Housetraining is teaching your puppy the rules they must live by while in the house. Only you can decide what the puppy will and won't be allowed to do in your house. You have to decide if the puppy will be allowed to get up on furniture. Remember the puppy will not know the difference between the old couch in the rec. room and your new living room suite. You have to decide which rooms will be off-limits to your dog and then make them inaccessible to the puppy. In other words, you set down the rules and then teach the puppy how to follow them. This is easier said than done. You must be consistent. Once is a habit for a puppy, so remember what is cute for a puppy may not be so cute when he grows up into a big dog. Be firm, but not harsh with the puppy. Puppies learn more with kindness than with cruelness. Set down the rules, be consistent, and forgive mistakes. Your puppy will grow up to be a good house-pet.