Puppy House Training Schedule - Housetraining Is Impossible Without One

You've just brought a new puppy or dog into your family (that's my new pup Simon in the picture). Have you decided how to approach house training?

If you want to get the pup trained as soon as possible, start thinking about a puppy house training schedule. You can't schedule everything, but you can set up basic activities and times when the (elimination) activities will occur.

Getting To The Ultimate Goal
Believe it or not, a schedule will minimize accidents. The greater the number of accidents, the longer it will take to arrive at the ulimate goal - a housebroken pup.

Unfortunately, even if you're the best scheduler ever, you can't anticipate everything, For example, new puppies don't pee and poop on your schedule every time. When the pup is circling your new living room rug,he's most likely not following the schedule.

House Training Activities You Can Schedule

You can create a puppy house training schedule based on the fact that you can anticipate he will eliminate as follows:

• When he gets up in the morning.
• After he eats.
• After a nap (they are predictable).
• After he plays or exercises for more than a few minutes
• Before he goes to sleep for the night.

Depending on his age, he'll need to go out at night several times. The formula for the number of hours between outings is (puppy age in months plus 1) hours. A 2-month old pup will go out about every 3 hours over night. Don't be alarmed, this is only a guideline.

A Few Tips
You will adjust your puppy house training schedule as the puppy matures and can control his eliminations. Supposedly a puppy is ready about 16 weeks of age. At this point, you may notice that he sleeps through the night and doesn't need to go outside as often. 

If you fail to adjust the timing for outings as the pup learns to hold his eliminations, you will need to gradually lengthen the amount of time beween outings OR let the pup tell you when it's time.

My other dog Alvin barks when he needs to go out. Simon learned to ring a bell or sometimes just stands by the door. There have been a few presents on the rug in front of the door while dinner was being made.