Why does my dog ​​relieve himself at home?

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"Money may buy you a very good dog, but it won't buy you wagging his tail."
Henry Wheeler Shaw, American Comedian.

One of the most normal problems that more dog owners come to me with, is that the animal urinates and defecates inside the house. What's more, 80% of my clients usually ask me that kind of question in the first session. And that's where the work with them begins.

Today we are going to see what are the main mistakes that humans usually make when trying to teach our dogs something so essential. Without further ado, I leave you with the entrance “Why does my dog ​​relieve himself at home?”. I hope you like it.

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Pet owners usually consider something very important that their animal respects the interior of their home, their home, and does not leave everything full of urine and depositions, an issue that is usually a great reason for estrangement with our best friend, Since being the main options that an owner at the user level handles, yelling and scolding him, this complicates the situation even more, and causes the emotional bond with our best friend to be degraded by both parties, causing us the fact that the animal relieve themselves of negative emotions of frustration and anger, which if we do not know how to handle them we will end up turning on the dog, which will translate into an emotion as destructive to learning as fear, which is something that we must ensure that our dog from puppy never experiment. At the entrance, Educating on an emotional level: The stress we humans cause, you will find more information on this topic. Let's go ahead and start with what matters.

The most common failure

You had to be human ...

Most of the time, humans become owners of a dog (or the dog our owner, many times you never know where the line is. It costs ...) without first informing ourselves a little about how the mind of the one who goes to be our best friend (and of which we have to be the best friend) or how to treat and educate him as a puppy, something basic if we want him to be happy.

The childhood of a dog is as important as that of a human child, being particularly important the period of its growth that goes from 3 to 6 months. That period would be equivalent in most individuals (with the well-known variations between races and sizes) to the growth period that goes from 4 to 12 years of a human child.

Popular culture regarding the dog makes us want to teach it through the same method that they have educated us in most cases, through reproach and verbal and physical punishment, which does not achieve good results in humans, Well, it was not going to be different in animals, and more than anything when they don't understand things like we do.

The method of repressing a behavior or behavior through violence can only lead us to amplify the behavior, which in most cases leads to more problems for our dog, which leads to more problems for us.

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The dirtiest and least effective schooling method ever

Most of the time I ask a customer how he has tried to teach his dog to relieve himself on the street, He tells me that he uses the old and wrong method of rubbing the animal's muzzle against the urine or stool, giving it a taste while it squeals, and as a final culmination, isolate him by leaving him locked in a room or taking him out to a patio or balcony. And normally that person when he tells me, does not expect me to tell him that the fault is precisely that and that the responsibility for the matter (which is not his fault) is entirely his. There are many who even deny it to me. I dedicate this article to them.

This method is not only useless at 1000% (make no mistake, I wanted to write a thousand) but it is also a nasty, sorry, I meant a GUARRADA, and that is above all a sign of how useless we are when it comes to educating another living being. If our first option when teaching something as important as that the dog does not urinate or defecate inside our home, the home we share with him, is such a nursery, we should rethink at that very moment if we have what it takes to guiding the life of a being who depends so much on his human guide (which is how I like to express it) for everything from eating, to going out to socialize.

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A puppy is a baby

A puppy is exactly the same as a baby. He can't and shouldn't stand to relieve himself all day. It is physically impossible, and for the same reasons as a child. His physique is not yet finished and his muscles are forming. Just as you would not require a 3-year-old to hold on all day without urinating, you cannot and should not require a 3- or 4-month-old puppy.

You have to internalize from the moment we take care of the animal, that a puppy between 2 and 6 months old has to urinate at least once every 60 minutes. If you are not going to be able to manage this, you better not have a dog. Or at least don't choose a puppy as a companion. When adopting a 4 or 5 year old dog, one does not normally encounter these problems. That is why the option to adopt must always be valued.

Are we asking too much? Yes, a lot…

And it is that a person who has not been trained or informed, who only has knowledge about a subject as complicated and extensive as canine education, has no idea what he is demanding of the animal, when waiting for him to hold out without relieve themselves for hours from a very young age.

We do not usually meditate that the dog is the only pet that has to go outside our home, a home that is also his, to do its basic physiological needs.

Birds, fish, cats, guinea pigs, and ultimately any of the different species that we have as pets, have a place inside the house to relieve themselves, while We demand that the dog wait and do it when we want (It is so in short), and we also do it from his earliest childhood. It doesn't seem very fair to me. The truth.

If we love our dog so much, we must try to make your life as easy as possible, as well as having all your needs covered and being perfectly adapted to our society. That is love, not spending all day giving him kisses and hugs and then hitting and mistreating him when he relieves himself at home without having explained what we wanted in a way that he understands. That is the important thing, and not believing that we love our pet more because we let him get on the couch.

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Why do you urinate inside and not on the street?

