Probably one of the biggest headaches involved in having dogs for pets is potty training puppies. They do not have a button you can push to have them do their business and they cannot comprehend any verbal command unless they were trained to do so. Getting puppies to do their business when you want them and where you want them does not involve rocket science though and you would not need to hire a specialist to do it for you either. The one major requirement one needs to complete this task is a large amount of patience. Just as long as you stay consistent with your dog training, you'll have no problems potty training a puppy.

Getting them to go by understanding their nature

Animals are instinctive; they do not weigh any sort of pros or cons before making a decision. Knowing this can really help you in learning how to potty train them. Puppies are sort of blank slates, they have the instincts but they are still in the trial and error phase of finding out how to gratify certain drives. Urinating and defecating is a drive but, contrary to what most people think, puppies don't just stop whatever they are doing and do their business. Keep your eye on them when they get the urge, puppies often run around looking and sniffing until they find a good spot and then do what they need to do.

This is where the training in potty training puppies comes in. You'll have to teach them to pick a specific spot to go potty so every time they feel the need they go exactly where you want them to. How do you do it? You'll need an item with a musky or earthy scent, something distinctive that, when they smell it, they can easily equate it with either urinating or defecating. There are commercially manufactured potty training sprays that you can purchase in pet stores or you can go hands on and try to get a small amount of your pet's urine in a spray bottle when it does its business.

Whether you opt for the commercial spray or the hands on approach, the training or conditioning phase remains the same: when your puppy shows signs of the urge to commune with nature prepare a liberal stack of newspapers and restrict your puppy within the confines of the newspaper. Spray a little amount of the scent-spray on the newspaper. Let the pup move around the area and acheive a degree of comfort. Once the puppy has finished its business, gently guide its head to the spot you sprayed the agent so it's close enough for the puppy to sniff the scent. Duplicate this for about 12 weeks each and every time the dog needs to do its business.

Performing the aforementioned steps can result in either two results or both. The puppy can equate going potty to a newspaper or the scent which means that whenever the puppy needs to go, it will either look for a newspaper or sniff around to find that scent, either result will lead to a properly potty trained pup and care free maintenance for you.

As mentioned earlier potty training puppies requires a generous amount of patience but aside from that it is actually a pretty easy thing to do.