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Crates For Dogs – The Benefits

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If your new dog is going to make its home within your house rather than the backyard then perhaps you should consider the benefits of using a indoor dog kennel or indoor dog crates, as they are commonly known. Crates are more likely to be used today rather than dog baskets. I am going to run through just a few of the benefits that may help you in your decision.I will be directing my comments primarily towards puppies but the information is also true of an older dog. With most dog owners their prime concern is protecting their home from their new friend. If that is your thought then you will find that crates for dogs are ideal for ensuring you know exactly where your dog is and ensuring your peace of mind.Being able to contain your puppy in its own indoor dog kennel is reassuring. It is especially important if your daily routine means you are going to be away from your house for a few hours during the day. It is also useful at night when the household is asleep, but perhaps you new dog is wide awake.Chewing is common problem with puppies, and also older dogs, and if you are going to have your puppy indoors then the last thing that you want is for your new friend to destroy your home. It is much better that they can be left secure in their dog crate, perhaps with a toy bone. Then, if your puppy does have the inclination to chew then that it will be on something that specifically belongs them.Puppy potty training is the first big challenge and the use of an indoor dog crate is ideal to assist you in this. Dogs are very reluctant to eliminate in their own living space. As crates for dogs are ideal for giving this feeling of their own unique space then it aids quick learning.By avoiding the habit of feeding your puppy in its cage you will assist potty training for your puppy. Although it is important to avoid food being placed in the crate it is vitally important that your dog has access to an adequate supply of clean fresh water at all times.Although puppies and young dogs appear to have boundless energy it is vitally important that they are not over-exercised and in this respect indoor dog kennels fulfill a vital role. Once the regular exercise routine is complete then is the time to shut your puppy in its dog crate as a signal that now is the time to rest and recover.

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Is crate training the best way to house break a dog? And how long did it take for you dog?

I want to crate train our new 4 month old puppy, but my mom doesn’t think it’s right to leave the dog in a crate for an hour and stuff? How long did it take your puppy to be housebroken with crate training? is there any other house braking training? THx

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Life Stages Dog Crates – An Easy Way to Potty Train a Puppy

All my dogs have been rescued from shelters, some as puppies, some adults. All have had behavioural problems and none were potty trained. If you are like me, you have carpets or hardwood floors that you don’t want damaged by pet accidents. One item provides just what I need to easily potty train a puppy or dog: a life stages wire crate.

It can be difficult to potty train a puppy. A lot of patience and commitment is needed as puppies are full of energy and tend to have a small bladder and short attention span. The key to potty training is consistency. Develop a schedule and stick to it!

Take your puppy out frequently

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Common Dog House Training Problems – Peeing and Pooping

Peeing and pooping is probably the biggest and probably one of the most common dog house training problems. The first thing you have to remember and keep in mind is that your dog, like you, has to pee and poop. It is natural and you aren’t going to stop it. When you are house training your dog expect to come home to pee and poop. When you do, do not get mad at your dog. This would be like someone getting mad at you for breathing, something you do naturally, without thinking! There are quite a few ways to help them stop peeing and pooping everywhere.

1)Get some puppy potty training pads. These are thick, usually white, pads that look like thick paper towels.

2)Praise and treat your dog when he or she uses a potty pad or goes outside.

3)Always stay calm. If you come home and your dog has done his business on your floor, don’t get mad. Again, it is natural for you dog to do this.

4)While you are away, keep your dog in a room of your home that has hard floors. It is a whole lot easier to clean waste from a hard floor. Try to keep them and it off carpets.

5)Never think that rubbing your dogs nose in his own waste is going to help. First, this is just nasty, would you like it? Second, if you do decide to do that (please don’t), think about where your hands are going to be. They will be on your dogs head. Now think about whats going to happen when you want to pet him, he is going to pull away. You have just trained your dog to not want you to pet him. Good job! Not!

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Puppy House and Potty Training Tips

After getting your new puppy, there will be a short period of adjustment. The aim is to minimize the pup’s stress of having just left its mother and to help it bond with its new family. Most puppies younger than 3 to 4 months old will quickly bond with new people and pets, provided there are no unpleasant experiences with them. This is the critical period in which your puppy must be socialized with as many new people and healthy pets as possible, so as to ensure a sociable adult dog.

1) Preventing Puppy House Breaking

When home, supervise your puppy all the time until it has been taught what it can and cannot chew and where it can toilet (wee and or poo). A good way of keeping the puppy in sight and preventing it wandering off, is to keep it on a long leash.

