It’s essential for Dachshund parents like you to know certain basic factors that determine your relationship with your Dachshund and can go a long way in in learning how to train a Dachshund with love effectively.

Before you begin training your Dachshund, it is absolutely essential that you build a loving bond with him. This is important as it helps you to understand his needs and instincts and also allows your Dachshund to have complete trust in you.

How To Train A Dachshund With Love – Bond With Your Dachshund

Building a bond with your Dachshund is the first and the most crucial step involved in training him successfully. As soon as you bring your Dachshund home, you must first try to develop a caring and loving relationship with him in order to win his trust and confidence.

When Dachshunds are secure in the knowledge that they belong to the family, they are more likely to respond better to their owners’ training commands. Just like with any relationship, there must be mutual trust, love, and respect between you and your Dachshund.

Trust takes time to develop and respect comes from defining boundaries and treating any breach of those boundaries with firmness and fairness.

Without enforceable limitations, respect can’t be developed. And when there is no respect, building a bond with your Dachshund is almost impossible.

4 Golden Rules To Building A Relationship With Your Dachshund :

Love Your Dachshund and He Will Love You back

Once you’re succesful in building a bond with your Dachshund, you can rest assured that training him and teaching him new and clever tricks will be a cakewalk.

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How Your Dachshund Learns…

Your Dachshund’s learning period can be divided into five phases:

The Teaching Phase – This is the phase where you must physically demonstrate to your Dachshund exactly what you want him to do.

The Practicing Phase – Practice makes Perfect. Once a lesson is learnt, practice with your Dachshund what you have just taught him.

The Generalizing Phase – Here you must continue practicing with your Dachshund in different locations and in an environment with a few distractions. You can take your Dachshund out for a walk, or to a nearby park and command him to practice whatever you’ve taught him.

Practicing the learned lessons in multiple locations and in the presence of small distractions will help him learn and retain lessons better .

The Testing Phase – Once you’re sure that your Dachshund has achieved almost 90% success….he responds correctly almost every time you give a command, you must start testing his accuracy in newer locations with a lot of distractions.

Example: Take him to the local shopping mall and ask him to obey your command. He may not come up with the correct response the very first time you do this, but you must not lose hope.

The idea is to test your Dachshund to see how he responds in an environment which is new to him. Set-up a situation where you are in control of the environment and your Dachshund.

There are only 2 possibilities:

Keep on testing until he succeeds. Follow the rule of the 3 Ps – patience, persistence, praise.

Internalizing Phase – Finally, comes the extremely rewarding phase where your Dachshund does everything he is taught to do even without your commands.

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Potty Training A Dachshund

Is Your Dachshund Potty Trained Enough?

Potty training a Dachshund is such an essential issue for its owner that even a single exclusive tip turns out to be extremely helpful.

The first step in making your Dachshund fit for polite company would be to potty train him. Some see this training as a hassle and some as a challenge.

For me, it is part of bringing up a pet.

There are a few things you need to know before you actually start potty training a puppy or adult Dachshund.

• You need to understand your dog’s body language. Watch for signs that will indicate to you when your pet wants to eliminate. Sometimes a Dachshunds signs and signals are very subtle – Luke just looks at the door!

• If you own puppies, remember that they need to go potty at fairly frequent intervals – as soon as they wake up, after short naps, after play-time, after meals, before and after being crated and finally, before retiring for the night. Anytime they stop doing something it is time to go.

• Take your Dachshund for walks at the time that he usually does his potty. Take him out to the yard and then to the same place there every time he needs to answer nature’s call.

• Praise your Dachshund after he eliminates at the right place. Some Dachshund owners even give treats to their dogs. But remember to do this every time he does it right. He will relate the rewards to his having “done it right” and zero in on the spot where you want him to defecate regularly. Make sure all family members follow the same rule.

• With time, you can try signal training. This is so that you know when your Dachshund wants to go. You can hang a bell at his level near the door and teach him to push it with his nose or pat it with his paw on his way out. Many Dachshunds soon learn this method however it does take a little time and patience.

• Until your Dachshund has been fully potty trained keep him under strict vigilance. Do not let him roam around the house freely.

• Use a crate. A crate-trained Dachshund is usually very happy to get his own den. The advantage of crating is that dogs do not soil the place where they sleep. So, he will naturally not eliminate inside the crate.

• If you have a small dog and if you live in a high-rise building or in a place that does not have a proper backyard, you can try litter pan training. What you do is create a space for your pet to eliminate in your house itself.

• Use positive reinforcements. Do not scold or hit him as you will gain nothing by doing that. He will only associate punishment with your return from outside. If you catch him in the act, a stern ‘NO’ or ‘FREEZE’ will do. It will startle the Dachshund enough for him to stop pooping. Dachshunds do not respond well to shouting and hitting will create a nervous cowering dog.

• Be prepared to return to a soiled home if you are keeping your Dachshund home alone for more than 4 hours as separation anxiety is quite common among home – alone dogs.

• Accidents will happen. It is unusual for a trained adult Dachshund to work against its potty training. But medical problems or health disorders may lead to sudden accidents. If your older Dachshund suddenly starts to have accidents in the house please take them to the vet so that you can be sure this is not a medical issue.

• Many dogs mark their territory. These can be a leg of a table or a particular wall. Intact male and female dogs mark their territories by urinating. Use deodorizers to spray on the places where your Dachshund has marked.

Now we will move on to how to potty train puppies and adult dogs.

Potty Training A Puppy:

Irrespective of breeds, potty training a puppy is considered to be one of the biggest challenges by dog owners. If you think potty training your Dachshund puppy simply involves a steady supply of old newspapers, then think again.

A Dachshund puppy does not develop full control over his bladder until it is over 4 or 5 months old. Since they are growing and developing rapidly at this time, puppies eat more, burn more calories and need to eliminate more frequently than an adult Dachshund.

After each nap, meal, drink or play, take your puppy to his designated area (indoors or outdoors, wherever you have decided) and stay there until it eliminates. Then bring him to his crate.

Repeat this situation everyday until he has developed a habit out of it.

Potty Training An Adult Dachshund:

The best way to potty train an adult Dachshund is to begin all over again.

Observe him very closely. Maybe even maintain a diary of where he goes and when. Whether he is pooping when you are home or only when you are outside; whether you can time yourself to be home when he feels the need to go outside.

You can try dog crates, but be careful to introduce him gradually to them.

Remember, commitment, consistency and intelligent use of positive reinforcement will make you the owner of a perfectly potty trained Dachshund. Don’t expect miracles. You will only be disappointed.

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