How to Paper Train Your Dog
One of the first things new puppy owners have to tackle is potty training. There are many ways to house train a puppy, such as crate training or paper training. Paper training teaches your puppy to go potty on newspaper, instead of the floor. Using newspapers to potty train your puppy can be easy to do and helps protect your floors from becoming ruined by urine.
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Instructions
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Choose a location to set up the papers. For ease of clean up, it is best to choose a room, such as a laundry room, with linoleum floors and not carpet, which urine can soak into. This will be the place you keep your puppy when you cannot watch her, as well as where you take her when she shows signs she needs to go potty. Make sure this place is separate from where your puppy will be sleeping and eating; dogs do not like to eat and sleep where they eliminate.
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Line the floors with newspaper. You want the entire floor covered with no exposed areas to start. This will help get your puppy used to going potty on the papers and not the floor.
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Place your puppy in the designated room whenever he gives signs that he needs to potty. Signs include circling, sniffing for a place to go and squatting. When you see the signs, pick him up, place him on the papers and say, "Go potty." This is also where you want to put your puppy when you will not be able to watch him. You should also take him to the paper periodically throughout the day, especially before bedtime, naptime, and 15 to 30 minutes after eating. This will help develop a schedule.
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Praise her when she goes potty on the paper. Tell her she did good and give her a treat, such as a dog bone.
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Replace the papers as they become soiled.
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Remove a section of paper after five to seven days. If your puppy goes potty on the exposed part of the floor, he is not ready for the paper to be removed. Clean the spot and replace the section. Try again in a few days.
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Remove more sections of paper every three to four days until your puppy only has one section of paper to use and is successfully paper-trained.
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Tips & Warnings
If you catch your dog going potty somewhere other than on the paper, distract her by clapping your hands or stopping your feet. Say "no." Then quickly pick her up and place her on the paper. Then tell her to "go potty."
If you want to eventually teach your puppy to go potty outside, you will want to wait until he is completely paper-trained. Then you can begin moving the paper closer to the door every day. Eventually move the paper outside and your puppy will want to go out use it.
Never punish your puppy for accidents. This will only develop fear. When you punish your puppy, he will likely not know what he did wrong and become afraid of you.
