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You can learn how to house train a puppy easier than you might think with these 5 steps

1. The first action you will want to complete is to simply determine where to toilet train your puppy. It should be a convenient place where it is close enough to the door for the puppy to be able to go quickly if it has to. Then again, you dont want the spot to be too close so that guests or family will bring in anything on their shoes. Also keep in mind places that children play and that your family spends free time.

2. You have to come up with ways to determine when the puppy needs to go because he won’t be trained to let you know, especially at first. Eventually, he will make it through this stage and notify you, but don’t be surprised if he has to go 5 minutes after coming in, because puppies have small bladders and urinary tracts.

Determining when is easier with these tips:

* When your puppy wakes up .
* As soon as the puppy is removed from his crate or den.
* When he’s awake, consider every 30 to 60 minutes, based on his age.
* When your puppy eats or drinks is a pretty sure sign of his need to go shortly after
* If the puppy gets up and starts looking around after napping or chewing on a toy.
* Sniffing the floor is a sure sign.
* If he’s gone potty in a certain spot before and returns there.
*Getting exciting and running around can mean he needs to go outside.
* Everytime you see your puppy wander to the door or even looking at it.
* The obvious signs-pacing, whining, or starting to squat. Keep in mind that male puppies squat like female puppies until they are 4-9 months old.

3. Keeping an eye on your puppy inside anytime not confined an stop an unexpected sit and pee. For this reason, many owners believe in confinement to his crate, when indoors, until puppies have been house-broken and this works for many people. If you limit his movements, either by keeping him on a leash or by restricting him to one or two rooms, it is easier to watch the puppy for signs.

Be sure you don’t get distracted or preoccupied with household tasks, because housebreaking your puppy will become a longer, more difficult task, if you don’t keep a watchful eye and realize it’s your responsibility to take him outside when he needs to go.

4. Whenever your puppy needs to go as listed in step 2, or at least every hour whichever is less, your puppy needs to be taken or directed to the same spot and teach him using the same verbal command of your choice.
• Every hour, you should quickly take him outside to the designated toilet area, but be sure you take some treats to reward the puppy each time he goes on command. Encourage him to go quickly by hurrying him along and this will also tend to jiggle his bowels and bladder, if you can get him to run to the spot you have designated. The puppy should immediately start sniffing and go quickly, once you reach the designated area.

To train your dog quickly, you need to take him out every hour and get him used to running to the right spot and going on command. 

• Take your puppy to the designated spot using a leash, even if you have a fenced in yard as it will also teach him to go while on a leash.

• After reaching the spot stand quietly until your dog starts to go rather than staring at her. Ignore him if he acts more interested in the treat instead of going. When he does start to go, quietly (so you don’t startle him) say “go potty” or whatever cue you have decided on, just make sure it is something you can say in public and use each time, in case you are in the park or your children are around. Remember that you may have to use this elsewhere, for example if you walk the dog or take a trip.

* When your puppy has completed going outside, reward her with praise and a treat , it can mean quicker results!

Don’t just open the door and let your dog run out by himself to go potty or you might not have success in housebreaking and the whole process will take longer. You want to be sure that he relates getting a treat to going on command, so this is important to monitor and practice for the best success.

5.Keep in mind that the more time you spend playing with your young dog during the house breaking training, the faster your results will come. You don’t want to immediately put him back in the crate or ignore the puppy after you have brought him back inside, or the puppy will relate going pee to punishment when he gets back inside. You might want to take him for a walk after the puppy goes, or find other things to do with the puppy inside so that it will look forward to going outside and going pee in the designated area. Extra rewards of praise and play will encourage him to go potty more quickly and you don’t want him to be trained to the treat, alone. It is important that you add other things to make it rewarding for the puppy to become house-broken. Check out the tutorial online how to crate train a puppy .

Master these steps how to house train a puppy and your best friend will be your buddy fast.

One thing that every dog must do is come when called. This is for the dogs own good as well as the welfare of other pets and people. Dogs need to be taught this for their own good because they can run into danger, like a car or an untrained animal. Once a dog is trained to come when called, you can take him out in public places.

It is not hard training for dogs to learn how to come when called. Basically, you would give your dog special treats when it listens to you. Training should be enjoyable for both you and your pet.

Before you start this type of dog teach training, make sure the animal is going to react positively to the type of food you will give him. Show the food to the dog and let him smell it. If he likes it, you can start.

Use small size food when dog pet training. You do not want to feed the animal too much where he does not get motivated to want to more food. Chicken and cheese are good to use.

Many professional dog trainers want the dog owner to work with them when they train the dog. This is because the dog must not only listen to one person. They need to understand that anyone who is in charge of them, will need them to listen. If someone in your family member wants to watch the dog, he will have a problem if your pet only listens to you. Have a friend or family member call the dog and then you do the same. Have your dog go back and forth, going from you to your friend. This is a great exercise. Stand about 30 feet away from each other in a safe place. You can call the dog and tell it to sit. Your friend can call the dog after you and then he can give the dog the treat. Every time the dog comes, give him a treat.

Try spreading out farther and farther away from each other. The dog will eventually have to look for you. It must find you to get the food. This will teach your dog how to come when called.

All puppies seem to want to bite and all puppies should be taught to change this habit. A lot of characteristics that you find cute in your puppy, such as jumping on you or nibbling on your arm, must be corrected before your dog gets too big.

When a puppy is left in its natural environment, she will learn to control her biting. The reason is if she bites too much, the mother or her siblings will correct your dog. Since puppies are removed from this natural environment, training a puppy is up to you the owner.

