How to get my dog ​​to stop urinating indoors

"If a dog doesn't come to you after looking at your face, you'd better go home and examine your conscience." Woodrow Wilson- American politician and lawyer, 28th President of the United States

In my previous post from last week, I told you what were the main factors that made our dog continue to relieve himself inside your house. Analyze only the main reason, which for me is none other than the total incompetence of the human who teaches a puppy through violence and repression, which is equivalent to a baby. This is something super normal to happen. Come on I would say 98% of the time. And I'm being cautious.

A baby dog, if it is left room for error and is educated correctly, has all the possible possibilities of learning which is the place where it has to relieve itself and which is none other than on the street. And that is what we are going to learn here. Without further ado, today I leave you with the entrance, "How to get my dog ​​to stop urinating inside the house". I hope that clarifies your doubts.

Getting our dog to start urinating on the street is not a matter of one day, not two, and there is no infallible technique (since it depends on the reason why the animal makes them), neither master formula, nor possible medication. This should be very clear from the beginning.

If you put into practice one or some of the techniques that I teach in this article and the dog continues without stopping to relieve itself inside the house, I recommend that you look for a Canine Educator with demonstrable experience. All problems cannot be solved by reading an article in a magazine or blog. That is only the first level when it comes to solving the problem. If we see that there is no improvement, we must consult a professional.

Before you start reading this article, I recommend reading two previous posts of mine, as they are Educating on an emotional level: The stress we humans cause, and Why does my dog ​​relieve himself at home? the latter being a must-read.

I am going to do two chapters in this article, one dedicated to how to train a puppy dog ​​from the beginning, and another to how to try to solve the problem with an adult dog, something a little more laborious. Let us begin.

Dogs

Educating from the beginning

Educating a puppy dog ​​to urinate and defecate outside the home has three main keys, which must be considered with equal importance:

A puppy is a baby

I hope that was clear in the previous article where I dealt with the subject, since it is essential to understand this. The baby puppy cannot hold his sphincter for long. This must be assumed. You will have to relieve yourself once every 60 minutes minimum, and paper training is recommended, which I will explain later.

Forecast and supervision

At first it is something that must be assumed as well. We will have to watch him and be aware of him. There is no puppy that lasts several hours without eliminating. You have to be proactive and put places around the house where you can put the training with paper into practice, and then you have to supervise it to see the exact moment of when it is going to be done (later I will give you a good trick to guess it) and be able to transfer it to the area enabled for it.

Sincere love and congratulations

We have to be aware that sincere congratulations are more educational and contribute more than all the screams and blows in the world. There is a saying that applies to this that says: "You can more a teaspoon of Honey, than 10 liters of Vinegar"… And this with our dogs is doubly true. We have to be aware that during a certain time of our life, we will have to be very aware of our little friend, and that he will only have a childhood, just like us. And may he spend that childhood happily and may he learn everything necessary to live the rest of his life next to us, it is our responsibility.

We must try to make it clear to him when we are happy with what he has done, so that we can scold him some day and not the other way around. We have to give it a chance to fail. It is necessary. Show him our love and that we agree with what he has done, it may be the best incentive to achieve our goal.

Training to urinate on paper

Foremost foresight

We must be proactive, and have several areas prepared within the house or within the areas that we enable for him inside the house with newspaper. This is vital.

Ideally he wakes up nearby or we move him within the area as soon as he wakes up of one of his naps, and we keep him there, without violence and without forcing him, until he relieves himself.

So we must congratulate him sincerely and effusively, showing him that this is what we expect from him. It is necessary Let us do it in a sincere way or he will notice. It is difficult to fool a puppy, even if it doesn't seem like it to us. We must be as sincere as possible and give him the importance that this has for him. We have to dedicate his moments to him.

Once you've done your business, we must let him leave the area prepared with newspapers, and that he does what he wants or what we have prepared for him, without ceasing to be aware of our little one, since it is the moment of supervision. We already know that something will be done again within 60 minutes, so we must supervise it, And when you start to smell the ground with your nose move him to one of the designated areas for him to relieve himself inside the house. There we must keep him waiting for him to do whatever it takes, to sincerely congratulate him again. At the beginning the areas that we prepare with newspapers will be large and wide, and as we learn we will shrink them.

These guidelines must be followed, until the sole motu of his own go to relieve yourself over the areas where there are newspapers.

And now, supervision

If while the supervision lasts, the puppy is careless and is done outside the authorized area, we must not scold him unless we catch him at the same moment, that what we will do is make fun of him and verbally scold him, never hit him, and above all never never never do it if we don't see him doing it. If we don't see him, we can't punish him. It has to be catching it right when it's doing it, or else it won't do us any good. At the beginning, the supervision has to be constant.

