What is the best way to potty train a dog?

Question

She goes outside when we walk her, but she doesn't bark at the door when she has to go, so if she's in the house and she needs to go she just goes. What can I do to get her to bark at the door when she has to go?????

Answer 1

the first thing to remember about house training a puppy is there ability to hold themselves is limited. a rule of thumb is they can hold "it" usually 1 hour for each month of age. 2 months old = 2 hours, 3 months old = 3 hours, etc. when your puppy wakes up (morning, nap, whatever) the pup has to go, right then! take the pup out. when the pup eats or drinks, it has to go, take the pup out. after exercise (play), take the pup out. when the pup does it's thing outside praise it. a lot. tell the pup how good, how smart it is. you have to pay attention to the pups "looking for it's spot" behavior. when you see that behavior indoors, whisk the pup out. if you catch the pup in the act, simply tell it "NO!" and whisk it outside. if you find a puddle or pile after the fact, clean it up with an enzyme cleaner (pet food store) get a newspaper and hit.... yourself in the head and say "i should have been paying more attention" daytime training they get pretty fast. night time training is easier if you crate train the pup. also remember the one hour/one month rule. you will have to get up through the night to take the pup out. good luck
three websites on how to crate train a puppy

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~rc207100/info-pub.htm

http://www.inch.com/~dogs/cratetraining.html

http://www.planeturine.com/pettips/dsp_crateTrainPuppy.cfm

Answer 2

You need to get her to respond to you before she will do it on your own. Do like stated above. Go to the door and ask her if she wants to go outside. Get her to do something, whether it be jumping in the air, barking, or spinning in circles. Whatever she manages to do that makes you happy. Then, open the door. Do this every time you take her out. Eventually, she will do it without being asked, and she will use it to tell you she has to go out.

I've never tried to put that into words before. It's just something I do with the dogs naturally, I guess. My dogs will come and get me and paw me when they want to go out, and I didn't do any specific training with them. Then, they paw the door to come back in. It's all a combination of training and response from you. Good luck!

Edit: and please don't rub her face in it. All that does is make her afraid of you AND of going to the bathroom. Bad psychology. Just get her outside and clean it up. She's not doing it to be bad, she just has to go potty! Take her out more often if she is having accidents regularly, that's all.

Answer 3

Keep the dog in a cage or a pet carrier or some other small confined area with newspaper. Whenever the dog does her thing on the rug, bring her to the spot, put her face in it and then scold her. Then immediately take her out and when she does her business again, praise her and bring her back in. While she is in the enclosed space, if she begins to do her business, immediately scold her and take her outside and praise her once she does it again.

By praising the dog when she does it outside and scolding her when she does it inside, it teaches the dog that going inside is very bad and eventually she will let you know that its time to go. My dog never barks or scratches at the door. He always pokes me in the leg with his nose and will not stop until I take him out. So maybe you just have to learn the behavior of the dog to determine when she is ready to go out.

Answer 4

I'm now not announcing you have got to kennel instruct your puppy, however you do have got to preclude her from having access to 'quandary' locations. Many puppies will see downstairs as now not rather 'aspect of the condominium' so this is not an exclusive main issue. Before you get too a long way long gone regardless that, I'd be certain there is not whatever clinical happening (to give an explanation for the unexpected difference in behaviour). Try bringing a urine pattern on your vet (or carry your puppy, and feature them acquire a pattern). ddx: Behavioural Urinary Tract Injection Crystals/Stones Renal problems If now not spayed then pyometra and many others. and many others, and many others.

Answer 5

The "pros" will advise using the crate to house train your puppy. I suggest paper training your puppy and slowly move the paper to the door. If you want the puppy to go to the door, you must train your puppy to do so. In order to train your puppy to go to the door I suggest the bell system. Tie a bell to the door with a toy string and teach the puppy ring the bell and then she goes out.

Answer 6

Well when she goes you need to disapline her by rubbing her nose in her landmarks and say no with a serious face and put her outside for awhile, then if you ever almost catch her trying to go inside the house, yell at her lead her to the back door and tell her to go outside........I don't know, that's what i did, and many othr people i know.

Answer 7

Repetition, Take it outside every 15 minutes at first then a little more time in between everyday. Take it to the same spot and keep it in a kennel inside all of the time until it starts going when you take it out. Worked for us.

Answer 8

Keep a can of coins or beans handy and everytime you see her squat rattle the can to startle her, then take her outside and let her go. And when she goes outside reward her with a small treat, not the whole beggin strip, just part of it. She will learn you want her to go out.

Answer 9

find a treat that she really likes and when she goes out give her a treat and when she goes in the house tell her bad. So she will know what 2 do. i did that with my dogs and it works great!

Answer 10

Take the dog outside every 30 minutes or so, eventually they'll catch on.