How do you train a German shepherd to potty train?
A baby is a baby, regardless of its nationality or its future occupation (how do you already know that your baby is going to grow up to look after sheep?). But as this section is supposed to be about dogs, maybe you meant German Shepherd Dog. In which case you DON’T potty train it – potties are for people, not pooches. Nor do you ruin its instinct by locking it in a crate for more than a few minutes at a time – well-reared pups arrive with the instinct to get away from their nest before piddle-pooing. They also need to exercise their fast-growing bones & muscles every minute they are awake. CATCH 22: A crate small enough to invoke that nest instinct is too small to exercise in (not to mention BORRRRING!); an enclosure big enough to exercise in is big enough to mess in. So BEFORE you get your pup you decide whether to start by paper training (easy to do in one afternoon – but the wad of paper must be where no-one steps in the dark!) or outside training. To succeed with outside training
