For a very good guide to all sorts of dog training processes and dog behavior challenges, I use and recommend Clickertraining ...that link goes to the description of this terrific ebook you download immediately, wherever you are! -- Rosana

Housetraining puppies and dogs can be perplexing. All sorts of questions come up. In this short discussion, I answer three questions.

Click on the image to see my review of this excellent ebook on housetraining puppies and dogs:

If you’d like to download the sound file of my discussion, it’s at:

http://www.training-dogs.com/sound-files/housetraining-3qa.mp3

Just right-click on the filename to download it to your computer.

One of the most popular pages on this website is the one where I give a method for potty training (or call it house training) puppies and dogs… the link takes you to it, and you can print it out if you wish.

So recently I made a recording based on that page.

You can listen to it here:

Also, here is what I consider to be the best ebook on the subject. Ebooks are nice because you can download them immediately. Click on the image to read my review of it:

If you would like to download this audio to listen to on an mp3 player, for example, here is the direct link to it. Just right-click or the Mac equivalent to save it to your computer.

http://www.training-dogs.com/sound-files/potty-training-dogs.mp3

Recently I added a page to this blog… It’s Dog House Training, and you can get to it from that link of course but also, it is now one of the tabs at the top of every page.

There are already a lot of dog housetraining  pages on the site and there is a whole category you can get to by looking at the long list of categories in the sidebar and picking out Housetraining / Dog Potty Training.

I added the page because I really think dog house training is very important. It always has been, but in these economic times, it is one of the best things you can do for any puppy in your life — or any adult dog, for that matter.

Puppies who go potty on the living room carpet aren’t appreciated much, and it gets worse as the pup becomes a teenager and an adult dog. People sometimes just give up in despair. Next stop for the dog? The local overcrowded dog shelter.

Well, it’s always been the case that dogs that aren’t house trained make up a significant percentage of dogs at shelters, and it’s always been true that dog owners do not usually admit to the shelter staff that they are giving up the dog because of what it does to the floors.

It’s even more important now that you house train any dog that you can because there are so many excellent dogs being given up to shelters due to the difficult economic situations of their owners. At the same time, adoptions must be somewhat down. You can figure out the rest of the story. Sadly.

How do you clean up pet stains and smells? The last time we had a puppy to house train, we also had a house with wall to wall carpets. At that point, I discovered Nature’s Miracle, a very effective and non-toxic product which removes both stains and odors. Our carpets got a lot of it, as our young Basenji puppy saw no reason to go out in the rain to do her business. I liked this stuff, fortunately, because  Sunbeam was the most challenging puppy to potty train that we have ever had. Nature’s Miracle removes odors and stains because the enzymes it contains somehow gobble them up. You can use it on furniture, clothing, crates, pretty much anywhere you need it.

I have often recommended it, and today I got to wondering what else is out there. There are so many more eco-friendly products now in all categories than there were some fifteen years ago. Read the rest of this entry