Reacting to Your Dog when Goes to the Bathroom in the House

Series Summary

Housebreaking is required for all dog owners, even if your pet is primarily an outdoors dog. Even if your dog is rarely indoors, it's absolutely mandatory for him or her to understand the difference between your home and the yard. Although it can be frustrating, it's worth the time to train your dog or puppy to only urinate or defecate outdoors, since it not only keeps you from cleaning up messes, it helps your pet understand who the boss is, and how to behave and maintain indoor privileges. There are a variety of methods for housebreaking dogs, and wide array of approaches to take, but there are undoubtedly a few hard and fast rules and techniques that tend to prove effective across breeds.

In this free video clip series, our expert will give you tips, pointers, techniques and best methods for housebreaking your dog or puppy. Learn the basic premise of potty training your pet, how to manage food and water intake during the training process, the benefits of using a crate, and how to encourage your dog to continue once you've found success. Using positive reinforcement and an assortment of other tips, your dog or puppy will be housebroken in no time!

This series is an Equilibrio Films production.

Video Transcript

" Hi! This is Elise McMahon from Expert Village.com and in this video series we are talking about house training your dog. If you would like to find out more about my services, you can visit my website at canineheadstart.com. So we are going to be talking about what to do after the fact. Let’s say you’ve had your puppy out loose and it’s in the living room. You walk into the living room and your puppy is over there sleeping calmly. You go to say hi to the puppy and as you walk by, you see there’s a mess on the floor. You were not watching, the puppy came into the living room and took a pee on the floor and then fell asleep. What do you do? Besides cleaning up right away my suggestion is that you go get a newspaper, roll it up, make it nice and firm, go to the spot of the accident, take your newspaper and you bang yourself on the head with the rolled up newspaper. This was your as the owner’s fault. This was not the puppy’s responsibility. You were not paying attention to the puppy. They had too much space, they didn’t get to be taken outside, the puppy is over here asleep and you cannot punish the puppy for this accident. This is your accident as the owner. "