Having brought home a small puppy, the new owner first of all has a problem with a dog toilet. In the ads for the sale of four-footed friends indicated that the animal is already accustomed to the tray. And in fact often it turns out the other way around. The dog, hitting a new habitat, begins to make pools in all places, and some owners have doubts about the correctness of the decision to purchase a dog. But if you gather the will into a fist and show patience, you will get to teach your new pet to help out in a special place.
Purpose
Home toilet for dogs of any age is presented in several versions.
- expanded sheet of the newspaper;
- tray filled;
- diaper.
The proposed toilet samples have their pros and cons. Tray with a filler is more intended for representatives of the feline family, as they like to bury waste. In dogs, this instinct is absent. They are much easier to do their business on paper.
Only the option of a newspaper toilet will not please the owner of the animal, as the smell will be much stronger than from the tray. In addition, the newspaper must be constantly changed.
Diapers are the best option for a dog toilet, they prevent unpleasant smell, they are easy to wash and dry. But this option is suitable only for small dogs or puppies. Psam with large dimensions is best to install the tray. If a small puppy should turn into a large-sized dog, the diapers used by him should be transferred to a tray. With age, the dog will understand the principle of the home toilet, will follow its own smell to relieve the need in the proper place.
The process of training a dog to the home toilet does not require the help of professional canine. The new owner can independently cope with the task. As an additional help, manufacturers produce a huge variety of items and things.
Especially popular are diapers for puppies. They have the smell of special enzymes, clearly felt by the puppy. In addition, they are disposable and reusable. And reusable options at their cost may slightly hit the pocket of the new owner. Although, on the other hand, This is a one-time purchase, and having made a large investment once, you no longer have to spend money on additional accessories.
Further, we propose to consider the important advantages of reusable diaper toilets so that you can assess in advance the acceptability of such a purchase:
- reusable diapers very well absorb moisture, each time the dog meets need on a dry surface;
- fabric treated with antibacterial and anti-fungal substances;
- each diaper easily maintains at least 300 washings in the washing machine;
- one square meter of a reusable diaper involves the absorption of 2 liters of moisture, which is very convenient for owners of large dogs;
- the material of which the diaper is made has high strength, so the dog will not be able to accidentally break it;
- washing diapers in the washing machine should be done in delicate mode;
- The bottom side of the reusable diaper is made of non-slip material, so they are well kept on any surface.
Learning rules
Before you begin the process of teaching a dog to a diaper, its owner must be patient.It is important to remember that the work is carried out not with a doll, but with a living being, and it will not work without blunders.
It is very important to observe the behavior of the four-legged friend. So get to know where he likes to relieve themselves. Perhaps it will be a dark corner of the room or the area near the window. There will have to put a dog toilet.
At first, the baby will not be able to do with only one place for meeting the needs. Chances are that he simply will not have time to reach the goal. For this reason diapers must be spread throughout the apartment.
As the animal grows up, the number of “toilets” must be reduced.
If a small amount of time is allotted for training a puppy, you should limit the area of movement of the animal. Immediately after feeding or sleeping the baby must be quickly put in the place where the diaper will be located. There must be a dog until he resolves his need. After the puppy can be released for a walk around the house.
While communicating with the puppy, it is necessary to direct the four-legged friend to the place with the diaper, so that he can smell his own enzymes. The owner is very important to learn how to determine when the puppy wanted to go to the toilet. In most cases, dogs start spinning in one place, sometimes whining, often sniffing. If at least one of these signs appears, the dog must direct to the toilet.
The newly minted owner would be nice to consult with an experienced breeder and find out from him what methods he used to teach his four-legged friend to the toilet.
As additional measures, you can use special tools sold in pet stores. They are scaring and attracting. Products "antipis" should be treated surface, where the dog is strictly prohibited to relieve the need, especially when it comes to boys of two months of age.
