Apartment Style Puppy Potty Training - Toilet Training a Puppy When You Live in an Apartment

House training a puppy can be one of the hardest things that you will teach your pup to do. It is usually because this is the first time your pup learns a new behaviour. You may rest assured that after you have successfully potty trained your puppy, you will have set in place a precedence that will make future training loads easier.

There is lots of information available for toilet training a puppy where you have ready access to a back yard. What seems a little scarce is the information available to those of us who want to toilet train a pup in an apartment. Catching your pup in the lead up to needing to go potty is a great thing, but making a mad dash for outdoors when you live on the 9th floor of an apartment building just make sit impossible to implement. So, how do we go about house training a puppy in an apartment?

You'll need to make a schedule for when your pup eliminates. Ok, these doesn't sound like the most exciting schedule you've ever made, but it will pay off ten fold when your pup is totally potty trained. Your pup will need to eliminate approximately every 2 hours. As a young pup it has an immature bowel and bladder. The younger the pup, the more frequent it will need to go potty. Have a designated spot in your apartment for where the pup will learn to toilet. This should be on non porous, un-carpeted flooring. It should always be easily accessed by the pup any time the pup is awake. Placing papers or a mat down where the pup is able to go potty will teach it that that is where you want it to go. A pup will generally display behaviour that it needs to go potty. It will sniff the ground, circle once or twice and then squat and eliminate. If you catch your pup doing any one of these three things, pick it up and immediately take it to the toilet area. Praise your puppy heavily when she has finished and she will associate it with a good experience. Should you miss the signs she needs to go, and the pup has actually gone on the floor do not give your pup any attention. Tell the pup naughty boy or girl and clean the mess thoroughly. Hitting your puppy or yelling at it will make your training almost impossible to implement.

Clean all accidents up thoroughly. Dogs are ruled by scent and will associate the smell of its accidents with a place they are able to toilet again. You will need to use a cleaner that is void of ammonia as the smell of ammonia to a puppy is very similar to the pups urine. I have written an article Help! My Dog Has Wet On My Carpet And It Stinks where I list a home made remedy to rid the area of the smell, and therefore the compulsion for the pup to eliminate there again.

Patience and consistency are certainly key when it comes to training your puppy to be house trained. You must remember that your pup is learning a completely new behaviour and will need time to not only adjust to being taught this, but also adjust to you and its new surroundings. Make sure that everyone in the house hold is clued in on what needs to be done with the puppy. Everyone needs to play a role in being consistent with your pups training. Have simple commands that can be remembered by everyone and implemented when needed and your pup will learn a lot quicker.

If you need further help or instruction on how to house train your pup or you feel that you need help on any behavioural issues after you have conquered toilet training, I urge you to visit my website below.

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