How Can I Get My Puppy To Go Outside And Poop?

Praise!!! This is the number one thing you need to do. When it looks as if the puppy is about to use your house as a toilet, you rush it out the door without uttering a cuss word. Once the puppy has done its business, and this can take up to half an hour because this is a new experience and there are all sorts of new smells and such to investigate, you praise him unconditionally and play with him.

This way, the puppy starts to associate going outside as a good thing. Once the pup has been doing this for a while, you start to discipline him for having accidents in the house with a simple sharp 'no' as you take him to his mess. Then put him outside for a while longer. Once you let him back in, his "punishment" is over, so you continue to play with him. One of the best training techniques for house training a dog is crate training.

Anytime you are not home, or can't keep a close eye on the little guy, you have to put him in his crate. This will become home to him. You will find him heading there to go to bed, when he is in trouble or scared. It seems mean to begin with, but it is really quite gentle and positive. Set him on a schedule for going out. Our dog (whom we crate trained) has very rigid schedule of going out at 7am, again at 5pm and finally at 9pm. If we are home any other time, we let him out when ever he wants, but he HAS to go outside at 7, 5, and 9.

Now, if your puppy gets sick, you cannot punish him for making a mess if say he has diarrhoea. Even small children still mess their pants on accident sometimes especially when they are ill. Start paying attention to your pup as he goes outside. He will start signaling you for when he needs to go out, and every dog is different. I had one that would bark twice and sent by the door. My current dog walks to the backdoor, sits, then walks to me and sits again when he is ready to go outside, when it is not scheduled.
Hope this helped.

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I can't wait until my 9 week puppy gets to this point. He could go potty every 20 minutes if I take him outside, which seems to be too often. I read you shouldn't leave water out, it seems cruel but I'm going to give it a try.

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