Dogs are neat creatures. One-year-old dogs, puppies for 2 months and even elderly individuals will not go to the toilet near the bowls with food and on the dirty place. Therefore, the diaper must be changed daily.
Properly made a plan to teach a puppy to a diaper very quickly will bear fruit.
The main thing is that all family members take an active part in this process, thanks to which the dog will feel the warm attitude of the host family towards him.
Puppy
The process of teaching puppies to meet the needs of a particular place must begin as early as possible. All their behavioral features are set to 7 weeks. If at this point the animal does not understand where it is necessary to defend the need, the later training will be much more difficult.
In the first month of life, the baby does not really understand what is happening, and sits down wherever he wants. In this case, puppies are very much like human children. At first, the puppy will relieve the need throughout the apartment, and not only on the floor, but also, as expected, on the diaper. And in a few weeks everything will start to change.
Soft absorbent surface like a dog much more than the bare cold floor, where his legs are wet. So the dog will gradually begin to develop the habit of going to the toilet only in the space provided, filled with comfort. The owners, in turn, you need to praise the four-footed friend for the correct action, and after a couple of weeks, the puppy alone, even at night, will be specially sent to the diaper.
At two months of age, puppies begin to relieve themselves a little less often, namely after feeding, sleeping and at the end of the games. The owner must immediately after these processes plant a puppy near the toilet, but that the animal independently came to the diaper and did its business. If the dog understands the owner, he must be praised.
At three months of age, a puppy must independently find a toilet, without the help of a person. It is necessary to stop constantly pulling the dog to the diaper and gradually reduce the visit to the allocated place to 2-3 times a day. Diapers spread throughout the house can be removed, leaving just one or two pieces in different places just in case.
If the puppy made a mistake, you should slightly scold the pet, raising his voice.
When training a puppy for a home toilet, you need to use some rules.
- The dog must learn to obey the owner, so that the dog distinguishes severity in voice and praise. Strictly "impossible" or "fu" should be for the pet law prohibition.
- It is very important to encourage a four-legged friend for good behavior and properly done actions. This item is the key not only for toilet training, but also in training.
- If the puppy categorically refuses to go to the diaper, it is necessary to look after a different fabric material suitable for a home toilet.
Adult dog
The procedure for training to the diaper of an adult dog is much easier than training a small puppy. Grown up dogs are able to endure for a long time, until they are on the street. In situations where animals fall ill and can not stand on their feet for a long time, they have to use absorbent devices. A similar method can be used in the case when the owner does not manage to bring the animal out for a walk since morning or evening.
Teaching an adult dog to go to the toilet on a diaper occurs gradually. In the process can not use the command voice. As soon as the owner has seen that the pet is going to relieve himself, he needs to tell the dog where to go for these tasks. In this case, the location of the diaper should be permanent. It is strictly forbidden to change its location. After the dog has coped with the need for a diaper, you should not immediately change it; it is necessary that it be left untouched for a bit. Thus, the dog remembers the correct location of the toilet and in the future will follow on the insensible human sense of smell.
After the dog has done its job in the right place, it must be praised and even give a treat.
We take into account the characteristics of rocks
In general, the process of training dogs of different breeds to the home toilet has no differences, but still there are nuances to which you should listen.
Chihuahua and Toy Terrier
At an early age, representatives of these breeds have an accelerated metabolism. Accordingly, these dogs need to relieve themselves immediately after eating. To push the baby on the correctness of the action, you can pour the diaper with warm water and put the animal nearby so that he can feel the wetted matter near the paws. Thanks to the reflex, the puppy will definitely need in the same place. Toy Terrier and Chihuahua quite sensitively feel the mood of the owner.
If you express dissatisfaction in response to their wrong actions, they will very quickly understand the mistakes and will try to correct them in order to please the host.
York
These puppies need to be taught to the diaper with a partition. To some, this method may not seem humane, but in fact it is not. Being in a huge space, This charming animal can be found in the most inappropriate place.
