When you come home, if you see a pee on the floor, the most useless thing to do is to punish the dog. Because when you see the pee, it's already a few minutes later and they have forgotten what they did. Punishing a dog for not remembering what they did will only confuse them.If you want your dog to know that it's not good, you need to catch it when it poops or pees in the house.
1. Use a calm tone
If you see your dog pooping, yelling, chasing or hitting it will not work. In fact, this behavior may make them afraid of you and hide from you when they pee.
If they are afraid of you, the dog is more likely to hold it in. In serious cases, they really can't hold it in. They may eat the poop as soon as they finish pooping so that you don't find it.
2. Interrupt the dog quickly and quickly
To make sure the dog understands that it can't poop randomly, you must catch it at the moment the dog poops randomly. But many people will ask, if you catch the dog right away, but can't punish it, how to guide it?
The answer is that when you see the dog is about to poop or pee, interrupt it quickly with a phrase like "no", and then guide it to the right place to poop. Your interruption may cause the dog to pause their defecation. After guiding, wait patiently for the dog. The dog will have the urge to defecate only after it is calm. If the dog defecates on the urine pad, you can reward the dog immediately.
If you use urine pads, it is best to fix the location and do not put them in multiple places in the house. This will only confuse the dog. It cannot understand the difference between urine pads and carpets, nor can it understand why it is allowed to walk around in many places in the house, but not in other places. So, if you want to use urine pads, keep them in one place.
3. Reinforce dog defecation many times
Dogs are straight-forward and have a strong sense of time. If a dog has finished eating for a while, you can guide the dog to the urine pad to defecate and reward it. After multiple trainings, it will realize that it will be praised and rewarded for its performance when it defecates on the urine pad next time. Remember, the more often a dog is rewarded for a behavior, the more often it practices this behavior!