Reasonable Puppy Potty Training Expectations

Puppy Potty Training: This is often the first thing you need to do with your puppy. This is your first training request for your new puppy. To save you lots of work, confine your new family member, the puppy, to rooms that are tiled or have washable rugs. This will save you a lot of work in the months to come. It's important to have reasonable expectations when it comes to potty training your puppy.

While potty training your puppy is important here is an ideal area you can learn how not to lose your temper and see that positive praise really works and makes the whole process easier on you and your puppy. As you start to get to know each other, some of the guess work is eliminated. At first you are going to have to take your puppy to the potty a lot.

The more time you can spend with your puppy the more easily you will get to your end goal of a dry house. Puppy's need to go to the potty about eight to ten times daily between six weeks and three months, that is how often they need to go. As you start to read the puppy's clues, to when they need to use the potty, things become easier. A puppy will need the potty, ten to fifteen minutes after eating.

As the puppy gets older their ability to hold on increases, due to their muscular development. Therefore, you will need to take them to the potty area less often. At four and a half months to six months you see a reduction, the high figures of early puppy potty training go down to four to six times daily. Tips to reading your puppy are if they start to turn in circles, sniff the ground a lot or are hunching their back, all these are signs to get your dog to the potty area.

Really give over board praise when the puppy has used the potty area, after all it is one less mess for you to clean up. Really praise the behavior that you want to see, positive reinforcement works. Accidents will happen, do not punish your puppy, no shouting or hitting. If you manage to catch the puppy in the act, pick them up and rush them to the potty area, if they then manage to finish off in the right area lots of praise.

Take your puppy to the potty after they have had a nap, again they are more likely to use the potty. Take away drinks and food at night, if your puppy has drinks and food at night they are going to want to use the potty area, you are going to want to sleep.

Another tip is that on average puppy's can hold on the same amount of hours as their age in months, so if they are three months they can hold on about three hours. This is not a rule and different breeds vary as well as the puppy's own personality. Keeping your puppy on a food schedule, this will help a lot. Puppy need lots to drink so do not limit their drinking throughout the day.

You may like to pop them on the potty area ten minute after they have had a drink. If you feel that your puppy is not getting potty trained, even though you have been trying you may need to see your vet to just check there are no problems.