Our family is experiencing potty training a new puppy once again and we’ve gone right back to what we learned with our litter mates. We take them outside after eating, sleeping, and play. Basically, once every hour. We were able to train our litter mates to go to the door to signal when they needed to “go potty.”
Potty Training a New Puppy
There is three times that your dog will definitely need to go potty. When they have had food, rest or sleep, play or exercise.
Take your dog outside on a leash and give your dog 10 minutes to go potty. If your dog didn’t go potty he/she doesn’t get any freedom when back inside the home tether your dog to you so the dog can’t sneak off to go potty. If 10 to 15 minutes have pasted take your dog back outside to go potty if the dog did potty say good and give the dog a yummy treat and now the dog can have freedom in the house.
Remember when outside if your dog doesn’t empty their balder all the way or a short pee no freedom until you see that your dog has emptied there balder. You have to see your dog going potty or they haven’t gone.
About Mark Tipton
Mark Tipton CPDT-KA, Certified Professional Dog Trainer of AngelDogs Training– Knowledge Assess, Raise with Praise Certified Dog Instructor, Animal Behavior College Certified Dog Trainer, Positive Reinforcement Trainer, Private in home training, Group Classes, Board and Train, Behavior problem solutions, CGC Evaluator, Insured
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July 18, 2012 at 5:38 am
Potty training is a process that I’m glad is over, and is the one part of puppy ownership I don’t miss! Though, of course when we eventually add more to our pack I will need to revisit it
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July 18, 2012 at 6:34 am
I know what you mean. What was amazing is that our newest puppy was potty trained in less than a month. I think it gets easier with each dog, but the constant watching. We had a parade the first time our puppy went to the door to wait.
Thanks for stopping by!
Kimberly
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July 18, 2012 at 8:07 am
I was lucky that I was able to spend so much time at home to watch them, but of course since I had never really owned dogs before myself it was a bit of trial and error!
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July 23, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Hi there, if only I had enough spare time in my day to teach my pet some of these tricks. For now, the carpeted areas are off limits
July 23, 2012 at 9:18 pm
The one thing that worked for us was potty breaks on the hour. With our newest family member, Blue, it was a breeze. He was potty trained in less than a month.
Kimberly
Twitter: thefurmom