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Protect Your Dogs Paws
Protect your dogs paws from harmful irritants such as salt when walking your dog in the winter. You should know that both ice and salt can be harmful to the pads on your dogs paws. Both can damage the skin leading to tears or possible infections on the pad of the paw. Also, most dogs will lick the salt off of their paws thus digesting the chemicals found in the road salt. Pet supply store. Your dog may resist wearing the booties at first but you should be persistent in order to protect their sensitive paw pads. Play it safe and train your dog to wear dog booties.
Safe confinement:
New dogs that are just starting to learn the basic of potty training should be put in a safe confinement. Safe confinement like crates or cages is recommended for this dog training. Crates or cages can give the dogs the right idea about potty discipline. The size of the crate or cages should not be large, because large sizes will encourage the dog to eliminate on any part of the crates or cage. To be more effective, don't put any newspaper, box or blankets inside the crates or cage to avoid your dog from chewing it
Proper Training:
One effective way to train them is by using a leash. Since they are coming from crates or cage, they will be playful and distracted when you let them out so it is recommended that you use a leash.
Leash is an effective tool to get back their attention to their potty training. You can use the leash to also make directions where your dogs will eliminate. But remember that you should always supervise your dog when on a leash. Using a leash will be more effective with proper use of words in dog potty training. Words like "outside" or "let's go pee" will show your dogs that the right place to eliminate is outside the house and not inside the cage or the house. Aside from the word outside or let's go pee, you can create your own "command name" that will signal to your dog that it is time for eliminating or urinating outside. Whatever the "command name" that you will use, you have to be consistent in using it in training your dog to let your dog get used to it.
