How To Potty Train Your Dog - Word Association Method

It is important to potty train your dog for not giving way to their nature’s call anywhere and anytime. Otherwise it will cause you a lot of embarrassment and trouble. Are there any effective ways on how to potty train your dog?

You may think that it is difficult to train puppies and older dogs to take your command to go to the bathroom. Most dogs can pay attention to repeated words, and they are able to associate the words to what you want them to do. For example, if you continue to say "go potty" when your dog is out there relieving itself, it will remember your word.

The best method on how to potty train your dog is by word association. You can make your dog associates the command "go potty" with relieving itself if you do this repeatedly over a period of time. If your dog relieves inside the house, you can say, "No, go outside," then bring your dog outdoors. Over a while, your dog will associate this command with something they should not do inside the house but outside.

In most guidebooks on "how to potty train your dog", it will never mention that you need to spank your dog while you’re doing word association training. Through repeated word command, your dog will link the word ‘no’ with bad conduct, and it will learn to go outside the house.

One important thing you must do is to bring your dog outside the house and tell your dog to go potty. You have to leave it outside the house until it has done with its business. Continue with this instruction to "go potty" until your dog finally does. You should credit your dog by praising it with a little treat for doing a great job. The dog will associate this command with what you want it to do so it can get a treat. After a while, your dog will learn that ‘go potty’ outside the house will make you happy.

You should pick a specific location for your dog to relieve itself as the dog will also associate this location with the command of "go potty". Be very precise and clear on your command when you train your dog on word association. Always be consistent. Do not use different command phrases to mean the same thing as your dog will not understand this and will become confused.

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