Indoor potty – Dog litter box Perfect training for days too cold or hot
Being a dog owner since 1979 in Canada, where we have brutal winters with snowstorms and blizzards, I always knew indoor dog potty systems would be a great idea. So this is how I’ve approached puppy training at home: indoors.
Add the fact that we live in high-rise apartment condos for most of the last few years coupled with lousy winter weather, it was more practical to train my dogs indoors. When commercial dog litter box systems hit the market spearheaded by Purina and their Second Nature line, they just made things a lot easier instead of using newspaper all the time.
When I got my third and fourth Lhasa Apso dogs, Chester and Roxie, they both started dog litter box training from day one when I first brought them home at ten weeks old. They both learned very quickly and can relieve themselves both indoors in the place I want and outdoors as other canines do.
Although unlike my first two Lhasa Apsos who lived in high-rise condos with me, Chester and Roxie began their home life in row houses. So we never had to worry about slow elevators, but we still had winters to deal with. And this is when we especially appreciate the dog litter box.
When we see other dog owners wrestling their dogs outside in a snowstorm, we feel nice and cozy inside our warm home without a care in the world. This is the same thing that happens during stormy rainy days at other times of the year. We stay inside where it’s dry as my Lhasa Apso just hates getting wet.
However, I did learn something really interesting from my readers about a training program I developed to help other owners, particularly novices, house train puppies using an indoor potty system. Many of these people were in southern US states like Texas, Florida, and Arizona.
Honestly, I wasn’t expecting readers from that far south as they generally don’t have a problem with snow in winter. But then I realized that their summers are brutally hot and, in fact, too hot for their dogs to venture outside during the day.
So in these cases, dog litter box training is also advantageous for hot summer days. Although it’s not as bad as in the south, we also enjoy the summer days when it’s best to stay inside with the air conditioning on. We have had several days here in Canada when my Lhasas and I don’t go out until the afternoon. Even the sidewalks and pavement were too hot to walk on.
This is why the indoor potty system works so well. Whether the days are too cold or too hot for both canines and humans to be outside, our four-legged friends don’t need to store things inside their bodies when they have access to a bathroom created especially for them inside our homes. .
They just go to their dedicated place when they need to, just like we humans do. For more information, as well as videos to demonstrate the use of a dog litter box, see the author bio section below.
