Housetraining is regularly the number one main concern for the majority of families when they get a new puppy. Very few puppies will be housetrained as soon as you get them. There are two very successful methods you can use to housetrain your puppy and you can use just one of them or you can even use them simultaneously.

The first routine may be the most demanding as you will need to be very watchful about staying with your puppy and noticing his conduct. Puppies will squat to urinate and defecate and you will need to watch attentively but as soon as you see your puppy changing stance you must scoop him up and take him outside to his designated spot. If you happen to miss the signs you must not reprimand your puppy because he does not yet know what is expected of him.

If you happen to miss the signs totally and you come across an disaster afterward, do not admonish him. Dogs can only connect to what is happening at this moment and he will not know why he is in trouble if you scold him after the fact. This will just serve to confound your puppy and that will cause you more troubles in the future.

The newspaper process is the second way of housetraining your puppy. Cover the whole floor where your puppy runs around. He will do his business on the paper and he will quickly learn that the paper is tolerable. You must then regularly eliminate more and more newspaper until there is only a small piece left. Then you will be able to take the newspaper outside to the selected spot. He will then start going there where the paper is.

Both of these methods can be very helpful. You may want to use the first method of attention during the day and the newspapers at night. If you are frequently busy with other things you may want to use the newspaper method more frequently.

Sometimes during housetraining, a puppy will go through a point where he seems to regress and fail to remember what he has learned. This is a exasperating occurrence but it is ordinary so do not rebuke him for it.

You can use his own natural dog behavior to get him back on track. A dog will not soil in his own space. Use a crate and make it comfortable for him. Let him slumber in his crate and when you let him out, right away take him to his selected spot. He will have to relieve himself immediately and he will quickly learn that this is the only appropriate spot to do his business.

Housetraining does not need to be thorny or frightening. Both of these methods can be quite successful and if you try them along with some patience you will be triumphant with your housetraining before you know it.

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