Training Your Chow Chow

These techniques have been thoroughly tested and researched by the Chow Chow Training Institute - so,
after reading this article, we absolutely guarantee that you will be well on your way to having a loving,
well-trained and perfectly obedient Chow Chow!

The techniques mentioned in this article will generally be applicable for both a puppy as well as an adult
Chow Chow. In case a particular technique is applicable only to a puppy or only to an adult Chow Chow, we have mentioned that before discussing the technique.

In this course, you will discover tips for

* Housebreaking your Chow Chow
* Training your Chow Chow & making it obedient
* Teaching the basic commands to your Chow Chow
* Taking care of the diet of your Chow Chow
* Stopping your Chow Chow from barking and biting

and a lot, lot more!

So, without wasting any more time, let's begin with today's topic - which is all about housebreaking your
Chow Chow.

If done properly, housebreaking your Chow Chow does not have to be as much of a hassle as some owners make it to be.

Your Chow Chow is a creature of habit.  If it is taught where you want it to eliminate, and you control its
food and water intake to regulate when it will eliminate, you will have a happy relationship relatively free of accidents.

The biggest mistake made by Chow Chow owners is inconsistency. It is important that you first choose
the method of housebreaking appropriate for you and your pet and secondly stick with it. We know of many
Chow Chow owners who are impatient or inconsistent when housebreaking their pets.  The end result is a pet that is never fully housebroken. 

So, remember the three P's - persistence, patience and praise, and you are guaranteed success.

Here are the 3 methods you can use to housetrain your Chow Chow:

i) The Paper Method - The paper method seems to work better with a puppy than with an adult Chow Chow,
although it can be used on both.

To begin housetraining your pup with the paper method, first you must choose a location where your puppy will
be staying until housetrained.

Make sure the room is puppy proofed and that elimination on the floor in this area will not cause
permanent damage to your home.

A bathroom or small kitchen is usually a good place for this.

Once you have chosen an area, cover the entire floor with newspaper.

If you have a young puppy, it will eliminate much more often than when it is older. So, just be prepared for
many messes in the beginning.

In the beginning, it is important to replace the paper as soon as possible after the elimination has occurred.

This helps your puppy establish the area as its own, and it will help you get a better idea of where it
favors doing its business.

As your puppy eliminates throughout the day, it may go in several different areas of the room.

But, as it gets a little more used to its room, it will choose a certain area where it prefers to eliminate.

When its preferred area for elimination is established, begin removing the paper from the rest of the room,
only covering the area it uses.

Make sure you leave its papered area large enough so that it does not miss the paper.

If it misses the paper, the area is too small and you need to add more paper.

When it uses its papered area, praise it.  The more your puppy associates a reward with its choice of the
paper instead of the linoleum, the quicker your puppy will be trained.

After it has established that it will use the papered area instead of the floor, begin moving the paper
towards the area (presumably somewhere outside your house) where you want it to go when fully trained.

The paper should only be moved a little at a time towards this location. If moving the paper confuses
your puppy, you may only be able to move about one inch per day, until the paper reaches its final destination.

Once your puppy understands that it is to eliminate only on the paper, and you have been able to move
towards the area where it will eventually go outside, monitoring its habits will be much easier.

Once the paper is completely removed, it will go to that area automatically and sniff or turn circles,
letting you know it has to go out.


Crate Training - Crate training can be used on both a puppy and an adult Chow Chow and is probably the most
effective and efficient way to housetrain your pet.

No Chow Chow will want to eliminate in a place it considers to be its own and therefore, unless left in
its crate for too long, it will not eliminate in its crate.

Once every hour, place your Chow Chow on a leash and walk it in the area where you want it to go potty.

If it has not gone in five minutes, return it to its crate for another hour.

After another hour goes by, the dog that did not go last time will most likely go this time.

When it does go, be sure and praise it profusely and return it to its crate. The excitement in your voice
when you are praising it will help it better understand that THIS is the place you want it to go.

Once that is established, it will do its best to make you happy by eliminating in its designated area.

