I believe that most dog owners feed their dogs indoors; at the same time, many friends bring their dogs home when they are already several months old. If this is the case, “petdogsathome.com” will teach you how to “train dogs indoors”:
1. First, determine a toilet location for the puppy. You can choose to let it go to a place at home that is easier to clean, such as the toilet, bathroom, corner of the living room or balcony. Then, spread newspapers in the designated place where the dog urinates and defecates, and wait for the dog to eat.
2. 10-20 minutes after feeding or after activities – this is the golden period for dog urination and defecation training – the dog owner can gently guide the dog to the toilet location, then close the door, let it move in the space covered with newspapers, and continue to encourage it to urinate and defecate with words.
3. Once the dog has the intention to urinate and defecate, please do not physically disturb it, but give verbal rewards at the first time. Such as “Great!” or “Good!”
4. Because dogs are not so smart that they will defecate and urinate directly on the newspapers for the first time—so sometimes you need to help the dog defecate on one of the newspapers. You can wait a little longer, as long as the dog urinates and defecates, it is considered a successful first time!
5. When it finishes defecating on the newspaper, please continue to give gentle encouragement, and then you can stroke its head and back with your hands. The purpose is to make the dog like this behavior pattern, generate memory and be willing to repeat this behavior.
6. During the training period, if the dog can defecate on the newspaper, you can gradually reduce the number of newspapers, from 4-5 sheets at the beginning, slowly reduce to 2-3 sheets, and finally reduce the number of newspapers to a block of one sheet. The dog will still go to the toilet in that position, which is basically ok.
Finally, the dog owner should try to repeat the above training procedures at a fixed time every day. In this way, the dog will slowly take the initiative to go to the toilet and defecate in the area of that newspaper.
Key tips:
1. The way of encouragement is to prompt certain common commands, such as “Poop”, etc., and do not change back and forth. This will allow the dog to memorize these commands during the training of urination and defecation.
2. In the early stage of training, after the dog urinates and defecates, do not take away the newspaper stained with urine and feces immediately, so that it has enough time to remember the relationship between the location and the smell of urine and feces. Using smell to help remember the results can make learning faster.
