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Do you have experience using indoor dog potties, puppy training pads on the floor, or other methods of housetraining for indoors? I would love to hear from you at the bottom of this blog post.

I’m wrapping up the first draft of my book on potty training puppies and older dogs.  The last couple of days, I have been writing the section on housetraining puppies or dogs who will be using an indoor potty, whether just in the cold winter months or year-round. Read the rest of this entry

Potty Training Puppies or Older Dogs is Crucial

I’m getting back to revising my book on potty training puppies and older dogs. Actually, it may turn into TWO books:

  • one on how to housetrain very young puppies,
  • and one on how to train older puppies or adult dogs who didn’t get it early on.

The challenges and methods overlap of course but they are different enough that I may go that way.

In any event, it is crucial to the future of any dog that you get them housetrained. Many times, owners who don’t succeed with this give up their dogs to shelters. This is very stressful for the dog, and all too often means they will not live much longer.

The reason the methods are different is that with a young puppy it is a matter of their bodies maturing and of their understanding what you want. Taking them to their potty area every time they wake up is the single most important thing you can do. Read the rest of this entry

Housetraining: Three Questions and Answers

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:

housetraining dogs ebook

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.

Potty Training Puppies and Dogs

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:

housetraining dogs ebook

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