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Housebreaking An Adult Rescue Dog

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Adopting an adult rescue dog can be a wonderful experience. It can also come with some unexpecteds. When people adopt an adult dog, they may assume that the dog already has some training. And that may or may not be the case. And even for dogs who have had some training, the stress and strain of shelter life can lead to a deterioration of training skills, including house breaking. Or house training or potty training, as I prefer to call it.

House training can take some patience, commitment and buckling down, but if you can do this for a few weeks, you’ll have a dog who has polished up her skills quite nicely thanks to your diligence. And because you’ve likely adopted a dog to add some happiness to their lives, it’s worthwhile to invest this time and avoid frustration with a dog who is likely doing her very best to fit into her new life with you.

The plan laid out in the course I have created with my colleague Kristi Benson lays out a house training plan over 3 weeks that gradually loosens up on managing your dog’s ability to have accidents based on how much success you have over days and weeks. It includes a training plan for each week, as well as a tracker that allows you to make decisions based on (geek alert) data, rather than guesswork. Honestly, when it comes to success with any type of training, data, not guesswork is what’s going to get you to your goal. House breaking is no different.

Kristi agreed to provide the following discount to YPBY readers: You can save 20% on How to Potty Train Your Dog: Three Easy Steps from Mess to Success by using the code YPBY at checkout. That’ll make the course just $19.20 for a lifetime of an accident-free, fresh smelling house and happiness with your new dog!

The Three Keys to House Breaking A Dog are:

1. Commitment – Training a dog to do the right things, at the right time and in the right place is really about committing to setting a schedule and sticking to it. Think about this: Your newly adopted dog has likely been taking care of business wherever and whenever she can.

Shelters typically do not have the staff or resources to walk the dogs in their care 3-4 times a day. if your dog is used to just letting loose whenever, wherever, you can’t expect her to suddenly understand what’s expected of her. Her whole life has been turned upside down. Again (this is a good spot to mention compassion: your newly adopted dog needs some from you!). You’ve got to put in some time and effort and the course makes this as easy and fun for YOU as possible.

2. Patience – It would be negligent to not tell you that successful potty training is as much about you as it is your dog. You’ll need to be prepared to reward your dog every time she eliminates in the correct spot while you are training. You’ll also need to acknowledge and be prepared to fix any mistakes you make during the potty training process. We don’t call them “accidents” by without reason.

Within the course, we also promise to help you maintain your patience and minimize mistakes as much as possible! We do this through the three steps that make up your training plan and a planner to help you track your progress. Again, removing the guesswork of the process is one of the keys to success.

3. Sticking to a plan – If you want to potty train a dog fast, sticking to a plan is key! We wish there was another way, but there’s just not. Your new dog is not magically going to just “get it”. We’ve set things up in the course so that over the course of three weeks (if you stick to the plan), your housebreaking efforts will pay off and you and your dog will have one more thing checked off your “how to live happily together” list!

We know 3 weeks seems like a long time when you are dealing with things like poop and pee in your house, but we’ve set things up so you can avoid any more accidents right away through helpful management tips. And those 3 weeks will be a distant memory very quickly – again, if you stick with the plan.

You’ve brought this new dog into your life so that you can share lots of joy, fun, love and happiness together. Give her the chance to learn what she needs to as soon as you bring her home so that you can do just that! Some of the other courses at LoriNanan.com can help with that, as well, so visit the list below.

Kristi agreed to provide the following discount to YPBY readers: You can save 20% on How to Potty Train Your Dog: Three Easy Steps from Mess to Success by using the code YPBY at checkout. That’ll make the course just $19.20 for a lifetime of an accident-free, fresh smelling house and happiness with your new dog!

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