Is it true that the smaller the dog, the more difficult it is to successfully house-train them?

It's all about how they're trained. I have a small/medium dog who I housetrained from puppyhood. It's important to remember that dogs don't think like people.

If a dog pees on the floor, and you yell and scream at him/her (I'm not saying YOU do, but it's a common reaction), he's not going to see it your way as "The floor is not a toilet". He will think "Oh, I shouldn't pee where my owner can SEE me", because the association is "pee" to "Upset owner". The easiest route to fix it is "don't pee", but that's biologically impossible, so it becomes "hide the pee".

The whole inside/outside thing is not part of their makeup. Yo have to catch them in the act. Say "NO!" calmly, and assertively.

This will break the dog's train of thought, and thus the peeing process. Then, pick the dog up and move them to where you WANT them to pee (outside, on the newspaper, wherever). A few sessions of this and the dog will understand that there is a specific place to pee.

The big dog/small dog think doesn't matter. As for peeing when excited, that varies from dog to dog, and could be a medical problem.It's not just small dogs. I know a yellow lab that could put out fires whenever a friendly human came to visit.

I'm no biologist or vet, and all my dogs are medium and large, but I do watch a lot of dog whisperer (a lot alot) and one thing that seems to come up a lot is many people raise small dogs differently. They are so damn cute, it makes perfect sense they would be more excitable/nervous as it is a reflection of the behavior they bring out in people. I would guess this has more to do with it than some physical characteristic of small dogs bladder or other bits.

I can only speak from personal experience, but I have a very small dog (4lbs) who was relatively easy to train. It did not take much effort on our part at all to train her, other than taking her outside several times a day. She will be 4 this year.

She is a nervous/easily-excitable dog, but she doesn't pee due to that. I think some people fail to realize that smaller dogs have smaller bladders, and thus, need to be taken out more often. Plus, they might not take training a small dog as seriously as they would a larger dog, for various reasons.So to sum it up, I think it has more to do with individual breed and the behavior of the owner than the overall size of the dog.

Here is a picture of her (for no reason at all, really):

It's all about how they're trained. I have a small/medium dog who I housetrained from puppyhood. It's important to remember that dogs don't think like people.

If a dog pees on the floor, and you yell and scream at him/her (I'm not saying YOU do, but it's a common reaction), he's not going to see it your way as "The floor is not a toilet". He will think "Oh, I shouldn't pee where my owner can SEE me", because the association is "pee" to "Upset owner". The easiest route to fix it is "don't pee", but that's biologically impossible, so it becomes "hide the pee".

The whole inside/outside thing is not part of their makeup. Yo have to catch them in the act. Say "NO!

" calmly, and assertively. This will break the dog's train of thought, and thus the peeing process. Then, pick the dog up and move them to where you WANT them to pee (outside, on the newspaper, wherever).

A few sessions of this and the dog will understand that there is a specific place to pee. The big dog/small dog think doesn't matter. As for peeing when excited, that varies from dog to dog, and could be a medical problem.

It's not just small dogs. I know a yellow lab that could put out fires whenever a friendly human came to visit.

Yes and no. What really matters is how the dog was raised from an early age. Dogs kept in areas where there is enough space for them to go to the bathroom away from where they eat and sleep are easier to housebreak.

Dogs kept in an area (such as a pet store display) for several weeks, learn to go to the bathroom near where they sleep and are tougher to housebreak. So, in a way, smaller dogs can seem easier to housebreak because they are kept in "larger" areas.

Not necessarily. There are plenty of large breeds that may have difficulty housetraining. The peeing when excited is a form of submission -- not at all related to housebreaking.

There are many smaller breeds that do not have these excitability/ bladder control issues. Some of it is due to training (reducing excitability by remaining call, etc), but some is simply due to temperament issues. This can be addressed by buying a smaller dog from a reputable breeder who breeds for good temperaments.

You can find out more about a small breed's temperament by going to the AKC website and looking up the breed standard.

I can only speak from personal experience, but I have a very small dog (4lbs) who was relatively easy to train. It did not take much effort on our part at all to train her, other than taking her outside several times a day. She will be 4 this year.

She is a nervous/easily-excitable dog, but she doesn't pee due to that. I think some people fail to realize that smaller dogs have smaller bladders, and thus, need to be taken out more often. Plus, they might not take training a small dog as seriously as they would a larger dog, for various reasons.

So to sum it up, I think it has more to do with individual breed and the behavior of the owner than the overall size of the dog. Here is a picture of her (for no reason at all, really):

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