I Potty Trained 1,000+ Dogs - Here's What ALWAYS Works!

All right, guys, you clicked on this video because you just got a new puppy or you just adopted or fostering a dog that is not potty trained. The last potty training video that I did helped over 1 million people. So I decided to refresh it, revise it, optimize it, and make it better. Here we go. First, we should talk about how long can puppies actually hold it. Well, the reality is, is physically, without creating some sort of damage or getting uncomfortable, the puppy can really only hold their bladders for two to four hours. So it's important for you guys to know that, that if you're extending the time in which you're trying to leave your puppy home in the crate or by themselves, they will have an accident for sure. The biggest reason for success is the schedule that I created for my dog Burley when I was potty training him. Now, before everybody freaks out and says, well, I don't work from home, I can't let my dog out that many times, we're going to cover that in this video 100%. But the reality guys is, is you should be letting out your puppy as often as possible. Think about how small these animals are, just like with kids, when they're infants and they're babies and they're newborns, they're tiny. So when they take things in, they're going to have to go pretty quickly. So it's very important that you're constantly letting the puppy out as much as you possibly can. Things that you guys can be doing instead of letting your dog out every half an hour is hiring a dog walker, bringing your dog to a doggy daycare, phoning a friend, phoning a neighbor, say, Hey, I just got a new puppy. All I need you to do is go over and let the dog out so they can relieve themselves. Now, obviously if you have somebody come over every half an hour is gold, but if you can't, that's the reality, right? So what I always tell people is give your dog a space in which if they do have to go potty, they don't like, if they're in a crate, they don't like to go pee and poop on themselves for obvious reasons. So if the, if the crate is big enough, a lot of times they'll go on one end of the crate and then they will just hang out on the other end. It's totally fine. It's better than them trying to hold it for so long that they cause internal damage. Moving on to something extremely obvious, but oftentimes overlooked, and it could be the reason why you're failing so much with your potty training. Dogs get too much freedom in the beginning most often, right? So let's talk about if your dog is running around your house and you're actively trying to teach them that they need to go potty outside, they have a lot of opportunities to go out and go pee in the corner, go poop in the corner, poop in your buddy's shoe or whatever. And you don't even realize it until it's too late. So not only is the dog understanding, I'm just going to pee here because at this time they're trying to figure out what is appropriate behavior, what is not appropriate behavior. And of course you're guiding them as a leader and as a new dog owner. And so you really need to manage them and also watch them to make sure that they go potty in the right place, which in most cases is outside or in small cases on a pee pad or something like that. So it's really important that you do not give your dog the amount of freedom that they haven't deserved yet. So on that subject of what should you be doing with your puppy in conjunction as your potty training, because the potty training should really only take a week, guys. All my puppies, all my clients' dogs all over the world successfully potty trained their dog with these skillsets and these tips. What I always recommend is a crate. The crate is the safest place for your dog to be. It's the only place in your entire home that is actually their space. We have our living room, we have our garage, we have our beds, et cetera. The dog really doesn't have anything that's necessarily theirs. So the crate is their space. And so what I like to do is I get the puppy in the crate and that's where they go in between my potty training. So in my schedule, the dog's in the crate. And then as soon as I get them out, they're outside. I do not let the dog back into my house or back into the crate without them going potty. This is a crucial part for your timing. This is your opportunity to teach them positive reinforcement. Pay them with food. That's what I like to do. I bring out my No Bad Dog treats and I pay the dog as they're going. And I say, good potty, good potty. And while they're sniffing and they're searching, I also say, go potty, go potty. I am putting a word to something, a behavior that they can remember. Or if your dog is not going to be crated and you decided, okay, I'm going to give them a little bit of freedom. I highly suggest utilizing an X-Pen. An X-Pen is literally like a little play pen for babies. This is an area that you know that they're going to be, and you know that they're going to be successful. So if they do have an accident, you know that it's right here. So your schedule and you're monitoring and you're auditing, okay, they went potty here. They had an accident, so on and so forth. So that X-Pen just keeps your dog in a space that you know, if they do have an accident, you can monitor it. Now, the next thing is something everybody talks about. Do you punish your dog? Do you push their nose into the ground? Do you make them sniff it? Do you yell at them? