Dont Let Your Puppy Get Used to Making Messes

Dont Let Your Puppy Get Used to Making Messes

When it comes to reducing household messes, your puppy can be easier to housetrain than a teenager. Thats because a puppy – by nature – cant stand to live in the same area with his messes.

You can use that instinct to housetrain your puppy with minimal distress for both of you. A puppy that comes into your home directly from the breeder has adjustments that you have to consider.

Not only is the puppy in a strange environment, but hes been taken from his mother and siblings. Where there were lots of little barks and playful activity among other puppies, he is now an only dog in a home where he must wait for your time and attention.

If your home is filled with children, then the puppy can actually be overwhelmed with attention and not enough time to rest. Be mindful that your little puppy has many adjustments to make in becoming part of your home and family.

If youre crate training your puppy, everyone in the home needs to agree that this job is under the control of one person or at least kept on a schedule. Otherwise, the whimpering puppy in the crate might be released by a well-meaning child (or another adult) and suddenly, theres a mess on the floor.

Worse still is to wake up in the predawn hours of the morning to take the puppy out for a break, only to have to go looking for the puppy. Someone weakened and put the puppy in the bed. Unfortunately, the puppy needs to potty and the next pillow is as good as anyplace. Lesson learned – at least the lesson for the owners.

You may have to train the family at the same time you are training the puppy. Explain how the dogs instinct is to avoid doing potty business where he sleeps and eats. Thats why crate training is a kind of aversion therapy – so that the puppy will want to hold it until hes taken outside for official potty time.

Then make sure that you dont let your puppy spend time in his own mess inside the crate. If you constantly interrupt the housetraining routine, your puppy learns that youre not dependable and he accepts living in mess.

Once that happens, you lose weeks worth of effort. So take advantage of the puppys instinct for separating his life functions. Who knows – maybe this will rub off on your teenager!

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