Dog Training ? House Train Your Dog

When it comes to dog training, one of the most important, and high priority training sections is house training your dog. With a new puppy coming into the house this is slightly easier as your puppy will know no other way and grow into the surroundings, but with a re-housed dog this can be difficult considering that you don’t know the dog’s history and fears which could trigger them into fouling up your house.   The first thing you must do is predict when your dog is likely to need the toilet. This isn’t that hard to do, because it will follow a predictable routine. They will normally need the toilet about 10 – 15 minutes after they have eaten their dinner. Other occasions that can lead to a toilet break will be after they have awoken from a sleep, after a long play session with plenty of energy burnt, and also after an exciting event such as having visitors call at the house to get them worked up. All dogs have their own mannerisms, but generally speaking when that times comes look out for them to sniff around an area repeatedly, maybe circle a specific area, and start to squat somewhere in the house. Once you pick up on these traits it will greatly ease the rest of this dog training program.
When you get the correct signs that your dog need to go to the toilet, encourage them outside to your desired spot and use a trigger phrase that you can use specifically for this event. I personally use the ‘be quick’ command, but it can be anything that suits your own dog training style. When they do go praise them while they are doing it, and when they are finished step up your enthusiasm and make a big deal of your praise with a good treat so your dog is in no doubt what they did right and will repeat it on the same trigger word.
There will be times when you won’t be there when your dog needs to go. On these occasions make sure your dog is left where you don’t mind them fouling, so no damage is done in your dog training program.
As hard as it sounds, one thing you can’t do is punish your dog for messing in the house. You must attempt to train them out of it instead. If you punish your dog for fouling in the house you will make them fearful of going to the toilet and therefore you dog training will go into reverse. The result of this will be that your dog will go to the toilet in concealed areas like under the stairs and will make this part of your dog training very difficult. A common theme as way of a punishment is to put your dog’s nose in any mess they do. If you watch any dog after they go to the toilet they will happily sniff around the area themselves so doing this as a punishment will not aid your dog training in any way.
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