What is a housetrained dog?
A well trained master!
The first thing you have to know about a dog or a puppy is,
And as soon as you can get that through your head when the dog makes a mess it is apparently the dog fault? Well let's step
back and take a look at it this way. Can you imagine? Your parents putting your face in your diaper every time you messed in it,
and then saying you bad baby? Well how far do you think that would go with DSS this day and age?
Housetraining is a part of the overall relationship with your dog and that first part is love and trust. If you do not have that you
may as well just hang it up and stop reading this right now! The very first thing you have to understand is yourself. Ask yourself do
I want a dog? Why do I want a dog? What is the dog going to do for me? And am I getting the right dog?
Let's take this one step at a time. Understanding you?
When I ask the man what he first thought of the dog, he told me at first, he was ready to use it as a football when his wife wanted to
pick out of the dog pound. Put then he told me, "It intimidates the hell out of people see me walking the dog. They have not got the
guts to say something smart!" Now come on, who is going to say something to a guy that is 6.5 300 lbs.?
The point I am trying to make is the dog is right for the situation.
First they live in a small condo. Second the dog is what the wife wanted, it made her happy. Third the dog was in a pound and
probably would have been put to sleep if they had not taken it. So as funny as it looks and sounds this was a win-win situation.
NOW you are probably are say, what has this got to do with housetraining?
"O" YES a family job!
This is something you can do with a puppy! I would not try it with a young child or DSS will put you in jail! This is the most important
part of training a puppy.
You Have To Set Up A Routine!
When you can not watch the puppy, put it in the crate!
That's is home (BEDROOM) and it will learn this very fast.
Now, when you let it out of the crate, what is the first thing you are going to do?
Well, let go back to the baby!
Have you ever picked up someone's baby and just when it gets in your hands and the good old smell kicks in and the next thing you
are thing is,
"I HOPE I GOT NONE ON ME"
Now why is that?
9 out of 10 times the baby had just woken up OR had been out with its mother for a long time and she has not had time to stop and change
the diaper!
Now lets look at this very closely.
SMELL
Just waking up.
TIME
OK, you are saying, "were is this all going?"
I'm just trying to show you that the puppy is no different than you, me or that baby!
So why do we? "Treat them different"
So what is the "best way" to housetrain a puppy?
There is no way I am going to tell you that this is the right way!
But I will tell you this.
My Wife and I have had, done and been there, everything I have told you so far and we between us have over 60 years of raising dogs!
So I will say it again!
Well here it is!
1. If you are not trained, like my wife likes to think, I am! How can you train a dog?
"You Have To Set Up A Routine"
2. Schedule, you have to set up a schedule and stick too it!
3. You have to have, Love, and Trust!
4. This is the most important one of all, Understanding!
If you have those four things, you will have no problem housetraining a puppy.
And when I start to ask them about the four most important things, one of them always comes up, and that is the problem.
Now we are only barely touching the surface here and we have been ask to tell all and that would take a book and there
are a lot of good books out there! And that's the next question,
When are you going to write the book?
Well let's say, you have just read the Introduction. And time will tell.
"It is no better than the person that trained it is."
OK, try this one for size. You are a 300lb linebacker for a football team and you walk down the train station walkway with a 2lb
Chihuahua on a four-foot leash! Could you see that? I did! The man and his wife lived in a condo that did not allow dog over 25lbs
and the dog was his wives dog, and he would do anything to make her happy!
Rule one, if you real do not want the dog, you are not going to love the dog!
And if you do not love the dog you will not care if the dog is trained or not.
So ask yourself that second most important question! Do I want to take on the time and effete to train the dog? And am I going to
do it or is it going to be a family job?
You have to ask yourself "What is the dog going to do for me"?
If you have young kids and a puppy, it is a concoction for hard work!
That's right, hard work! Bring up a kid is hard to start with, and you want to bring home another? You must have far too much time on
your hands!
Know let's take a step backwards. Remember when I said, "Housetraining is a part of the overall relationship with your dog and that first
part is love and trust."
Well what is the first thing you do with a young child?
You love them and teach them trust! And when you can not trust a young child what do you do? You do not let them out of your sight!
"RIGHT"
1. SMELL
2. JUST WOKEN UP
3. TIME
When I let a dog outside, it kills me to watch the dog holds on and run like crazy all over the yard to find the right place to go!
What a nut! But you have to remember a dog smells the right place out to go! (It's Bathroom)
9 out of 10 times when you wake up what is the first thing you have to do?
Like I was saying about the baby!
Well when that puppy wakes up the first thing it has to do is go too!
Ok, this is a toughest call to make. But, this is were you have to set up schedule!
In this day and age, we are on the run all day long!
"BUT" we still have a schedule to do things
I know, when you have to go too the bathroom you stop and go, "RIGHT"!?
"What Is The Best Way To Housetrain a Dog / Puppies?
I get e-mails all the time people asking me the same thing over and over!
Why can I not get my puppy house broken?
Or
How come it is taking so long to train my dog?
