As you can see, it takes patience, a positive approach, a real plan tailored to your pet's current abilities and persistence to
properly housetrain any dog.
As a side note, nose rubbing is NEVER a correct solution to
properly housetrain any dog; it creates poor bonding between you and your dogs and can severely cripple your dog's development and understanding of what you expect from them.
Do not use a crate as a petsitter or as a substitute for
properly housetraining your dog.
Not exact matches
«We get many calls from people with 2 - or 3 - year - old
dogs who haven't been
properly housetrained,» Sevin says.
Dogs that eliminate in the house were probably never
properly housetrained.
There is no reason for
housetraining problems to ruin your home if you
properly manage a
dog who is not
housetrained.
Housetraining should be one of the easiest things you can do and if done
properly will be over within 5 days; even if you do not spend enough time with your
dog it only take a few weeks or up to a month, so you should select your
dog based on her personality, whether or not she sheds, barks a lot, is calm and good in an apartment, or even if she smells too much.
No one is going to say that
housetraining a puppy is fun, but if done
properly and vigilantly for a few months, the rest of your life with the
dog should be accident - free.
These techniques can be very effective with young
dogs as well as older
dogs who were not
properly housetrained.
The reasons
dogs potty indoors range from medical conditions that compel the
dog to eliminate suddenly... the urge to mark over old odors in the house (particularly territorial marking by unneutered or recently neutered male
dogs)... to the most common reason: that the
dog was not
properly housetrained by his past or present owner.
Do you understand that this
dog may not be housebroken and are you willing to take the time to
properly housetrain?