How to train a chihuahua to the toilet

So, the house-voiced little puppy Chihuahua settled in the house. Naturally, the owner will have a lot of worries: how to feed the baby, how to monitor your health, properly care. And also the owner will certainly have to think about how to teach a Chihuahua to the toilet. And the dogs of this miniature breed are required will have to learn to cope with their natural needs at home, because that in a fierce cold or strong wind, these tiny dogs can catch a cold seriously. Let’s try to figure out how to teach baby chihuahua as soon as possible go to the home tray without leaving puddles and piles on the floor of the master’s apartment.

We teach chihuahua to go to the toilet at home

To begin with, it is worth noting that to train a chihuahua puppy to the toilet much easier than an adult dog. Perfect age for that at the same time simple and complex business – 1.5-2 months. If the doggie taken from the nursery, it would not be out of place to find out from the breeder exactly how toddlers in their first home. Can, puppies taught to write in a diaper? Or a young chihuahua had his own newspaper tray? If such information available, you can do this by bringing the animal to a new home впервые:

1. Постелить пеленку (газету, бумагу, старую ткань) в укромномcorner where the dog can always go. If possible, you should ask the former owner for a used diaper to the puppy smells urine;
2. When the baby eats, put him in a lesson;
3. If done, praise the dog and treat him to something;
4. In place of a dirty diaper, put fresh.

But in reality, everything is not so simple. Terrified puppy whom only brought to a new home, experiencing extreme stress. Because he can make a puddle anywhere. Scold the animal is not worth it. After wiping urine (removing feces), it is better to put a diaper in that place (newspaper or other). Next time a doggie right after sleep or eating once again put in the “toilet”. So have to do it every time until the dog learns, say, to write in the same place. The diaper should be pulled daily to the desired corner, where According to the owner, the dog should relieve itself. Only act you need to smoothly so that the puppy has a feeling that the makeshift the toilet stays in one place chosen by yourself чихуахуа.

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But it also happens that the puppy does not know at all that the toilet should be in a specific place. That is, the animal can lay a bunch under door or on the couch. Then it’s going to be a little harder to make accustom a chihuahua to the toilet:

1. Decide on the place of the toilet for the dog;
2. Decide exactly where the pet will go to get rid of processed foods and liquids. The best option is a tray with low sides (possibly feline), whose grille is laid clean medical disposable diaper. Optionally purchase a tray for dogs with a column or artificial weed, but this is not necessary;
3. After sleeping and / or feeding, put the puppy in the tray. Reveal the dog’s desire for the toilet is simple: the animal begins to fuss, sniff the floor around you, sit down;
4. If a puppy, for example, pee, you should praise him (“Well done!”), Pat, treat. And next time do so but having landed him in a tray;
5. If a baby chihuahua, sitting in a tray, jumped out of it and rushed to make a puddle in another place, have to be patient in once again placing a naughty dog in a tray;
6. You can “hint” a chihuahua that in the tray you need to handle natural needs, putting a piece of diaper (napkins, rags), on which there are traces of urine (or feces). So baby soon determine what persistent owners want from him. Generally in the first days when a dog is in the house you can slightly neglect the rules purity, changing the diaper not after each bowel movement or urination. Let the animal smell “its” smell;
7. If time goes by, but every time the tray is dry, and there are puddles in other places, do not get angry, but you need to scold the dog. Calmly, but it’s strictly worth pointing out a chihuahua to a “trick”, saying: “It is impossible!” (or “Foo!”). Only need to scold on hot in the wake, otherwise the dog will not understand what the owner is eating up;
8. To train a chihuahua in the tray, you have to spend a lot time. So that the baby does not have temptation in the absence of the owner pee, say, on a bed or on the floor in a nursery, doggie it is permissible to isolate briefly by blocking the room with the tray small plywood (grate or the like). So the baby will not have a special choice where to go to the toilet;
9. To train a chihuahua to the toilet at home, some owners put several trays at the same time in different corners of the apartment. FROM on the one hand, the baby will have a choice. On the other, it will contribute certain confusion: the dog will not know exactly where it is restroom.

How to train a chihuahua to the toilet on the street

Teaching a chihuahua to a tray in an apartment is not such a task complex. These dogs are quite obedient. They can understand what the owner wants from them. However a home toilet is a necessary thing, but a doggie must be able to manage things and on the street. Unfortunately, some chihuahuas are locked up, not taking out for walks. And in vain! Because any vaccinated dog (and even so small) should move, communicate with others animals, hear the noise of cars, people’s voices. On the street, animals usually not as lost as indoors. Smelling urine (or bowel movements) other dogs, Chihuahuas in a hurry to empty urine bladder or intestines. However, if the doggie is confused and scared, you can help him a little:

1. Take the animal outside after sleeping or eating;
2. Make sure everything is safe (no aggressive dogs, screaming people, car sirens);
3. Walk the dog a certain distance to the animal managed to go to nearby bushes (you should not rush home, otherwise the dog just does not have time to relieve the need);
4. If the dog walks for a long time, but, say, does not pee, then you can next time to bring along a used diaper, which the tray was piled up. You should put the diaper in any convenient toilet area (for example, under a tree or on the grass). If the dog will cope, it will need to be praised;
5. So that the pet has time to satisfy its physiological needs, rush during the walk is not worth it. If you pull the chihuahua by the leash and go fast, he just will not have the opportunity to make a puddle on I’m running.