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Puppy Potty Training

So now, now I wanted to talk a little bit about some house training, and this is going to be one of the puppies that you might have indoor and outdoor. So you're going to be, going to put him outside, you want him to go to the bathroom outside? Yes. So what I'd like to talk about is the possibility of crate training. Have you heard about crate training? That's what I've been doing with him. Okay, so crate training really works well for your house training efforts because dogs don't like to go in an area that is very small, so if they're confined in a small area they kind of think that well, I'm in my bedroom, I better not make a mess in here. But if they're in a room like this size, they might say, well there's my bedroom, there's my bathroom, and here's my dining room. And so one of the things that we think helps, is trying to make the area smaller so that the dog can try and control his urine and stool. The other thing that goes along with that obviously, is taking him outside as often as possible. It's good to pay attention to your dog, because all dogs kind of develop a certain pattern and you'll know a certain time when he first gets up in the morning that he's going to need to go out. Maybe fifteen minutes after you see him eat something will be good to take him out. And the other thing that is interesting about the house training issue is taking him to the same place outside every time is going to be very helpful, because they scent the area. And when they go out there, and a dog's nose is ten times more powerful than ours, maybe a hundred times more powerful than ours and they get out in the area and they smell where they've been before and it reminds them that that's what they're there for. Conversely when the go indoors, if they make a mistake we have to super clean the area where they make a mistake. And so that means you clean it up to our standards and then you try and kill the odor. And by killing the odor, I like to use like white vinegar, there's a couple of products you might be able to pick up in a pet store. But after you super clean the area, then you want to get rid of the odor, so your puppy won't go back to that same area indoors. I think it's perfectly humane to keep your puppy in a crate up to eight hours at a time. If you have to go to work, or if you go to the store or something and they're safe in there. Which also means they're not going to be going chewing on cables and other things in your house, while he's confined in this special little area. And so it protects the puppy and it also protects your house. And again, I think that the house training works really well, if you get busy and you can't be paying directly attention to what's going on, it's better to put him in his kennel, cook your meal, let him back out again, take him out for a walk and that's going to speed up the process of house training. Do you have any questions about that? No. Good.

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