Paper Training a Puppy?

Cindy

January 25, 20110 found this helpful

Hello fellow pet parent. Puppies are never too little to take outside for potty training unless you live on a polar icecap. LOL! As well, laying out potty papers "all over" does nothing to teach your dog discipline in discretionary piddling and pooping. In my opinion, "Crate Training" and a single "just in case" indoor pee pad are your best bets for a Pit Bull's best, successful house training. Paper training (and the far less acceptable "Litter" training of dogs) may indeed work with a miniature or toy breed, but similar situations are few and far between for puppies that will become over ten pounds as your Pitty surely will.

Please do some internet research on "Crate Training" and if you must leave a potty pad indoors as your pup grows, make it just one paper or pad and always in the same place. Otherwise, the puppy will unintentionally learn that he/she can do business anywhere something lies over the flooring (rugs, blankets, throws, books, magazines, etc.) and that won't be pretty!

Something that some don't understand about "Crate Training" is that if taught correctly, it is not a lifetime sentence for the dog to live in a crate when you are gone. All of my dogs "got it" by about age four to five months and never slept in a closed kennel again but continued to enjoy the crate / kennel as their home base "den" (their personal "safe place"). The only indoor accidents any ever had after the first four to five months were due to illness, not misbehavior.

Your puppy may be little right now, but you will not be happy cleaning up Pit Bull messes when he grows up and soils on several "papers" you've left spread about. Please do some research on "Crate Training" now so that you and your pup can have the best life together in the future. Good luck!