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[Curtis Taylor]

The new DogTraining.com is YOUR DogTraining.com. Post training tips, get advice from dog lovers just like you. If your a breeder go ahead and create a page for your breed and put all your information up! The purpose of this website is to connect dog lovers around the world.

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[iris zayas]

i would like any advice on how to train and treat a pitbull dog she is 1 year old and 6 motnh

[iris zayas]

i got a pitbull and i want to know how to train it my pitbull is 1 year and 6 month.

[William Spencer]

How do you stop "bolting" out of any open door? Correction..cracked open space!

[aoife fearon]

hi im new on this and would love any advice on the best way to house train my puppy i have been doing the paper traing but still after three weeks he is still going loo all over my house and the odd time on the paper plz plz help me try get him trained thanks a mill to everyone that sends me tips

[donna clarke]

Hi i'm new to this site and new to having a 6 week old puppy, he's chewing on my phone wires and i don't know what to do to stop him. Please help

[Melissa Wymer-Tisdale]

Hey. We recently got a Bichon Friese crossed with a Lhasa Apso, she was quite erratic as she had lived on a farm with a Great Dane and used to chase all the rabbits. When she first came over she was very cautious of all things new apart from the cats and thought it would be a great idea to chase after the cats (who to her were just like rabbits). There were many things that she needed training in so a friend of mine suggested this book to our family, as she said she had used it and it worked with her pitbull. I'll add the link for you all to see. http://d1630fvgybn8oohemp3qepawbr.hop.clickbank.net/
Happy Training Guys!

[amy k.]

i'm new too. my dog is 10 mths old and he's just now starting to chew things up.

[Jessica Ramirez]

I'm new to this site. Hope to get a lot of tips to help me train my new papillon...Molly

[colleen ortmayer]

i must be the only person with a dog that jumps up on people when they come because she is so excited
she does not wet or anything like that she is fine after a few minutes.

[Judy Seils]

Neutering is a great idea, and will help somewhat with the 'marking' behavior, but it won't eliminate it completely. At this point, he's been practicing the behavior for 2 years, it's pretty well ingrained. You need to teach him the appropriate place to urinate and use urine eliminating cleansing products to get clean the areas he's marked. "Punishing" him won't do any good at all and may cause him to react in a more aggressive manner.

Without knowing the exact circumstances, it's hard to say if this is just a marking behavior or if there is some other behavior problem causing the marking. Neutering is the first step. Re-housetraining is also necessary and closely monitoring him to prevent him from urinating in the house. See the housetraining tips below. Even though he's not a puppy, he is urinating in the house, so he should be treated the same as an untrained puppy. Hope that helps.

Housetraining your Dog


Supervision is the key to preventing accidents by your pup. Closely supervise your puppy at all times. Watch for signals from the pup that he needs to go outside. Use a leash or baby gates to keep him close. Frequently offer opportunities to go out and go with the pup to reward him when he eliminates in the correct place.


Confine the pup when you are asleep or out of the house. When you cannot closely watch him, take him out on a leash to potty, then put him in his kennel so that he will not have an opportunity to make a mistake. Make the kennel enjoyable with chew toys and a water bowl.

As soon as you take him out of the kennel, put him on leash and take him outside again. The more often he is successful at eliminating outside, the quicker he will figure it out.

When you are home, but have things to do, have the puppy on a leash attached to you or a piece of furniture near you. This 'tie-down' is like a playpen for a baby. The puppy can be near you, interact with you, but won't be able to get out of your sight and get into trouble. As the puppy gets better, you might use baby-gates or closed doors to keep him in the same room with you. The idea is to be able to PREVENT the puppy from having accidents in the house. You can't do that if you aren't watching the puppy.

Until you are SURE the puppy is housetrained, the ONLY time the pup should be loose in the house is when you are playing with it one-on-one. It's not the puppy's fault if it has an accident in the house. Either you weren't supervising it closely enough, or you didn't take him outside often enough. Remember, they can't reach the doorknob and they can't come up and say 'let me out' -- at least not until you teach them how.


Take the puppy outside on a leash. There are several reasons for this -
1) The pup needs to learn to go outside on a leash
2) If the pup is allowed to run around the yard unsupervised, he will probably come back inside and eliminate on the floor
3) If the dog is clear across the yard when he pees or poops, you can't reward him as soon as he's done
So, put the leash on the puppy. Each time you take the pup out give some verbal cue like, "Outside, do you need to go outside?" Repeat this several times on your way to the door so he learns to associate the word "outside" with going out the door. Now, if you missed the signals for him to go out and catch him in the act of soiling, try to interrupt the process by calling out loudly "OUTSIDE, OUTSIDE!" Quickly rush him out while he still needs to go. Once outside, calmly encourage him to finish then praise him for going in the correct place.


Again, go out with the puppy when he relieves himself otherwise you will have no way of knowing if he has relieved outside and he may just wait until you bring him back inside to eliminate. There will be no faulty assumptions if you go out with him and are right there to reward him for the correct behavior. Take a treat or two out with you at first and give them to the puppy as soon as he finishes relieving himself. Say 'Good Potty' (or whatever you want to call it). The words don't matter as long as you are consistent. Soon you will be able to tell the puppy to 'potty' and he will know that you mean for him to take care of business outside.


If you have given the puppy opportunities to relieve himself outside and he does not eliminate out there, DO NOT allow him free access to your home. Bring him in and confine him, either in the crate or on a leash, until you can give him another chance to go outside.


If you missed the signals and you find a mess on the floor, do not punish the pup. Punishment at this time will only teach the pup that you cannot be trusted when there is a mess on the floor. He can't associate the mess with the action he did 15 or 20 minutes earlier. Chalk it up to experience and from now on, watch the puppy closer. Calmly clean up the mess with one of the many special chemicals on the market for urine odors.