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Here's my thoughts. And again, I've been doing this for so long professionally, but I've owned dogs my entire life. I've tried all the things, but I can tell you that doesn't work that great. It's very confusing to the dog. And so if you can catch your dog in the act, make it uncomfortable for them, right? Yell, scream, no, don't. Pick them up, bring them outside. But if they've already committed the crime and it was weeks ago, days ago, minutes ago, they're going to be pretty confused why you're upset. Now, another question I got all the time is when you're in that transition phase where the dog is doing pretty good, you're on day four, you're on day five, we're potty and mostly outside. And when do you start opening up that freedom? Really the reality is same thing for recall or heal or any off-leash stuff is when they can prove to me, and they've really set up day after day, hour after hour, afternoon after afternoon, that they understand like they didn't have any accidents. You kind of start opening up your home. You start opening up the areas in which they can go. And again, you still have to monitor them and you still have to let them out constantly. Like again, for me to set your dog up for the most success, it's literally crate for 30 minutes outside to pee and poop. Crate for 30 minutes. And they really just get on this cycle. If your puppy eats and drinks, they will have to pee and poop. So if you allow your dog water, it's important that you go, okay, the dog just drank a bunch of water. So in 30 minutes, that dog is going to have to pee. The other misconception is, is a lot of people allow their dog to free drink and fee feed. Not every dog, but most dogs, especially puppies will eat everything in the bowl, no matter how big and fat their tummies are. And they will drink every last drop of water until you take it away from them. Especially puppies who have come from a big litter that maybe they didn't get a lot of food. You got to understand they came from mama, right? Mama only fed the puppies when she wanted to lay down, right? So when they ate, it's like, get it while you can. So it's important for you to know that, that your puppy will likely eat and drink as much as you give them. So you have to monitor your scheduling with water just as much as you do with food to make sure that your schedule is successful. Again, as a reminder, super simple, they eat and drink, going to have to pee and poop. Now, another thing that I've done over the years that's been super successful is some sort of indicator or marker, or in some cases a bell or a noise or an audible thing that your dog can hear when you let the puppy out. This has been successful for me over the years, a hundred percent with my own dogs. We have it in my puppy series clips with Burley when he was a puppy and my older dogs over the last 30 years I've had dogs. What ends up happening is, is you put like, for an example, you can go on Amazon or whatever and you can put bells, right? You get this kind of like Santa Claus bell on a, on a leather strap and you put it on the door. The door that you go out of, I like to stay consistent, is the door that we go potty out, which is the door you get treats from. So when I go to the door and I let that dog out to go potty, I'm slapping the bell, the bell's going off. So the dog understands the bells go off, the door opens, the bells go off, the door opens. Classical conditioning, super easy to understand. What ends up happening is when you're in that gray area and your dog understands, I'm not supposed to go in here, but where's mom? Where's dad? What should I do? They'll run over and they'll smack that bell because they'll go, hey, that thing opens when this thing goes off. Now they do get annoying, so I do take them away after a while. But if you do have a trained dog and a potty trained dog after about a week, what ends up happening is the dog just goes to the door and sits there and goes, hey, I got to go. And so guys, I have literally trained hundreds of dogs on this potty training schedule and on this potty training tips. And again, last video, we helped over a million dog owners all over the world on potty training. So I hope that this honestly is helpful. If this was, consider subscribing to my channel. I put videos out like this every single week. Check out my puppy playlist. Goes over from start to finish how I trained Burley at home to get him to a level three advanced obedient dog. Thank you guys so much for watching. We'll talk to you next time. Peace.