Passive Potty Training: When You Can’t Be There All The Time
May 24
Many people will advise you to get an older, already housebroken dog, if you can’t be on hand with a puppy, such as a Parti Morkie puppy for sale in Pennsylvania and Ohio, at all times for at least 2 weeks. If you can’t do this, there are other training methods that can be used so that you can still have a puppy, but they do tend to take longer.
Most importantly, do not allow your new puppy, such as a Cavalier Spaniel puppy for sale in Pennsylvania and Ohio, full run of your home when no one is home to monitor them. Not only will this make potty training more difficult, it can be very dangerous for your puppy and your stuff, as puppies will play with and chew on anything and everything that takes their fancy. A small puppy could also get trapped somewhere. And they will go potty wherever it is convenient at that time, which initially may be several places in the home.
One of the best ways to do this is to confine the puppy to a small area, such as a bathroom, kitchen, or exercise pen. Not simply a crate as this is too small to allow for adequate exercise for extended periods of time. You’ll want to use newspaper or puppy pads to cover the entire floor because at first, your puppy won’t have a preference for where he does his eliminating. It may also be a bit messy at first as the puppy might play with the papers.
When confined to an area covered with the puppy papers, your puppy will start to develop a habit of going on the paper because that’s all there is to go on. Eventually, your puppy will have a preference for a particular area to do his eliminating. When you start to notice that he or she is only going in a certain area, and that the rest of the paper is staying clean, you can begin to reduce the amount of floor space that is being covered by papers. Begin by removing the papers farthest from where the puppy is consistently eliminating. Eventually, you’ll be able to only paper the area where he or she has been peeing. After a while, start moving the papers to a spot of your choice, but only move the papers a little bit farther away each day. If the puppy, like an English Bulldog puppy for sale in Pennsylvania and Ohio, doesn’t go on the paper after you’ve moved it, you might be moving too fast. In addition, it is not uncommon for there to be random setbacks, in which you have to return to papering large parts of the floor or even the whole floor again. Be encouraged that your puppy has been making progress, and that he or she will continue to make progress.
As your puppy gets older and can hold it for longer periods of time, you can move them into a bigger room or even full access to the home, if you keep doors closed to areas that you know you don’t want them to be or that could be dangerous. Keep the papers by the door that you use to take them outside when you are home. Eventually, you’ll be able to safely remove the papers altogether.
