The topic of house breaking would take many pages to discuss thoughtfully. I have taken some pointers from my book here.

Two word answer - CRATE TRAINING! Using a crate is the quickest, safest, least-stressful way to train your puppy. This includes potty-training and teaching your puppy not to eat the kids toys, the furniture and everything else in his vicinity. I have in-depth information about this on my Training page, so I will not go into detail here.

Most BMCs are very clean animals that don't like to soil their space. Crate training a puppy or dog is highly recommended for those times when you cannot directly supervise the dog. Later the puppy will be old enough to be trusted alone in the house. Except at night when he should go to sleep, do not use to crate for longer than three to four hours in the day. Nor should you use it as punishment as the puppy will view the crate as discipline and hate going into it.

This is a tough one. Every puppy responds differently to different training styles. It all depends on how you want to train your puppy and where you want them to use the bathroom. Some people don't want to take their dogs outside to use the bathroom. Paper training and litter box training are two options for this group. Paper training involves training the puppy to go on newspaper or piddle pads (aka weewee pads or puppy pads).

Unfortunately, you can't train your dog to leave the trash alone. Dogs instinctively like the smell and interesting taste of trash. Put the trash in a cabinet under the sink or get a trash can that has one of those firm lids. I have found that it's best to just put the cans in cupboards under the sinks. It works very well. The other thing you can do is to confine your dog so she won't get into things when you are gone.

First, whether you are housetraining a puppy or an adult dog, the approach is the same. Management! Manage the behavior to prevent mistakes from happening while you teach appropriate potty habits. Young puppies do not yet have the physical ability to control her need to eliminate for long periods of time, however, if raised in clean environments her instincts will be high to keep her area clean.

No. I train you to train your dog, and step in only if needed. This is important because you have to know what you are doing, since you are the one who is going to live with the dog and maintain the training. Besides, your dog will listen better to you than to me, and that is what we want, since training builds an incredibly strong bond between the dog and trainer.

There are no quick and easy answers for developing a therapy dog. Personality and demeanor are significant factors in the dog becoming a useful visiting therapy dog, and many dogs just do not have adequate interest in the job to be successful or useful.

Yes. When you stimulate a muscle with a Compex program, there is no limit on the amount of muscular work you can do, because there is no psychological or cardiovascular fatigue. The precision achievable using stimulation means that you can work your muscles in a much more localized and effective way than is possible using traditional voluntary exercise.

Apache is run on over 6 million Internet servers (as of February 2000). It has been tested thoroughly by both developers and users. The Apache Group maintains rigorous standards before releasing new versions of their server, and our server runs without a hitch on over one half of all WWW servers available on the Internet. When bugs do show up, we release patches and new versions as soon as they are available.

Can a 3 month old puppy sleep outside in a doghouse in winter? My mom won't let him inside because he messes there and it smells.