Yorks are often kept in decorative enclosures, where they lay several diapers for the toilet.
Spitz
Puppies of this breed are distinguished by special curiosity and activity. They are inherent in climbing all corners of the apartment. For this reason new owners will have to cover with diapers almost the entire floor of the house or put a fence, inside which you will need to expand several "toilets". So the kid will defend the need, not looking up from the gameplay. Gradually, you can remove one diaper per week so that only one absorbent surface remains.
Husky
Representatives of this breed - difficult to create. Until six months of age, husky puppies cannot independently control their needs. Up to 6 months their puppies are cared for by their mother. If the separation from the mother occurred too early, the new owner will have to exercise great patience. Initially, huskies are taught to use the toilet on the newspaper. Diaper use is not recommended, otherwise the dog will have a reflex to relieve the need for soft surfaces. They can begin to mark bedding, sofa, carpets. But by nature, husky creatures are clean.
Newspapers used for the toilet, you need to constantly change.
Labrador
These dogs have a special mind. So during the training of the animal to the toilet, you can immediately tell the puppy what they want from him. As soon as he begins to sit down on the floor in order to relieve himself of need, he must loudly say no, grab the puppy in his arms and carry him to the diaper. It will take some time to keep the baby in the space provided for the toilet until he does his business. If the process has ended effectively, the owner must express his approval.
Do not be upset if the dog escaped from his hands and ran away. After a while, the process will repeat, the main thing is not to miss the moment.
Host errors
Quite often, teaching a puppy to meet the needs of a particular place is not crowned with success. You should not look for a problem in the animal, you first need to look from the outside at the puppy’s own manner of learning and determine whether everything is done correctly or not. Further, it is proposed to get acquainted with the list of common mistakes that most inexperienced breeders make.
- Lack of patience. Puppies are very much like small children. After active games, sleeping, eating, the animal needs to go to the toilet. Newly minted breeders are not always able to identify or catch these moments, and sometimes puppies, having turned the corner, begin to need things on a clean floor. The owner must constantly monitor the pet and, seeing the urge to go to the toilet, take it to the place it is supposed to cope with. You may have to sit next to and not let him go from the diaper until he does a “wet” job.
- Little diapers. In the first week of schooling a dog, it is necessary to make diapers for most of the apartment. We'll have to suffer a little, because the baby is initially very difficult to run from one room to another in order to relieve himself, and he may simply not suffer. A puppy in the first month of life only studies the environment and may confuse a diaper for a toilet with a cloth for washing floors. A similar surface confuses the dog. In this case, the pet owner’s error is clearly visible. Rag must be removed from the floor.
- Lack of attention. Even the smallest four-footed friend with his behavior demonstrates that he needs to relieve himself. And as soon as the dog begins to show at least a hint of going to the toilet, it should be attributed to the diaper.
- Punishment for random errors. The little puppy must be treated with understanding. The main task of the owner - to teach the animal to defend the need in the right place, and not to intimidate him. Seeing a puddle, you can not physically punish the puppy. It is enough to say in a slightly elevated tone that it is impossible to do this, to show your displeasure.
- Accuracy of punishment. This rule should be given special attention to puppy owners. It is possible to punish an animal for what was done before the owner’s eyes for 15 seconds. After this time, the puppy does not figure out why he expressed dissatisfaction.
- Cleaning. Random puddles on the floor must be wiped with an accessory for the toilet. So the dog will begin to understand the relationship between the puddle and the diaper. And after the crime scene itself should be washed with detergent so that there is no smell on the floor.
- Timely diaper replacement. You can not change the "toilet" immediately after meeting the needs. It is important that some time passes, after which the film can be replaced. And its smell in any case will remain in the right place.
- Upbringing In the process of training the animal owner must achieve his confidence.The owner must determine what the pet wants to do. Such a relationship will help to educate an intelligent and decent dog, to achieve his obedience and develop the correct behavior.
Tips for training dogs to the toilet, see below.