2 Essential Puppy Potty Training Tips

The goal of puppy potty training is to make certain that your puppy will always do its business outdoors, at a specified potty area, rather than indoors. That is unless you are living in a high rise apartment. If that’s the case, then you should consider indoor potty training.

Dog training and specifically, puppy potty training needs a great deal of patience and consistency from its owner or trainer.  A few of these puppies, particularly the smaller breeds, can be a bit more arduous to toilet train rather than larger breeds.  But then again, you will be happy to know that almost all dogs are clever enough to become fully potty trained.

By the time your puppy arrives at your home from the breeder, it should already have been exposed to and has become accustomed to a sanitary environment.  The reason for this is due to the fact that as your puppy gets bigger and a bit livelier, the breeder would have already taken him outside.  By now your pup would have already learned to do its business outside.  This would make your puppy more likely to keep to your household cleanliness regulation.

Below are two basic tips on puppy potty training. When I use the following tips when it comes time to training my puppy, I find that it greatly decrease the chance of my puppy using my carpet as his personal rest room. Hopefully you will find the same thing when you start training.

Establish A Potty Area

Once your puppy arrives home, you must straight away institute a certain potty area for your pup. This particular potty area must be separate from the whole of your yard by a fence, or rows of plants.  This will keep kids from play in the potty area and also create a border from the rest of the yard.

Most dog trainers deem the use of specific potty area technique as counterproductive for your pup.  The rationale is that, accustoming a pup to a particular potty area will disable him to do its business if he finds himself in an unfamiliar place.  But then again, puppies are normally flexible and can adapt quickly. So it is still best for you to ascertain a special outdoor potty area during the potty training process.

Teach Your Puppy Potty Cues

After you have picked a specific potty area in your yard, it’s now time to school your puppy with puppy commands or potty cues. Start by training him the command “outside” whenever you see him do his business outside of the designated potty area.

Always use a firm tone when you use the command “outside”. The idea is to startle him to a point where he will stop eliminating. You must then quickly take your puppy outside to his potty area for him to finish eliminating. After, praise him for eliminating in the proper area.

By using these puppy potty training tips you will shorten the learning curve for your puppy as well as preserve your homes flooring making it a win-win for both you and your puppy!

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