Housebreaking A Golden Retriever – How To Handle Your Golden Retriever!

Housebreaking A Golden Retriever – How To Handle Your Golden Retriever!

While training your Golden Retriever to house break, you must ensure that it follows crate routines and does not spend extra time outside its crate. When your dog is not inside the crate, you must keep a watch on him throughout the time. If your dog is outside his crate, and you do not keep a watch on him, an accident can occur for which you cannot blame anyone but yourself alone as you didn’t correct him when it happened.

You must always praise your dog when he relieves himself at the correct location as this will help him learn which locations are right and wrong. The best way would be crating him at night and taking him out in the morning when he wakes up and showing him what are the correct spots. Give him a while and then praise your dog when he starts to go. Avoid accidents and you will be able to easily train your Golden retriever without too many problems. If accidents start happening, it can get very difficult to change the habit and break the pattern.

You should not give any freedom to your dog when you are house breaking him. He would probably want to do something else and getting it right will be a big job for him. If you tolerate and allow bad habits you will find it harder to break them later on and it is best to be stern and firm on your dog. If you start when your retriever is a puppy itself, then very soon he will learn and become a good family member of yours.

Confinement must be used sufficiently while house breaking. This means that your golden retriever must not be allowed to move freely around the house until he house breaks. You must be careful and ensure you know exactly where he is and what he is doing all the time he is not in his crate.

Chances are he can relieve himself on your floor if you are not there watching him every single second. If he starts going on the floor, then this will become a habit and will become very difficult to change this. This is because the smell will remain and next time he is there he will smell the scent and relieve himself again. Every time he smells it, he will have a tendency to relieve himself there. The only way to avoid this is to keep a watch on him all the time and make sure that he relieves himself only in he space you have specified for him.

While training your golden retriever to housebreak, you must ensure that there is a way out for him. Usually a doggy door is provided for the puppy to go out and relieve himself without disturbing you. You can also use a litter box or a puppy pad inside your house so that he can relieve himself when he can’t go outside.

Though house breaking your dog can take a long time, it is well worth the patience once your retriever is properly trained. He will not relieve himself wherever he pleases and will become an essential part of your family. He will only relieve in an outside area or wherever you have trained him. By nature, golden retrievers seek human interaction and if you intend on keeping them indoors it is best you make sure that you have been trained properly to house break.