There are many lessons for a new puppy to learn and understand in the house. While these are important for every puppy, most owners will include potty training as one of the most essential lesson for all dogs. Potty trained dogs will relief owners on the problems to clear up his mess in the house which can be unbearable.

There are numerous ways to potty train your puppy, depending on your circumstances and dog type. Puppies that did not go through any vaccination yet are recommended to stay indoor to learn potty paper training, it is also suitable for apartment living dogs.

Crate training will train your puppy to control his bladder and relieve outside by making use of a dog’s instinctive nature of not dirtying its sleeping area. This training is suitable for dogs living in apartment.

The common choice would be to train your dog to go outside to the back yard or the garden to relieve.

A suitable time to start potty training as recommended by most experts is when your puppy is eight to twelve weeks old. Can you remember about the adage on old dogs that learn new tricks? It is not completely true but right in some ways because it is much easier to train a younger dogs when undesirable habits are not formed. So, don’t take any chances.

There are many ways and things you can do to achieve the right results. Of them, there are hard ways and easy ways, right ways and wrong ways. The best course of action is to use the easiest and fastest way to get the right results. Much effort, time and positive reinforcement is needed. Let’s see what are the things you can do to train your dog fast and effectively.

To begin, you should allocate an area for your puppy to eliminate outside or inside the house, you should show him the way to this spot and praise him generously after he finishes

If you praise and reward him immediately after he finishes his job, it encourages him to eliminate in that area alone. The urine odor will be detectable by your puppy and he will learn to associate it as the place to relieve himself.

To help the puppy to remember, always use the same door and spot where you want your puppy to eliminate. Use soiled newspaper to mark the area and hint your puppy on where is the right spot.

The next part is to start an elimination routine and make your puppy familiar with it. Dogs are habitual animals, they are born instinctively to keep to routines. When your puppy is six to eight weeks old, you should bring him out to relieve after every few hours. The frequency will reduce as he grows older and can control his bladder better. During puppyhood, take him to the allocated elimination area at the following times of the day – Upon waking in the morning, after naps, meals, play, training session and just before bedtime.

Taking your pup out at around the same time every day will be very beneficial for the both of you. This is vastly useful in setting up a routine for your puppy and will help him to learn and control his bladder until you take him out.

Now, you need to pick up signs your puppy displays when he needs to relieve. This is important especially when he is used to running around freely. Be attentive and observe your behavior when he needs to relieve himself, such as sniffing heavily, circling around, and staring at the door intensively to get out.

You can train your dog with two more commands to help him understand potty training faster. Use “Hurry up”, or “Potty now”, command to associate it with potty time. So, say “hurry up” or “potty” in an encouraging tone just when he gets the urge to “go”. He will soon learn that when you say the command, he will begin to sniff, circle and then get down to business. Once he’s done, praise him lavishly.

It is common for puppies to make mistakes during the process of potty training. In part 2 of this article, you will learn how to excuse his mistakes and more tips to help you train your puppy in double quick time.

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We live in Georgia and i want to go to in-store to purchase ASAP

I got some at Target, they are made by Gerber and are in with the Gerber baby supplies right by the toddler panties.

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I’m just asking because a friend of mine has a daughter who’s almost 3 1/2 years old isn’t potty trained. She has even attempted to potty train her. She uses Pull-Up training pants as diapers. I only ask because my sister’s daughter is two years old and potty trained. My sister started potty training her daughter at 1 1/2 years old. Shouldn’t my friend be started potty training her 3 1/2 year old by now?
Yes my friend’s daughter is normal and she is very intelligent for her age. That’s why I can’t understand why her mother hasn’t started trying to potty train her.

It depends on each child’s maturity & intelligence, but most mothers begin training at 18months and they have them trained by 2yrs to 2 1/2yrs at most!!!
A 3 1/2yr old who isn’t potty trained is a very bad way to raise a child in my opinion. It has to cause problems for the child and for everyone who has to care for her. Is the child normal? Just wondering.

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Dog Potty Training is not the same with potty training our kids like having them sit on a potty. Rather it’s training our dogs to where they should pee or poop. In most cases, the dog potty training area would be outside your house where we allow some odor.

Here is some useful information before we do a dog potty training.

When do we bring our dogs outside? How do we know if it’s time to take them out and do a dog potty training on him?

Right after he eats

Right after he wakes up

Right after taking him out of his crate

Right before he sleeps

When you observe them that they are looking around

Take the dog out right after you feed him or after you’ve given him a drink.

