Dog owner’s house train their Dog’s in various ways these days. Many owners choose to use potty pads/pee pads for their Dog’s, or newspaper… even a cat litter tray turned puppy tray.
One thing is for sure, house training can be a very testing time for both owner and Giant Schnauzer. So, how we implement house training, needs considerable thought from the outset.
Also worth considering, is the age of the Dog. Is it a puppy we are house training? Or an older Dog? Often overlooked are Dog’s from a rescue shelter, and of course the situation they have been living in for however long they have been in the shelter, is of course going to dictate how their toilet habits are going to be. For example:
- If the Dog has been living in a kennel at the shelter, where they are having to toilet in the space they have available, once they become re-homed, they then of course need to re-learn the house rules and be re-taught the protocol for needing to go outside to toilet.
- Then if the Dog we are house training is a young Puppy, it is often a tad easier, as all the pup wants to do is please its owner and will absorb all the information quite quickly.
However, there will be the occasional accident while training. Hence we do need to exercise a bit of patience, which isn’t always a bad thing…
There are different ways in which you can train your Dog, using reward based training. But – How great would it be to teach your Dog to ring the bell when he/she needs to go potty?