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Now that you have brought your new dog home it is time to start the housebreaking. One that can only lead to confusion for the dog later on is giving your new dog a little time to get to know the family and the house before laying down the law. Your dog will be confused if you have allowed it to run free with no discipline, then all of a sudden expect it to be well-behaved.

It Is Never Too Late

If you have already allowed your dog to run free without rules you can still correct the situation. Unlike a popular belief out there, it is never too late to start dog training with a dog. Whether your puppy is young or old you can still include housebreaking into his/her daily routine. Whether your problem is dog chewing, dog biting or dog growling, you need to focus on the unwanted behavior that is your highest concern. After housebreaking them on the first behavior, then you can move on to the next.

In order to make sure that your pet never becomes one of those aggressive dogs you always hear about on the news, you have to start housebreaking as soon as possible. If your biggest problem at the moment, especially if you have a puppy, is where the dog is and is not allowed to go potty then you will need to start with that.

Housebreaking Tips

* Restrict food and water to the appropriate meal times
* Keep peed pads in one area
* You should praise your pet when it displays good behavior
* Never strike or slap the dog if it misses the pee pad
* Take the puppy to the pee pad within fifteen to twenty minutes of drinking or eating

Many people will leave the food and water out all the time for their dog. While this is an okay routine for older dogs that can hold their bladder, it is not advisable for puppies. Young pups are not able to hold their bladder for very long, even if they wanted to. This will cause more accidents in the house that are not the fault of the puppy. So leaving food and water out all of the time is counterproductive to your goals in housebreaking.

Place the pee pad in the spot of the home where your puppy goes if he continues to miss the pee pad. Housebreaking at this stage just simply means that you are getting the puppy adjusted to going to the bathroom on top of the pad. Once your pet is used to this, you may progress the housebreaking by moving the ‘pee pad’ a small distance every day until it is eventually located where you want it.

Although the procedure for housebreaking might appear to be too time-consuming, it is very crucial. You don’t want your dog using the bathroom everywhere. Your puppy can get discouraged if the housebreaking process is not easy to learn. Seek outside help in puppy training if need be. No matter who is in charge of doing it, just know that housebreaking takes time.

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At the start you may feel that when your puppy jumps up, he’s so cute. But it stops being funny when your large dog is jumping up on people with dirty paws – very embarrassing. So I encourage you to train your puppy or dog not to do this while he is still young. The sooner you can eliminate this behavior the better.

The most usual circumstance for this behavior is when someone arrives at your home or when you encounter someone while you’re walking your dog. Coaching your dog to sit on command when this happens is a good idea.

Often the jumping up is a greeting but in some circumstances it can be that your dog is trying to become dominant over you. Dominance can create other problem behaviors and this should be prevented. You should be the dominant one, the pack leader.

You must understand the idea of positive reinforcement. There are various options for rewards that you can use as positive reinforcement: tasty treats, affection and praise. You have to stop giving any reward for jumping up. So rather than greeting your dog excitedly as he jumps up, you should ignore him as long as he is excited. Avoid giving him any eye contact.

In contrast to this, when he is calm and has all his feet on the floor you can show him affection.

Hopefully, your dog may already sit on command. If so it’s a good idea to get him to sit as your enter the house or as guests arrive. As soon as he sits, reward him with a treat or affection. If you haven’t already trained him to sit, you should work on this and other obedience training. Start training him in obedience with short sessions away from distractions. Make sure the training session are fun and enjoyable for your dog.

It’s important that you get the cooperation of everyone who comes into contact with your dog, so that they don’t undo all your good work. Get them to agree not to enthusiastically greet your dog. They should not give eye contact to your dog.

In the beginning, it may be worth putting your dog in another room when visitors arrive, so that you avoid the stimulating situation at the door.

I hope that this helps with dogs jumping up. Read more about other behavior problems in dogs such as aggression in dogs.

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