Housetraining Your Puppy

If you've just become the owner of a brand new pup, the first item on your agenda is, no doubt, house training.  Pups need to eliminate as many as as six times a day, and the sooner you begin the house training process, the less damage your carpets and furnishings will suffer!  Take heart, though. House training a puppy is easier than house training an adult dog. Prepare to invest some amount of time and effort into house training your puppy.  If you can't spare time for house training, you should seriously reconsider your decision to get a dog.  House  training will require conditioning techniques, and will call for some effort on your part. If your pup grows into adulthood without being trained, you're relegating him to a life chained in your backyard, which is unfair to the dog.
The best training tool to begin the house training process is a crate.  Get your dog a small wire mesh crate that is the perfect size for your little pet.  Make sure that the crate is big enough to accommodate increases in size over the next few weeks, and small enough that he doesn't find a small corner of the crate to relieve himself in.