How to Litter Box or Pad Housetrain Your Dog or Puppy
- Set up an exercise pen and cover the floor inside the area with newspapers or potty pads. Give your dog dog broth to drink in order to get lots of repetitions and begin work on this over the weekend.
- Crate your dog, and then every 30 minutes place him in the pen for 5 minutes (set a timer). If he "goes". he gets a big treat and gets 30 minutes of freedom. If he doesn't "go", then back in the crate for another 30 minutes. Repeat!
- Continue to feed your dog broth. Once your dog is pottying reliably on the papers or pads, reduce the area of the papers/pads until you are down to the final size area that you wish to use.
- Once he is pottying on the smaller area of papers or pads, transfer the papers or pads into the final potty area or "litter box".
- If your dog is comfortable now using the potty area, the next step is to leave the exercise pen door open and after you take him out of his crate, encourage him to go in by himself to potty. You are almost there!
- Now you can remove the exercise pen and take your dog out of the crate and watch carefully so that you can encourage pottying in the potty area.
- Now, move the potty area to it's final place and work on getting your dog to use it in that location.
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