Ultimately, dogs are successfully trained mainly because of their intense desire to please you. Therefore your best training method is effusive praise for the right action. If you have an adult dog who suddenly begins having accidents, never assume they are deciding to behave badly. Although there may be instances that a life change has caused them to act out, it is also possible and probable that they may have a medical condition.
Call a veterinarian. Overall, dogs like people respond to love, firm direction, and forgiveness for mistakes. Subscribe to our dog training blog for training tips, tricks, and trends.
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The most effective way to potty train a puppy is to prevent accidents before they happen. Get one you love! This pink crate from Carlson Pet Products is to die for. They may have not known any better. Fortunately, we now have access to so much more information, so many more methods and choices that we no longer have to do things that scare our dogs just to train them. When correcting your puppy, it is important to catch them in the act. I use different words for poop or pee if it is being done in the house or outside of the house.
The incident is then forgotten and forgiven. Using the same word both inside and out is confusing. Also, I do not recommend using training pads. I did that with a Scottie once who could not understand the difference between a potty pad and a pile of laundry on the floor or a plastic garbage bag.
It took more than a year of vigilance to break him of the habit. Crate training is so effective for training your puppy in so many ways. Positive reinforcement outside with the word potty is what I did too, worked great, took a year or more with my Pom. He thrashed the poor girl, and repeatedly rubbed her nose in her mess. Most likely not! Actually, if one were to ever witness a parent scolding a baby for having an accident, that would appear quite inhumane!
In order to better understand puppies, it's helpful to understand some secrets behind the physiology of potty training. In normal adult dogs or for that matter, any adult living being equipped with a bladder , urine keeps accumulating up until it reaches a certain threshold point of its capacity, during which special stretch receptors in the bladder wall activate.
When these stretch receptors activate, the destrusor muscles of the bladder wall contract giving the dog the urge to urinate. This triggers housetrained dogs to go to their potty area, through the doggy door or towards the door so to bark to be let out. Control of the muscular sphincter found around the neck of the bladder is what allows dogs to hold the urine, preventing it from seeping out. Once in the potty area or outside, dogs can finally relax the sphincter and urinate.
Now, in young puppies, by the time the bladder wall contractions take place, their bladders are already emptying! This is because they are unable to control the muscles of their sphincter.
At what age do puppies attain sufficient muscle tone to allow them to control things a bit more? Stanley Coren , in his book " Born to Bark: My Adventures with an Irrepressible and Unforgettable Dog " claims that full control isn't reached at least until the puppy is 5 to 6 months old. There's one little caveat that many new puppy owners miss when potty training their puppy and training dogs in general: puppies and dogs learn by association, and these associations need to be as closely timed as possible in order for learning to occur.
So, if say for example, you come home from work one day and walk into a puddle of pee in the middle of the room and you scold your puppy, your puppy will have no clue what he's being scolded about. How fair is that?
Actually, even worse, most likely your puppy will think he's being scolded for just looking at your or greeting you for coming home! If this happens often enough, your puppy will start viewing you as a weird lunatic who lashes out for no particularly reason. Your puppy's trust towards you is negatively affected. This, once again is because your puppy cannot associate the scolding with any wrongdoing. Research on animal learning has shown that if you fail to reward a desired behavior as it happens, or within a second, or even better, half a second, there are chances that the dog will not associate the behavior with the reward The same goes with punishment.
So if you scold your puppy, or worse, rub your puppy's face in pee or poop that you found laying around your home, your pup will have no clue why you're acting that way!
Inappropriately applied rewards can result in problems such as rewarding the incorrect behaviors and potentially increasing anxiety. However, poorly applied punishment does not just result in poor efficacy, but also becomes a welfare concern. Darryl L. Millis, David Levine. There are different types of setter dog breeds out there and each of them are blessed with their own unique characteristics. There are setters and setters in the dog world!
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