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Positive Housetraining for Your Puppy

Follow these seven steps to a housetrained dog..

Susan McCullough

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Step 7: Know When You're Done
Your puppy may be the smartest dog you've ever encountered, but it may still take a while to master the art of basic bathroom manners. And until he does, you need to keep up the housetraining routine.

How do you know when your puppy is a housetraining ace? Most puppies younger than 6 months of age don't qualify, nor do those who have an accident every few days or so. Consider your puppy fully housetrained only when he turns 6 months of age and has not had an accident for at least a month.

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These comments will help, I'm sure. Am in the process of training a puppy now. Haven't had to do this for 13 years and this will help. Thanks.
Ethel, Crewe, VA
Posted: 9/24/2011 5:45:10 PM
It is a good article, but I need to paper train my puppy. Any suggestions? She is a 12-week rescue Shih Tzu.
Darla, Hilliard, OH
Posted: 1/12/2011 9:01:13 PM
Wow! That is exactly what we are doing with our new pup, he is a golden retreiver. I named him Sprocket.
Delaney, Tyler, TX
Posted: 12/28/2010 7:25:52 AM
Good article. It takes a lot of patience and supervision. I agree that you need to pay close attention to the "cue" of when the pup needs to go. I finally learned that my dog whines and paces up and down to let us know. This took about a month.
Kim, Nottingham, MD
Posted: 10/26/2010 1:18:58 PM
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