Different ways to fail

It is very easy to ask this question, however it is not so easy to answer it, and the solution is not easy either. It must be understood from the first moment that the puppy that is not taught correctly, is quite likely to continue urinating at home. And that is the reason that many times, that animal ends up on the street. Or even worse, in a seedy Zoo-Sanitary, pun intended.

Having said and understood this, let's see how dogs learn from puppies, and then some practical cases that I have come across.

Learning to do anything

Dogs learn in a very basic way, And their learning is based like ours, on an emotional terrain, valuing any new experience as "pleasant" or "unpleasant" and associating an emotion with it.

When the result of the assessment is "unpleasant" for them, they usually associate 3 types of basic emotions such as fear, anger or frustration. These emotions usually bring as a consequence an activation of their stress mechanisms, activating his sympathetic nervous system, which will make our little friend activate his needs and amplify any behavior, which is not very healthy as anyone can imagine.

That is why we must realize that rubbing a 4-month-old puppy's face with a puddle of urine, to hit him and then punish him, he will value it as something very unpleasant and as a result, far from having an educated dog, we will have a dog that begins to experience stress from a very young age and that we are the focus. This is not very healthy in terms of the emotional bond between owner and dog, nor does it have any didactic value. It's savage and we have to end it.

We can NEVER teach the dog by saying only what we do not like him to do, and less by physically repressing him for doing his natural needs or instincts. We will only be able to cause stress and end up developing a much bigger problem.

The problem with relying on physical punishment for education is that really the only thing that ends up being taught to the student is to resolve conflicts through violence. And that is not suitable for children or dogs.

This is the first step that must be changed if we want to be able to teach our dog to relieve himself on the street. It is not about punishing when you do it, as much as rewarding when you don't.

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Let's add stress to the equation

You have to understand what is the process that many dogs go through when it comes to not being able to contain their needs, being in itself a reason why they do not stop peeing at home.

Normally, a young puppy that is separated from its mother is already experiencing stress. This stress is usually quite traumatic and many times humans are not as empathetic as the situation demands, and we can make serious mistakes, such as trying to teach from punishment and reproach, which lead us to put him in a situation where he is not able to manage well, which will be a sure source of stress.

When a dog is stressed, he urinates more, Since by means of the urine it removes part of the excess of stress hormones that are in your body during stress. When you urinate more, you need more water, and the more you drink, the more you urinate. This is for the necessary to be able to balance and get to be able to enter a state of rest correctly.

If, in addition to the stress processes that he is undergoing, we add more stress, scolding him, yelling at him and separating him from the group, without him really knowing why, we will only be able to add more fuel to the fire, or more liquid to his bladder, as you want to look at it.

There are many people that what they do is restrict their access to drinking water or directly take it away. Serious mistake. This will only increase the problem, since not having permanent access to a resource as necessary for them as the water at their fingertips will only cause more stress, therefore they will need more water to be able to eliminate the excess stress hormones in their blood , and not having that water, will increase stress even more, thus initiating a loop from which it will be impossible for them to get out by themselves and in which your body biochemistry has a lot to say.

Human injustice

Apart from everything mentioned, it is very very unfair to only tell you when you have done it wrong and not when you do it right. And it is something very human.

Anyone who has a dog, and is very quick and forceful to scold him by giving him a physical blow, should be even more so to reward his dog when he does something with which he agrees and makes him happy.

To believe that an animal must take for granted that we are its master and that it has to be looking to please us all the time, is to suffer from a desire for greatness that is closer to being a sociopath with messianic complexes, than to being the best friend and companion of a animal as faithful as dogs are.

My puppy is exactly like a baby

Would you scold a 2-year-old human baby for urinating on himself? Would you see normal for someone else to do it? Certainly not. It is something very normal and human for our baby to urinate on himself, since he enters something natural within his development phase as soon as he is born. His anatomy is not fully developed, and his bladder and sphincter are impossible to hold on to. You must evacuate frequently. It is something natural as I have said before. Well, in the puppy it is exactly the same.

Not only is scolding him useless because he simply has no idea that this is wrong or that you don't want him to do that, and expressing it to him through violence will not make him find out faster or sooner, it will only make him feel burdened. stress and that will make them more insecure, when handling destructive emotions such as anger, frustration or fear from a very young age. Which does not suit us in the least.

What is better understood now because it is a disgusting thing to do, rubbing his nose for his needs and scolding him on top?

Well, if you have understood, there is still hope for your dog. But, Read this article again from the beginning.

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But what can I do Antonio?

There are no home remedies

You have to internalize it. There are no home remedies. There is no easy trick or any technique or tactic that can help us stop our dog from urinating and defecating in our home, which is his.

And they should not be guilty or that will only make us develop all kinds of negative emotions around the puppy, wearing down the emotional bond with him, which is degraded by both parties at the same time. And that is what we least want.

