Rewarding My Dog for Pottying!
Posted on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 2:14 pmGetting a new puppy is a wonderful experience. My wife and I did this just a couple of months ago and upon bringing Sadie home we realized that we were going to have some work cut out for us in training her. We quickly learned that puppies have very little control of their bladders and so Sadie began to relieve herself all over our living room floor. We couldn’t clean up the mess fast enough before she had done it somewhere else. She even managed to find a good place to potty on my closed laptop. The first time we managed to get Sadie too potty outside it was such a feeling of accomplishment. As she learned to control her bladder and potty in the correct place (outside) we began to develop rewards for her. She started off with getting dog treats but before to long my wife decided Sadie needed a larger reward. She went to the dog store searched and found the perfect item for our Sadie, small dog clothes, and she loves them!