Passive Puppy Training.
Friday, February 5th, 2010
Getting your dog house-trained does not happen overnight.Training is often completed only after your pup has gotten older by a few months.As do other mammals, young dogs go through an adjustment period, getting used to life outside of mommy’s womb.They can’t hold it as long as olders dogs can but their bowel or bladder control improves as they age a little.
You won’t be able to keep track of your pet’s whereabouts activities all day; you need a passive approach to house-training so that it continues even while you’re out.
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While You Were Away.
The quickest way to ensure contnued house-training despite being unsupervised is paper training.Here’s how to do it:
Pick a room in the house where you can leave your pup when you’d be gone for hours.When you’re going out for a few hours, lock your pup in the room.Put a mat of papers on to the floor covering the entire floor area.Make sure he has all he needs with him in the room - food, toys, bed, water.
At first, you’ll have the entire room to clean up as your puppy is bound to eliminate everywhere.Have a huge supply of patience when you come home. Go through the rounds of cleaning up and putting new sheets of paper in the puppy room.In time, your pup will show a preference for a certain spot on the floor for doing his business.When your dog’s preference becomes clear, you can start removing papers from the floor.
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Start taking away the sheets farthest from the obvious poop preference area of your puppy.Proceed slowly, removing an inch or two of the papering, toward the dog’s preferred deposit spot.Soon, you need only a few pieces left on the floor.You’ll know you’re moving too fast when your puppy soils the area beyond where the papers lie.Go back to a larger poop area, then resume to daily reduction.When your pet’s showing dependable pooping on one or two sheets you put on the floor, start working on moving it to your desired spot.
Deliberately move the sheet toward where you’d want your the pup to defecate.Push it forward a little every day, similar to when you were reducing the papering on the floor.You know you’re moving too fast too soon when poop winds up outside the papered area; move it back to where your pup pooped on it previously.Continue with the exercise until you have it where you want it and your pup only poops on the sheet of paper you leave him with.
Setbacks Shouldn’t Be Suprising.
Be patient when passively housebreaking your pet.Don’t get discouraged if your dogs seems to be slipping back after making progress.Simply go back to a wider area.
You can learn more here Puppy House Training Tips.
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