How to teach a chihuahua to a diaper and tray?

Chihuahua breed dogs are miniature creatures with a complex character. Not all owners have time to walk the dog, especially since for such a small creature like a chihuahua, a walk can end with a cold. In order not to risk the health of your pet and free yourself time, you can teach such a compact dog to visit a tray or a diaper as a toilet.

To teach a Chihuahua dog to go to the toilet in a certain place in the house is not so difficult. The main thing is to clean up dog food products in a timely manner, as they quickly begin to spread an unpleasant odor around the apartment. This is especially true of boys. In uncastrated males, urine has a peculiar odor.

To easily teach the dog to attend a diaper or tray, you should take care of choosing a place. It must be Accessible pet corner. Most often, dogs prefer to relieve themselves, so to speak, at the border of territories, for example, near the door or at the balcony exit. Therefore, it will be the right decision to put the tray in this particular place.

The most suitable places for a dog toilet are a bathroom, a balcony, a corridor, an anteroom. It is better if the tray is placed in a nook. Do not install the toilet near the place where the dog eats. Chihuahuas are clean animals and will not be emptied where the food bowls are located.

Absorbing diapers are sold everywhere, they are inexpensive, but given the fact that the animal, especially in childhood, is emptied several times a day, buying diapers becomes very expensive. Therefore, in recent years, reusable options have become more popular.

To teach a dog to a diaper is easiest. As soon as the puppy has appeared in the house, it is recommended to spread diapers all over the apartment so that the new pet does not stain carpets and furniture. You can understand that the dog wanted to use the toilet, according to the following criteria:

• the animal whirls around itself;
• sniffs the place where he plans to relieve himself;
• hesses uncertainly;
• sits backwards.

As soon as the owner has noticed this behavior, you should loudly say "You can not!" And carry the puppy to a diaper. When a dog child goes to the toilet in the diaper, it is important to praise him and give him a treat. In the future, the dog will understand how, it turns out, you can simply get a tasty reward and achieve the affection of the owner. At first, be prepared for the bewilderment of a puppy who went to the toilet anywhere and did not receive a treat for it, as well as to missteps.

It is believed that chihuahua boys go to the toilet more often than girls, but in general this question is rather individual. It all depends on the diet, conditions of detention, the health of the pet. To teach a dog to a diaper, you can calculate in advance at what time of day the pet usually sits down to meet natural needs. To do this, you can make a special notebook and make the appropriate entries.

However, it is important to bear in mind that the older a dog becomes, the less often it goes to the toilet.. Already on reaching the age of six months, the Chihuahua will urinate less by 6-7 times, and the process of defecation will decrease by 3-4 times.

In order to facilitate the process of teaching a dog to a diaper, it is recommended to restrict her free space in the first days of her appearance in the house. For example, you can leave the animal in the room where the diaper is located. Then the new pet will not get lost in the new place and will find the toilet faster. If you can not isolate the puppy, then you need to expand the diaper in each room.

When the dog becomes an adult, it will become accustomed to going to the toilet exclusively at the diaper, and then the number of such “litter” can be reduced to one. If the dog chose for himself a certain place where one of the diapers is located, but this corner seems to be unsuitable to the owner, then you can gradually move the dog's toilet about 10 cm per day to the right place.

Usually dogs go to the toilet to smell. If the “toilet scents” are spread from another source, then perhaps the puppy is right next to this place and will fulfill the need. If his last misstep was not cleared in time, then probably this smelling corner dog will take over its permanent toilet. Therefore, it is always important to leave the dog in your field of vision in order to get rid of its “surprises” in time.

When the owner leaves the house, the animal can be placed in a special home aviary. Inside there should be a diaper bed, stand bowls of water and food, left toys. This method will allow to accustom the dog to the diaper in those hours when the owner because of the work is not able to deal with this issue.

The tray is a more economical option compared to diapers. During the life of the dog enough to buy a maximum of three trays. This is a simple and convenient container for managing natural canine needs. However, often habituation to the tray has to start from the cradle. As soon as the Chihuahua learns to visit the absorbing diaper, you can begin to teach him to the tray.

