Important Tips For House Training Dogs

House training dogs and disciplining them is important to keep your house, specifically your carpet “poop” free. It makes use of conditioning and reward methods to help you communicate with your dog. For example, if you want them to poop in your backyard, you have to make it a point to take them outside whenever you feel that they have to go. After they are done, you should always reward them with food, a compliment or a pat to let them understand that you are happy for what they did.

House training dogs are ideally done during the following timeframes:

1. Early in the morning, during or before you make your coffee. This is because, while they were sleeping, their stomach was busy digesting the food that they ate. So just like their owners, the first thing that a puppy needs to do in the morning is to go to the bathroom.
2. After every three to four hours of being awake. Since they have relatively small stomachs, digestion and the need to defecate happens faster compared to older dogs.
3. Thirty minutes up to an hour after eating
4. And just before sleeping

House training dogs can be pretty challenging when you are just starting out. But as you go along and as your dog acquires the discipline that you want him to follow, all your hard work will be easily paid off. One last thing, no dog is too young or old to be house trained. So if you have an existing dog that has some bad bathroom habits, today is not too late to teach them some manners.

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