Chihuahua Potty Training - The Easy and Right Way
- By Clarence Clark
- Published 10/4/2009
- Pets
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Chihuahua potty training is a very unavoidable part of owning this dog, especially in a house. Unless you want to have a very smelly and very dirty house, you need to know the essentials of house training a dog. This article is more focused to the people who are purchasing Chihuahua dogs or puppies which have not yet been housebroken and are quite clueless on how to do it.
Firstly, prepare to be standing around alot and pushing your dog towards a specific area where you want it to do its business. You must be a very, very patient person, especially when you have a dog as flighty and as high strung as a Chihuahua. Because of their size and their metabolic rate, these Chihuahuas need to relieve themselves at about an average of six to eight times a day, and that is quite a lot. Potty training of these dogs should begin right when you bring them home and when they are puppies. It is harder to train a dog that is fully grown and used to doing their business anywhere they please.
Training them when they are young means that they get used to the idea that they need to go to location A or location B or their litter to deposit their giving’s. The thing you should know about these puppies is the fact that they do not yet have the muscles and control needed to hold in their wastes, so when they are puppies, they the d to do it at random times. This is the same with human babies if you realise, so you need to set some ground rules. Confine them to a certain area of the house at first so that cleaning up is easy and when you do that, make sure it is related to the place that you want them to do their potty.
Once they are able to smell their urine in the places that they should be doing everything else, it is much easier for you as a trainer to get them to house train. Next, you need to get into the psychology of dogs, as they do not think like us. Most of the time, they do want to please their owner so you need to use this to your advantage. Use raw and carnal emotions like telling the puppy that urinating on the living room floor is bad. Sooner or later, he or she will realise that what they did was wrong. In the end of it all, they do want to please their masters.
So when they do it in the right place, give your Chihuahua a treat. Once you are able to get your dog to relate urinating or defecating on different parts of the house with your unhappiness and disapproval, then you would have won more than half the battle. All you need to do is to show them where they should be doing it, and over a few weeks, you will have a fully trained Chihuahua. These are the right way for Chihuahua potty training.
Firstly, prepare to be standing around alot and pushing your dog towards a specific area where you want it to do its business. You must be a very, very patient person, especially when you have a dog as flighty and as high strung as a Chihuahua. Because of their size and their metabolic rate, these Chihuahuas need to relieve themselves at about an average of six to eight times a day, and that is quite a lot. Potty training of these dogs should begin right when you bring them home and when they are puppies. It is harder to train a dog that is fully grown and used to doing their business anywhere they please.
Training them when they are young means that they get used to the idea that they need to go to location A or location B or their litter to deposit their giving’s. The thing you should know about these puppies is the fact that they do not yet have the muscles and control needed to hold in their wastes, so when they are puppies, they the d to do it at random times. This is the same with human babies if you realise, so you need to set some ground rules. Confine them to a certain area of the house at first so that cleaning up is easy and when you do that, make sure it is related to the place that you want them to do their potty.
Once they are able to smell their urine in the places that they should be doing everything else, it is much easier for you as a trainer to get them to house train. Next, you need to get into the psychology of dogs, as they do not think like us. Most of the time, they do want to please their owner so you need to use this to your advantage. Use raw and carnal emotions like telling the puppy that urinating on the living room floor is bad. Sooner or later, he or she will realise that what they did was wrong. In the end of it all, they do want to please their masters.
So when they do it in the right place, give your Chihuahua a treat. Once you are able to get your dog to relate urinating or defecating on different parts of the house with your unhappiness and disapproval, then you would have won more than half the battle. All you need to do is to show them where they should be doing it, and over a few weeks, you will have a fully trained Chihuahua. These are the right way for Chihuahua potty training.
Clarence Clark
Clarence Clark is an avid Chihuahua dog lover providing valuable advice at http://www.chihuahuatime.com for fellow chihuahua dog lovers. Where he shares chihuahua info and training tips with Chihuahua lovers worldwide. Click Here to gain FREE access to this Chihuahua networking website.
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