The pot itself should be roomy, the usual cat toilet in most cases is not suitable. For males, this should be a tray with large sides and a column in the center, since the urination process boys from seven months of age prefer to perform near the "bushes". For girls there is no need for such a column. Properly equipped tray will allow the dog not to soak the paws, as well as save adjacent objects from splashing.

As soon as the dog learned to go to the toilet on a diaper in a certain place, put a tray in this area. From above, you can first lay the usual diaper for your pet, and then try to remove it. You can also put a piece of used dog diaper in the pot. As already mentioned, dogs go to the toilet to smell, and in this way the tray will attract the pet and motivate him to empty into the right place.

This method will wean the pet from the diaper. For training to the tray is quite allowed the use of special chemicals, their flavors also attract dogs.

The process of training a puppy to the toilet in the house should begin as soon as the pet appeared in the apartment. This should be done very delicately so as not to frighten a new family member. Several rules will help the owner to quickly solve the problem.

• Praise the dog every time he goes to the toilet in the right place. Scrub it, affectionately name it, reward it with a treat.
• Do not yell at the pet who went the wrong way. Perhaps he was confused and confused.
• When you leave the apartment, isolate all things (clothes, toys, shoes) that the dog may stain or take to the toilet.
• When returning home, do not scold a puppy that went out of place. Otherwise, in the future, his owner’s arrival home will be associated with punishment and swearing, so the dog will experience stress every time the owner returns.
• Put the dog after eating and sleeping in the diaper.Usually during this period puppies want to go to the toilet.
• Do not praise the dog ahead of time. That is, you should not caress your pet, who has just crouched in the tray, to do this effectively at the end of the process.
• While the puppy is small, place diapers in each room. His bladder is still weak and unable to withstand a long search for a suitable place.
• Never poke an animal into a puddle, the pet will be very scared by such actions of the owner.
• Remove all carpets during the period of schooling. An inexperienced puppy may confuse a carpet with a diaper, soil it, and in the future this area will smell like urine and motivate the animal to urinate in the same place.

Still, walking the dog on the street is the best option. Firstly, the owner will save himself from daily cleaning of the apartment and airing, and, secondly, the animal will breathe fresh air every day, which is very useful for his health. To teach a puppy to the street in several ways.

• As already noted, the desire to urinate and empty the intestines of puppies occurs after sleep and after eating. In these minutes, and take out the baby on the street. Let him do all his intimate affairs there. It may take more than one hour, but the responsible owner will ensure that the dog goes to the toilet on the street. As usual, praise the kid and treat him with a treat.
• If the owner has taken advantage of the advice on keeping a special notebook, which allows you to schedule a visit to the dog to the toilet, then he probably already knows what time the animal will want to meet his needs. And this means that it’s time to take the dog to the street.
• If the dog is already accustomed to attend a diaper, take a few used or clean diapers with you for a walk. Let the first time a dog urinate on its usual litter, over time, the area of ​​its “toilet” can be reduced until there is bare ground under the dog.

When the dog learned to go to the toilet outside, the owner should remember the rules of walking the animal.

• Try to walk the animal only on a special dog playground. Remember that you can not walk a dog in the adjacent area. In the case of walking on the territory of the territory clean the pet solid waste. For this you can purchase special packages.
• Do not walk with the dog in the playground. If the curious dog of the scattered owner is still emptied into the children's sandbox, then again use the bag for cleaning feces.
• Watch your pet, do not pull it off the leash in unfamiliar places. Bypass the pack of stray dogs.
• Do not take the puppy on the street in any case until the quarantine and vaccination period passes, as for an unvaccinated dog the street is full of dangers in the form of serious infections.
• In the rainy and cold time, insulate the animal. Chihuahua is a short-haired dog, it has a weak immunity against a cold.
• Do not rush to throw out the tray if the dog has become accustomed to the street. If at some point the animal gets sick, then he will be banned from walking. And this means that a pot with a filler will come to the rescue.

To learn how to teach a chihuahua to a diaper, see the following video.