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One thing I've always been curious about... how exactly do you potty train a pet? Trial and error? Reward and punishment? A big sign?
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I've always wondered about that myself but now I can see for myself. When Chloe (our pup) came into the world she was in a box with the rest of her brothers and sisters that had newspaper in it. The breeder told us that when we take her home she is trained to go on the newspaper. At home we lined half of our kitchen with newspaper and when we felt it was time for her to go we put her down on the newspaper. The first time she missed but we pointed to the newspaper to indicate to do it over there. The next time when it was time for her to pee or potty she did it on the newspaper. When she gets it right we praise her verbally and pet her. Also everytime she get it right we take a piece of the newspaper up. She's been home with us for the past three days now and instead of laying down 7 or 8 sheets of newspaper we only put down now 3. When there is only one piece of paper left we can put it on a wee-wee pad to get her used to going there..