June 18th, 2009 | Published in House Training Tips | 3 Comments
Puppies are cuddly, cute and adorable and at times, extremely gross! You know what I am talking about when your little darling suddenly presents you with a puddle or pile of urine or feces on your good carpet, it doesn’t seem quite so darling then, does it?
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June 18th, 2009 | Published in House Training Tips | 1 Comment
At the first sign that your mature dog is going to eliminate (excessive sniffing of a particular area), the owner should immediately take him outside.
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June 18th, 2009 | Published in House Training Tips | 1 Comment
The personality and thought process of the dog is an extremely complex mechanism. Training, whether for toilet training or teaching to sit on command, is simply a matter of communication.
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June 18th, 2009 | Published in House Training Tips | 1 Comment
There are some isolated cases where the cause of a breakdown in toilet habits in a mature dog starts as a psychological motivation, but results in a problem becoming medically motivated. An example of this would be the dog that suddenly forgets his housebreaking and urinates out of jealousy and spite.
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June 18th, 2009 | Published in House Training Tips | 2 Comments
How does a dog owner determine if his dog is getting old? How can he know that the accident that just happened is the result of the aging process that the dog is going through?
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June 18th, 2009 | Published in House Training Tips | 1 Comment
There is a certain element of surprise, perhaps even shock, when the owner of a perfectly trained and well-behaved adult dog suddenly steps in a puddle. No, it cant be! He shrieks.
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June 18th, 2009 | Published in House Training Tips
Potty accidents will happen and sometimes they happen because you didn’t stick to the housetraining schedule or weren’t watching your dog close enough. Maybe you allowed your puppy too much freedom and it snuck down the hallway to urinate in the guest bedroom. But your dog might also have had an accident because it didn’t understand what you wanted it to do or where.
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June 18th, 2009 | Published in House Training Tips
Practical Potty Training For Puppies (3): How To Teach Your Pup Exactly When & Where You Want It To Go Potty
Although a dog crate is a wonderful training tool, that’s not all there is to housetraining your puppy. You also want to teach your dog where you want it to relieve itself and a command that he will respond to in order to go potty, something that will get to do his business when you ask, and more importantly, where you ask.
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June 18th, 2009 | Published in House Training Tips | 1 Comment
Practical Potty Training For Puppies (2): Why A Dog Crate Makes Housetraining Easy
All dogs are born with the instinct to keep their beds clean and as soon as their legs are strong enough to support them, puppies will toddle away from their littermates to relieve themselves. Before that, momma dog stimulated the puppies to relieve themselves and cleaned up after them.
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June 18th, 2009 | Published in House Training Tips | 1 Comment
Practical Potty Training For Puppies (1): The Secret Is In The Schedule
Mark and Sandra Richardson just adopted a 5-month-old black Golden Retriever puppy from the local rescue group. The group informed Mark and his wife that the dog was already housetrained. But the couple quickly learned otherwise.
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