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. The reason is obvious. How can you praise a dog for doing something right if you are not there to see it? The owner should go outside with his dog. […]
Re-housebreaking Your Mature Dog (Part 4)
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. That is, communicating your desires to your pet and requiring that he respond in a certain manner, all the time. But when a normally trained […]
Re-housebreaking Your Mature Dog (Part 3)
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. A dog of this […]
Re-housebreaking Your Mature Dog (Part 2)
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? These are difficult questions, since a dog five years of age can be considered old, while a six-year old dog […]
Re-housebreaking Your Mature Dog (Part 1)
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 can’t be!” He shrieks. The possible alternative, such as a defrosting refrigerator, leaky water pipes, or a spilled cup of coffee give way to the awful truth; […]
Potty Train Your Dog Quickly and Easily
If there is one thing that all dog owners can relate to it is the experience of taking a puppy that has no clue about the proper area to use the bathroom in and then training him to be a responsible pet to use the bathroom in the appropriate place and at the appropriate times. […]
Practical Potty Training For Puppies (Part 4): Accidents Happen!
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 […]
Puppy House Training Basics
Housetraining is perhaps the most obvious example of why it’s a good idea to train puppies. Nobody wants stains on the carpet or the smell of pee and poop permeating the house. Yet housetraining is often overlooked or undertaken in a haphazard manner when it should instead be the cornerstone of the training process. Starting […]
Practical Potty Training For Puppies (Part 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 […]
Practical Potty Training For Puppies (Part 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. Using a crate as a training […]