Whenever the puppy cannot be supervised, then it needs to be housed in a secure place. This can be a small crate if it is for a short period or a puppy proofed room or pen if the puppy is to be confined for longer periods (greater than 1-2 hours). Provision should be made for water, food, safe chewable dog toys and shelter from the elements if the crate or pen is housed outdoors. It must not be used for punishment, but simply to keep the puppy safe and prevent it from wrecking the house by toileting and chewing in the house. Allow the puppy to exercise and toilet before confinement.

2) How to Train Puppy

It is very important to try to avoid punishing new puppies, as this can lead to avoidance at a time when bonding with people is critical. This can be done by rather setting the puppy up for success by providing adequate supervision or confinement as needed.

If a reprimand is warranted, a simple “NO” in a deep voice AT the time of the undesirable behavior. Dogs cannot associate punishment in the present moment for something that occurred in the past.

3) Puppy Potty Training

You need to provide an acceptable area for toileting and guidance until the puppy learns to use this area as its “potty”. The potty area must be kept clean by picking up stools (poos) daily and disposing of them. A grassy patch away from the house is suitable.

It often only takes a few days to toilet train puppies. They soon learn where they should or should not go and the consequences of toileting indoors.

Puppies have a very strong urge to toilet soon after eating, drinking, exercising and soon after waking up. You must take your puppy to its toileting area soon (within 10 minutes)after any of these activities. Most puppies need to toilet every 2-4 hours when awake. As they get older they gain better control and the time between toileting increases. At about 6 months old, puppies can usually go throughout the night without toileting, however you still need to take the puppy out to toilet just before bedtime and again first thing in the morning.

When puppy toilets in its potty area, you must lavish praise (”good dog”) on it to positively reinforce the desired behavior. Some people may give a small edible treat for the same effect.

When at home with the puppy indoors, it must be supervised so that you can pick up on its pre toileting behavior (circling, squatting, sniffing, whining and sneaking off). If you catch the puppy starting to toilet in the house, then a quick short sharp verbal reprimand is all that is needed, do NOT hit the puppy. Then take the puppy to its potty area to finish toileting and lavish praise when it does. By setting a regular routine, the puppy will soon learn to head for the door when it wants to toilet.

If the puppy has to left alone at home or overnight, it must be allowed to toilet just beforehand. The room it is confined in must not be carpeted to enable ease of cleaning if there is a mishap. At first the entire floor should be covered in old newspapers. Most puppies will soon start to toilet furthest away from their food, water and bedding, that should be put to one-side. At this point you only need to cover the area the pup is using to toilet on with newspaper. The best and cheapest disinfectant to use if an accident does occur off the newspaper, is ordinary household bleach (4% sodium hypochlorite) that must be diluted at a ratio of 1 to 30 with water (for example 1 cup of bleach to 30 cups of water). It is a good idea to patch test a small hidden corner of flooring to make sure it does not stain.

When the puppy has not had a “mistake” in the house for a month or more, you can start to relax your supervision and confinement. It is prudent that you give your puppy a chance to exercise and toilet before leaving it indoors unsupervised for increasing lengths of time. If there is an accident, you may need to go out for shorter periods or resort to confinement until things improve again.

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Crate Training Dogs: The Right Way and the Wrong Way – Part Two

Part2: Does your puppy want to be crate trained?

Yes! in fact, he does. Your puppy or dog will soon see his crate as a place of security, IF it’s approached correctly.

The crate is NEVER to be used as a punishment. Introduce it gradually and gently; make the crate and your pet’s puppy potty training a positive and happy experience and he will come to view his crate like Linus views his blanket.

Make sure your puppy has a balance of crate time and activity time. He needs ample exercise to be healthy. This is an important part to crate training dogs and puppy potty training.

Being in the crate too much will have a negative effect on his personality and puppy behavior. And being loose all the time will get him into trouble and may also serve to make him feel insecure and overwhelmed.

A Few Crate Training Dogs Tips:

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1. If you can’t supervise, your pup needs to be in the crate.

This goes for dogs as well. Until your dog or puppy is reliable with each stage of puppy potty training, freedom should be limited.

This doesn’t mean your pet should be in the crate all the time, but instead watched at all times. And make sure your puppy or dog gets ample exercise during this time. DON’T use the crate TOO much. This can also be detrimental to your puppy’s or dog’s physical and mental well-being.

In Puppy Potty Training I give an example of a step by step schedule for crate training puppies.

