This is probably the first skill every dog owner wants to master - dogs go to the toilet by themselves. No one wants to turn their home into a dog's hut, and the life of shoveling shit with no end in sight will make the life of pets unpleasant. So when you first come into contact with your little guy, you should have this awareness: I want to teach him to go to the toilet!

[Understanding is the first step - mastering dog habits]

If you want to quickly and effectively teach your dog what you want to do The thing to do, first of all you have to understand the habits of the dog. Knowing when it poops is very important for training your dog to toilet.

Generally speaking, puppies will excrete 30 minutes after eating, or 15 minutes after drinking water. The owner can control the dog's excretion time and time by controlling the feeding time to the dog. Do not pile dog food there and let the dog eat it arbitrarily. This is not only unfavorable for the dog to develop good eating habits, but also the dog food piled up is easy to deteriorate. The dog will also have a bowel movement after waking up, which is also a good time for the owner to train it to go to the toilet. In addition, if you find that the dog is smelling everywhere on the ground, or spinning around in place, you need to be alert. This is a signal that the dog is going to excrete.

The daily excretion frequency of adult dogs is relatively fixed. Under normal circumstances, they usually defecate 2-3 times and urinate 5-8 times (excluding the behavior of marking territory with urine), while the urination and defecation frequency of puppies are both Not sure, so the owner must have enough patience to squat the puppy's excretion behavior to correctly guide them in the designated place, and the excretion training can be started when the dog is 1 month old.

[Several ways to develop good habits for dogs to excrete]

1. Cage method

After dogs become dependent on the cage and use the cage as their own dog space, training to excrete has become a small problem. Because dogs generally do not use their den as a toilet to excrete in it, whenever the dog eats and drinks water, you put it in the cage and wait for its upcoming excretion. After about 20 minutes, when the dog is seen smelling or spinning around, the owner will take the dog out, take it to the place where you want it to excrete as soon as possible, and give it a shush and hurry up Wait for the urgent password (dogs are very human, after a long time, they will know that the password is urging them to excrete), usually after 15 minutes, the dog can successfully complete the excretion, and insist on taking it to the same place every day. Excretion, about a week or so, the dog knows that there is its exclusive toilet.

The role of the cage here is to help the owner to accurately grasp the dog's excretion every time, because excretion is the best time for training. Take advantage of the habit of dogs not excreting where they sleep, cultivate their ability to hold back urine and feces, and reduce the situation of urinating indiscriminately.

Second, the newspaper method

The newspaper method is a very common method for training dogs to excrete at a fixed point. It is trained by the habit of excreting on objects with its urine smell.

At the beginning, the dog didn't know that the newspaper was used for excretion, so he used the newspaper to suck its poop, and then put the poop on top of many newspapers, first Don't throw it away. Next time you see the dog smelling everywhere, pick it up in time and put it on the newspaper. It will smell the dried newspaper, and the owner should guard it. If it runs out, Just grab it back and put it on the newspaper. Usually after a few days, the dog knows to go to the newspaper to solve it.

Next, you need to gradually reduce the size of the newspaper, from the size of two newspapers, to the size of one newspaper, and then to the size of half a newspaper. And you can slowly change the place of the newspaper, and slowly move the newspaper to the place where you want the dog to excrete. During this process, remember not to move too far each time, otherwise the dog will not remember the place to excrete.

3. Outdoor excretion

When the dog grows to 3 months old and the vaccination is completed, the owner can try to take the dog Going outdoors, many owners will also choose to let the dog clean the toilet directly outdoors. So how do you train your dog to excrete outdoors?

After the dog is full, the owner can take the dog for a walk outdoors. Be careful that you must put on the dog at this time. Leash. When the dog is walking for about 20 minutes, the dog will be in the mood, and the owner needs to take the dog to a quiet corner, so that it will not disturb both pedestrians and dogs. When the dog is excreting, the owner should not stare at the dog and watch it excrete, because the dog will also feel uncomfortable. The owner can issue the excretion command to the dog to strengthen the dog's conditioned reflex.

If the dog is reluctant to excrete outdoors at first, the owner can carry newspapers and paper towels that were stained with the smell of dog urine, and spread them in the place where the dog wants to excrete, and wait patiently. This will allow your dog to defecate successfully. When the dog is excreted outdoors, the owner should also try to choose a fixed location, and at the same time pay attention to clean up the excrement of his dog, so that the fat and water will not flow into the field of outsiders. It is better to collect the dog's golden tower by yourself.

[Notes on dog excretion training]

1. Dog excretion training is a basic training, and it takes 1 month for dogs You can do it when you're older, but don't overestimate the IQ of a 1-month-old dog, so it's likely to be a protracted battle. During the training process, the owner needs to maintain enough patience, and must not teach the dog with violent behavior when it does something wrong.

2. Pay attention to controlling the amount of food and water that the dog takes in every day. Under normal circumstances, as much as it eats, it will be excreted. The number and quantity of excretion can be controlled by the owner.

3. Dogs can't control excretion like adult dogs until they are five or six months old. If you can also reduce the amount of accidental peeing your puppy has, it will soon be mature enough to control itself. So don't make a fuss if your dog occasionally doesn't do what you ask, because it's possible that he really didn't hold back.

4. It is best to choose a fixed password as the command to urge the dog to excrete. When giving the command, say it to the dog in a short and firm tone to strengthen the conditioned reflex of the dog during excretion.

PS: Going to the toilet is the first step and the most important step in the dog's behavior at home. Since the training period is relatively early (about a month for the dog), the owner can easily establish his own authority, and lay a good foundation for future training. Therefore, all dog owners must not be neglected~ A month of hard work and a happy dog's life.