Rockwall Veterinary Clinic says getting a puppy home is as exciting an experience as seeing first time your baby walk. But there are a few things you must know when you bring this fur legged member to your family.

When you get a mature dog home, you can relieve yourself by expecting that it must have learnt a few things from his previous owner. But, you can expect this when you take home a puppy and you have to be all patient to teach him everything from the scratch.

you will have to exploit all your skills for house training a dog and also have some extra care and patience as this little creature had not experienced any training.

Firstly, you would like your little puppy to learn mannerism including eliminating outside house.

One of the difficult tasks is that of potty training of dog if you do not have much patience as they are expected to behave like humans when they feel like potty.

First thing you are required to do in this regard is that you should not be harsh while potty training puppies. To begin with you should take you puppy outdoor for a walk just after you have fed him and must stay out till he lets it out.

Training should be given to wake up the same time every day and make him potty at the same place so that after sometime it transforms into a habit .

You should feed the dog the stuff that leads to solid stools during potty training as even if it does potty inside house, there is less problem in cleaning it. He deserves appreciation when he comes in after relieving himself outside the house.

Also try bribing him things he likes after he learns going out for potty and deny these to him when he does not. This way he will be made to think that doing potty outside house is a better thing.

You should also put him in a crate or within dog gates when you are not watching him, so that he understands that he can’t relieve himself anywhere in the house.

You can access help from puppy training books and videos.

However, if all these techniques fails in potty training your puppy, you can opt for a professional help at home or you can take your puppy to puppy training classes.