How to Potty Train a Puppy... in 7 Days or Less! The Best Beginner's Guide to House Training Your Pup Quickly and Easily

By Dennis Mitchell

House Training Done Right

Trying to housebreak your new best friend can be a terrifying time of smelly messes and constant frustration. Fortunately, with the advice in this book, you can use your dog's own nature to train him successfully, easily and without ever raising your voice.

Dogs don’t want to make a mess inside the house – it goes against their nature. Dogs are also eager to please their pack leader, which is you. These are the only two pieces of information you’ll need to house train your dog in seven days, and in this book we are going to show you how.

There are so many mistakes a new dog owner can make. Punishments, paper training, using treats in place of praise – the list could go on. This book will help you avoid them all and show you that house training a dog of any age is so much simpler than you thought.

Tune in to His Natural Instincts

Some new dog owners assume their pup will happily do his business anywhere, at any time, on any carpet or bed cover. In this book, you’ll discover that this couldn’t be further from the truth, and you’ll find out what natural instincts urge him to find a place away from his home to get rid of his waste.

Become His Pack Leader

Being a pack leader might sound like a foreign concept, but it’s really just another name for a dog owner. As far as your pup is concerned, you are the alpha from whom all instruction must come, so it’s your job to fill that role well. In this book, discover how traits such as empathy and consistency will make you the ideal pack leader for your furry friend.

Take the First Step – Find Out More

This book contains information about your dog that will help you understand his needs during potty training, such as:

• The frequency your pup will need to visit his potty spot

• The best age for house breaking (and what’s different about house breaking an adult dog)

• How your dog responds to discipline and positive reinforcement

Use Crate Training to Give Your Pup His Own Safe Space

Using a crate to give your dog a place of his own where he can relax and rest without stress is not only kind on his nerves, but also helps you instill those potty training lessons. You’ll learn:

• How to pick the ideal crate to make sure your pup is comfortable and happy

• How to introduce your pup to his crate

• How to use the crate for potty training both in the home and while you’re away

Establish a Routine That Will Last a Lifetime

The first seven days after you bring your pup home will require constant vigilance and patience, but that week is going to fly by much faster than you expect. By the end of it, you will have a dog who is content in his routine and happy to follow your rules. He will be happy, you will be happy and your floor will be pristine!

Take Charge of Your Pup’s Training Right From the Start

A house trained dog is not just less likely to have an accident, he is also a happy dog who can be trained in many different ways. All it takes is a little bit of discipline right from the start. In this book, you’ll learn:

• How to set up a designated potty spot

• How to train your dog to walk on a leash

• What to do if your dog is still having accidents.

Find Out Right Now How to House Train Your Dog in Just Seven Days

Reading this book will give you all the information you need to teach your furry friend to do his business in the right place.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Dec 16, 2021

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Introduction

The first time dog owner tends to be thoroughly surprised by the amount of work that it takes to turn a bundle of yipping fluff into a faithful companion for you and your family. When that little wet nose, those big puppy eyes and the oversized paws first trot into your living room, tail wagging wildly, it’s easy to underestimate just how much work you’ve let yourself in for.

A puppy isn’t much different from a new baby in those first few days. After all, your new pet is a baby themselves and has not yet had the life experience to know how to do anything at all, let alone pee in the right place and leave your slippers alone.

If you are not prepared for the experience of training your new puppy, it really is going to come as a shock. On the other hand, as any experienced dog owner can tell you, the effort you put in during this initial week will pay dividends for all the years of your dog’s life.

Yes, you are about to experience days of chasing a wiggly ball of fur around the house and nights of whining and lost sleep. Yes, you are going to need to exercise all your diligence and innate parenting skills to teach this animal what its humans expect of it. And yes, it’s occasionally going to feel like this is your life now – the effort is never going to end.

But the reality is that your puppy will learn extremely quickly compared to the long road of learning a human has to walk. It won’t be long at all before your new dog has mastered its own bladder and knows what to do when it gets full, and all the little accidents along the way are a distant, slightly unpleasant memory.

This book will help you prepare for that first experience, so that you can tackle it the right way from the minute you open the front door and let your new best friend run through. No hiccups along the way, no misunderstandings and no need for either you or your pup to suffer through the process.

It might not seem like the most fun part of owning a dog, but you might be surprised how much bonding has taken place by the time your pup has been house trained – and at the sheer satisfaction you will feel in knowing you helped this little life take its first steps to adulthood.

So steel yourself and get the pup crate ready – the week ahead is going to need all your patience and supervision skills. The week after that? Well, that’s just going to be the beginning of the most beautiful friendship you can imagine.

The Importance of Patience

Before you begin making plans to house train your new dog, it’s very important that you get yourself in the right mindset to go about this properly. We have a tendency to think about the projects we take on from our own perspective, but in this case there is a second perspective to bear in mind – and it’s more important than yours.

Your pup is a living, breathing, thinking animal, but he is also very, very little. Most pups are ready to come home at around eight weeks to three months in age, depending on the breed and the breeder; at that point, he is very much still a baby.

Human babies might be among the slowest learners of all the species on this planet (it takes us over a year to even figure out how to walk!), but that doesn’t mean other animals are born knowing exactly how to get along in life. Your puppy is going to need to learn everything about his new world from scratch, and it’s up to you to guide him.

There is a tendency for people who have never owned a dog before to forget this simple fact. Dogs, for the most part, are an extremely well behaved species, so we can easily fall into the trap of expecting them to behave perfectly right from the start.

This leads to inevitable misunderstandings. During this training process, your pup is probably going to whine a lot, be naughty and fail to understand what you are saying. If you’re thinking of your dog as an obedient animal who knows what’s expected of him, then you’re obviously going to suspect you’ve invested in a badly behaved dog who is