Should you potty train your dog inside on paper or potty pads or outside on grass?

Answer 1

NEVER EVER paper train unless you are in a highrise apartment.

CRATE TRAIN. Keep the dog IN the crate/kennel unless you are with him, 100% of the time. Feed him, wait ten minutes, then take him outside. If he pees and poops, give TONS of praise and hugs but don't play...or he will think outside means play. Keep it to potty training.

Potty as soon as he comes out of the cage, and before he goes in. If he does go in the house (and he will, so chill) pick up the poo and put it outside in the same place you WANT him to go. Then he smells it when hes out there. SOOOO important.

ALWAYS take him to the exact same spot to go outside, the same. Say the same thing every time "Hurry up.." If he goes inside, say NO HURRY UP! BAD DOG in a firm voice. When he goes outside say "GOOD HURRY UP" with lots of love.

It works, I promise. Paper training says "It's okay to pee in the house" and you end up training him twice. Once to go on the paper, and then break him and train him to go outside. If you work hard now it will pay off, so get up and take him out.

Answer 2

I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/8mL4l

She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 3

I feel it is best to go ahead and potty train your dog outside. You should always go to the same area, and use a command like go potty. Then of course praise your dog and give him a treat. I feel it is just easier to do that then having to paper train just because you don't have to retrain or go through more steps in the training.

Answer 4

Here's my advice on this one...I do have personal experience on this, I have two Chihuahuas myself and have trained them to go inside on potty pads. Now I have one boy and one girl...Maggie my girl has no issues going on the pad as long as her brother Kong doesn't shred it to pieces first. Kong likes to go outside more than inside, especially since he isn't fixed he has some accidents inside due to territorial issues.
Here are the issues that I've found with the pads....
-the dogs like to chew them up and rip them apart, it's a MESS everytime I come home I have to clean
-all those potty pad holders....gimic..don't work they can still rip them up
-when you travel or go to another persons house the dogs have issues remembering/finding the pad
-depending on how often your pet "goes" the pads smell up the whole room unless you change them everytime they go

I would not advise potty pads or paper inside for any dog larger than 10 pounds. After all they are dogs and it might seem cold to us outside but if they just go out and do their business they will be fine.
Also another piece of advice pick one, don't switch between pads/paper/outside it confuses them and makes your potty training longer and more frustrating.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

It's much easier to train the dog right once to go outside. A great method I've used on dozens of dogs is to take the puppy out after a nap, after hard playing, after drinking or if he looks like he's looking for somewhere to go. Young puppies have no control so when he has to go, he has to go now. Get him to the door fast, carry him if need be, and go outside with him. The split second the puppy pees, give him lots and lots of praise. If you always praise for doing it right, never punish for mistakes, they will be trained very quickly. (You can also take them to the place in your yard you prefer them to go.)

Answer 7

outside 100% of the time...when your dog is older and you 'paper' trained it first you might have a newspaper on the floor for what ever reason and your dog might go on that paper 'cause thats what it remembers as to be ok to pee on. Take the time and take it out side all the time!!

Answer 8

Leash train to go outside 100%

Answer 9

Outside is best if you dont want the dog to gt used to going inside and having your house always smell like dog pee and poop. Take him for a walk with a leash and get him used to going to the bathroom outside. Praise him when he goes where you want him to.

Answer 10

Both..the more situations they're trained in the less likely to pee in places not allowed.
The easier of which to train outside.