1. Choose a spot where you’d like your dog to relieve himself. The most important lesson you can teach your puppy or dog is to relieve himself in a designated spot. This is preferably outside in an out-of-the-way spot.
2. Take your dog outside frequently in the beginning. As you start house training your dog, give your dog lots of opportunities to relieve himself. Take him outside frequently, up to every half-hour. Puppies especially have small bladders and need to go often.
3. Watch for signs that your dog needs to relieve himself. Carefully watch your dog or puppy to see when he needs to relieve himself when he’s inside the house. You may observe panting, packing, sniffing around, or barking. Immediately take your dog outside if they make moves like this.
- Make sure to go overboard with the praise when he does relieve himself outside.
- If your dog has an accident inside, don’t scold or hit him. Just quietly clean up the mess and try again.
4. Give your dog lots of immediate praise. When your dog relieves himself outside, lavish him with praise and pet him. Give him a treat. Make sure to do these things right away so that your dog associates them with going potty.
5. Carry baggies to clean up solid waste. Make sure to always keep baggies to clean up any solid dog waste immediately. There is no excuse for not cleaning up after your dog. Besides being disgusting, leaving solid waste around is a way to spread disease.
6. Confine your dog to a small indoor space until he is house trained. Until you can be sure your puppy or dog is house trained, confine her to a small space (bathroom, mud room, laundry room) with an easily cleaned floor.
- This is especially important if you can’t keep constant track of your puppy. House training puppies requires constant supervision.
7. Crate train your dog. Crate training uses a dog kennel to keep the dog in when you aren’t around. Don’t worry: if the dog is trained to use the crate, he will generally view it as a safe haven from any daily hubbub. Place the crate in the living room with the door open and a comfortably blanket inside. Encourage the dog to go into the crate on its own by tossing a treat inside. After a few times of doing this over the course of a couple of days, shut the door behind the dog and leave it closed for 10 minutes. Gradually increase the amount of time the dog goes into the crate like this until he is fine with staying in there (no whining or crying) for up to four hours.
- Make sure the crate is appropriately sized for your dog. He should be able to stand normally without a hunched back inside the crate. The crate should also be roomy enough for him to turn around comfortably inside it.
- Never leave a dog in a crate for longer than four hours. Don’t use it as a punishment or he will not willingly go inside the crate.
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