This article is about how to teach your dog to pee and poop indoors (for both puppies and adult dogs!!!)
Potty training is easy to say but hard to do
Training dogs to go to the toilet is something that everyone knows how to do, but it’s really hard to do it consistently.
But if you teach it from a young age, it will definitely come in handy on typhoon days or when you go on a trip, and you will be thankful for your efforts!
Each new parents must have experienced the collapse of the clean-up period, just bought a puppy because everything still does not know (equivalent to our Baby period), in the absence of a way to wrap diapers can only urinate and defecate anywhere, new parents need to hurry home to clean up the mess, not a moment to spare!
Potty training: Scolding is pointless
Or if the dog has just been adopted from a shelter or kennel, it may be in the same situation, because it is untrained and thinks it can pee and poop anywhere or must be held back until it gets outside on the grass.
These are unpredictable situations, and usually, you have to wait until you get your dog home to slowly unveil the surprise like buying a surprise package XD (because there are angelic dogs who go to the potty on their first day!!!)
So how long does it take for him to learn?
Actually, there is no certain time ……
Just like when we teach children to speak, each child will start speaking at a different point in time, and the time it takes to start speaking from just a single word to a full sentence after learning to speak is also different
Because of this physiological difference, and the number of times parents can give to education, each dog will learn to put on the diaper pad at a different time, so there will not be a definite answer.
But what is certain is that a fur baby will need your patience and perseverance to learn to go to the potty faster! (Note: you can’t learn by cursing with your fingers! It’s an internet rumor!)
There are 4 steps to indoor potty training: we’ll start with puppies, then move on to adults
1.We usually use an enclosure or crate (please Google the style you like, the recommended width should not be less than 90cm, it’s easy to wait until you get off work, the fur kids have stepped on the poop everywhere).
Important: the height of the cage must be if the dog can stand up in it not a hunchback, can freely turn a large circle of the size (recommended is to bring the dog back, before listening or online to find out how big this dog will generally grow to adult dogs, do not buy too small, resulting in the dog will need to spend twice to buy a cage or enclosed piece of dilution ah!)
2.buy a good piece of enclosures, the inside of the arrangement of a little warmer, one side of the urinal (the larger the better), the other side of its sleeping mat
Because dogs are cave animals, in general,
Dogs love cleanliness.
They do not want to sleep in the place to go to the toilet, so help them set up in advance to get twice the result with half the effort!
3.Observe which side of the cage or enclosure your dog prefers to go to the bathroom and whether there are any preparatory actions before he goes to the bathroom.
e.g.1 Our Labrador likes to make a grunting sound before going to the toilet and will bark once or twice afterward to indicate that he is done (tell mom to clean up ……)
e.g.2 The little Corgi that was in tutoring class before liked to go to the bathroom near the door, so we moved his urinal to the door to increase his chances of going to the right place and solve mom’s problem instantly.
4.When dogs grow up, their bladders will slowly develop completely, making them better and better at holding their urine, and they always want to hold it in until they leave the house before they pick a turf to go to the bathroom.
So, I want to teach you another method, that is ~ ~ outside of the cage to enclose a space for him, let the fur baby out of the cage, tell him to go to the toilet first, must be finished with the toilet before you can come out to play!
Usually, once a fur baby learns that it can come out to play after going to the bathroom, it will become more and more aware of this rule and become a good dog that knows how to recognize the urinal!
The above methods are also applicable to adult dogs, but it is a little more difficult to teach them to stay in their crates first.
- After the dog learns to stay in the crate by itself, put the diaper pad (if the dog will chew the diaper pad, you can add a bathroom mat on top) all over the dog’s sleeping space and let the dog sleep in it.
- get up the next morning to check on your dog, he will be very excited at this time, do not let him out easily, because this will be the most suffocating moment (if you remember, you can give him a lot of water before bed, if you do not like to drink water, you can add some cans into the stirring, so that the water has a taste they will love to drink)
- if he sees your moment not immediately pee out, goes back to the room or toilet to do something of their own, let him think about thinking about it (it is recommended to set up a monitor, you can see in the room whether he has succeeded in going to the toilet)
- When he succeeds in peeing or pooping, come out of the room immediately and reward him with his favorite snack (some owners like to stare at him on the spot, but some dogs may have been punished for going to the bathroom indoors, so they will not go to the bathroom in front of people easily)
Conclusion: Puppies and adult dogs need a lot of patience to be taught to urinate and defecate at regular intervals, not because the trainer doesn’t teach them, but because the dog’s bladder is not within our control, so we can only try to catch the rules of the dog’s potty time to make adjustments, other training times still need the owner’s patience and perseverance!
