A safe environment is important for training

Environmental control is an important part of puppy training. Rather than waiting until they make a mistake and then making all the difficult corrections, control the environment from the beginning so they have no chance of making a mistake. Controlling the dog's environment not only makes it easier to go to the toilet or clean after an accident, but also helps to avoid unknown dangers, such as biting the thread, eating the thread, drinking makeup remover, etc.

Training requires setting reasonable expectations

This is a bit complicated, but if you think about it, toilet training is not logical at all for your dog. Imagine that the ancestors of dogs would definitely not excrete in their own dens, but as long as they were farther away from the dens, there might be a toilet in any direction, so there would be no need for so-called fixed-point excretion training like stupid humans.

In addition, even if puppies want to work hard to meet their owner's needs, their bladders are not capable enough and the time they can hold their urine is very short. So puppies make mistakes, not just mistakes, but lots of them. Many people say that their dogs miraculously learned to toilet quickly after six months or one year of age. This has to do with their physical maturity, psychological maturity and ability to communicate with humans when they are one year old. So get ready to surprise our poop scoopers with puppies as young as six months or one year old. If an accident occurs, don't be discouraged, don't be angry, and keep working hard next time. When an accident occurs, remember that it is not the dog's fault but the owner is responsible for the dog.

Positive motivation

It is said that for dogs, there are only two things that can really start them, one is food and the other is the love of their owner. In any training, we should use these two points, or a combination of these two points. Depending on the dog's personality, you can give it a tasty treat after it goes to the toilet correctly, praise it in a happy tone, or play with the puppy for two minutes.

But when the dog goes to the toilet, don’t take out snacks or distract the dog’s attention noisily. This will prevent the dog from loving its owner too much and giving the owner a big hug in the middle of going to the toilet. Embrace.

Special reminder

Don’t hit your dog if it makes a mistake, no matter how shameless the owner thinks his dog is or how resistant it is to being beaten. The understanding ability of dogs is different from that of humans. When the owner presses its nose into the urine stain and yells loudly, when the owner rolls up a newspaper to look like hitting it, when the owner flicks its nose When scolding it, it may think that the owner does not like it to pee, or it may think that the owner is moody, or it may think that the owner does not like to see it pee. Accordingly, their countermeasures are not to drink water and urinate less; or to show a ashamed expression to surrender, but in fact they do not know that they are wrong at all, and only think that they have to surrender in order to survive; or to hide from then on. They excrete in various nooks and crannies, and may also eat their own excrement.

Fixed schedule

Because the physiological structure of puppies determines that the time they go to the toilet is likely to be after eating, playing and sleeping, then if a little puppy By having set times for getting up, eating, and playing, the owner is more likely to predict when the puppy should go to the bathroom.

Maintain consistency

Whether it is toilet training, cage training, or other obedience training, dog habits cannot be developed at once of. If the owner's training method often changes, such as changing the location frequently, sometimes in the toilet, sometimes on the balcony, sometimes on the changing pad, or the password often changes, sometimes it is "hurry up", and sometimes it is "toilet", After a while, the dog will "pee" and it will be easy for the dog to be at a loss. In addition to time and smell, dogs may also be affected by the touch of their paws when they go to the toilet. For example, if a dog goes to the toilet on a hardwood floor from the beginning, they may need to get used to the soft feeling of the pee pad. Take a moment. In the same way, the differences in touch and taste from the pee pad to the outdoor lawn may prolong the dog's training time.

When there are several people at home, if everyone’s attitude towards the dog is different, for example, the father rewards the dog with snacks after peeing correctly, but the mother does not, then the dog’s learning speed will also be different. will be slower. The family must agree on the commands, methods and other details of training so that the dog can understand the owner's requirements more quickly.

Know your dog, toilet training should also be different for each "dog"

The method of dog toilet training is very simple, just use positive things like snacks Stimulate, try to make the dog associate going to the toilet in the designated place with the owner's praise, delicious snacks and happy time playing games, and gradually make the dog realize that there is a difference between the inside and outside, and not only his dog bed is his "own home" , and the whole house is "your own home". But it’s also very complicated. Dog toilet problems come in all kinds and varieties, which often makes people feel exhausted.

What owners may want to understand is that although the principle is basically these steps, each dog has its own characteristics. As an owner, you know your dog best. Only by making adjustments accordingly can the training plan be implemented more smoothly. For example, when I was two months old, my Chacha would sometimes need to go to the toilet right after eating, which was completely different from the five to thirty minutes after meals mentioned in the general manual! Our way to deal with it is to stare at it closely while it is eating, and take it to the backyard as soon as its face leaves the rice bowl and seems to smell the nearby floor. Even if we don’t talk about the difference in IQ of dogs, dogs of the same breed also have differences in whether they learn quickly or slowly.