In this video I break down how I get to a potty-free home with puppies using three simple things: supervision, frequent potty breaks, and confinement. For me, supervision means I literally have my eyeballs on that puppy at all times—because I don’t want accidents to become a habit. If I’m finding accidents after the fact, that tells me I wasn’t supervising, and my puppy is learning, “When I need to go, I just go.” My whole goal is to set my Cavalier up to be successful from the start. When I can’t keep eyes on my puppy, I lean on confinement as a management tool—like an X-pen, a crate, or even leashing the puppy to me. The confinement area needs to be sized right: big enough to stand up, turn around, and lay down, but not so big they can potty in one corner and sleep in another. Then we add frequent potty breaks, and I mean truly frequent when they’re awake and active—sometimes every 15 to 30 minutes. I don’t wait for “sniffing signs”; if my puppy just woke up, had a chew, ate, or started playing, I proactively take them out so we avoid accidents entirely.