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Housebreaking your dog or puppy
from:Housetraining - it's in the details
The key to house training your dog is to rely on your dog's
natural instincts and tendencies.
Dogs are instinctively clean animals. If they can avoid it, they
would rather not soil themselves or their usual eating and
sleeping areas. Dogs also naturally develop habits of where they
would like to eliminate. For example, dogs that have a habit of
eliminating on grass or dirt would rather not eliminate on
concrete or gravel. You can use these natural tendencies for
rapid and successful house training.
Establish Your Dog's Living Area
There are two things you can do to set your dog up for
successful house training. First, establish your dog's living
area (we will call it den from here out) in a small
confined space such as a bathroom, part of the kitchen or
garage. Please note that a den is not a crate. Read about crate
training for more information on this.
Try to spend as much time as possible with your dog in her den.
It is important to play with her in this area as well as let her
eat and sleep here. Give your dog a special bed; this can be
anything from an open crate to a large cardboard box to a beach
towel. In the beginning, she may eliminate in here but once she
realizes that this is her special den, she will try to avoid
soiling it.
Once your dog gets used to sleeping on her very own bed, you can
move it around your house from room to room, where ever you go.
Confine your dog to her bed when ever you are somewhere other
than her den. If her bed is a crate, simply close the door. If
her bed is a towel or blanket, place it next to a piece of
furniture and leash your dog so she can't get out of her bed.
Since you should never leave your dog unattended while leashed,
it's an even better idea to leash your dog to yourself! Tie
one end of the leash around your waist or belt loop. Now your
dog can accompany you around your home and you can monitor her
behavior.
Establish the Toilet Area
Second, establish your dog's toilet area. Every time your dog
needs to eliminate be sure she has access to this place. Until
she develops a strong habit of eliminating here, it is important
that you accompany her every time. If she eliminates some where
else, then she'll be establishing a habit of eliminating there.
To make things easier on both yourself and your dog, you should
put your dog on a regular feeding schedule. What goes in on a
regular schedule will come out on a regular schedule. If you
know when your dog needs to empty out, then you'll know when
to take her to her toilet area. Healthy adult dogs should be
able to control their bladder and bowels for eight hours.
It's important that you do not confine your dog without access
to her toilet area for too long. If she can't hold it, she
will be forced to soil herself, her bed or her den. If this
happens, it may become a habit and will take much longer to
housetrain her.
House Training: Bringing It All Together
Once your dog consistently eliminates in her toilet area and
stops soiling her den, then you can start extending her den to
the rest of your house. Begin by giving her access to one room
at a time, but only when you know without a doubt that her
bladder and bowels are completely empty. Let her eat, sleep and
play in this room but only when she can be supervised. When you
cannot supervise her, either confine her to her bed in that
room, or put her back in her den. Once she accepts this room as
an extension of her den, then go on to the next room.
Speeding Up the Natural House Training Process
If you follow the instructions so far, your dog will be house
trained in due time. One way to speed up the process is to
praise and reward your dog each and every time she eliminates in
her toilet area. It is equally as important not to reprimand
your dog for accidents and mistakes. Reprimand usually confuses
the dog and slows down the house training process.
House Training Problems
* If your dog continues to soil her den, either you have left
her there too long or the den may be too large an area for her.
Take her to her toilet area more frequently or establish her den
in an even smaller area.
* If she soils her bed, then you probably confined her there too
long and she couldn't help herself; or she doesn't
understand yet that this is her bed. Urinary tract problems and
medical conditions can also cause your dog to soil her bed while
she is sleeping.
* Some dogs drink excessive amounts of water out of boredom or
habit and therefore have to urinate too frequently. If this is
your dog, limit her water, take her to her toilet area more
frequently and give her activities to do so she isn't bored.
* If the den is not properly introduced, your dog may feel as if
it is a prison and show signs of anxiety, barking, chewing,
whining, etc. Make sure your dog enjoys being in her den.
About the author:
Effective Dog Training, http://effectivedogtraining.net, isa
home-based obedience training owned and operated by Brian Webbe.
Brian, a former police officer, has over 7 years of dog training
experience spanning the range from obedience training for family
pets to service dogs like those used in Search and Rescue.
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