House Training Your Dog | pet bed
This post was written by Mrs. Blog It AllMarch 17th, 2008
Your training area should be set up first before you begin training your dog. A small, confined space such as the bathroom or garage works best as a training area. This method of training differs from crate training. Dog crates are great for training puppies and small dogs, but larger dogs may find a crate too confining.
It is important for you to spend as much time in the training area with your dog as possible. You will need to play with the dog in the training area, and to let the dog eat and sleep in that area as well to begin with. The dog should be provided with a special dog bed in this training area. Dogs are instinctively very clean. They can also develop habits regarding where they like to urinate and defecate.
Unfortunately, dogs would rather not soil the areas where they sleep and eat. So, your dog may eliminate in this area at first, but once the dog has recognized it as its own space, it may be reluctant to soil it.
After the dog has gotten used to sleeping on/in the pet bed, you can move it around the house, relocating it from room to room. But always keep access to the training area open. When you leave your dog alone, it should be confined to the training area. This will help to reinforce that area as a place that it should urinate and defecate and not in your house. Remember, puppies, just like toddlers, have accidents. They forget where they need to go.
Make sure your dog has access to this place every time it needs to eliminate. It is very important for you to accompany the dog each time until it gets into the habit of eliminating in the area. This will accomplish two things, the dog uses the correct area and it understands it is all right to urinate and defecate there and not elsewhere in the house.
You can make the house training process a lot easier for both you and your dog by giving them a feeding schedule. Having a regular schedule will avoid you having dog problems. Once on a regular feeding schedule your dog will develop, like humans do, a regular schedule for toilet habits. When you have learned when your dog is likely need to eliminate, it will be simple to guide your dog to his area.
Now that your dog has been trained to its bed, it is very important to give the dog access to the toilet area at all times. This training process could take weeks or months to complete. But the training area will become the dogs’ toilet area. During this time period, you have trained your dog to a bed for crate, but you have successfully trained them to a specific toilet area.
Congratulations!
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