Do not attempt to paper train a puppy. This approach confuses
a puppy when it is time to outside train. From the moment the
puppy comes home you have to begin the outside training process.
Select a door where the puppy will go to be let outside. This
door must be where someone in the family will hear the dog. A
door far from where the family spends its time will not work.
You have to hear the dog request to go outside. Whether using a
bell or the dog scratching you must be able to hear the puppy.
Place the crate in a location where the dog will sleep at night.
A warm location where it will not see you when not being cared
for. It is your choice to place a pillow or towel inside the
crate. Normally puppies’ will not soil their sleeping area. But
this is not always the case. A chew toy may be the best thing to
place inside a crate and nothing else to save on clean up of
messes.
Immediately upon bringing a puppy home, you take the dog on a
leash to its spot to go potty. Never carry a puppy to its potty
spot. When the puppy has reached the location where it is to go
potty, use the command word selected and do not say any other
word. Say, (example) "Poop! ." Then wait for the puppy to do
something. Either urinate or fecate. This may take sometime.
Wear the Walkman and listen to music while waiting. Immediately
upon seeing the puppy complete its dropping or urinating, bend
down and give the puppy a biscuit treat. Say a word selected for
praise, (example) "Excellent!" Then wait for the puppy to
complete the other half of its droppings and praise again with a
treat. Only one treat per dropping and single word praise.
When finished, on its leash lead the puppy into the house
through the door it will use to go in and outside. Do Not carry
the puppy. Only use the leash. Inside the house play with the
puppy for no more then five or ten minutes. Walk the puppy to
its water and food dish. Allow the puppy to drink water. Play
with the puppy for a few minutes and begin the house breaking
method: Take the puppy on the leash to the door with the bell or
door where the dog will scratch. Lean over and lift the puppies
front paws to the bell or door and scratch the paws against the
bell to ring or make a scratching sound. Praise the dog with its
one word, "excellent!" Give the puppy a single treat and open
the door. On its leash take the puppy to its potty spot and wait
for it to urinate. After it does good, give the puppy a treat
with its one word praise and walking the puppy, take back inside
the house. Repeat this process for the next two to three hours.
Placing the puppy in the crate after an outside inside play
session is okay if the puppy must be left temporarily until you
can complete the process. Never leave the puppy to roam the
house when not engaged in house breaking. Always place the puppy
in the crate without water or food when not house breaking. A
chew toy is okay in the crate.
Immediately after removing the puppy from the crate, attach
the leash and walk to the door. Lift its paws and use a one word
praise, give treat and walk outside. If the puppy has an
accident on the way to the door do not discipline. Take the
puppy back to the crate and clean up the mess with Bad Pup’pee
Retraining Spray. Never let the puppy see you clean up its mess,
and this means never. Do not scold the puppy for having an
accident. Do not use a newspaper to discipline or another
punishment tool. Make certain everyone in the household and any
friends or guests understand not to punish the puppy for an
accident. Just place the puppy in the crate away from the
accident. If the accident were inside the crate, then place the
puppy in a bathroom while you clean up the mess inside the
crate. Follow the directions on the bottle of liquid products.
Do not wipe up immediately after applying as this will prevent
the liquid from removing all traces of urine and pheromone’s
left in an accident.
The steps again are: Take puppy outside after being in crate.
Wait for potty then give treat and praise. Bring inside house to
drink water and play for a few minutes. Take to door and repeat
process. Do this non stop for the entire day. Do not get bored
with process. Three to four days will likely have a house broken
puppy. This will save you many dollars in urine and stain
removing liquids and the mental anguish associated with house
breaking a puppy.
Puppies have to fecate approximately twenty minutes after
eating solid food or drinking water. Time your outside trips
around this knowledge. Do not feed your puppy and take right to
door and outside spot. Give them time to digest and process
food. Play with them right before taking outside after eating.
Always do repetitive treat-praise at the door. Ringing the bell
with paws and using single word praise. Wait outside while they
do their potty. Do not leave the puppy alone outside. Wait for
them and observe that they have completed their steps. Give them
a treat and word praise.
This process should take place for the entire next three to
four days after bringing home a new puppy. At night right before
going to bed, you take the puppy out for the last time. Inside
the house place the puppy inside the crate without food or
water. Close the crate door and go to bed. Do not let the puppy
train you with moans and whimpering at night. Leave the puppy to
adjust to its new environment. In the morning, go to the puppy
and put the leash on the collar. Walk the puppy to the door
quickly and begin the house breaking process again. Following
all the before mentioned steps. If the puppy soiled its crate,
cleanup the mess without bringing attention to the puppy that it
had an accident. Remember to place the puppy someplace where it
cannot see you clean up its mess. Ignore all accidents by
getting frustrated yourself. Never scold the puppy for
accidents. Just remember to remove the puppy from the area of
the accident so it does not see you clean up the mess.
After a month or more when the puppy always goes to the door
to go outside, begin to wean the puppy off treats. Skipping a
treat every once in awhile. When the puppy is completely house
broken you can wean them off the treats completely.
This approach violates many preconceived ideas of house
breaking puppies’. Long time approaches to house breaking have
proven to take weeks or months and even years to completely
house break a new puppy. We have proven that this approach
worked in just days or a week depending on the age and body
development of the puppy. Some small puppies have bladders that
cannot hold liquid for a long period. You have to gauge the
right time for your new puppy to go potty. Twenty minutes may
not be the right time to wait. Your puppy may go potty in
twenty-seven minutes or fifteen. Work out in time what works
best. Just remember to not give up on training the new puppy to
follow a set procedure to let you know it wants to go outside.
Do not use dog doors until the puppy knows its proper spot to go
potty and not to go inside. If the puppy marks the inside of the
house with accidents that are not cleaned up completely, it will
use the pheromone in these accidents as the indicator of where
it should leave its droppings. A puppy from birth use its
mother’s pheromone scent in her urine as a method of finding its
way home and the correct spot to go potty. Pheromone’s are like
sticky mucous. Very difficult to remove and impossible to see.
You have to use products specially developed to remove this
sticky substance. Nearly all the stain and odor products sold in
pet stores, grocery stores and janitorial companies do not
remove the pheromone’s left in the puppies accident. Most of
these products do a poor job permanently removing the urine and
odors left in the carpet and floor after an accident.
You can use a Black light to find old urine accidents. This
will at least give you the opportunity to find the source of
smells inside the carpet. Remember even after a carpet cleaning
by professional carpet cleaners, the pheromone’s are still in
the carpet pad and flooring and on the back of the carpet.
Carpet cleaning top treats carpet. Pheromone’s are like chewing
gum in hair, and it sticks really well. Removing it is a
specialized process. Puppies’ smell the pheromone’s left after a
carpet cleaning and will go potty when they smell the scent.
Be diligent and your new puppy will be house broken in a
short period of time.
