The day you see that the house is littered with poo or pee by the new puppy, then you will know it is time to put into action something to manage and control, not stop, this otherwise totallynormal, natural, and necessary canine behaviors.

Among the very few proven Havanese Training techniques how to resolve house soiling in a dog, housetraining really does stand out. This scheme only requires some planning, but plenty of patience, consistency and vigilance too, in order to help your dog to be more of an effective and “helping” member of the family in the long run. The training basically consists of praising your puppy and offering it a food treat when she eliminates in an appropriate toilet area. Sooner or later, your puppy learns that soiling the house results to a sudden drought in treats and bellyrubs, while eliminating at the correct spots lead to a bounty of rare treats and praises!

And now, to the topic of this article. The dog crate, which are the main characters of this article, was not manufactured with the end in mind of locking up the dogs that are basically well-behaved and incapable of mischief. Crates, in the hands of knowledgeable owners, can actually be like warm, secure homes that the dog can like. There are many articles out there that explain well how a crate plays a big role in housebreaking. But for now, lets focus on how to prevent as much as we can the pushing of a bewildered and unknowing puppy into its crate; indeed, what's to prevent this dog caught unawares to develop later on all the reason in the world to dislike the crate?

Before putting the puppy inside the crate (which, by the way, mimics the dog-den familiar to these social animals when in the wild), your first obvious goal is to train the dog to like and not fear the crate, and second, to be comfortable with confinement. Here's one way to do it. Fill the hollow spaces of the chewtoys with kibble plus the one rare treat. Allow the puppy to sniff at its potential chewtoys, then place these items in the crate and close the door with the dog still outside. In a few seconds (or even less), you can count on the dog to demand that it be allowed to get inside with the toy. In no time at all, your pup will be happily preoccupied with chewtoys inside the cage.

When leaving the puppy in long-term confinement area, attach the chewtoys full of treats to the inside wall of the crate, but keep open the crate door. With that, it is up to the puppy to make up its mind on whether he wants to check out the smaller area, or lie down inside the crate, while scheming how to have a taste of the kibble inside the toy. So this scheme works towards the housetraining ends by either giving the dog a chance to stay confined, or to just give it the option of coming or going at will. Most puppies have been observed to not waste time choosing the obvious: rest like a king within the crate, playing and poking at treat-filled chewtoys for entertainment! In that event, there's a reason to celebrate since your Havanese Training has started paying off.