Is Puppy Potty Training Right For You?

Potty training can be the most challenging and rewarding part of all puppy-training exercises. While not difficult, puppy potty training takes a lot of patients and persistence. When times get hard, just imagine all the joy you'll get from a well potty trained puppy. Potty training any puppy can be very frustrating at times, but can provide a lifetime of rewards.

Puppies tend to respond better to their owners commands when given in a cheerful tone of voice. The time spent potty training your puppy will be well worth it, both for you and your dog. By Learning to properly communicate with your dog in a positive and fun manner, will help tremendously when it comes to potty training your puppy. Having a potty trained dog can be very rewarding.

One of the most over looked items when preparing to bring a new puppy into a home is potty training. Potty training is best done while your puppy is still young, as it can be much more difficult to re-train older dogs. Probably potty training should be the first type of training to be considered for any new puppy. The first few months of potty training can be the most trying, but with a little patients your puppy will come through in the end.

Accidents are normal when potty training a puppy. Puppies tend to have poor bladder control and accidents are common especially at night, but with a bit of persistence and time you'll both be enjoying accident-free nights. Potty accidents should be dealt with in a quite and calm fashion. Accidents (if any) are rare with older dogs that have been properly potty trained.

An important tool to consider when potty training is crate training. Large crates can be partitioned to fit small puppies and resized to accommodate growing puppies, this will help keep a constant den-like environment when potty training. Dogs that think of their crate as their sleeping area are less likely to soil in their crate and display more obvious signals when they need to potty. If your puppy needs to go potty during the night, it might be worth considering moving its crate to your bedroom at night so as to monitor its potty signals.

Some of your puppy's signals to watch for when it needs to go potty are whining, barking, nudging, nipping at feet and pacing, etc. Scheduling your puppy's eating habits will assist greatly in developing a potty training routine. When potty training your puppy, developing and sticking to a routine will help with your potty training goals tremendously. Like humans, puppies tend to have a regular or somewhat predictable potty routine, e.g. when they first wake, soon after eating or drinking, after some playful exercise and when they get over excited.

Don't put off potty training your puppy for too long, the sooner you tackle this problem the easier it will be for everyone. Also, during the act of potty training you will be forging an unbreakable bond between you and your puppy. Puppy potty training can be somewhat of a messy and frustrating journey, but its better to make and early start than trying to undo bad habits that develop down the road. Always reward your puppy when it potty's in the correct place and not to make a fuss when they get it wrong.