Nov 03 2009
Dog Potty Training Is The Same Everywhere
Your dog or puppy can be properly potty trained not to use the bathroom in your small apartment. They can be housetrained to go in a specific area laid with papers . Training can include teaching your dog not to eliminate on the sidewalk when you are out walking.
It takes a bit of extra work and patience with your pup or dog to conquer the unique problems of city dwelling. It does not matter where you live, or how much space you have for your dog, potty training is the same anywhere, whether you live in the city or the country. Your puppy just needs to be educated about where the legal places are to eliminate. Dog potty training is not too difficult if a few simple steps are followed.
With suburban dogs, crate training is the best option and is also good for housetraining your urban dog. Sometimes you have to creative when you live in the city and have to deal with small living spaces with no yard and no convenient parks.
Deciding where to put the crate is the biggest problem if you have a medium to large dog. The good news is that the bathrooms or kitchens in apartments, are often so small that they can effectively be used as crates. Crates are now being made as dual purpose furniture, particularly for the apartment dweller and they double as coffee tables and are made from rattan or wicker.
Using The Paper For Dog Pottying
A paper training schedule is the same as a regular crate training schedule. The pup sleeps or eats, then goes to the paper area to potty. When your pup uses the paper and you have praise it, spend time playing and loving your pup as a reward. Praise calmly during the act and profusely afterwards, so your pup knows exactly what it’s doing right. A 7 day dog potty training routine can be achieved.
Once your pup is regularly going on the papers in the potty area, train it to find the papers in any part of the apartment. Your pup will not eliminate anywhere when let out of its crate, it will look for its paper.
Go to the paper together and say to your pup in a happy voice ‘Papers’. Praise after the deed is done and give affection. No matter where the papers are your pup will run to find them. Going potty in the paper area now becomes fun and exciting for it and stress-free for you, knowing that your dog will not make a mess in your apartment. A dog potty training review of all your techniques will ensure you have confidence in your dog or pup from now on and not have any little surprises.
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