Use Pee Pads to Train Your Dogs
How to Train Your Puppy to Use Pee Pads and Go Outside?
Always be consistent and patient while housebreaking your puppy. Just like a toddler, it is always a frustrating and smelly experience when you are training your dog. It is not done correctly, you might see your puppy fearing you and you are returning home to a messier and smelly home. The gradual transition from indoor pee pads to an outdoor bathroom might seem an easy process.
- Dedicate a small area of your house to your puppy which has a hard flooring to provide your dog with enough space to sleep, eat, and play. Use any room which can be used by providing dogs gates.
- Place the pee pad in any room except the sleeping place of the dogs because they don’t like their pee pads located exactly at the same place of their eating and sleeping.
- Always put a paper towel soiled with your puppy urine to the new pee pads so that the puppy can smell it and know that they are should do their business there.
- Confine your puppy in a small room and watch him over, if he shows sign such as sniffing, barking or circling then put the pee pad below him and use a two-word sign each time he is about to do his business, always be consistent with the same word.
- Treat your puppy and praise him each time he obeys your instructions. Don’t keep the praise for the later as if you put it for the later, they will never know what they are being praised for.
- Allow your puppy to roam around your whole house after a month of successfully using the pads without any accidents. Always monitor him that he is using those pads. If he is falling for accidentally sometimes, limit his area of moving to a smaller area so that he knows and gets to do it at the right place.
- Observe your puppy when he has to go to the potty and bring him to the great outdoor bathroom area.
- Bring your puppy back to the same area where he usually does his potty as the smell will instigate him to go for the potty. Remove the pads once he gets used to going outside to do his potty
Tips
- Feed and walk your puppy usually at the exact time every day so it becomes a habit for him. Take him to his potty are exactly at two hours interval and after he wakes up, eats or drinks something. A schedule will help him not to have an accident and follow it blindly.
- If you see your puppy having any accidents then clap your hands for him to understand and stop it immediately, then carry him to the area where he is designated to do his business every day