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HOUSEBREAKING

Housebreaking is an area that will take consistency and much patience. If your Porcelaine puppy has not been trained prior to your ownership, it is important to begin immediately. A puppy needs to relieve itself approximately six times per day. Since a full stomach puts pressure on the bladder and colon, begin training your dog to eliminate after each meal.

One method of training your Porcelaine puppy is by using its kennel crate. At night, place the puppy in it crate; most young pups will wake up barking or whining early the next morning, indicating a need to relieve itself. Take the puppy outside to the area where you want it to eliminate. If successful, provide the puppy with plenty of praise; and then allow it to play inside while preparing its breakfast. Carefully supervise the puppy when indoors; do not allow it to run in the house until fully trained. After playtime, take the puppy outside again, and repeat the elimination process; then put the puppy back into it crate. Wait one hour and repeat the process. By the end of the day, the puppy will realize that when taken out of the crate, it should eliminate. However, if the puppy is not successful after 10-15 minutes, bring it back inside and place it in the crate. After 30 minutes try again. This sequence can be repeated until the puppy is fully housebroken.

If your Porcelaine puppy will be an indoor pet, you may prefer to use newspaper in the training process rather than the crate method. In this case, newspaper should be layered and placed in a corner away from it feeding and watering dishes. Take the puppy to the newspaper after meals; and be sure to encourage and praise it when it does its "business." Change the newspaper sheets each time, putting the bottom sheets on the top with new ones underneath. This helps reinforce the purpose of the newspaper by sight and smell, and will increase the possibility of it using that same area again.

It is important to remain consistent when house-training your Porcelaine. Since your dog wants to please you, do not confuse it by letting it do something one day and then punishing it for doing the same thing on another day. Remember, no form of physical punishment is as effective as praise and encouragement.

REFERENCES

De Prisco, Andrew and James B. Johnson. Canine Lexicon. TFH Publications, Inc.: 1993.

Hart, Ernest H. Encyclopedia of Dog Breeds. TFH Publications, Inc.: 1975.

Walkowicz, Chris and Bonnie Wilcox, DVM. Atlas of Dog Breeds of the World. TFH Publications, Inc.: 1991