How to toilet train a Portuguese Bodenco? If a dog urinates anywhere, the hygiene in the home will definitely be very bad. Today I will teach you how to train a dog to toilet and defecate, so that the dog can be raised Develop good hygiene habits.

It is a dog's nature not to excrete in the places where it sleeps and eats. Be sure not to feed food or set up a nest in its excretion area. The places where you sleep and eat should be fixed and generally not changed.

Pay more attention to the dog’s excretion time. Puppies usually excrete after eating, playing, and just waking up, so puppies should develop a good habit of eating regularly (3 meals a day). Observe the dog’s preparatory actions before excreting. My dog ​​urinates by sniffing the ground and then squatting down; when defecating, he turns around several times quickly to smell the ground. The excretion system of puppies is not perfect yet, so the frequency will be more. Pay attention to observation at any time and seize the opportunity of training.

Once the dog poops, clean it up immediately. Isolate the little bad guy into another room so that he can’t see the cleaning process. Mop it a few more times. Finally, use scented liquid to completely cover the smell. Dogs don’t like to poop again, so the BB should be cleaned up in time. If you need to pee, you can be lazy. But don't make a river of urine. It doesn't want to go where it has no place to set its feet.

At the beginning, use small snacks as rewards, and the puppies will be very greedy. The command to let the dog excrete should be simple, and don’t change it again and again in the future. I usually say “newspaper” and “go to the toilet”, but you can also say “shush”, etc.; when praising, the tone should be exaggerated, cheerful and accompanied by petting. Every time my dog ​​goes to the toilet, he comes to me happily and tells me that he seems to have done something great.

The specific training process is as follows: First, narrow the scope of the dog’s activities and limit it to where it can be convenient. At the beginning, I locked it in the toilet. Then cover the area where it moves with newspapers. Remember that if you want to put a drinking water basin and a dog house, they must be placed in a corner, as far away from the excretion area as possible, and do not put them on newspapers. If you find that it has peed on the newspaper, reward it with food, and at the same time praise it vigorously, such as: "Pee on the newspaper, well done!" Rewarding the dog immediately after peeing is most effective. Afterward, the reward should be to constantly point at the newspaper to let it Smell it (don’t force it to press its head to smell it), praise it more and repeat simple praise words (don’t change the vocabulary randomly in the future).

After two days, reduce the area of ​​the newspaper spread. When changing newspapers, be careful to leave an area with urine stains. Ditto for vigorously rewarding just excreting in newspapers.

When most dogs excrete on newspapers, reduce the amount of newspapers (and then gradually reduce them), and slowly expand the scope of activities. I open the toilet door and close other doors that can be closed. Ditto for vigorously rewarding just excreting in newspapers. If you are elsewhere, you should pay attention. This is the key to success or failure in the future. It is best to use a free day at home on the weekend to train, because you have to catch the scene. Once you find out your dog is ready to do something bad,, immediately remind it loudly using the usual words in the past, such as: "On the newspaper" or "Go to the toilet", and at the same time point it to the direction of the toilet and lead it to the toilet. I think the effect of carrying it to the toilet is not very good. Often it will be distracted or scared. As a result, it will not urinate when it gets to the toilet, and it will do bad things as soon as it leaves. If it's too late, point to the urine stain and scold the dog severely, then take it to the toilet and say "newspaper" repeatedly. If he didn't know he was wrong, he would be dragged to the scene and his head pushed down.

The puppy has become accustomed to urinating and defecating on newspapers, and you can take it outside. Laying newspaper outdoors where you want your dog to pee is a constant reward. When the dog is almost four months old, it can defecate regularly about three times a day, and you can take it out at a good time.