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House Breaking Puppies. Information on house breaking puppies and how to care for them once they come to your home. Learn how to house break your new puppy you just received.
House Breaking Your Puppy Learn how to house break your puppy!
When you buy a puppy and get it home, don't expect it to be house-broken, and you'll not be disappointed. It is too young to know just what it ought to do, and you must give it time, a chance, and properly educate it yourself. This can be done with every puppy, or grown dog either, out you can't do it in a few hours, for it requires time and patience. You may have bought it as "house-broke" and it may be that it was for the home it has just left but needs re-breaking to a certain extent for its new home, which will then not be nearly so hard to accomplish. Now. When your puppy makes a mistake, if it is old enough to punish, catch it in the act; rub his nose in it, switch it, and run it out in the yard, weather permitting (for you wouldn't, of course, put it out in the rain or snow). Repeat this every time it does wrong, and it can soon be taught to be clean in its habits. Never punish any puppy (or dog) except at the time of the wrong-doing, so that it knows what it is being punished for. 'By running it out of doors every time, it soon gets to understand that there is the place to attend to nature's calls. Have patience, and it won't be very long till ycm have a wellbehave 1 dog. Some are much easier to break than others. I don't advocate whipping, as in some cases it will cow the dog, and if so will take a long time to get it over this. Most puppies at. Two months old will understand that they have done wrong by the punishment or simply your tone of voice. As it gets older make it a point to put it out the last thing at night and the first thing in the morning, and give it frequent yard opportunities during the day. Use judgment and forbearance "as well, and reason with and talk to it they soon get to understand. If weather is bad, at night or in the morning, for that time put it in the cellar or some covered outhouse or shed. If you have a female and raise a litter of puppies at home, here is a good plan that I follow in the kennel, and when I sell a puppy two to three months old, it is already "kennel broken," and then very easy to house-break when its owner gets it home. I have stalls made, enclosed by a gate, and in front of the box or part of the stall fitted up for the bitch to whelp in, I have a galvanized iron pan to fit the other part of the stall, and this pan I cover over the bottom with sawdust for the puppies to go into as soon as they are old enough. The mother cleans up after her puppies 'till they are four or five weeks old, and then they will naturally and very quickly get into the habit of going into the sawdust when nature prompts them. The example set by the first one to go in will soon be followed by its brothers and sisters, as it is a dog's natural inclination to hunt a place. You can follow this plan when your bitch has puppies by simply making a low wooden box with a sheet of tin for a bottom to it, which will answer for one litter all right enough, and if your bitch has whelped in a box in your house, you can fix up a little fence made out of lathes that will cost but a trifle, and answer the purpose of keeping her and the puppies penned up. Puppies that I sell as "kennel broke" are very easy to house-break. Treat all your puppies for worms soon after they are weaned, as then the worms begin to be dangerous. In some cases as young as five and six weeks is necessary. Worms kill more dogs than all other diseases combined; but this you will find carefully treated and remedies given under the heading of "WORMS" in another part of this website. To house-break older dogs, follow the same plan, only a little more severe.
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