This is the puppy training podcast episode 196, potty training your puppy to your entire home.

This podcast is designed to help you on your journey of becoming best friends through love and learning as you train your own dog from home.

And I'm here to help you every step of the way.

This is the puppy training podcast, and I'm your host, Amy Jensen.

Hello, you guys.

Thanks for listening to the puppy training podcast.

Today we are talking about potty training, house training, whatever you want to call it.

But I'm going to take you through the process of it

and look at the entire picture because it's one thing to train our puppy to not potty in their

crate or their exercise pen and another to trust them in our entire home. So let's dive into it.

When we talk about house training or potty

training a puppy, we are talking about spaces, helping the puppy identify this room as my space,

whereas this other room over here might not yet be your puppy's space or what they consider

their space. So they don't really think in terms of inside outside

necessarily like we would want them to, but we definitely train them. Okay, outside is where I want

you to go. Inside is where I don't want you to go, but we start with spaces. So to effectively potty

train a puppy, it's a really important step. In number one, just fostering a good relationship

between you and your dog. We find that more puppies stay in loving homes when the potty training

goes well. If the house training is difficult or they're struggling or there's lots of accidents

and we're not making progress with house training, We find that's when more often than not,

the puppies and the people are not getting along and maybe they don't live so well together,

which is not what we want. The whole idea of getting a dog is that we want to be able to live

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