What is the Best Way to Potty Train a Puppy?

If you are the proud owner of an adorable new puppy, you may be wondering "What is the best way to potty train a puppy?" I wasn't too concerned myself with that that question 5 months ago when we got our little one pound chihuahua puppy whom we named "Little Man".

We had 2 other little female dogs who favored me, their "mother", and my husband was a bit jealous, so we decided to get a little male puppy so he could be "Daddy's Little Man".

And he certainly has become the apple of his daddy's eye...with one glaring exception - we had such a terrible time potty training our little puppy, it nearly drove us over the edge. For some reason he was not as easy to potty train as our two little female chihuahuas.

We tried the potty patch that was the rage on TV, with no luck at all. We tried potty pads and he'd have nothing to do with them. In fact he'd go potty all around the pads, but not on them. We were very frustrated with this new puppy behavior. I read somewhere that little dogs are harder to potty train, and that was very discouraging to hear. After all, he was very little, literally one pound! We could hold him in one hand.

My sister has 2 Boston Terriers and I had heard all her potty training horror stories about her dogs, but never imagined it might be the same for us. I assumed it was a problem with that breed. She said it took over a year to train her first Boston, even with crates. We never tried crate training with our little man, as it just seemed unnatural to us. In hindsight, maybe we should have thought more about that.

We spent many sleepless nights trying to keep him from going on the carpet, or getting him to signal us when he needed to go. I was always too worried about falling asleep, there might as well have been a newborn baby in the family.

I spent many hours cleaning our carpet and trying many different pet stain removers, most of which did not work as they promised. Just a little heads-up for you to not spend a lot of money on those potty strain removers.

After a couple months of very limited success with our potty training new puppy attempts, we finally got smart and decided to get some expert advice, rather than do what we thought or had heard would work.

So to answer your question, "what is the best way to potty train a puppy?", my answer is to get advice from the right potty training source - an expert at puppy training.

Before you spend months of frustration trying different methods to train your puppy, get some expert advice on potty training by watching these free puppy potty training videos at: http://PottyTrainingforPuppy.com - You'll thank me later!