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Three ways to use clicker training to help house train your puppy

No matter how much we love our puppy, we wonder when it will ever be house broken. A new puppy has no idea about picking a place to "go." Dogs really want to be house trained, because they want to have a clean living space. Here are three ways to use clicker training to make the house training process smoother and easier.

First, take your puppy to his potty place after eating and sleeping. After meals and upon awakening are the times that a puppy is most likely to need to go outside. Stay with your puppy and reward him when he goes where you want him to. If you're using clicker training, click and reward his growing success.

If your puppy is not ready, give him more time. Always watch for signs -- walking in circles, a certain kind of sniffing around -- that it's time. You'll recognize the signs as you get to know your dog's behavior. Always click when he does something you want him to repeat and reward him with your enthusiasm and a treat.

Second, set a place for the dog to go potty. If place is outside, you might want to designate a part of the yard specifically for your dog's "business." You'll want to clean it frequently, because they don't like to walk through their waste, but that will help you narrow the area you need to clean.

If the potty place is inside, find an easily cleaned space of floor and tape down an oven liner or a pet training pad. As the dog gets older and is more able to control his bladder and and bowel movements, you can move the potty place outside. You can stop clicking when your dog has mastered a behavior and go back to the training when it's time for your dog to learn something new.

Finally, don't punish the dog for getting it wrong. Just help them get it right. Formerly, common wisdom advised dog owners to house train their dogs by rubbing their noses in their own excrement. It is cruel and meaningless to punish him this way. By the time he is finished with his bowel movement, he has no clue why you're doing this to him.

If you just help them get it right, they will succeed much sooner. Dogs like to get into a groove, and if you can get them to succeed -- and reward their success -- they'll be more than happy to get it right in the future.

Clicker training give the dog specific feedback about what it's doing right -- and so it understands what you want from him.

Like wild wolves, dogs choose not to have their waste in their living spaces, so they are on your side in this. Your puppy wants you to be happy with him. With love, patience and clicker training, your dog will be a good companion at home and a good guest anywhere.

About the Author

After living with dogs most of her life, JV Bear has seen many forms of dog training come and go, but clicker training has produced the best results with the least effort and the happiest and best-behaved dogs of all. For more information about clicker training, see her blog at the Dog Clicker Training Review http://dogclickertrainingreview.blogspot.com/

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