How to Potty Train an English Cocker Spaniel Indoors
If you live in an apartment or do not have a yard, you may need to train your English cocker spaniel puppy to use a puppy pad indoors. Puppy pads are laid onto a floor and have a special scent in them that makes the puppy want to use them.
- Begin potty training your puppy as soon as you bring it home. Purchase a small pet crate, and keep the puppy in it while you are sleeping or anytime you are not home to watch it. Place blankets and towels inside the crate to make the puppy comfortable.
- Purchase puppy potty training pads from your local pet supply store. Place the pad on the floor in an area of your home where it will not be in the way. Take the puppy to the pad as soon as you let it out of the crate. Leave the puppy on the pad until it has finished using it. If it tries to run away, bring it back to the pad.
- Keep track of how often the cocker spaniel puppy eats, and take it to its pad within a half hour after it eats or drinks water.
- If you catch the puppy trying to use the bathroom elsewhere, take it over to the pad. You may need to do this several times before a puppy understands where it should use the potty.
- Avoid moving the puppy pad to another area of the home. The puppy will get used to the area where its potties, not necessarily the pad. If you move the pad, the English cocker spaniel puppy may continue to use the bathroom where the pad was placed originally.