Puppies look adorable, when it comes to their cute faces, eyes and actions but training them is what the hard part of the game is. This is because puppies (here I’m talking about the newly born ones) are not even able to walk properly on their own, and are not litter trained and are not even aware of familiar faces around them increasing the probability to attack the family members and so on and so forth.

Before proceeding on with keeping a puppy in your house, make sure that the puppy is in a healthy condition to be kept, otherwise consult some good veterinary physician in case there are some problems, or at least make sure that the puppy is healthy.

Training a puppy is important and it should the minute you introduce it into your home. This takes a lot of time and patience as it requires altering the instinctive behavior into your desired behavior. This is necessary because it takes much less time to form good habits than to correct bad ones later.

Below are some tips to litter train a puppy:

• Feed your puppies at a scheduled times of the day and then observe the time (which is between 25-35 minutes) they take to digest and according to that time you can take them outside (to a specific place). This will not only prevent you from the mess they create but also will train them to litter OUTSIDE the house.

• Always reward your puppy when they do well, this will condition them to behave in the manner you desire.

• Another thing to bear in mind is how long puppies can really hold their bladder: Two months old, about three hours, four months old, about four hours, five months old – six hours and six months old – seven hours or so. So you can consult some physician for that as well.

In addition to litter training, keeping puppies to a specific place, which will also be convenient for you, is another very important issue. This is so because nobody (except few exceptions) would like to have their puppies getting into their beds, or in kitchen or outside their washrooms or even within them. So crate training is the solution to this problem, which will in turn help you to litter train your puppy as well.

To crate train your puppy, you should consider the following:

• Make sure that the size of the crate is big enough for the puppy to grow with ease, it should not crouch your puppy till the end of his adulthood.

• Give him his food there so that he can stay there

• And again reward your pet for being so disciplined and confined within the limits you have set for it.

Apart from this you can train your puppy to wear collar as it can be kind of itchy for them in the beginning, by using right size. Train it to walk up and down the stairs by climbing the stairs with it for the first few times. Make it familiar with the family members by introducing it to them, and punish it in case it tries to bite anyone by delaying the food at the scheduled time.