When anyone brings home a dog, or a new puppy, they have to deal with the potty training problems. All dogs need to know where it is OK to relieve themselves, and where it's not. In the wild they were able to do this where ever they saw fit, but we as humans don't live this way. So, here are a 5 proven methods to get your pouch to relieve themselves in the proper places.

#1: Crate Training

One easy way to house-train your dog is to buy a crate or cage just big enough for them. After feeding your dog, lock them in it if you will not be supervising them. Dogs do not like to eliminate where they sleep, and if their crate is too big, a dog locked within may relieve themselves in one corner and sleep in the other. You don't want to keep your dog here for too long, of course, as they will eventually have no choice when they can no longer hold it.

#2: Go Out After Feeding

If you will be supervising your dog, simply take them outside shortly after you feed them. Watch your dog eliminate, then praise them. Your dog lives for your attention and will try his best to please you. This will instill in them the value of eliminating outside.

#3: Paper Training

When your dog is alone, or after eating you can put them in a small tiled room like a laundry room, and line the floor with paper. After a week of this start to remove one paper at a time, until there is only one left. Dogs are creatures of habit and will look for the remaining paper to keep up their routine. Now, move that single paper closer and closer to the back door, until it is actually outside. Leave the paper on the lawn for a few days. After that time you can get rid of the paper all together. To make the process easier you can actually purchase puppy papers, which they have at any pet store. This has a certain scent that makes puppies and dogs want to do their business on it. That way you can skip all that. Leave the puppy paper anywhere you want it that's accessible to your dog, and after a week or so move the paper outside. Your dog will follow it. Then remove the paper all together.

#4: Ringing the Bell

This is a great way to house train your dog and stop the barking or crying they may do when they need to go outside. Get a bell hang it by the door, where your dog can reach it. Now, every time you let your dog out to relieve themselves, ring the bell. Sooner or later your dog is going to fill in the gap and assume that the bell must ring before they can go outside. So your dog will start to ring the bell every time they need to go out and do their business.

#5: Go On Command

Every time your dog goes where they are supposed to say "Go Potty!" Sooner or later this will cause another gap to be filled by your dog and they will associate the phrase, "Go potty!" with going potty. Then praise them. They won't go right when you say to go, but they'll know what you expect of them, and try their best to make your happy."

Always remember that you as the dog's owner bear the responsibility of raising them right to be the dog you want them to be and that their natural instincts in many cases will conflict with what you find acceptable. Your dog needs you to show them what the rules are in the house.

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