When you begin to look for easy tips for puppy housebreaking you will find that there are a multitude of techniques and tips available. Some very basic puppy potty training tips will be of great help to you in making the task of housebreaking easy and quick. It will be important to remember that puppies are at a stage when they can easily develop bad habits, so making a commitment and being patient will help you to when you are working with your dog.

Yelling and rubbing a puppy’s nose in their mess does not work when you want to housebreak your puppy. This method often scare and confuses the puppy because everywhere they sniff, they smell mess so they don’t know where the right place to go to do their business is. Following these simple steps are going to give you much more success when you are training your puppy.

It will be much easier to train your puppy to go outside if you start training them to do so. While newspaper training is used by a lot of people, it is often hard to get the dog to go outside once they have got a spot in the home where they always go. Plan on training your dog to go outside from the very beginning.

Puppies work very well with a schedule. Plan on taking your puppy out when you get up in the morning, right after they eat or drink, and right before bedtime. Developing this habit will help your puppy to go potty outside when they are supposed to. You also do not want to feed your puppy food or snacks two hours before bedtime. If they eat before bedtime, they will probably have an accident during the night.

When you puppy starts sniffing and turning in circles it wants to go outside. Pick your puppy up and say, “Time to go potty”, then take them out to go. If they go, praise the puppy, if they don’t, just let them in and try to catch them again when they start sniffing again.

When there is a mess, and there will be, clean it up immediately and use a deodorizer to remove any odor from the floor or carpet. If you praise the dog when you take it out, whether or not it goes potty, and ignore it when it makes an indoor mess, it will quickly connect the praise with doing it’s business outside.

A great tip involves cues. Dogs respond to sound cues extraordinarily well. When you feed your dog canned food, they will often come when they hear the can opener. By using a bell or timer each time you put your puppy out, they will get used to going outside to go potty when they hear a bell or timer. To get them in the habit, use a timer set for one hour and put them outside each time the bell goes off.

If you are consistent with this method you will find that when they hear a bell, they will expect to go outside. Another twist on this is to use a little silver bell. If you tie it by the door, when your dog needs to go outside, it will ring the bell. This is a very easy and time saving “trick” to teach a dog. Creating habits is one of the great tips for housebreaking a puppy quickly and easily.

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