How Do You Housebreak An Adopted Dog?
Adopting a dog can be one of the happiest days of your life–however, that happiness often turns to frustration and anger–if the adopted dog has a housetraining problem. One of the main reasons dogs get dropped off at shelters, get abandoned and even put to sleep is due to not being housebroken. Housetraining is really not a behavior problem; it is a location problem. All you have to do to properly housetrain your adopted dog is to teach him the right areas to go. Any dog can be housetrained–it just requires patience, understanding dog behavior–and a little bit of time. Here are some steps to a housetrained dog. Understand that with an adopted dog, housetraining is a behavior that has to be taught. The most important step in housetraining is managing your dog’s behavior. A crate makes it extremely easy to housetrain your dog, because the crate will confine your dog to a certain area while you cannot watch her. Some people feel bad about putting their dogs into a crate, but a crate r
