Housetraining: The Good, the Bag and the Ugly!
In this post we are going to discuss one of the most difficult aspects of welcoming a new dog into your family; housetraining! While housetraining is often an issue with puppies, it can also be a problem with older dogs at times as well.
One of the very first training exercises you will want to work on with a new puppy or an adult dog moving into your home is housetraining! Housetraining is indeed a real test of your patience, but it is one of the first opportunities that you and your puppy will have to bond.
Housetraining is a lot of hard work, but it is necessary. You will need to have a lot of patience-and maybe even a sense of humor-as you train your dog. But don’t worry, after all of your hard work, you will have a dog that is housetrained!
When it comes to housetraining, every dog succeeds at a different rate. It takes some dogs only a few weeks to learn, where it may take other dogs several months.
Here is perhaps the most important thing to know about housetraining: The rate at which the puppy succeeds is determined by the amount of consistent training
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