Is Your Dog Able to Be Potty Trained

We’ve all be there when we’ve been potty training and crate training puppies and not seeing any progress at all.  Usually when we’ve been at it for several days (or weeks for that matter), we may begin to ask ourselves if our dog is even possible to be potty trained.  This informative article will go over what you need to know to be able to determine if it is possible for you to potty train your dog.

The first thing to consider is if your dog has any learning hindrances or disabilities.  If your dog is scared of your, is blind, deaf, or has any other types of impairments then you may have some learning issues that are not within your control.  On the other hand, if your dog is completely normal and you think he is just a bit “un-intelligent”, then it is certainly possible to train your dog.

Now, in terms of intelligence, you can generally determine how smart or “dumb” your dog is by using the following tricks.  If your dog can learn a trick within one to five repetitions of the trick, then you have a generally intelligent dog.  If on the other hand, it takes your dog thirty to forty repetitions before he or she can learn a trick, then your dog will take longer to learn how to become potty trained.

Hopefully this article will have helped to shed some light on your dog’s potty training abilities.  With this information you should be able to determine how difficult it will be to be able to start housebreaking an older dog or puppy.