The moment you see that he is about to urinate or defecate, take it to the closest area that you have enabled and leave him there to calm them down and congratulate him with a good tone of voice and a caring attitude when he's done.

How to clean

It is very important clean the rust first with paper or an absorbent cloth and then apply the mop with a strong-smelling cleanerIt is very important to follow this protocol, since we must never, never, ever clean first with the mop or what we will do is spread the smell. We will not clean a carpet or carpet with water either, or all we will do is spread the smell. We must use cleaners that ensure that the smell will disappear.

That paper with which we have cleaned, we'll put it under some newspapers in the area that we have enabled for the dog to relieve itself, in order to stimulate its sense of smell.

It is very important completely eliminate the smell of where our puppy from areas that we have not enabled for him to relieve himself. It is necessary to do it well, or our puppy will go there again to do it.

Tone of voice is very important

Tone of voice is very important too. In fact, it is most important. Screaming and yelling will only make our dog fear us, which will lead him to lose interest in us, something that degrades our emotional bond with him, both on his part and on ours. The ideal is to scold him in a mocking tone, and after having done it, ignore him for a while, taking away as much attention as possible at that moment. You have to scold him with the same intensity as a child you catch painting on the wall with chalk. Seeking to educate without traumatizing.

Always with water at your fingertips

The puppy must always have plenty of clean water at his fingertips, so as not to aggravate the problem. A puppy needs to drink frequently. Not having abundant water at his fingertips when he needs it, is a source of stress for our baby pet, and that is something that we should not allow.

And at night

It is very important to face this problem logically, and as I have already said, be proactive. If we are going to bring a puppy home, we must know that we are going to have to teach him to relieve himself, and for this we must create a plan.

Within this plan, apart from contemplating all the factors that we have been summarizing, we have to know what we are going to do at night, or in those moments when it does not have supervision, our baby puppy will fill the house with urine and stool.

The best choice is to pose the issue as something temporary, so as not to give it any kind of validity in time, and that it does not become eternal. For this, foresight is essential.

If we are going to have a puppy at home, it is best to accustom it to always sleeping in a room or bathroom or bedroom, that it does not pass cold or heat of course, that we can enable with newspapers during the night. If we used to sleep with us, later it will be very difficult for us to start sleeping alone at night. We can also delimit a part of our room for him, and have it fully prepared with newspapers. Whichever option we choose, once we get up from sleep we must clean it entirely of newspapers, and place them clean again the next day. The point is that when you get up at night always relieve yourself on an area prepared for it.

When picking up is an option

When you see that one night he has done all his needs on the newspapers, then start to remove newspapers progressively, starting with the area closest to where he sleeps and ending with the most distant.

First we remove those that are close to him and we always leave the area for him to do his little things further from where he sleeps. The ideal is to start by removing one sheet every 48 hours, leaving only the one that is located in the exact place where we want it to be done.

This time can last from 15 days in the younger puppies and from 3 to 6 weeks in the puppies of 8 to 12 months. We must have patience and knowing that he doesn't want to do it, we just haven't been able to make it clear to him.

Moving it out

As time goes by, our puppy will begin to go outside. We can prepare sites for you wherever we go, which will be tremendously easy if we have done everything that I have indicated above.

We can prepare a site for you in a patio, on a balcony or on the street. We must do this only and only when make no doubt that our dog knows what newsprint is for.

How to take it to the street

Once you start to urinate and defecate on the paper that we have put in the prepared area, We will sincerely congratulate you. That is that he has understood it perfectly and that you did it well.

If not, we will stay with him near the area for a while, playing with him or pampering him, until eventually he goes to paper and does so. If you have done your job well and he has understood it, surely this step will be easy.

If you see that your dog does not relieve himself on the street and you have been with him for a long time, nothing happens. Give it some play, relax, and take it home, and try again in a few hours.

A couple of easy tricks

We must be attentive to the signs that he manifests of nervousness, and at that moment go with him to the outside to urinate or defecate. Must always accompany you to be able to reward you and tell him that he has done well.

We should never go home, just urinate or defecate, or begin to hold on to make the ride last longer. Stop him, uploading him in the instant after he has relieved himself is more of a punishment than anything else. You have to stay with them on the street for 10 or 15 minutes before climbing it, playing or doing any other activity. A good protocol to follow, is to give him play as soon as he does his first needs. He will understand that the game begins as soon as he does them and that will get him used to doing it as soon as he leaves.

love is the key

This subject (the one who does his needs inside the house without wanting to) it must be approached with love and affection. The dog is not a toy, it is not a thing, it is a living being with needs, instincts, desires and desires, and we must be aware of this from the first moment we took it into our family. You cannot manage the education of an animal properly if we are not well connected with it emotionally. This is merely impossible, and more so with a puppy.

