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Tips for Potty Training Puppies

I know, your so excited to have a puppy in your house. No doubt that little bundle of joy will light up a room. However you still have to worry about potty training your puppy. Now this is a big deal to some and pretty easy for others. Well in case you are like me then I put these quick tips together to help you. These are important points everyone should keep in mind when potty training puppies.

The Do’s

1. Remember that a puppy is no different than a human baby, they have small bladders and have to go often. Oblige them.
2. Take the puppy to the same place every time you want it to go to the bathroom. This way it will start to associate that spot with going to the bathroom.
3. If You catch the puppy inside make a loud noise and clap and that will usually startle him and make him stop mid stream. Pick him up and take him out to his designated place and let him finish.
4. Be patient and consistent with him. When the puppy goes where he is supposed to praise him and make him feel like he is the best puppy in the world.

The Don’ts

1. Don’t punish your puppy if it has an accident. They cant understand that they are in trouble for not going outside
2. Don’t expect to much from your puppy. It cant hold it in until it gets older. It will need to go about every 2 hours.
3. Don’t overdo the treats. They can be a very effective method for training when you only use them for positive reinforcement. But if you give them treats all the time then they can’t make the association between the treats and doing what you want. Namely going potty outside.

Keep these little tips in mind when you start potty training puppies and you will see a big difference in how fast they learn. They will also be more friendly and responsive if you don’t punish them all the time. This is one of the biggest things I see people do that is simply counterproductive. good luck in your future potty training endeavors!

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Rule #1

While I was going though the hassle of trying to potty train my puppy Kenny I learned a lot about how dogs work. They aren’t as smart as humans obviously but they are intelligent. They just have a different way of learning, mostly through making relations between things. This is a reason clicker training is so effective. This can be very helpful information when your trying to potty train your puppy or dog. (my experience is with a puppy but I assume it would also help with a grown dog as well)

One of the best pieces of advice I found when I started looking for answers about potty training my puppy was that you should never punish your puppy or dog if you don’t catch them in the act.

I didn’t really know this and I figured a lot of you might not either. I always though that you just showed them the spot where they went to the bathroom and yelled at them “bad dog” and maybe a little cuff on the head and they would know what they had done wrong. (I say a little cuff, believe me I have never hit my dog hard and I hope you don’t either, your puppy is your new best friend, don’t start an abusive relationship).

I learned that this isn’t always true though. Puppies have a really short attention span and their memories aren’t very good when they are young either. I know it can be tempting to punish you puppy for his house training mistake but try to have patience. Only punish the dog if you catch him in the act. That why they know exactly what they have done wrong and they can learn from it.

This is a great tip and I hope it will help you when you start potty training your new puppy. I know it was something I would have kept doing wrong for a long time had not been told otherwise.

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Talking to your dog is very important when your training him, no matter if its potty training or teaching him tricks. Using specific words and tones lets the dog know exactly what is expected of him. When your potty training your dog you can use the command “outside?”.

Some dogs will go to the door when they need to go to the bathroom. But this is not as common as lot of people think. Using a command like “outside” can make the dog come to you when he wants to go outside and use the bathroom. I think this is better because it makes you a important part of the process. The dog doesn’t just want to go outside. He wants you to take him outside.

Once you get him outside you can use another command to try and speed up the process. And also let him know exactly what the trip was for. Something like “potty”, “hurry up”, or “do your numbers”. Work pretty well. Also make sure after you have taken your puppy out and he’s done his business you go right back inside. Make it clear that the trip was for the bathroom only. Don’t start playing or take a walk with him.

Finally there is one thing to keep in mind when using verbal cues to potty train your puppy. If you do decide to use outside as your cue then you need to only use it for bathroom breaks. If you are going to take the dog on a walk or go play fetch you do not want to use “outside” as your cue to come outside with you. This way he will respond to outside by knowing its time to go releave himself.

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When I first got a puppy I already knew that I had the task ahead of me of trying to potty train him. But I really wanted to get a puppy and I wasn’t going to let that little hurdle stop me from buying Kenny. And boy, im glad I went through with it in the long run.

At the beginning he was really bad about doing his business in the house. It was really frustrating having a dog that wasn’t house trained what so ever. But I just kept telling myself that he needed some more training and soon he would be potty trained.

I didn’t know much about dog training and I suppose that might be the reason that it took me so long to house train him. I must have been doing all the wrong things. I tried to take him out frequently but it seemed like whenever I took him outside he didn’t want to go. And then when I brought him back in, he would wait for an hour or two and then I would catch him peeing under my bed or marking the couch.

Let me tell you, it got old fast. I really tried not to get mad at him though. I knew it wasn’t his fault he wasn’t potty trained. Puppies don’t come pre wired to know things like that. However I just didn’t know why it wasn’t working, why couldn’t I potty train this puppy?

I asked my self that question all the time and I really had no idea what was going wrong. I started to read online about dog potty training and I picked up a few tips and tricks here and there. I realized some of the things I had been doing to try and train him were actually making it harder for me to potty train him. I had been punishing him when I saw a puddle on the kitchen floor and I found out that if you punish him for that, he doesn’t know what he did wrong. Only punish your dog if you catch him in the act, never after.

There were a bunch of other little things like this that im sure where hampering my potty training efforts. And low and behold after only a few weeks after I changed some of my house training habits Kenny caught on and was finally potty trained! I was so pleased I had finaly succeeded in potty training my puppy.

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