How to train adult dogs to go to the toilet at designated places. Adult dogs can also be trained.

Jul 26,2025
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Principles of fixed-point toilet training for adult dogs

1. The adult dog must be allowed to make mistakes first
If the adult dog has just entered the house, sometimes it will urinate and defecate all over your room because of lack of good habits. , don't punish it at this time. Punishing a dog because of an accident will only make it more stressed.
2. Pay attention to the defecation signals of adult dogs
When a dog suddenly lowers its head, sniffs with its nose and becomes nervous, it is often a signal to defecate. The owner should know the approximate time for adult dogs to defecate through several days of observation. Once an adult dog gives a defecation signal after waking up from sleep, or after eating food and playing, the owner should take it to a selected place where it can relax to defecate, and remember to clean it after returning.
3. There must be rewards
When an adult dog defecates successfully, the owner should give out "awesome" encouragement and then reward it. In this way, let the dog know that when it defecates in the designated place, there will be delicious rewards, and the dog will pay attention next time.

Adult dogs have been holding back the solution of not excreting

Some adult dogs have become accustomed to urinating outdoors. If an adult dog has developed this habit and is older and it is difficult for them to defecate at home, generally there is no need to correct it.
But sometimes the weather is particularly bad and it is impossible to go out, but the adult dog keeps holding it in. What should we do? We can stimulate dogs to eliminate indoors through exercise. You can find a toy that it likes and let it move around. Then take it indoors to a place where it can pee, such as the toilet or the terrace, and shut it there. If it comes out, ignore it. Usually, after holding it in for a day and exercising, the dog already has some urge to urinate. If you put it in a place where no one is watching, it will pee.

Supplement

1. When an adult dog has finished urinating and you are ready to let it out, you must praise it. Let the adult dog feel that it is right to do so, so that it will be more accepting of this method next time.
2. If the dog to be trained is an adult dog that has not been house-trained before, the training should be treated like a new puppy.
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