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Potty Training a Corgi In a City

August 2, 2010 By Peyton Leave a Comment

Problems Of Potty Training A Corgi In A City

Like most downtown areas, the apartments are several stories high, houses have little no backyard, and little grassy areas for you to take your Corgi out for potty training him. This will leave very few options for training your Corgi, and some can be more trouble than others.  Yet it has to be done unless the carpet is his or her bathroom.

Potty Training A Corgi With Fake Grass

The first option for potty training your Corgi is to try finding a special pad which is made to look like real grass that your dog maybe go to the bathroom on or another type of pad for the same use. This is the easiest to manage because all you have to do is clean it regularly and place it back where your Corgi is being trained to go to the bathroom. It is best to place this either out on a porch which is safe so your Corgi doesn’t risk hurting himself or in a room with little use or separate part of the house used for your dog’s bathroom.

Potty Training A Corgi Using Near By Grassy Areas

Another option is to find a grassy area nearby and walk your Corgi out to the spot and let him go to the bathroom. This one is harder to manage, and is only good for first floor people, but you don’t have to smell it in your house. You will need a leash, bags to pick up after your dog, and being able to be there for your Corgi when he needs to go. For people who work from 7 to 5, etc, this is not a good solution for your dog because he will have to wait long amounts of time for you to take him out to the bathroom, leaving a high chance he will use your floor instead at least once.

How To Tell When A Corgi Needs To Go To The Bathroom

If you are having trouble figuring out whenever or not your Corgi needs to go out and he can’t just walk out to go to the bathroom, there are a few behaviors and times that he will most likely need to go.

-Right after eating

-Your Corgi stands and waits by the door for which he is use to going out for the bathroom

-After not going in the past 2 to 3 hours while awake
-If he wakes you up during sleeping and runs to the door which he goes out of for the bathroom

For people who are looking on the steps for potty training your Corgi, click here.

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Welsh Corgi Dog Potty Training

March 13, 2008 By Peyton 2 Comments

Corgi dog potty training is important to having a better behaved dog and requires your corgi to know two things:

(1) where to go, and

(2) the command words to know when to go.

There is another thing you need to learn too – how to tell when your corgi needs to go, and also a good spot for your corgi to go.

After your Welsh corgi has been sleeping for a couple hours, or you have just came back from shopping or a trip, or he just ate, is a time to take your corgi out to the spot he should relieve himself. This is the best time for corgi dog potty training to happen.

What happens if there is an accident? If your corgi ends up going on the floor it depends on what happened before he or she went. If your corgi just ate and you don’t take him outside to go, and he or she goes on the floor, it is partly your fault for not taking your corgi out to go when your corgi needed to go. But if your corgi ended it up getting excited and decided to go on the floor, that is the time to punish your corgi.

When you need to punish your dog, you raise your voice and say “NO!” Make sure you say it right after your corgi has done something wrong and should be scolded.

On the other hand, if your corgi goes in the right place, you praise him for doing so.

Training your corgi to go in the right spot for a command goes like this, you tell your corgi a couple words like “go potty”, or “go bathroom”, and take him to that spot.

If your corgi goes, you praise and keep repeating those steps until he learns to obey after hearing your command.

Some people claim that corgi dog potty training will not work with older dogs. That’s simply not true. We’ve successfully trained corgis who were several years old how to become great indoor dogs who would only go to the bathroom outside.

With a little time and patience, you’ll be amazed at the results. Both you and your Welsh corgi will be happy.

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