2.The crate should be an appropriate size for the weight and size of your puppy.

For crate training puppies you may have to find one that is adjustable, however I’m not a fan of these as they’re not enclosed and don’t promote the feeling of security near as much as the enclosed crates.

If using an enclosed crate during puppy potty training, then you can block off the back portion of the crate with something and allow more room as your puppy grows. Make sure that whatever you use to customize the size of your crate is safe and secure and won’t pose any danger to your puppy.

For crate training dogs all you need to do is make sure it’s an appropriate size for the dog. He needs to be able to turn around comfortably but not be able to go to one end of the crate and do his business and then return to a clean end. With puppies and dogs this is an important thing to remember when choosing a crate size.

3. For every month of the age of your puppy, that is how to get an idea of how long he can be crated at one time, (months to hours +1)

4. Never use the crate as punishment. Never bang on the crate to make your puppy stop whining. This can cause other behavior problems to be exhibited.

The Biggest Contributors to Behavior Problems:

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Yelling, scolding, hitting, swatting, especially rubbing his nose in it (which is the worst), or getting upset at your puppy or dog only causes him to become fearful of you, and to be confused (usually both). And this makes potty training much more difficult for both of you.

These archaic methods are the biggest contributors to problem dog behavior, (not just in their puppy stages, but lasting an entire lifetime). Real Training causes your dog to “learn”, and a puppy or dog can’t “learn” if they’re afraid and/or confused.

The Best News About Appropriate Crate Training:

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The greatest thing about my effective but gentle method of crate training dogs, (or crate training puppies) for puppy potty training is that you will be building the loving relationship you’ve always wanted with your dog based on positive and rewarding experiences together as opposed to him doing things out of fear, pain or punishment.

Instead of performing because he is “forced”, your puppy or dog will come to please you naturally. This makes the dog’s behavior much more reliable and consistent and gives him a more confident and cooperative personality.

Successfully crate training dogs, (and crate training puppies) can be done very simply through the natural and gentle methods I explain in Puppy Potty Training.

My gentle and effective methods of puppy potty training, applied in crate training dogs, will build a positive relationship of cooperation between you and your dog during his puppy pottytraining stage.

It’s very possible to get your puppy potty trained without having to use punishment and without having to clean up messes all the time.

My typical experience with a new puppy is anywhere between 1 and 4 accidents-total. And the results are always a very reliably potty trained, healthy and happy canine companion.

Crate Training Dogs: The Right Way and the Wrong Way – Part Two


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Husky puppy potty training problems?

I have a husky puppy who is now about 5 months old. We have been crate training him since we got him when he was 2 months old. hes often on a leash so that he cant go to his favorite spots to pee. his water intake is controlled and if he does have any mistakes, he is interrupted, told NO and then taken out to finish his business. also, he is taken out about once every hour whether he asks or not. The problem is he doesn’t ask in anyway to go outside. if we take him outside he will go, but if he has to go inside he will without asking to go out. Hes going into dog training (he would have been already but im moving later this month and i didnt want to start something then have to leave half way through)Any suggestions on where i can go from here?

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Puppy Potty Training – 10 Sure-Fire Tips For Success

A few simple ideas can make a big difference to how successful your puppy potty training will be.

#1. Features your dog potty must have: It should be easy to clean. Have a splash back. Have a post for him to aim at. Be big enough for when he grows up.

#2. For indoor use, it’s much cheaper to use newspaper under the grill of a dog potty than any of the pad, gel or litter type products.

#3. Restrict his access to the house until he’s house trained. A small room with an easy to clean floor and a baby gate is ideal.

#4. Puppies get accustomed to the surface they eliminate on. So don’t change this until he’s fully house trained.

#5. The paper training method is the best technique if your puppy has to relieve itself indoors. It works even better when you use an indoor potty instead of paper.

#6. Nature’s miracle stain and odor remover is great for cleaning up and eliminating the puppy’s scent. It’s available from Amazon.

#7. Thoroughly clean up and deodorize anywhere there are any accidents. Otherwise he will eliminate there again.

#8. Feed your puppy and play with him anywhere he has had any accidents. This will help prevent him eliminating in the same spot again.

#9. Everyone involved must use the same training methods or it will confuse your puppy and it will take longer to house break him

#10. Give your puppy frequent attention during this critical period. If you find he’s having too many accidents, it probably means you are leaving him unattended for too long at a time.

