Are you stuck at a point where you do not know how to proceed with housetraining your dog? Are you desperate to stop those accidents on your precious rug? Are you spending too much on room fresheners?
Smelly poops, carpet stains, unwelcome surprises and unwanted discoveries....in short, a perfect housetraining nightmare! If you are still spending sleepless nights conspiring on how to escape, STOP!
Don’t be ignorant. It's time to arm yourselves with the knowledge to deal with the problem. In today’s issue, we shall try and arrive at a definite solution to stop your dog's unwanted behavior.
How to Train Your Dog to Eliminate Outside?
Considering that your dog is properly crate trained, it is unlikely that your crate trained dog will eliminate inside his crate. Accidents generally occur the moment you take your out of his crate and leave him unsupervised. It may be advisable to keep note of your dog's potty breaks and let him out of the crate 15 minutes before the scheduled time. Take him out to the desired place and wait till he finishes potty. Reward him soon after followed by praise.
Note: To help your acclimatize to potty outside, it is important that you take him to the same place everyday. This will help him build association through smell while it also conditions him to go potty at a given time of day, at a given place.
Once conditioned, it is easier to train your to go on command. Continue letting your dog out of his crate before his scheduled time, however, refrain from taking him outside. Remember, association is important at every step of training. Verbal commands and physical gestures combined are helpful in most cases. So, when you teach him to go on command, accompany by pointing towards the door.
You may use commands such as "Out" or "Outside". Repetitive use of these two words teaches your to go out every time you give this command.
Note: It may be helpful to employ words commonly used in the household so that association is easy and your dog understands.
You can train him to bark, scratch the door or ring a bell each time he wants to exit. When you sense he wants to go, take him to the door and wait till he performs the desired behavior before praising him. Let him out once he’s through with asking.
A dog is a creature of habit. Know that...
Since your has been conditioned to go out at a certain time in day, he will let you know when he is uncomfortable. By this time however, he is accustomed to eliminating in a particular place, therefore he will hold from eliminating inside or any other place other than his usual. When you give him the command and let him out, he will go anyway. By repeating the same process everyday, you will help him associate between the variables......time, place and command.
Nancy Richards has been a dog lover for the past 12 years. She has owned and handled dogs of different ages and have helped many fellow owners in training their dog. DogPottyTrain.com one of her sites has the aim to promote public interest in Dogs and convey by all possible means varied house training techniques for adult dogs and puppies.
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