And if the dog does have an in house accident, simply scoop it up and deposit the dog outside. Never punish the dog for it’s accidents. That accomplishes very little for either party.

My point here is that all kids are different, and there is no set age for potty training.

Ideally, before you start potty training you’ll be better off waiting for your child’s first potty training readiness signs. Unless he/she is ready, it would usually take longer for kids to be potty trained successfully.

Some signs would be:

1. Toddler taking favourite toys on potty to see what happens;

2. Toddler shows interest in you or other family members when going to the bathroom;

3. Wetting nappy less frequently than usual;

4. Getting annoyed/demand to have nappy changed when wetting/pooping;

5. Not wanting to pee/poop in nappy or taking nappy off

It is better to wait for such signs as these show your child is ready to start going through the potty training phase. Research shows it takes much less time to potty train a child who is ready, rather than ‘force potty training’.

Finally, when child is ready, do your best to make potty training sound like fun and exciting, and keep calm at all times. Getting angry after child has an ‘accident’ will get your child to head to a Potty Training regression phase, which would make potty training even longer.

Good luck soon-to-be mama!

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Nope!
If you actually want to have your dog *trained* I would avoid these places for training at all costs.

Their so called "trainers" only go through something like a 1 day course on how to train dogs.
And no experience is necessary for them to hire these trainers.

Prior to knowing this, I had applied for the position. I was rejected because I had too much experience with training (between my 2 dogs and a foster Dog Training program with a rescue).

I suggest you find a local obedience club with trainers that actually have titled dogs.

ADD: AMEN Uhave2Be…Amen!!!!

When the vet says that your dog cannot be taken out until after its injections/shots, this does not mean that it cannot be taken into your own fenced garden/yard. It simply means that your puppy must be keep away from anywhere that could have been contaminated by other dogs.

A puppy must be taken into your garden/yard every hour, after it eats or drinks and when it wakes up after a nap. You should also take it out just before you go to bed, every time you see it eliminate you must praise your puppy. I use a catch phrase when my puppy has a pee, I say “get one” while it is urinating and “big job” when it passes faeces. If you do this your dog will pee on command when it is older. (Unless it’s bladder is empty)

You should set your alarm and try to take your puppy out about twice during the night. If like me you are a heavy sleeper and you don’t trust yourself to wake up, take the lazy way out. My puppy’s sleep in the laundry room until they are toilet trained, during the day I dip newspapers into the urine which it has passed in the garden and put these on top of a thick pad of newspaper at night, they are drawn to this because of the smell and they will pee on this during the night. Nevertheless I go to bed very late and get up very early when I have a puppy.

Eventually your puppy will go to the door when it knows that it wants to eliminate. In spite of the fact that I leave newspapers down at night my puppy’s are clean from an early age. However they are like babies, they have no control until they are older. Regardless of how diligent you are, your puppy could still have an accident in the house during the day, it you see it stooping or peeing, pick it up and let it finish in the garden/yard.

Then once you have spent 5-7 years learning about aggression and dog behaviour, then you are going to want to take a few business courses, so that you can run a facility like that.

The best trainers in the world are not going to partner with someone who doesn’t know much. They don’t want to be stuck doing all the work.

Make yourself more valuable to them by educatingg yourself to the hilt. Go to seminars, trials, train dogs at the shelter. Make a name for yourself first.

Word travels by mouth in the dog world – so you build your rep first – then people will be searching you out and not the other way around.

Good luck!

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