Talking about how to fix it

Well, being a very extensive topic, I have decided to capture it in a couple of articles, this first one where I talk about the most common failure and its different facets, where I try to make clear very basic things such as that the dog is a baby (if you don't have you heard about this, let's go wrong), that physical or verbal violence is not educational and that it can be dealt with a problem of conception by the human, of what the situation itself is.

That is why I invite you to a next article that I will leave you next week., in this your favorite dog page, and that will bear the descriptive title of "How to get my dog ​​to stop urinating inside the house". Do not miss it.

Without more a greeting and until next week. Take care of your dogs ...


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  1.   Azumi said

    In the end you gave many should not be and no possible solution. I read everything to run out of answers. Also, it worked for me Cocker to show him his poop and pee challenging him when he was not doing on paper. Now it is outside or if it rains it does on paper. And Something that makes sense for everyone is the tones of the voice: sweet if it does something good and associated with pampering and strong if you want to listen to it. And the times that I hit a squeak it hurt me more than my coker but he understood the idea. And it is the second pet that I raised like this and it turned out well, the other was a mini Maltese.

    1.    Anthony Carter said

      Hi Azumi.
      First of all thanks for commenting.
      I answer you in parts. If you read the article again, at the end I indicate that in a week there will be another article entitled "How to make my dog ​​stop urinating inside the house", where I explain useful and non-aggressive techniques and solutions, on how to educate a puppy and an adult dog to not relieve himself at home. It is a very extensive topic and I have preferred to dedicate two parts to it. This first part is more focused on teaching the physical (body biochemistry), mental and attitudinal reasons that influence this topic.
      Then about how aggressiveness with the animal will work for you, it is an issue with which I do not agree at all, and just like me, most canine educators and ethologists. Just as you cannot hit a human baby, hitting a dog baby, apart from making no practical sense, is having no idea what you are doing. Violence is the first resource of those who do not know what they are doing when educating.
      And I am not saying this because I want to, but rather it is something that is studied during the preparation in ETHOLOGY.
      However, paper training and voice corrections do seem to have worked for you. Of course, since you have combined it with physical punishment and confrontation, you cannot appreciate very well what has worked for you and what has not.
      Finally, when you hit a dog, the dog does not understand anything other than that he has a human next to him who mistreats him under certain circumstances. That is not the way to educate.
      Violence in education, whether in humans, horses or dogs, is something totally useless, since as social beings with emotions and feelings that we are, we tend to reject the message of someone who makes us feel bad, and you cannot fall for it. good to your dog if you hit him.
      Many times I meet clients (I am a canine educator, personal trainer, and nutritionist with years and experience, where I have worked with many dogs, you can enter my website or my YouTube channel if you are curious to see my work). their dogs ignore or attack.
      And that is because they have been beaten and abused as puppies.
      Once a client asked me why his dog had not defended him in a fight. I asked him if he hit him and he said yes, that he hit him for his good and to teach him. And I answered him, that I had taught him great and the dog only perceived danger in the environment, he feared for his integrity and fled. That is what is achieved with violence in education.
      And it could have been worse.
      It could have bitten him.
      Educating is something very complicated to do without a logical basis and without knowing what to do, and you can always learn to do things better, and above all respecting the emotions and feelings of our best friends.
      If you have any questions I will gladly answer you, however do not hit them to educate.
      It does not work.
      A greeting!

  2.   Irma Galvez said

    Thank you, first of all, for making us understand that we are not the same. Thank you also for making me understand that it is a baby that I am educating. I hope I can find your next article.

  3.   Pink said

    Hello, I have a PPP of 7 months and I live in the country. He comes and goes when he wants but preferably he likes to be inside. Every night before I go to sleep I take her out for a little while to see if she relieves herself and I even go with her because otherwise she stays at the door waiting. Not even so I can do it because every night he defecates and urinates in the dining room and kitchen. I have changed the time of the meal before I gave him at night and now in the mornings. We are desperate because it is getting worse and worse. I have two other dogs that sleep in their kennels outside and another little one that sleeps with one of my daughters. I need help please

  4.   Lorena said

    Hello, my dog ​​is one year old, and he poops at night I walk him 4 times a day and there is no way he will poop outside, I have another 10-year-old dog and she always goes for a walk she pees and poops outside, the one of the year he pees but he doesn't poop and I don't know what to do anymore

  5.   Lilia said

    My dog ​​is seven months old, she did learn to do it outside and on her trainer tape, I spend a lot of time with her because I work at home and live alone, I take her out for long walks where she runs, eats well, has everything and is happy, I play with her, but lately she enters the house to defecate, she can be outside and does not want to do and when I enter and being with her she defecates in the house and urinates too, honestly it makes me want to give it away, because she has everything and I do not understand that I can do more for her. If he had already learned to do outside, now what happens to him? She can't get enough of anything, she seems mentally ill. Is there a way to fix it?