How to teach a chihuahua to a diaper and a tray?

Chihuahua dogs are miniature creatures of a complex nature. Not all owners have time to walk the dog, especially since for such a small creature like a chihuahua, a walk can end in a cold. In order not to risk the health of the pet and free up your time, you can teach such a compact dog to visit a tray or diaper as a toilet.

It’s not so difficult to teach a Chihuahua dog to use the toilet in a certain place in the house. The main thing is to clean up the products of dog life in a timely manner, as they quickly begin to spread an unpleasant odor around the apartment. This is especially true for boys. In uncastrated males, urine has a specific pungent odor.

In order to teach a dog to visit a diaper or tray without any problems, care should be taken to choose a place. It must be pet friendly corner. Most often, dogs prefer to relieve themselves, so to speak, at the border of territories, for example, near doors or at the exit to the balcony. Therefore, it will be the right decision to put the tray in this place.

The most suitable places for a dog’s toilet are a bathroom, a balcony, a corridor, an entrance hall. It is better if the tray is placed in a secluded corner. Do not install the toilet near the place where the dog eats. Chihuahuas are clean animals and will not be emptied where food bowls are located.

Absorbent diapers are sold everywhere, they are inexpensive, but given that the animal, especially in childhood, is emptied several times a day, buying diapers becomes very expensive. Therefore, lately, reusable options have become more popular.

It’s easiest to train a dog for a diaper. As soon as the puppy appears in the house, it is recommended to spread the diapers throughout the apartment so that the new pet does not stain carpets and furniture. You can understand what the dog wanted in the toilet by the following signs:

• the animal is spinning around itself;
• sniffing at the place where he plans to relieve himself;
• hesitantly whimpers;
• sits backwards.

As soon as the owner has noticed this behavior, you should say loudly “You can’t!” and take the puppy to the diaper. When a canine baby goes to the diaper to the toilet, it’s important to praise him and give him a treat. In the future, the dog will understand how, it turns out, you can simply get a tasty reward and achieve the owner's affection. At first, be prepared for the bewilderment of a puppy who went to the toilet anywhere and did not receive a treat for this, as well as mistakes.

It is believed that chihuahua boys go to the toilet more often than girls, but in general this question is quite individual. It all depends on the diet, conditions of detention, the state of health of the pet. In order to accustom a dog to a diaper, you can pre-calculate at what time of the day a pet usually sits down to satisfy natural needs. To do this, you can make a special notebook and make appropriate notes.

However, it is important to consider that the older the dog becomes, the less often it goes to the toilet. Already after reaching six months of age, the Chihuahua will urinate less often 6-7 times, and the bowel movement will be reduced 3-4 times.

To facilitate the process of accustoming the dog to the diaper, it is recommended that in the first days of her appearance in the house, she limit her free space. For example, you can leave the animal in the room where the diaper is located. Then the new pet will not be confused in the new place and will find the toilet faster. If it is not possible to isolate the puppy, then you need to put the diapers in each room.

When the dog becomes an adult, she will already get used to going to the toilet exclusively on a diaper, and then the number of such "litter" can be reduced to one. If the dog himself chose a certain place where one of the diapers is located, but this corner does not seem appropriate to the owner, then you can gradually move the dog toilet about 10 cm per day to the desired place.

Usually dogs go to the toilet for a smell. If the “toilet aromas” are carried from another source, then perhaps the puppy is right next to this place and will cope. If his last mistake was not removed on time, then the dog will probably take this smelling corner for his permanent toilet. Therefore, it is always important to leave the dog in your field of vision in order to get rid of its “surprises” in time.

When the owner leaves the house, the animal can be placed in a special home aviary. Inside the diaper should be laid, there should be bowls of water and food, toys should be left. This method will allow you to teach your dog a diaper in those hours when the owner does not have the opportunity to deal with this issue due to work.

A tray is a more economical option compared to diapers. During the life of a dog, it is enough to buy a maximum of three trays. It is a simple and convenient container for handling natural canine needs. However, often accustoming to the tray has to start with diapers. As soon as the Chihuahua learns to visit the absorbent diaper, you can begin to accustom him to the tray.