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    Puppy Potty Training Tips

    Puppy potty training is one of those times that you will be able to give your puppy a treat that he really deserves and loves. Now most people will want their puppy to learn to use the potty outside rather quickly. However some mistakes can be made that will not help your puppy be potty trained quickly. Some of them are you are hurrying your dog, you are not paying attention to your dogs behavior when he tells you he has to go potty, or you just do not take your puppy to the proper spot for him in your hard.

    First I will cover some of the mistakes that people frequently make while potty training their puppy. The first one that I will go over is trying to speed the puppy up while he is deciding to go potty. Yes, I understand that some of you may say well it’s snowing or raining, or cold. However, you must remember that your puppy has a fur coat on. He will not like to be hurried and that if you do hurry him while potty training your puppy it will only cause him not to go outside and then you will have an accident in your home.

    The next problem that people may encounter while trying to potty train their puppy is you are not paying attention. Now like your kids or any other animal that you are potty training you will learn subtle hints from them that they have to go potty. Now take for example your kids they will typically come up and tell you that they have to go pee, or that they have to go potty. I know my son does that to me now constantly and he just began potty training. However, your dog will not be able to run up to you and tell you in words. Some dogs may bark at you, paw at you, or just look at you. Now these are all signs that your puppy is giving you that he has to go out. One thing that I did for my little puppy is I got bells that hang low enough on the back door that he can paw at them and get them to ring so I know he has to go out. This could work for you and your puppy.

    One of the problems that took me the longest time figuring out while I was potty training my puppy was finding the proper spot. Now this may seem kind of odd to you, but from my experience in potty training my puppies they all seemed to gravitate to a certain spot to go potty at. Each one of my puppies while potty training would go to a different spot on the yard which made it kind of difficult, but at the same time once they found that spot in the yard they go there each time. So you might have to walk your dog around your whole yard before he finally finds that one spot. That way if you are in a hurry and he is close to being fully potty trained you will have a great idea where to take him to. I know my dogs when I reach the spot they use typically go potty right away.

    Now though onto how you can easily potty train your puppy. Potty training of a puppy typically requires a set routine on feeding and walking this will help get your dog used to what time it gets to go potty and help you out if you work all day or night. Another method that you can use is crate training which will help out to avoid accidents because most dogs do not like going potty in an area that they sleep in. Some of the other methods are letting them circle around you on a leash, having a lot of patience is a big one. Remember your puppy while potty training is only a baby so accidents will occur and when they do try not to get upset at your puppy, remember he is only potty training.

    So the first method that I will cover for successful potty training of your puppy is setting a schedule. Now much like working we have a set time that we have to be at work your puppy will need a set time to go potty. Remember that your puppy while potty training will need a schedule that he can get used to. Another key point to remember is that while potty training your dog you have to keep doing the same thing with your dog for him to become familiar with the potty training.

    Another way to manage potty training your dog is with the use of a crate. Some people may view crate training as cruel because your puppy gets put in a crate while in this stage. However, I must say that crate training saved me a tremendous amount of time. Crate training is great for potty training because most dogs do not like going potty near where they sleep. Not only that crate training will give your puppy a place of security that they can go to when life’s stresses are hard for him to deal with at that moment.

    One method that I actually found by accident was letting my dog circle me while he was on his leash. Now you might say that you will get tangled up while he is circling you which can happen if you are not paying attention. However, most of us will notice when a leash is being wrapped around us. Now I found this method to be quite effective at first I could not figure out what my dog was doing, but then remembered that he is potty training and let him do what he wanted. So I let him circle around me several times and actually found out that he would go potty really quickly because he found a spot to go on faster.

    However, the most important thing with your puppy while he is potty training is to have patience. Patience for when he has accidents and you want to yell and scold. Patience while he is trying to find his spot in the yard and you’re getting soaked or freezing will help bolster his confidence in potty training. Patience while potty training is key because your dog will sense the stress that you have while he is potty training and get nervous about potty training. So remember the key to any potty training is patience. This goes for your kids, dogs, cats, and any animal that you may get.

    The methods that I suggested crate training, paying attention to my puppy while potty training, getting my puppy set on a potty training schedule, and having a lot of patience led to my puppy being potty trained. However, if I did not use these methods I am sure my puppy would not be as well potty trained as he is now. Also I know for a fact that if I did not pay attention to my puppy while potty training, hurried my puppy or did not let him find “his” spot in the yard he would not be potty trained. Hopefully your puppy will be potty trained soon so you too can enjoy a long and healthy life with a fully potty trained puppy!

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