Lhasa Apso Potty Training and Treats

Excited praise and treats are the best ways to reinforce the message that your puppy is a good girl / boy for performing in the right place!

Just a 'by the way' - if you are using newspaper or pads for your pet to perform on whilst inside and you experience difficulties when encouraging your pet to perform outside... just try moving the pads or newspaper nearer and nearer to the outside door - then next you can take your pet outside and put the newspaper or pads down in various places out there. Your pet may not like the 'feel' of the different surfaces he or she experiences outside, so this is a way to get them used to the outside slowly.

Do not give your pet too many fattening shop bought treats. Try using cubes of cheese, or bits of cooked sausage or cooked/dried liver instead of bought biscuits. We need to praise and give treats when we are training, so picking something which is good for them will be useful.

If they need to have tablets either now, or later in life it is far nicer if they take them without knowing - so you can hide them in a bit of cheese or some other treat which they have grown to love.

We have had great tableting success with cheese, marmite, and also butter!