What To Do If Your Dog Is Peeing & Pooping Inside – Tips From Al The Dog Trainer
My dog is peeing and pooping in the
house, how do I correct them for doing that? Well do not correct your dog for
using the restroom inside your home. Period.
Don't do it. Never, ever, ever. You can't dropkick them, you can't spank
them, you can't remote collar high level them,
you can't hit them with the newspaper, you can't stick their face in it, you
can't yell at them and tell them what a horrible dog they are, you can't do any
of it. Now, is there an exception? There is. Marking. Marking behaviors inside your
home, please correct those. Don't use a newspaper. Use a tool like a remote
collar, your leash, yell if that works for you. So if your dog is pooping and peeing
inside your home, you don't get to correct them. The first thing that you're
going to do is you're going to correct yourself is really what needs to
happen.
The first thing you're going to do is you're going to stop putting food and
water on the floor for your dog. But if you say well hey, I've got like
four cats and 3 other dogs what am I supposed to do? Well, quit hoarding animals is the first
thing, but the second thing is if you add another animal into your life,
don't put all the responsibility back onto them for learning
where they're supposed to go. You're going to have to take the lead now.
I'm going to tell you, there are some dogs out there that we've trained with, whew!
They are tough to potty train. They are challenging but the correction never
makes the habit. When it comes to correcting any
behavior, the correction will 101% of the time not form the habit
that you need the dog to form. Corrections and boundaries will never
form habits, period. The only thing that will actually form the habit of your
dog actually using it outside, is you putting a leash on the dog
or you leading the dog outside when they need to go, they use the
restroom and that feels good and you also tell them how amazing they are for
going outside, and then if you multiply that by 786 times in a row,
whatever number that happens to be, then your dog is gonna understand it.
But the opportunity to use the restroom inside your home, this is really where
you got to be smart about it.
This is where your wireframe crate and
management of the dog's food and water are gonna work wonders for you so that
way the dog understands like oh, I don't have any access here, and then when I do
get access, they're going to put me inside of this crate, maybe I don't like it,
maybe I do, but then what the human does for me is the human takes me out to the
place they want me to go and then they tell me how wonderful I am. And that's
absolutely what you should do with a dog. I get it, nobody wants the dog to
poop or pee inside of their home and it is difficult, nobody wants to have
a filthy home and I get that.
Let me add something else because
one of my clients had just graduated, had a dog they actually had
quite a bit of excitement peeing and so they're like, what can
you do? Well correcting a dog for excitement peeing
is a huge mistake. You can't do that because the dogs excited and they
really can't control themselves. So what you're going to do for the
dog is anticipate the excitement peeing and have the leash on the
dog well before the excitement peeing happens,
and then 100% for sure don't touch that dog.
If you have
a dog that has excitement peeing and you're going to go and you're going
to even think about touching, they're going to squirt all over
your floor. That's for sure. They just can't help it!.
