What is it about puppies that makes them so irresistible? The first time you bring a puppy home, everyone rushes in excitement to greet their new family member. Then, when the new puppy has an “accident” on the rug, everybody seems to disappear. This is when you have to start training a puppy.

You can make training your new puppy a chore or you can make it an enjoyable experience for everyone, including your dog. All it takes is a little education about animal behavior to avoid toilet training the new member of your family the wrong way.

All animals, including ourselves, do what they do through a mixture of instinct and learned behavior. You may notice that your puppy will experience some anxiety before it relieves itself anywhere in the house. That is because dogs instinctively know that they don’t want to soil their own dens, but your new puppy has just come to a new home and doesn’t know where its “den” is.

Your puppy will be instinctively hesitant to relieve itself inside the house, but will not be able to control itself. It will sniff around the house, trying to find the place where others relieve themselves before it finally gives up and does it on the floor. It is important not to punish it for this, because it hasn’t done anything wrong. It is just as important to teach it that the place it chose is not the right place and to show it where the right place is.

Do not teach it by punishment. Rubbing its nose in the poo and yelling at the dog aren’t going to do any good at all. Instead, remove the waste and take it outside, where it belongs. Leave it there so the puppy can sniff out its location the next time. Clean the area indoors where the puppy relieved itself and remove all traces of odor using an appropriate cleaning solution.

You will have to keep your eyes open for a few days or weeks if you want to successfully toilet train your puppy. Look for those behavioral signs that tell you it needs to go. Take it outside and wait for it to finish and then offer it a reward for good behavior. You will not only have shown your puppy the appropriate place to go, but have established yourself as the leader of the “pack.”

Because dogs are pack animals, they either seek guidance from the dominant pack leader or dominate the pack themselves. If your puppy is allowed free rein, it may think that it is the leader and will resist training throughout its life. You may be the “boss, ” but you need not be domineering. Reward is always the best teaching tool whenever possible.

If you start training a puppy right from the beginning, you will have a much easier time of it. You and you dog will be great companions for years to come.

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