In order to facilitate cleaning, it is recommended to buy a combination of the largest dog toilet + urine pad at the beginning. No matter how big your dog is, you should buy the largest dog toilet at the beginning! Because the dog who has just started to learn to defecate at a fixed point only knows that you ask it to defecate in this dog toilet, but it may not be able to defecate in the middle of the toilet every time, so it is often the case that the dog stands in the toilet with its butt sticking out of the toilet.
Before training to defecate at a fixed point, you must first arrange the dog toilet. Whether your dog toilet is in a fence or on the balcony of your own toilet, the most important thing is not to be too close to its sleeping nest. Dogs are also clean creatures, and they don't like to pee next to the doghouse. In addition, the debris near the dog toilet must be cleaned up, and it should not become something that interferes with its defecation. Male dogs can easily subconsciously lift their legs when they see something. If you are laying a urine pad for training, the area of the urine pad should be laid a little larger at the beginning to increase the chance of the dog defecating on the urine pad.
Dogs can't tell the difference between toilets and urine pads, so in order to let dogs know where they can urinate, dogs need your guidance and feedback.
1. When you see the dog's habitual movements before defecation, take it to the toilet immediately. If the urine pad is close to the dog, you can carry it directly; if it is far away, don't carry it, try to guide it to the urine pad to defecate. But at the beginning, the dog may fail because it can't hold its urine or doesn't understand your idea.
If you think this is troublesome, you can lock the dog in the dog toilet in advance 10 minutes after eating and drinking water, waiting for it to defecate.
2. It is difficult for a dog to urinate in a closed and unfamiliar space, and it will hold its urine even if it wants to. So you can only wait patiently, wait, wait, wait... The first few times of defecation on the balcony will take a relatively long time, but gradually the dog will understand the owner's intentions, and the time will become shorter and shorter! Never let it out halfway, otherwise it will poop somewhere else immediately after it comes out.
3. When you start to defecate, say the command "pee / poop"
When the dog is in the right position, use cheerful voices and food to express that they have done it right, and let the dog feel it.
Recognition and rewards must be given immediately after they poop in the right place. Reward them after they successfully poop. It is best to place a snack box near the place where the dog poops so that it is convenient for timely rewards. If you wait until you get home to reward the dog, the dog will not understand why it is being praised, and will not be able to directly associate peeing with rewards, and naturally will not learn to pee and poop in a fixed place.