About Xpen training and training your dog to do his business on command.
Why do this?
When you know that your dog is comfortable in this regard
(has gone pee and has pooped) you can safely and with good conscience, confine
or train him. All dogs can learn to do their business on command. This is how
to best housebreak a dog.
When to do this
Over a weekend or holiday or other time off when you won’t
be interrupted or have strangers around and all of your personal chores are
done.
How to do this
With determination, time and proper set up.
An Exercise Kennel
is an area of your yard or outdoor space which is reserved for your dog to do
its business in. It should be sized according to the dog, giving sufficient
room for free tail passage and turning about. It should not be larger than
needed. Too much room is not good. It is not for play, it is for business and
only business.
If you live in an apartment:
You must take your dog out of your unit, down the hall to
the stairs or elevator etc and then out.
Choose a convenient spot just outside where you live. Pick where YOU
want him to go and you are allowed, where the disposal bins are close, the
ground is safe from debris and it is lit at night. Select an area suitable to the size of your
dog. You will keep your dog on leash until fully trained for a recall so just
go to that spot, do not go on walks until your dog will do its business when
you ask it to where you ask it to. IF YOUR DOG IS ACCUSTOMED TO GOING ON A WALK
TO DO HIS BUSINESS AND YOU WANT TO TEACH HIM TO DO BUSINESS IN THE BUSINESS
CENTRE, THE FIRST TIME YOU TRY IT, HE MIGHT JUST LOOK AT YOU AND DO NOTHING.
Wait as long as you want to and if nothing happens go back indoors to the crate
put the dog away and wait half an hour and try again. Keep it up until you get
results. Keep the dog on leash at the business spot; the leash is the X pen if
you live in an apartment where you must walk off the property with your dog. It
would be nice if apartments and hotels had practical, cleanable business areas
for dog tenants and guests. In Nana’s perfect world.
You will need three or four full days in a row to devote to
this training, with nothing else on the schedule. Anything else will delay
progress. Keep determined.
If you live in a home with a yard, lucky you and lucky dog!
You need outdoor exercise pens one or two eight panels, no
gate or door in them. The Exercise Pen should be set over the area which will
be your outdoor dog business yard.
Near house exit door
for night and day emergency runs.
Near out door water
if possible.
Not on grass; it gets
sour stinky buggy messy and dirty
On cement blocks, on
gravel base for drainage, pavers with drainage, large gravel (can’t be
swallowed easily by pups.
Do not put plastic
under the blocks ; it impairs drainage. The dog urine will kill any grass
trying to grow between the blocks, no need for plastic or material. Drainage is
most important.
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| DRAINAGE IS IMPORTANT |
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| ON GRAVEL |
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| PAVER BRICKS |
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| ONCE THE DRILL IS UNDERSTOOD COMPLETE, NO NEED TO CONFINE WITH X PEN IF HE GOES WHEN AND WHERE YOU SAY SO |
Keep the pen clean at all times. Have at hand:
Poop shovels, stable broom if on bricks or pavers, disinfectant,
detergent, bag lined covered buckets, bag lined pick up buckets, spare bags,
poop pick up bags, antibacterial wipes, garden hose and water.
Until you get all that, (costly) just exercise pens (called
play yards sometimes) on the grass or gravel will do but keep the grass weed
whipped short and washed, and gravel size is an issue for young dogs who eat
stones. Always stay outside when your dog is. Do not leave your dog unattended
outside ever. are Untrained dogs are not
supposed to be making decisions on their own and dogs left outside on their
own, are doing exactly that. The dogs are totally smarter than their owners and
are in control. And there you have it
