What is the best way to house train a dog, he is three months old?
Take him outside frequently and just let him sniff about. If he does anything praise him and bring him back in. If he doesn’t do anything just bring him in. Take him outside whenever he wakes up and just let him sniff about. If he does anything praise him and bring him back in. If he doesn’t do anything just bring him in. Keep on doing this and then every time he does anything outside praise him but add a command like ‘Be clean’ or ‘Get busy’ or whatever. Only use the command words when he is in the act not before and not afterwards because you want him to associate what he is actually doing with the words. If he urinates in the house (that should be when and not ‘if’), just clean it up and spray the area with a proper deodorant for animal use. If you use ordinary household cleaners they actually enhance the urine smell for the pup and he will just keep going back to the same spot. Don’t get ratty or scold him because he won’t know what is going on – he’ll just think you have freaked o
