Article From SubmitYOURArticle.com: How to use puppy training pads in conjunction with a crate to potty train your puppy

Potty training, also called housebreaking, a
puppy is hard work. The good news is that it is
generally much faster and easier than potty
training a human toddler. Just as in potty
training a human toddler, the first step in potty
training a puppy is to make it aware of the need
to go potty before the urge becomes too immediate
to hold it.

Puppy training pads are a useful tool in your
puppy house training arsenal. Like young human
babies, most puppies under 12 weeks of age are
physically unable to hold their bathroom
functions. This makes it particularly difficult
to potty train a young puppy. Of course, most
people do not want to wait until their puppies
are 12 weeks or older to begin training. This is
actually smart- the sooner you begin to teach
your puppy to hold its bladder, the easier house
training will be.

Puppy pads are particularly useful in puppy
housebreaking pups under three months old. When
training a puppy healthy "bathroom" habits, you
will need to take it outside just about every
hour around the clock. When you take your puppy
out and get the desired result, meaning the puppy
uses the bathroom outside, be sure to praise your
puppy heartily and offer treats. This tells your
puppy very clearly where you want it to go.

Many people react to a puppy's need to go out
hourly around the clock with exasperation, and
who can blame them? Nobody really wants to give
up precious sleep every hour of the night so that
a dog can pee in the appropriate place. When you
are sleeping, offer the puppy potty pads to use,
so that you can still get a restful night's
sleep. Potty pads are scented to attracted
puppies and adult dogs alike to wee on the pads
instead of randomly throughout the house. The
perfect place to put a puppy pad is right by the
door that you use to take your dog out. This
will help reinforce to your puppy to go to that
door when it needs to go out to use the bathroom.

Many people crate train puppies as a means not
only of housebreaking for bathroom issues, but
also to control separation anxiety and to ensure
that the puppy is safe while the people are
sleeping or are away from home. While you do not
want your dog to always think it is okay to use
the bathroom in the crate, placing an absorbent,
plastic backed puppy training pad on one end of
an appropriately sized crate will enable your
puppy to safely and cleanly pee when it is simply
unable to hold it. Once your puppy has the
physical ability to control its bladder- after 12
weeks of age or so- and is fully housebroken, you
should stop putting puppy pads in the crate so
that your dog will learn to hold its bladder
until you come to let it out.

Of course, you shouldn't leave your dog crated
for any longer than necessary to sleep or go to
work. If your daily work hours keep you gone
from your puppy for prolonged hours, consider
hiring somebody to take your puppy out to use the
bathroom when you can't be there. A trustworthy
neighborhood teenager often makes a good puppy
sitter. The key to successful puppy
housebreaking is frequent trips to the yard and
lots of encouragement.

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