We decided to bring them (pets) into our society, tame them and make them our friends and family members, but our methods are so rude and unreasonable. We are always eager for quick success and want to train our own dogs to become "other people's" dogs, but we rarely respect the dog's lifestyle. They really don't follow the laws of human survival and don't understand the human way of life.

What does defecation behavior mean to a dog?

Even those who don’t raise dogs know that there is a proverb called “dogs can’t change their eating shit”, which is derogatory. But we found that dogs are really very interested in excrement.

Most of the time, we only think about admonishing it and pulling it away, but we don’t think about why.

In fact, there is a wealth of information hidden in dog urine. In other words, dogs use urine to establish their own social circle, especially for sexually mature dogs over 8 months old.

A very interesting example is that when you take your little male dog for a walk in the community, there are three pools of urine in the community, one is the urine of the puppy, one is the urine of the adult male dog, and the other is the urine of the female dog in heat. Which way do you think it will go?

Of course it will run to the female dog in heat without fail. Because, the message in the puppy's urine says "I made a child in the kindergarten today", your little male dog thinks "I am not interested in this", and the urine of the adult male dog says "I found a friend today" New job," your pup thinks, "that's your business."

Only the urine of a female dog in heat says, "I am 28 years old, 165cm tall, single and want to find a boyfriend."

It will sniff it very carefully because it is learning about the dog girl’s family background, hobbies, and then it will do one more thing, which is to urinate on it again, because it is saying, "I am 28 years old and tall. 180. If you have a car and a house, you can consider me."

If you take it out for a walk the next day, it will go to urinate there because it wants to follow up on this matter.

They have been using the most advanced social media, and owners have no right to deprive an animal of the opportunity to socialize with other animals. We cannot not take your dog out to socialize (pee) just because we are lazy.

In the course of dog training, there is a problem that every dog ​​owner will encounter, which is to train the dog to go to a place to defecate. Now think about it from a social perspective. The result of this is that your dog talks to the toilet every day, which is equivalent to taking a bath in the toilet.

For sexually mature dogs over eight months old, how do you prevent puppies from defecating everywhere?

Share a little method: When a puppy arrives home for the first day, you need to set up a fence for it and put it in it.Prepare the potty. Every time it defecates correctly, expand the enclosure and reward it with food. When it defecates by mistake, you only need to deal with the excrement and then narrow the scope of the enclosure. After many times, the dog will gradually understand that correct defecation can be rewarded.

Because, no matter if you scold it in Chinese, English, German or French, saying, "This is not the place for you to poop," it will not understand. You can only respect your dog's way of thinking and guide them in a way they can accept.

Tell me some little things that you can understand whether you have a dog or not. When a dog defecates indiscriminately, we always instinctively punish it, and then when it defecates indiscriminately again and again, we also use our own way of thinking to think that it is intentional.

Let’s put it into perspective. When our dog is defecating, we pull it onto the toilet. It’s the same as when you go to the toilet and someone always bangs on the door and says, “Clean the toilet.”

Leaving aside whether there will be problems with the dog's defecation system, the experience of going to the toilet is extremely bad in the first place.

Here is a sad story to share. He said that the worst case he ever took on was a border collie who grew up in a kennel and was punished all the time because he always defecated and made the kennel very dirty. So the dog is very sensitive and resistant to defecation behavior.

The first time I took this Border Collie out to defecate, the Border Collie ate all the feces within sight, including cat feces, dog feces, and human feces. After eating, it was still uneasy. It used its most sensitive nose to sniff carefully until it was confirmed that there was indeed no feces. Then it relaxed its muscles and looked at Ning Wei.

Through counter-conditioning desensitization training by presenting feces and sausages at the same time and giving it sausages instead of feces, after many matches, this border collie finally stopped eating feces. It learned to find feces and then turned to Ning Wei. Ask for sausage reward.

Do you think the story ends here? This border collie actually developed a habit of not eating feces when only Ning Wei is around, and it will still eat feces when people other than Ning Wei walk it. error.

Nowadays, we often say that the "original family" has a lifelong impact on a child. When he grows up, he may have to spend his whole life dealing with these "historical problems", so we must pay attention to the educational issues of the "original family". Thinking from this perspective, in fact, our wrong punishments when we were young will leave a lifelong mark on it (the dog) and cannot be repaired.

Sharing makes us think, when we blame "my dog ​​is a dog that loves to eat shit, a dog that doesn't know how to defecate at designated places, and a dog that is not as cute as other people's dogs", When will we reflect on whether there is a problem with our rude domestication behavior?

​The concept of "positive training", as I understand it, is to guide and affirm the correct behavior of pets so that pets can better live with us in human society.

It is we who decided to bring them into our society to help us relieve the stress of life and increase the fun of life. It is we who want them to learn and abide by the rules of our human society so that they can get along with us better. We call them "son" and "sister" one after another. Can we treat them as patiently as we treat our children?

"In fact, the adjustment and improvement of animal behavior is not to make it complete something, but to make it better live with us."

Animals are very direct and kind, and anything they don't do is not intentional, they just really don't understand. Remember the Bible says, "Love is long-suffering, kind and kind." Finally, I would like to share a passage from Ning Wei to encourage every pet parent:

"If I connect every bit of this world to our pets and good things, then if we keep them in captivity around us, they will feel a little bit happy. Otherwise, we can't do this. ”