By Anita L. Platt

Potty training your puppy will be the most important thing that you teach him. Showing your puppy that his potty is outdoors is something that should be indicated the minute you get him home. You will need to prepare yourself for a lot of waiting and watching; but with time and patience, you and your puppy will succeed at puppy training.

Choose one particular site in your yard as your puppys potty. You can put plants or flowers around the area to make it look better. This is a good way to show help your puppy to remember where his own potty is.

"Outside" will be quite an important puppy training command; therefore, this word should be one of the first that you make important to your new buddy. You should use the command "outside" firmly and loudly anytime that he has an accident inside. Then you must quickly get him outside to finish elimination in his potty area. Never forget to praise him for going; this is necessary even in the case of an accident. It reinforces that going "outside" is where he will be using the potty.

Believe it or not, eventually you will teach and enable your puppy to use the potty on command. Puppy training on command also calls for another command word of your choice.

Be sure to let anyone who will be walking or watching your dog to use the exact same command word. Always give praise, and let the other people in his life know that they should do the same.

A good thing to do in order to determine exactly when your puppy needs to have potty training is to keep a diary. Here you will record eating, sleeping, and elimination. This will give you a better idea of when to cue puppy that he needs to go outside to use his potty.

Never use punishment when potty training your puppy; for that matter, does not use punishment in any puppy training endeavor. Punishment only confuses and scares your dog. Then he will be likely to have more indoor accidents than before.

By maintaining consistency, tempered with equal parts firmness and love, you will have succeeded at potty and puppy training before you know it. Your puppy will respond well to your firmness and love. He will endeavor to please you by learning to potty sooner. Then you will have puppy training success. - 31841

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