Housebreaking

This article is about animal training. For comparable training of small children, see toilet training. For the crime of housebreaking, see burglary.
"House training" redirects here. For the episode of TV series House, see House (season 3).
A dog trained to urinate outdoors rather than in its human owners' house

Housebreaking (American English) or house-training (British English) is the process of training a domesticated animal that lives with its human owners in a house or other residence to excrete (urinate and defecate) outdoors, or in a designated indoor area (such as an absorbent pad or a litter box), rather than to follow its instinctive behaviour randomly inside the house.

Around 840 million cats and dogs alone are owned as pets around the globe;[1] and in the United States, seventy percent of households own a pet.[2] The process requires patience and consistence from the human. Accidents are a part of the process, and if the pet's owner reacts negatively, it could be discouraged, and the success of the training might be delayed.

  1. ^ "Dog and cat pet population worldwide 2018". Statista. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
  2. ^ "Pet Industry Market Size & Ownership Statistics". American Pet Products Association. Retrieved 2020-11-11.