Litter Training
	Litter training your new puppy is eash to achieve, if you have the correct equipment for the task.  Required items are a doggie exercise pen, or baby gate for confinement, a doggie litter box (Purina makes several sizes), Litter either Paper Pellets, or Wood Pellets (DO NOT use Kitty Clumping Litter, it will stick to their paws), Food and Water dishes, Puppy Bed, Toys and Chewies.       Litter Training can be used as the exclusive method for your puppy to go potty, or as an aid in outside potty training.     Assemble your exercise pen, on  smooth flooring (NOT Carpeting) with everything inside ready before you bring your puppy home.   Anytime you are not strictly supervising your puppy they shoud be in thier pen.   If the puppy "goes" not in the litter box, put the poop in the box, "only one is necessary", and keep the floor kept clean if there are any other accidents.  Your pet store sells an a "scented spray" that will aid you in getting the puppy to  urinate, spray litter in the box.   Most puppies will be exclusively use the liter box whe in their pen within 3 day's.  The exercise pen has a swing door, if you let the puppy loose open the door to allow the puppy to exit the pen through the door, and allow access to their potty.  If the puppy starts to display a "potty position" without returning to the pen, put the puppy in the pen and close the door.  If you ultimately want your puppy to go "outside" to go potty, this method is the same as "crate training" but more humane.  Take the puppy outside every few hours during the day, and first thing in the morning, otherwise if you are not watching the puppy, they should be putin their pen.   Small dogs can't wait as long as larger dogs to go potty, and if locked in a crate for to long will eventually "go" in the crate, this is the worst thing that could happen as the puppy is learning it is OK to sleep where they poop.  If using the exercise pen and litter box, the puppy has all of its needs in the pen, potty, bed, food, water, toys etc.   By the age of 6 months or sooner, you will notice that the puppy has not went in the box through the night, and is waiting to go outside to go potty, they would rather be farther away from their own waste, if given a choice.  We have trained lots of puppies in this fashion, and could not recommend it enough.  It is extremely helpfull to "working parents" as you are able to leave your puppy while you go to work and not have to worry about the puppy chewing something up or going potty all over the place.  Litter training is a safe humane method to "Potty Train" your new puppy.