Posted: 5/9/2007 9:32:34 AM EDT
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My wife just bought a new puppy yesterday. I've had a few dogs but never a puppy. How do I potty train it ? |
| Crate training is by far the best, buy a pet taxi that will be the guys new home everytime you let him out make him go straight outside when he's finished he goes back in. When ever you're not training him (playing) or feeding him he should be in the crate after a week or two he'll get the general idea. |
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Watch him like a hawk. Dogs go do their business when they wake up, after they eat and after the finish playing. Open the door and tell him to either "go do business" or "go outside to pee and poo" Be consistent. Do not punish him to harshly when he makes a mistake, they don't know anything is wrong. Just say "NO" and take them outside and let them finish if you catch them in the act. It takes about a month or so. Don't use outside as punishment either, because that's where you want them to go. Give them compliments when the do good. Dogs understand words so be sure to use simple words over and over with them. Crate training works great. Our puppies were/are crate trained from day one while the wife and I are at work. As soon as we get home, we let them outside and tell them to go "do business" and "pee pee and poo poo". I know it sounds ghey  but I love my dogs and I talk to them like kids. We have also found a little trick of hanging a small bell on the back door knob and when we let them out as puppies and told them to go do business, we would ring the bell with our hands. Now as adult dogs when they want to go out, they will ring the bell with their noses to alert us when we are in other rooms in the house. We have two full grown Boxers and one 5 months old Boxer puppy so I am living the puppy thing every day now. |
+1 And when he does go, give him TONS of praise so he knows he did something right. When he whines about being in the crate, COMPLETELY ignore him. Just suck it up and deal with the barking and crying, eventually he'll figure out you don't care that he's making a fuss and he'll calm down. If you see him start to eliminate in the house, immediately pick him up, tuck his tail between his legs to stop him from eliminating completely, and put him outside...but don't be rough about it. If he ever does go inside the house it's not his fault, it's yours for not watching him closely enough. I learned all this stuff when I was helping my girlfriend train her lab, now she walks back and forth between the door and one of us when she needs to go out. |
Agree crate training is the best way. |
The bell thing is awesome! I'm planning on getting a puppy here soon, so I'll be trying that out. And +1 again for the signal words...I use "Go potty." |
| The crate can be full size, you'll probably going to have to put the dog in it a few times, each time telling the pup to kennel, the whole idea behind this is that the crate becomes the pups safe zone nothing bad happens here, it becomes his home (bed) remember each time you let him out he goes straight out to the grass. praise him over and over for doing this. I remember with are last lab for almost a week he howled every night, now every night he goes straight into the crate for bed and he's 4 yrs old now. Be patient it works. |