Do not punish the dog when he does pee or poop on your expensive furniture instead quietly clean up his mess and ignore him

To have an effective dog potty training clean the area thoroughly so that it won’t leave any trace or odor and its unlikely for him to unload on that spot again.

Check out what your dog is eating. Don’t give him high sugar foods which will give your dog low nutrition and low digestibility which would turn to high volume of waste.

Don’t give him treats before his naptime or when you’re going to leave him for a long period of time.

Dogs need to pee or poop 15-20 minutes after they eat

To be effective in the dog potty training do not take your dog inside right away right after he unloads. He will be having an impression that that once they’re done “the fun of being outside” would be cut abruptly. So stay with him and take him for a walk.

Now, how to do a dog potty training. Puppies are easier to do a dog puppy training rather than older dogs. The right age to do a dog potty training is when they are still 6 months old. This is the time when they are like input-output machines. This is the age where most dog trainers teach dogs about skills and tricks.

The most popular method is the newspaper dog potty training.

Confine the puppy to a small room filled with newspaper, I mean place the sheets of paper on the floor. Put his toys, bed, food and water bowls on it At first the puppy will pee and poop everywhere in that newspaper filled room. Worse is that he’s gonna play with the paper or chew with it. This is alright as long as you clean up his mess and change it with new sets of newspaper.

While he is restricted to that small area he will have a habit of urinating and unloading his dirt on those newspapers because everywhere he goes its all in paper. He will then choose a spot where he unloads. As soon as he establishes this spot take out the other paper far from it. Eventually what will be left will be a spot of newspaper not really big where he prefers to unload. When this happens, I can say that you’re on the right track in doing dog potty training.

Now move the piece of paper one inch a day to your chosen area. When he misses then go back few steps backward you might have move the paper too soon. Dog potty training needs patience and there will be times when the puppy makes remarkable development and misses at times that you have to do the whole process again. Just follow the steps and you will have a successful dog potty training.

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Reward charts are a great potty training tool that encourages toddlers to use the toilet. Learn how to make a rewards chart for potty training toddlers in this free parenting tips video.

Expert: Shelby Emmer
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We give him a Hershey’s Kiss and a real kiss everytime he goes. It seems to really motivate him. What do you do?

My niece went to the dollar store bought little books, crayons, coloring books, etc., and put them in a large bag. Every-time her little girl was successful she got to choose from a goodie bag. This did the trick.

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The toddler years are truly the great learning years in a person’s life. Although it may become taxing for some parents, it may also give some sense of achievement. There are simply so many things parents can teach toddlers. Each and every parenting tip can focus on the different aspects of toddler life. You can have a parenting tip about feeding your toddler and another parenting tip about disciplining your child. Parents however are always after a parenting tip on potty training. Indeed potty training can be a very messy affair and parents will need a practical parenting tip once in a awhile.

Check on Overall Readiness

Every parenting tip about potty training would invariably involve something about checking readiness. Some parents may think that a child’s age is the way to measure potty readiness. Some may offer that parenting tip to potty train a child when he reaches 2 years old. Some potty train their kids even earlier. The fact is, not all kids can be potty trained at the same age. One should remember the parenting tip that each kid is unique. What one should look for therefore is readiness. A good parenting tip is to consider a child’s physical, mental, social and emotional readiness to use the potty. Your child for example will be ready of there are more than 30 minute dry diaper spells, knows that he has to go, imitates adult mannerisms in the toilet and is eager to use the toilet.

Introduce the Topic Casually

A parenting tip that matters greatly is to introduce the issue of the potty in a non-threatening manner. You can perhaps start by reading potty books to your toddler. You can also bring him for a visit to the toilet and demonstrate with dolls where the pooh goes or where everyone else in the family goes to pooh. It is also a vital parenting tip to bring the child along when you shop for a potty and some training pants. Let him make the choices. Another parenting tip is allow your child to play a bit with the potty at home in an area he is comfortable in.

Encourage and Praise

One crucial parenting tip in potty training is continual encouragement and praise. Keep on cheering for your child as he sits on his potty. Make sure to always praise him too when he has been successful. Clap your hands to make him see how happy you are that he is using his potty. You may also consider using a potty chart to let him see that he gets a star every time he uses his potty properly.