Let your puppy play with other puppies so it learns from them what type of behavior is allowed.

There are special classes intended for puppies sponsored by pet shops called puppy playtime and puppy kindergarten. There your puppy can socialize with other canines and humans. When your puppy plays too rough and bites too much, the other puppies will correct her.

Always try how to train your dog when it is still a puppy. This goes for biting training also. You need to have your dog spend time with other dogs. A dog that does not have the experience of socializing with other dogs can be hard to control and dangerous. Try to socialize your dog in the first 12 weeks of its life. This is according to dog training experts.

The same applies with training for dogs to socialize with people, particularly children. Parents may not want their child exposed to a dog that is older and bigger. It is best to allow your puppy to learn how to behave with children when it is still young and less of a threat.

Letting the puppy be around different things and people is a good idea. Like being around adults of different races, children, other puppies, cats.

Getting your animal to spend time with other dogs and people is important to ensuring that your puppy does not bite. Also, it will help if you provide your pet with toys to bite on. It gives your dog something to do and helps him to not bite things he should not.

Tell your friends and family that you do not want you puppy to bite. If your pet bites one person and they do not scold the animal, then it will be confused and might bite someone else.

Using the dogs own instincts is the best house training a dog method for your pet.This is what Crate training can do. You would leave the dog confined to a small area of you house. Since dogs are naturally clean, they will not want to soil their “den” area.

Potty training dogs can be done for any age pet using these techniques, as they have worked well for all dogs. There are mistakes that many do when trying to follow this type of house training philosophy. Don’t be inconsistent with the time that you feed your dog and do not rush the process. Rewarding the animal is good practice and this can cause the house training a dog to be trained quicker but do not move too fast.

When your dog has an “accident” it can be because the animal is in his den for too long a period or the den area is too big. It could mean that your pet has not understood yet that this den area is its bed. It could also be that the dog might have a urinary infection or another medical issue. Also it may mean that your dog is bored. Being bored might cause it to drink more water and urinate more. There are other signs of boredom as well. When your dog destroys things or nibbles on things he is not supposed to, he might be bored.

Your dog might think of its den in a negative way. This might be because the den was not introduced to your pet in the right way. He might feel trapped and may show this by whining, barking or by biting things.

Get to know your dog and its needs. Make sure that the den area is safe and pleasant for your pet and provide a toilet area that is known to the dog. One of the biggest reasons dogs are given to shelters is because of “going” in the wrong place.

Does your dog or even worse, your neighbor’s dog bark all the stinkin time?
If so it’s pretty easy to reach your whit’s end rather quickly.

After a while you really couldn’t care less why the little nimrod’s doing it, you just want to make the barking stop. Does that sound about right to you?

Trust me, I know what you’re going through all too well.
How would I know these feelings of frustration so intimately?

Simple, my wife got a small Poodle and the little begger absolutely would not stay quiet for 10 minutes. I swear, if an ant walked across the driveway he would carry on for 20 minutes strait. I was just about to lose my marbles with the little loudspeaker.

Now, please don’t get me wrong, I love animals and I especially love dogs (cat’s I could live without). I don’t know about you personally, but I like well behaved dogs. 
So, not really wanting to incur my wife’s wrath for suggesting Fido be relocated several States away just to make the barking stop, I started researching to really find a solution or at least find some other options and find them fast.

Here are a couple of the things to stop the dog barking that I discovered:

All the books said “You need to find out why in the world is the dog is barking in the first place”. And I’m thinking yeah, right! I don’t care why the little dim bulb’s carrying on like a broken record, just make him stop.

But I do have to agree, there is proper barking and bad barking. So when training your dog it is important to teach your dog the difference between nuisance barking and good barking (like if it’s 2 am and I’m snoring keep quiet, but if you see a guy with a mask a gun and a sack, Bark!).

As it turns out there is actually a lot of different kinds of barking, there’s reactive, territorial, separation anxiety, fear and warning barking. And without becoming a Sigmund Freud for Animal Planet tm I really couldn’t tell you which was which.

I did find a few things that actually worked really well. What the heck it only took 5 hours of reading & video’s and it cost more than the dog did to buy all the books to find one that worked.

But here’s one of the tips that it said that worked really good. Every time the dog barks give it a piece of bacon with 1/2 a Prozac stuck into it (ok, ok, so that was my solution and not exactly what the book said, but the dog liked it!) Just kidding!

No really, what the book said was give the dog another outlet. And because it might truly take me an hour and a half to watch the Television show 60 Minutes, I’m thinking, alternate outlet, WHAT! they want me to plug the little bugger into a wall socket?

Well, turns out I was wrong, they meant every time it starts yapping give him a soft toy and toss it around for a second so he gets the idea to play with it. This way when the dog starts feeling anxiety, nervousness or separation it will look for the toy and find comfort in it.

There are a ton more tips that I got at => http://stopdogbark.tripleyourinfo.com/

But I sure hope this one helps, it worked for me even better than the Prozac and at over a buck a pill that stuff gets kinda pricey after a bit.

Jay asked:


Hi. I was wondering if anyone knew how much it would cost for a dog trainer from Bark Busters to train my dog. My dog jumps up, barks when the doorbell rings, does not come when called, etc.
If you could give me an estimate of how much it costs to use Bark Busters, that’d be great! Thanks!
i am to lazy to call right now.
anyone who has used it before?

Yeok-su

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GSDMAN asked:


Im 13 and I tried to potty train my dog but he peed where I wanted him to *** for only 1 week now hes starting to *** everywhere again. I need a trainer that is good at potty training dogs.

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