Google "housetraining your puppy" and look at these unbelievable ads: Potty Train Your Puppy in 5 days! House Break Your Puppy Or Dog in 7 days! Measure This! Here's a measurement for you - experts say a puppy or dog is housetrained if and only if he does not mess in the house for at least 2 months.
The claim is that you housetrain for 5 - 7 days and then you won't experience clean up activity for the next 2 months.
Doesn't this sound like an outrageous lie about housetraining your puppy? A Fact You Cannot Dispute Physically, a young puppy's muscular system for elimination is not mature until he's sixteen weeks old.
He may be okay at night when his body is relaxed, but housetraining your puppy is physically impossible until he's ready.
Buyer Beware Do not fall for false claims - as always, find independent product reviews or make sure you can get the product on a trial basis.
Then return it if you're not 100% satisfied.
And ignore products without a guarantee.
More Housetraining Lies A few more misstatements to look for: Crate Training Is Cruel Not if it's used correctly.
A Puppy House Training Schedule Is Worthless Housetraining won't work without one.
You Do Not Need To Understand Dog Behavior If you don't, housetraining is a series of setbacks.
and my favorite all-time lie about housetraining your puppy...
Housetraining Is Easy This statement is usually followed by a qualifier; for example, housetraining is easy if you have infinite patience.