Crate Training /Potty Training a New Puppy

Always take your puppy out after she finishes sleeping, eating, drinking, or playing. If she hasn't done her business after 5 minutes, she goes in the crate for 10-15 minutes. Then you try another potty break. If she doesn't go, she goes back into the crate for 10-15. Keep repeating until you have success. As soon as she does go, praise her excessively. Once she has gone, she can have house playtime, but only under supervision, and after around 20 minutes, she needs to try to potty again. After some time, you will start to learn her habits and how long she can go between potty breaks. Your goal, though, is to NEVER let her have an accident in the house. Dogs are creatures of habit. If it becomes a habit to go in the house, that is hard to break. Yes, she will spend a lot of time in her crate in the beginning, but that is ok, because pups sleep most of the day.

Young puppies can NOT make it through the night without a potty break. It is cruel (and can cause bladder infections) if you make them try. Get up at the same time every night to let her out until her bladder is more mature and can hold it better. 2:00 am will probably work. Do NOT wait for her to wake you up to go. If you do, she will get in the habit of crying for you to come and get her (like babies crying to get out of their crib).

Feed her on a schedule (don't just leave a bowl of food out at all times), and no food or water after 8 or 9 at night (depending on how late you are up).

As far as her crate goes, it should only be big enough for her to stand up, turn around, and lay down in. Extra room means room to potty in. Do not put any bedding into the crate. You can leave a safe toy in her crate such as a nylabone or a kong, but nothing that she can bite pieces off of.

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be sure the crate is only big enough for her to turn around in, otherwise, she'll potty on one side, then go lay in the clean part. the point is so they won't potty where they have to sit or lay. this teaches them to hold it until you take them out for potty time. always take her out to potty immediately after you let her out of the crate. eventually, she can start spending less and less time in it, but keep it around with her blankies and toys even after she's fully trained so she has a place all her own for "refuge".
you don't want her pottying in the house at all, or it will be hard to train her. put the crate as close to the door as possible so you can let her out quick. little dogs sometimes have accidents on the way from the crate to the yard.
while she is still a baby, you might have to take her out in the middle of the night.

Check out some book from
the monks of new skeet" they have how to be your dogs best friend and I believe the have a puppy book now. great great books.