my puppy is 2 months old, in one week i have 70% established in his mind his sleep area and his eating area. however everything i read about housebreaking says i need a crate to place the dog in to train him. is a crate or cage necessary?
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You can set out an area as long as your puppy is confined. For a small dog, that may be sufficient but for a larger breed you may need something more secure as he gets a little older.
Crates are also useful for other things. They are useful in cars, a steel crate is surprisingly protective. They can be used for air travel if that is ever necessary. Crates are also useful when you want to leave an older dog at home but are concerned about any kind of destructive behavior.
They can also be helpful when you want to give a dog peace and quiet away from little kids or other dogs. If your dog is ever ill or injured, a crate is a way to keep him from moving around too much and popping stitches or causing more injury.
They aren’t necessary but are useful and it helps (but is not required) to teach a dog when it is younger that a crate is a happy and safe place to be.
Just a warning about puppies, as they get older, usually around 6 months they can suddenly forget everything you taught them. They can become destructive, willful, stubborn until they mature at 1, 1 1/2 or even 2+ years old.
You want to be prepared.
yes most of the time a crate is needed
No it;s not I never used a crate for potty training , my dog was fine in any area of the house we never looked her up . What I did is whenever she did 1 or 2 i would take her by the back of her neck and bring her nose close to the mess she mad and say "no" to her couple times and then would take her to the door , take her paw and scratch the door , and I had her housebroken within a week . but you heave to punish the dog right after he did the mess don’t wait do it right then and there and the dog will learn fast believe me .
Have you tried puppy pads? They work very well for me I have a 9week old puppy and when we leave he all ways uses the pad it has a scent on it to attract them to it.The first couple of times it didn’t work but after that he used it every time you should at least give it a try it couldn’t hurt anything.Good luck!!!
Well, using a crate is a relatively new invention, but it does make housetraining easier because the puppy can’t pee on the floor. It’s much easier to teach a puppy anything if they don’t get the opportunity to make a mistake. A crate should be only large enough for the puppy to turn around in (divided cages are ideal). Very few puppies are willing to lay in their mess, therefore they won’t pee in their crate. You need to be very diligent in taking them out every 2 hours – for a 2 month old puppy who has no bladder control. Give lots and lots of praise for peeing outside.
Keep the puppy in the room with you so you can take him out before he makes a mistake and keep him in the crate at night and when you can’t be with him so he doesn’t get in the habit of peeing in the house.
When he makes a mistake, quietly clean it up unless you catch him in the act. Then you can tell him "no" and take him outside and praise for finishing outside. You have to be careful not to overdo the correction or you’ll be teaching him to hide it, or scaring him into submissive urination and that’s a whole problem you don’t want to start.
So, a crate isn’t necessary, but it makes things 100% easier.
no it is not dog should be able 2 run free
I have had many dogs in my lifetime, and everytime we get a puppy, we use a crate. It is the easiest to house train it, because they love their crate, and dont want to mess in it. The crate though it not necessary, however, but I always find it sucessful. If you do happen to use a crate, let the dog out of the crate when its time to play, and let it outside to use the bathroom, then praise it! Once it goes to the bathroom, take it inside right away, so that it know thats what its out there to do. Then play with it some more, or put it back in its crate. Also, right away when it wakes up, let it outside.
When your dog does happen to make a mess inside, dont let your dog see you cleaning it up, then it will notice your taking interest in what it just did, and will do it again, probablly in that same spot.
A crate is the easiest way, also saves the carpets. It’s simple dog don’t like to potty where they sleep.
Well for my puppy we didn’t use a crate and he learned where to go pretty good. We just put down his pee pad in a specific area close to his food and bed and after a month or so he would always pee and poo on the pee pad…it also helps using a pee pad because it seems he became accustomed to the pad itself and not necesarily the place it was put, so when we take him to someones house we just lay down a pad and he knows exactly where to go.
absolutely not!!
Right after your puppy eats, drinks, or wakes up from a nap put him outside and stay outside with him until he pees or poops. When he does, give him a treat. If he pees of poops in the house, put him outside.
no, newspaper or puppy pads work too. they define the area the puppy needs to use. if he has an accident somewhere else and y ou catch him, let him finish say ‘no’ then pick him up and put him on his spot. you can move the pad a little bit at a time to a different spot or outside. thata’s how my puppy got trained. good luck.
well wwhen i got my new pup i kept her in a cage so that i knew where she was at night .
&& so she wouldnt [pee && poop] in tha hose .
lol .
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No if you cant take the pup outside then go to the pet store or a wal-mart and buy puppy training pads. put them on the floor and for the first few weeks every time he goes on the pad give him a small puppy treat. Then slowly stop giving treats and just tell him he is a good boy. When he goes someplace other then the pad pick him up put him on the pad and tell him potty here.
It would be better to just train the puppy to go outdoors so he gets used to his surroundings and where he has to go to go to the bathroom.
Yes