Once you feel it understands where it is to go to potty, you may lessen its crate time, and begin opening
up its area to more than just its crate.

Be sure and open up its area a little at a time so it clearly establishes the larger area as "its area",
increasing the desire to keep its area clean.

Eventually, you will be able to open up your entire home, but this is only after a lot of time has been
spent training and proof that it understands. 


Litter Pan Method - This method will have the best chance of success with an young puppy but an older
Chow Chow may be able to litter train with success as well.

Similar to paper training, litter box training begins in a confined area such as a bathroom or kitchen.

Although you may be able to use a traditional cat litter box for this purpose, pet supply stores do sell
doggy litter boxes. They are shaped a little different and are a bit larger than the traditional kitty box.
Also available are special litters and papers that should eventually be used in the box.

Like paper training, the beginning stages have paper lining the entire floor of the room.  You continually
change any soiled paper until the puppy chooses a place on the floor it likes to eliminate.

Once the puppy has eliminated in an area about the size of a litter pan for approximately two weeks, place a
litter pan on the floor and paper inside the litter pan.

When it goes and does its business inside the litter box, make sure to praise it profusely. It has got to
establish this is the correct behavior before it will be comfortable with it.

Once it is used to the litter box with the paper, you may begin the change to doggy litter if desired.  As
time goes on, you may add additional litter until eventually the paper is gone and only litter remains.

If you choose this method, you must clean the litter box every time your Chow Chow eliminates. It will not
go in a dirty box.  Failure to consistently clean the litter box will result in your puppy reverting back to
the floor.

Follow any of the above 3 methods consistently, and you should soon have a fully house-trained Chow Chow!


Well, that's all the time that we have for today. We will send the next email to you tomorrow. It will talk
about training your Chow Chow and making it obedient.

Of course, what was covered in today's email is just a small fraction of what you need to know in order to
fully housetrain your Chow Chow.

There are dozens of other extremely important tips and techniques that you need to keep in mind before you can start housetraining your Chow Chow, and there isn't sufficient space in a single email to describe them
all.

Plus, there are numerous mistakes that many new Chow Chow owners make when they are housetraining their
pets, and there isn't enough space here to cover all these mistakes so that YOU don't accidentally make
them.

In order to learn about the important housetraining tips and techniques that have NOT been described in
this email, and to learn about the common mistakes made by new Chow Chow owners when they are housetraining their pets (so that you can avoid them), check out our Chow Chow Lovers Membership Site at:

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There is an entire book devoted to housetraining your Chow Chow in our membership site.

Once you have implemented all the techniques mentioned in this book, you can put a permanent end to the sheer sense of pain and frustration that you feel when you suddenly discover that your Chow Chow has relieved
itself in exactly those places that you didn't want it to.

You will have the peace of mind of knowing that when you return home from work, the floor of your house,
your carpets and your furniture will not be dirty or permanently ruined because your Chow Chow has gone to
the bathroom in the most inappropriate of places.

Other members of your family will no longer complain to you that your Chow Chow has not been house-trained
properly.

Plus, you will save dozens of hours of your time every week because you will no longer have to waste time
trying to figure out on your own as to how you can potty train your Chow Chow... our book will give
you detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to do so!

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In our membership site, you will also find hundreds of other highly advanced strategies and methods for
training, taking care of and maintaining your Chow Chow.

You won't be able to find these tips and techniques anywhere else on the Internet or in any book available
at your local bookstore - because these are breakthrough techniques that our researchers at the
Chow Chow Training Institute have themselves discovered through years of extremely painstaking research.

When you become a member of the Chow Chow Lovers Membership Site, you will get access to these advanced
training strategies and methods instantly, and you can start applying these techniques to your Chow Chow within the next 6 minutes.

Once you have finished implementing these techniques, your Chow Chow will quickly turn into a healthy, happy,
beautiful, obedient and well-trained pet that will make your family members think you are someone with super-
human capabilities and will literally make all the other dog owners in your locality jealous and envious
of you!