Don’t Punish

In line with the parenting tip on encouragement and praise is the parenting tip on not punishing. Even if your child is not successful do not be angry. Smile and say that you’ll try again someday. This parenting tip also means that you shouldn’t show any sign of anger or frustration when accidents happen and your kid ends up making a mess on the carpet. Clean up the mess and show him that the mess goes into the potty or toilet.

Help with Food

It can be very traumatic for your child when he experiences constipation. Help him excrete his waste smoothly by giving him lots of juice and water as well as fruits and vegetables.

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My son turned three March 27, and for several months I have been potty training him we started off with him stark naked, then moved to training underwear, then to pullups. He did great at first but now for no apparent reason has begun to soil himself. I feel like breaking in tears as he won’t communicate with me what he wants. Some children communicate that they want to wear their pullups, some underwear he don’t communicate with me at all. It seems like he doesn’t pee/poop only when he gets to run around naked but when he is clothed he doesn’t care if he goes in his underwear or pullups. I can tell he is frustrated with potty training right now, and wonder if I am at fault like maybe I pushed him too hard. What could be going on? Should I back off and let him go it alone or keep encouraging (which leads to a power struggle)?

I know it’s frustrating. My daughter just turned 3 and is just now potty trained during the day but still wears a pull up over night. We were one step forward, two steps back for well over a year with the potty training.
What I did, and our pediatrician agreed with me on this philosophy, was to just let her go at her own rate. I really believe that if you push too hard you will just make it worse. Mine did the exact same thing yours is doing and I promise that eventually he will decide that peeing and pooping in his pants is something he does not want to do. Just don’t make a big deal of it yourself. Each day let him make a decision about what he wants to wear (pull up or underwear). If he doesn’t tell you, get a piece of posterboard or construction paper and glue pictures of underwear and pull ups and ask him to choose or lay each out and ask him to make the decision. Then it’s all his idea. When he does use the potty, praise him (you can do treats if you want but I don’t like to get that sort of thing started). Just act like it doesn’t bother you one way or another but do praise for the behavior you want to see. It will work itself out in time.

By the way, since he’s not communicating with you on the underwear vs. pull up issue I wonder if he has problems with communicating with you in general. If that’s the case, mention those concerns to your pediatrician. Mine is in speech therapy because of her verbal delays and even though it was hard to initiate that step, I’m really glad we got her some additional help because her language skills have grown by leaps and bounds since we have and her frustration level (and mine) has decreased drastically. If that’s not the case then just ignore this part.

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Do you think that your toddler is getting big and you should start potty training for him? But the main question that might be troubling you must be that which type of training to adopt for your toddler. There are different methods of potty training like infant method, potty training in one day, practice until you get success, etc. All these methods have their own pros and cons. But the method that works the most of the time is the one that in which you identify that your toddler is ready for the potty training. This is also considered as the best potty training method.

Best potty training is the one where you recognize the signs of your child being mature enough for the training, as this recognition will help you to achieve best results. You should allow your toddler to remain naked for sometime in the day so that he gets the habit of staying without the diapers. Allow your child to have a look at your bathroom habits so that he will find something new done and would like to imitate. If you feel a bit shy doing this you can show your toddler pictures of the books or the videos, which are readily available in the market. And also try to explain him if possible, but do not enforce him to do anything.

Do pre preparations like buying a potty and a number of underwear’s for your toddler. While buying these things have in your mind that the potty and the underwear’s are colorful with attractive pictures or cartoon characters, as toddlers usually get carried away by these things. This will also create interest among your toddler.

Then you need to make your toddler sit on the potty again and again. Keep the potty near by your child like in the garden, playing room, etc. this is because whenever he sees it may be he tries it out. Do not loose hopes if your toddler fails in the attempts. Make it a point to try it again and again. And if the child even makes a small success does not forget to cherish it as it will create an eagerness among your child to learn more and more.

It may take a few days for your toddler to potty train or it might take few months also, it wholly depends upon your child. Best potty training will help you and your child to get rid of the diapers over a period of time.

In case you have been struggling for a while it is advisable to take expert opinion and suggestion because it is important to develop the potty habits in your child at an early age. While doctors can charge you a great amount per appointment you can always take advice from experts online. If you are in need of professional assistance now look over to dedicated site like www.PottyPlease.com which will provide you with quality information and books regarding the potty issues and best potty training methods.

Julia Elliott

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June 28, 2009 – Just an ordinary day in our household…potty in the dining room, running around in underwear
As you can see from the footage, we have a ways to go

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