The pot itself should be spacious, a regular cat toilet in most cases is not suitable.For males, this should be a tray with large sides and a column in the center, since boys from seven months old prefer to perform the urination process near the "bushes". For girls there is no need for such a column. A properly equipped tray will allow the dog not to soak the paws, as well as save nearby interior items from splashes.

As soon as the dog has learned to go to the toilet on the diaper in a certain place, put a tray in this area. From above, for the first time, you can lay a diaper that is familiar to the pet, and then try to remove it. In addition, you can put in the pot a piece of the diaper used by the dog. As already mentioned, the dogs go to the toilet for a smell, and in this way the tray will attract the pet and motivate it to empty into the right place.

This method will wean the pet from the diaper. For accustoming to the tray, it is quite possible to use special chemicals, their aromas also attract dogs.

The process of training a puppy to the toilet in the house should begin immediately as the pet appeared in the apartment. This must be done very delicately so as not to frighten a new family member. A few rules will help the owner solve the problem faster.

• Praise the dog every time she goes to the toilet in the right place. Scratch her, affectionately call her, reward her treat.
• Do not yell at the pet that went the wrong way. Perhaps he was confused and confused.
• When leaving the apartment, isolate all things (clothes, toys, shoes) that the dog can stain or take as a toilet.
• Returning home, do not scold the puppy, who did not go out of place. Otherwise, in the future, the owner’s arrival at home will be associated with punishment and abuse, so the dog will experience stress every time the owner returns.
• Put the dog after eating and sleeping on a diaper. Usually during this period puppies want to use the toilet.
• Do not praise the dog ahead of time. That is, you should not caress a pet who just sat down in a tray, more efficiently do this at the end of the process.
• While the puppy is small, place diapers in each room. His bladder is still weak and unable to withstand a long search for a suitable place.
• Never poke an animal face in a puddle, a pet will be very scared by such actions of the owner.
• Remove all carpets from the floor during training. An inexperienced puppy can mix up a carpet with a diaper, stain it, and in the future this area will smell like urine and motivate the animal to urinate in the same place.

Nevertheless, walking dogs on the street is the best option. Firstly, the owner will save himself from daily cleaning of the apartment and airing, and secondly, the animal will breathe fresh air every day, which is very beneficial for his health. You can teach a puppy to the street in several ways.

• As already noted, the desire to urinate and empty the intestines in puppies occurs after sleep and after eating. At these moments, and take the baby outside. Let him do all his intimate affairs there. It may take more than one hour, but the responsible owner will ensure that the dog goes to the toilet on the street. As usual, praise the baby and treat him to a treat.
• If the owner took the advice on maintaining a special notebook that allows you to schedule a visit to the dog’s toilet, then he probably already knows what time the animal wants to relieve. And this means that it’s time to bring the dog out onto the street.
• If the dog is already accustomed to visit the diaper, take a few used or clean diapers with you for a walk. Let the dog urinate for the first time on his usual bedding, over time, the area of ​​her “toilet” can be reduced until there is bare land left under the dog.

When the dog learned to use the toilet on the street, the owner should remember the rules of walking the animal.

• Try to walk the animal only on a special dog site. Remember that you cannot walk the dog in the adjacent area. In the case of walking in the local area, remove solid waste from the pet. You can purchase special packages for this.
• Do not walk the dog in the playground. If the curious dog at the scattered owner nevertheless emptied into the children's sandbox, then again use the package for cleaning feces.
• Watch your pet, do not let him off the leash in unfamiliar places. Go around the pack of stray dogs.
• In no case do not take the puppy out to the street until the quarantine and vaccination period has passed, since for an unvaccinated dog the street is full of dangers in the form of serious infections.
• In rainy and cold weather, warm the animal. Chihuahua is a short-haired dog, it has a weak immunity to colds.
• Do not rush to throw out the tray if the dog is accustomed to the street. If at some point the animal becomes ill, then walking it will be prohibited. And this means that the pot with filler will come to the rescue again.

To learn how to teach a Chihuahua to a diaper, see the following video.