I vividly remember standing in the middle of my puppy pen crying, big…ugly…crying, because not even 30 minutes after cleaning up morning poopmagedon the puppies and their pen were dirty again.

 You know the early morning rolling up of soiled newspaper, the scrubbing of the floor, the wiping off of poopy and funky smelling puppies, the collection, pretreating, and laundering of bedding, and resetting of the puppy pen into pristine cleanliness.  Yet minutes later I was faced again with a poop smeared pen.   Like some type of a poop grabbing ninja I deftly moved round the puppy pen after puppy breakfast, trying to pick up poop and soiled newspaper before the puppies got dirty.   As I would bend over to grab poopy paper, the puppies would all rush over to see what I was doing, often stepping in poop and smearing it on my hands and arms.   The futility and frustration was the cause of my sobs, big ugly frustrated poopy-armed breeder tears.     I knew there had to be a better way but I had NO idea what that way was.    I knew I wanted a clean and tidy puppy pen, but I didn’t know how to make that happen, yet.  I would like to say that, like a lightning bolt, the solution came to me, but in truth I tried many different things, talked to many different breeders about their struggles and successes with litter box training, devised a plan, used it, changed it, making continual improvements based on my experiences and observations over several years.  

 I finally hit upon a system of litter box and  cleanliness training that created clean habits that persisted into the new home, that worked not just for me and my puppies but for all sizes and types of dogs.  A plan that allows puppies to teach themselves to prefer to be clean, that reduces caregiver clean up time, reduces opportunities for pathogen spread,is easily adaptable to different set ups, and produces puppies that are easier to house train and cleaner in the new home.    Making a much happier breeder and delighted new owners.  

Let me teach you my system, and put away the frustration, poop encrusted puppies, and hours of house training after care.   After all, breeders making breeders better breeders is what our community should be about!