Adult dogs

Different approach

The way to appreciate the problem of a dog relieving himself at home as an adult is something totally different from when he is a puppy. And that's why this chapter is more about raising awareness.

I am going to assume, that it is an adult dog that comes from a kennel or that it is a dog that has changed owners or something similar. If not, it is impossible for me to understand how someone has been able to allow their dog to urinate and defecate at home for years, without seeking specialized help. I can't understand it.

Stress in adult dogs

An adult dog that undergoes changes in his life, even if they are improvements, will be totally immersed in a process in which his sympathetic nervous system will have activated his stress mechanisms, producing his neurons the stress hormones, which when accumulated will need time, patience and work by humans who tutor the animal, so that it can eliminate them from the body.

In order to eliminate them, several changes will have to be put into practice in the animal's life that will give it the necessary peace of mind to find its balance. and thus be able to eliminate stress hormones.

This excess stress hormones, will make you need more water, and by drinking a lot of water, you will need to urinate very often. This is so and there is no more.

The easiest way to be wrong

Act quickly. be aware and consistent with the problems our dog may have and help you the way you need to.

Yelling, scolding, punishing or hitting an adult dog that urinates at home, apart from that it is useless, it is savage and it does not lead to anything more than to break the emotional bond, which should be the basis of the relationship with our animal.

It is necessary to take into account when taking any type of measure to tackle the problem, that we ask a dog more than any other pet. We demand more good from him.

How much we ask the dog

A dog from puppyhood is required not to urinate at home, to learn to respond to our voice quickly, to listen to us even when we are not there and he has been waiting for us for hours and hours, and a very long etcetera that of course we do not ask or require any other animal species of which we use as pets. Both cats and parrots and fish are not required to relieve themselves indoors. They have an area prepared for inside the house for those occasions. Think about what you are asking of an animal.

You have to empathize with the animal and know that the dog is a clean animal by nature. He does not like to relieve himself in the home. Many times it is a matter of time before he just learns it. It is many times about using understanding and logic, combined with guidelines and protocols that help us redirect the situation to where we want, using love and intelligence.

Understand the problem

An adult dog that has undergone many changes in its life or that has just been adopted, or that has changed families, is prone to feeling stress and While this process lasts, you will need to urinate more than normal. We must be aware that by choosing to adopt a dog, we are also bringing with us the problems that that dog has or may cause.

An adult dog is usually a very clean animal that he does not want to relieve himself within the family home. It can become normal for you to have an accident one day, however if you do it normally, it is a sign that you have a distress problem. We must be patient and understand it for what it is, just a stage.

That is why I insist once again that when a dog is stressed either due to a change of address or adoption, or because it has a continuous focus of stress at home, you are usually thirsty because you need more water, This thirst makes your bladder fill up sooner and if you have to hold on, it will cause you more stress, so you will be thirsty and need more water, thus starting a loop. If we also scold or scold him, and on top of that we are aggressive in doing so, we will be adding much more water to the fire. It is not the correct option.

The right choice

The correct option with an adult dog is to accept that it is going to be in this situation for a while that makes us feel uncomfortable, and from there to work on it:

• The first thing is to eliminate all possible sources of stress, as well as working with the aforementioned tools such as forecasting and supervision.
• I always recommend getting ready. We must write down what time and where your needs are done, in order to have a rough idea of ​​what time and where it does it.
• We have to try to lower it at those hours where he usually does it on the street and after he does it, reward him with games or food.
• We cannot scold him. We can poke fun at him (in a soft and friendly tone), but only and only if we catch him doing it on the spot.
• We must clean very well with absorbent paper and a strong-smelling liquid cleaner the place where you have done it.
• A stressed dog you need to go out more often to be able to give you the option of doing it there. Always reward with some attractive prize for the how to sausage.
• When his needs are on the street, we will never go home quickly, but we will spend 5 or 10 more minutes with him.
• If possible, we can have a newspaper area ready for you and we won't tell you anything if you do it there. You may be a very stressed dog. Once we reduce the stress on the animal and see that it is balancing, we will eliminate that prepared area.
• You have to give your time and seek information on how we can reduce stress in our animal.

We must have patience

It is essential to give your time and your place to the problem of our dog, and not react aggressively to the problem that it presents us. Many dogs for adoption are returned to shelters due to the impossibility of the adopters to teach them to relieve themselves on the street, and this would have been avoided by being more understanding and knowing that it is something temporary that with love and patience can be solved.

Without further telling you that until next time and that you take care of your dogs.