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House Training - take care and have patience

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Begin house training a dog at an early age when your dog is most receptive to learning the correct behavior and be taught how to co-exist with his master.

You need a lot of patience as well as a cool head. This is required because your dog may not learn immediately the rules to follow. It can be quite a task house training a dog and you will need to teach it where to eliminate which requires you to praise your dog when it does the correct thing.

Your dog may have a willful personality and is stubborn as well as independent which makes house training your dog difficult. In such cases, you need to let the dog know just who the leader of the pack is and also requires positive as well as continual scheduling. On the other hand, the dog may be of a breed that is quite small and will easily hide under furniture or get into corners where it won’t be noticed and soil while out of sight.

Try out different house training a dog methods including crate training as well as paper or puppy pad train the dog. Whichever is the method you choose, remember to be consistent because if the dog develops bad habits it will only become that much more difficult to break in the dog once again.

When you begin the process of house training a dog you can also keep a log of the dog’s daily activities so that you know of its routine, which will include a time to feed it, and a time for it to relieve itself, which will help in setting a pattern for it to follow. Consistency in such cases will result in fast turn around times and the dog will soon become accustomed to and aware of these routines and thus free you of the worry of it soiling your home.

Tip: take your dog outside after his meals, and at regular intervals throughout the day - start out with two-hourly intervals.