. Find more on dog training at Luvurdog.com/dogtraining