Part one talked about crate training your dog. This post is about using another house training method, paper training.

Paper training a dog is usually practiced by owners who stay out of their houses for long periods or those deprived of a backyard facility.

This method is mainly followed when you train your puppy to eliminate on paper on your floor. It takes time and patience, but is well worth the effort.

I would suggest that all dog owners use newspapers because they are:

* Cheap and can therefore be thrown away after every use.
* Of such a quality that they make a very good absorbent.

Select a good room to use that has linoleum or wooden floor. Any place where it will be easy to clean up the mess that your dog makes.

But first, begin with papering the entire room except your dog's sleeping area. Instinctively, your dog wouldn't like to eliminate where it sleeps. It will rather go to the papered area on its own.

Getting used to eliminate on paper and doing it at one particular place needs several weeks of training. So, do not rush your pet.

When you start with paper training, you will have to spend some time with the dog in the room. Look for signs when you will know your dog needs to eliminate.

When you see these signs, bring the dog to the newspaper. When you have the dog on the newspaper, tell him to eliminate.

After your dog eliminates, make sure to praise him. This will enforce what you are trying to get him to do.

At the beginning, he will make mistakes. Don't scold him. Be stern and order him to do it only on the paper.

After quite some time, when you are absolutely sure that your dog will only eliminate on paper, slowly move the paper (by half an inch a day) towards the place where you would like him to eliminate in the long run.

In case of mistakes, use an odor neutralizer to do away with the scent of waste. By doing this, you disassociate other parts of the room with elimination.

After the dog has succeeded using the newspaper alone, you can try and leave him alone for short periods of time. If you have to go to work, try and come home at lunch to give your dog some much needed attention.

After several successful sessions, you can even move the dog to another room, if you want.

Learn More on Paper Training and Other Popular Housetraining Methods by clicking here: More on Paper Training

This article focuses on preventing “accidents” instead of waiting for accidents to happen.

Training in this way is faster and more effective than punishing the dog for mistakes but you must be patient and determined for it to work. If you already own an adult dog with housetraining problems, you can use these methods to start afresh.

Basically there are two fundamental methods:

– Crate Training
– Paper Training

Crate Training:

As a dog owner, you surely know the importance of a crate in your dog's life. Not only is it essential for potty training purposes but it is also needed to make your dog feel safe and secure.

It is advisable to put a new puppy or dog in a crate so that it learns from the very beginning that the entire house is not its playground.

The Crate training process needs a lot of patience, persistence and pain. However, before you buy a crate you need to consider the following things:

* Is your home big enough?

* Where will you be keeping your dog crate? If you are teaching your dog to eliminate indoors, it should be kept well away from the designated place of elimination.

* The breed of dog you own. A toy dog will naturally need a smaller crate.

* How old your dog is. A pup's crate will have to be much more cozy than that of an adult dog's.

* Crates should be lightweight, durable, cozy and easy to clean.

And most importantly, you should get a crate in which your dog should be comfortable staying.
The crate also makes you mobile with your dog. He can easily be taken for a trip if he stays in the crate.

Most importantly, the crate marks your dog's territory for good. Your pet will not understand on his own that the crate is his home. You need to train him that way.

The basic purpose of crate training is to confine your dog to one place while you are out and the crate trains your dog where not to eliminate inside the house.

Click here to get the Complete List of Crate Training Do's and Don'ts: House Training Your Dog
The next post will explain paper training your dog.