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Easy Dog House Training Techniques
Dog house training can be frustrating. Housetraining an adult dog can be even more frustrating.
Older dogs respond to training slower than young puppies.
The good news is, 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.
Let's find out how we end up with…
Adult Dogs That Are Not Housebroken
There can be many reasons why an adult dog is 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.
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.
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. To learn more about crate-training techniques for adult dogs, visit crate training your dog page. If you want to housebreak your dog in the shortest time possible, consider crate training.
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 Dog Homes by 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 page to learn how.
While a litter box offers a lot of benefits, like protecting your floors, there are 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 Purina.
By the way, Ralston Purina also makes a litter box for dogs.
For additional information on dog house training, visit potty training a dog and housebreaking a dog pages.
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