Super simplified version of dog defecation at designated spots

Don’t be too demanding on puppies. Who didn’t wet the bed as a child, right? Generally, dogs that are more than two or three months old will have the habit of holding in their feces and urine, and will have the awareness not to urinate in the cage (note that it is awareness, they will urinate in the cage if they really can't hold it in).
1. Dog cages or air crates (very important)
2. Prepare dog toilets (or pee pads) and fences
3. Collect dog urine in advance and spread it on the dog On the toilet
4. Every time you open the cage (remember, every time), take the dog directly to the dog toilet in the fence. The owner does not have any interaction with the dog (including eye contact), and sits aside Wait patiently for your dog to poop.
5. If there is no defecation for more than ten minutes, it means that the dog is not holding back urine or feces at this time. You can put the dog back in the cage or play with it.
6. Common timings for dogs’ desire to defecate: after waking up in the morning (because they have been holding it in all night) and after each meal.
Generally speaking, if a dog has not peed for more than 3 hours, he will have a desire to urinate after being let out, so this is why he should be surrounded by a fence in the dog toilet as soon as he is let out. Therefore, when a new dog arrives at home, crate care is very important for the formation of good habits in the future!
The above is very suitable for the puppies to develop a good habit of defecation at a fixed point after they arrive home. As for dogs that have developed the bad habit of urinating everywhere, please refer to the "newspaper law" below, and the owner must pay more patience and energy.

Dogs defecate at designated spots: newspaper method

This method is suitable for correcting the behavior of adult dogs peeing everywhere. Of course, it is best to keep them in cages.
1. Establish conditioned reflexes at the destination.
After the dog wakes up and about half an hour after feeding, you can lead the dog to the place where you want it to defecate (such as the bathroom or outdoors), let the dog stay there for a while, and you can make some movement gestures or Use some concise language to supervise. Quanquan thinks it’s good to put your hands on your hips and shout “come on”. Later, when your dog learns to defecate at a fixed time and at a certain place, it will understand your instructions and gestures. This is based on the principle of conditioned reflex.
2. Collect urine and clean thoroughly.
Take a few newspapers and put them in the place where your dog often urinates. For example, if your dog likes to pee in the bedroom, you can wipe it with newspapers to absorb the urine for later use, and then clean it thoroughly (use urea to completely decompose the urine ).
3. Cultivate your dog’s habit of peeing on newspapers.
At the beginning, the dog does not know that newspapers are for excretion, so you have to use collected newspapers with urine or feces to seduce it. When you see the dog lowering its head and sniffing everywhere in the bedroom, you will Guide the dog to the newspaper stained with feces and urine. You can also use a longer leash to fix it near the newspaper to prevent the dog from walking away until the dog defecates, and then we give itinteraction and rewards.
Put a piece of newspaper stained with feces and urine on a new newspaper every day. Generally, after a few days, the dog will know that it needs to be solved on the newspaper. After the dog is familiar with it, we can try to put only Clean newspapers will induce the dog to know the smell of newspapers to go to the toilet.
4. Slowly move the position of the newspaper
When the dog develops the habit of excreting on the newspaper, we can slowly move the position of the newspaper, such as the door or the bathroom.
5. Remove the newspaper.
When the dog gets used to excreting on the newspaper at the destination, you can try to take the newspaper away. When a dog wants to go to the toilet, he will take the initiative to go to the door or the bathroom and lower his head to sniff. When we see this behavior, we should take it to solve it immediately.

Dogs defecate at fixed points: restricted space method

This method is suitable for both puppies and adult dogs, but adult dogs need to spend more time to correct it. First, prepare a dog fence. Toilet, diapers, snacks, urea solution, etc.
1. Use a fence to reduce the dog’s activity area and divide the area into three areas:
Put the food and water basin in the eating area
Place the dog kennel or rest area in the flight box
The excretion area of ​​the dog toilet
The three areas should be close to each other and can be arranged in a T shape, but there should be no free space between them that is larger than the dog's body length.
Out of instinct, dogs will avoid eating and resting areas and go to the dog toilet to defecate. When the dog excretes in the right place, we immediately release it from this narrowed range and interact with it or reward it with small snacks; if it excretes in the wrong place, it must be cleaned thoroughly and there is no interaction or reward.
2. Expand the dog’s range of activities.
After persisting for a period of time, the dog will be able to develop the habit of defecating in the dog toilet. Next, we will expand this range and add more and more blank areas between the three areas to observe whether the dog Continue to defecate in the dog toilet; but if the dog fails to persist, it must return to its previous size until the dog develops the awareness to defecate in the dog toilet.
At this time, we can continue to expand the range (the fence is not enough, you can use furniture to build the edge) until the dog’s range of activities expands to the entire house, and it can still insist on defecating on the pee pad.