House Training a Puppy without Tears
In the process of raising a family, we learn the travails involved in training a toddler on responding to nature’s calls. For the toddler though, the mother is available most times, to take on the bother. House training your puppy too needs similar patience, love, affection and concern. Puppies are tiny beings, still in their early infancy and lack the innate sense of where to relieve itself. Instead, they simply know that when they have the urge, they should relieve themselves. It becomes the duty of a kind and intelligent owner of the dog, to train him towards the right place to relieve itself. If excessive anger, frustration and drams from your part are avoided, house training your puppy can be just a brief process with a happy ending.
Methods of House Training a Puppy
Several methods are available to house train your puppy. For a start, you can train him indoors and gradually work your way outside. Keeping your puppy confined to a designated area of the house, one which has a hard floor, easy to clean can be the starting point. Additionally, you can also use some paper or training pad in the designated spot. If you notice your puppy sniffing the ground or running in circles, know this to be the canine’s signal that it wants to relieve itself. You can react to the signal by putting the puppy on the paper which you had already laid for the purpose. Each time the puppy responds by using the right spot, you should bestow some praise for him. Over a space of time, your dog gets used to the paper or pad. Once this stage is reached, you can move the paper/pad closer to the exit door and soon, your puppy will learn to go out to relieve itself.
Another handy tool in house training your puppy can be the crate. In recent times, the crate method has gained popularity. Multiple advantages are attributed to the crate training method. Confining your puppy saves your home and carpet while you are away or, otherwise engaged. Your puppy is in a safe and secure place. By instinct, your puppy learns to hold its urge to excrete, because animals generally would not mess up the place where they sleep. Human infants do – don’t they? House training your puppy with the crate method, in the long run, would lead to fewer accidents.
House training a new puppy can be challenging, but far from impossible. Consistency on your part on instructing your puppy where it can relieve itself, reinforced with lots of love and praise for the canine, will turn your new puppy into an affable addition to the family in a short space of time |
