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Easy Dog House Training Techniques
Dog house training can be frustrating. Housetraining an adult dog can be even more frustrating.
That's because older dogs respond to training much slower than young puppies. It also takes longer to break old habits than to teach your dog some new behaviors.
The good news, there are plenty of time-proven techniques you can use to make house training older dogs easier not only on you but on your dog as well.
While the emphasis here is on housebreaking older dogs, a lot of the suggestions that follow are just as useful when housetraining young puppies.
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Adult Dogs That Are Not Housebroken
There may be many reasons why adult dogs end up not housebroken.
For now, let me just say that some dogs were never housebroken while others, because of some traumatic event in their lives, went back in time and behave as if they were never housetrained. Take a look at this short video...
Learn more about How to House Train an Adult Dog
House training dogs that were previously housebroken will be easier and quicker than training dogs that were never housebroken.
For more complete explanation, as well as training suggestions, visit housebreaking dogs page.
Another good source of information on house training older dogs is this Ultimate House Training Guide. It covers several training methods, with separate sections for puppies and adult dogs.
Dog House Training
There are several tools and techniques you can use to housebreak an adult dog.
The most valuable tool for housebreaking adult dogs (and puppies) is a crate. Crate training will allow you to housebreak your dog in the shortest time possible. Visit crate training your dog to learn more about crate-training techniques for adult dogs.
Crates come in many styles and materials, but for house training, your best bet is a wire crate. Wire crates are easy to clean and offer the most visibility and ventilation to your dog.
Designer Color Wire Homes from
Kennel Aire
Another useful tool for dog house training is a litter box.
If you plan to leave your dog home alone for extended periods of time, teach him to eliminate in a litter box. Visit litter box training for dog to learn how.
While a litter box offers a lot of benefits, like protecting your floors, there is couple of drawbacks too…
- House training will take longer when you allow your dog to eliminate indoors
- Odor
While not much can be said about prolonged training, odor is easy to deal with – just cover the bottom of a litter box with odor-absorbing litter, like
Second Nature Dog Litter from Ralston Purina.
Visit potty training a dog and housebreaking a dog for additional information on dog house training.
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I also recommend you study and follow the above house training eBook. Like most books on house training, this one will teach you how to housebreak a young puppy. What distinguishes it from the rest is that it also provides the information you need to housebreak an older dog.
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