Thanks to its natural beauty and playful nature, husky dogs are becoming increasingly popular. There is an opinion that for their maintenance you need a private house. But with proper care, they can live happily in an ordinary city apartment. After acquiring a puppy, a huge amount of worries falls on the owner, the first of which is to teach the new tenant to the toilet.
When to start?
The process of training and training should begin literally from the first hours the puppy is in the apartment. First you need to find out all the information about the toilet from the breeder and try to create the same conditions. If the baby misses, you should definitely ask - at what time, how he behaves before that. You should be prepared that the puppy is disoriented at home, and all work on the training will have to start all over again.
In this case, do not delay the start of training. A one and a half month old baby is already quite capable of understanding what they want from him. And although rare mistakes will be present, the initial lesson will be learned.
It is believed that it is possible to accustom a puppy to the toilet on the street only when he has been vaccinated. This is due to the fact that in street conditions you can not completely isolate yourself from other dogs, as well as their inherent diseases and infections.
And after the introduction of the last vaccine, at least a couple of weeks should pass. Therefore, the first months it is better to cope with all the needs at home, and only then go outside, leaving a home toilet for "emergency" cases.
What is needed for training?
The following options are most often used as a home toilet for a little husky.
- Reusable Diapers. Their feature is a multilayer structure. Due to this, they do not allow leaks on the flooring, inhibit odors and hold up to 2 liters of liquid. They are almost impossible to crack, and the top layer is moisture permeable and stays dry without staining paws.
- Disposable pharmacy diapers or newspapersthat are inferior in all respects to reusable dog diapers. But they are more accessible and almost always at hand or in the nearest store. Cheaper materials are usually used in the early days of training, as they require a lot.
- Trays. There are many models in the form of regular pallets or trays with diaper racks. For males, there are varieties with posts and a fence to protect the walls. When choosing a tray, you should pay attention to its size and the height of the walls (they should not be too high for a small puppy). For some models, rugs with a pile imitating grass are produced - this will prepare huskies for walking on the street.
For a toilet on the street in the first place you need to have everything you need for cleaning excrement for your pet. It doesn’t matter - a puppy walks in the courtyard of a private house or on a specially equipped for this dog area. The easiest option is to use a paper or plastic bag. For convenience, you can purchase special scoop. All this must be put together with a leash and other accessories for the street, so as not to forget.
The basic rules of the toilet at home and on the street are as follows.
- In order to teach a puppy to use a tray or diaper for its intended purpose, first of all, you need to decide on the place of their placement. The easiest way is if the puppy's movement is limited to a separate room or aviary. Here you can take any convenient corner under the toilet. If there are several rooms, the toilet should be in each, because the puppy may simply not have time to run to a specific place.
Over time, when the husky learns to control the urge, you can leave one diaper or tray in the right place - for example, in the bathroom. To attract attention by smell, at first you can take a piece from the old diaper and put under a new one.
- To help a puppy, you need to watch him. For example, you can track which place he likes best for the toilet. Or notice how he behaves before going to the toilet and timely send there. In general, most often puppies need this after eating and sleeping. If during the games the husky begins to behave differently (sniffs, spins in one place, freezes, begins to make characteristic movements) - this is an occasion to beware and help.
- Accustoming to the toilet is a kind of training. Therefore, the puppy must be praised for the correct actions. To do this, you must always have your favorite dog treats with you.
- Hygiene matters in the toilet. Husky is very clean, so you need to change the diaper on time, and regularly clean the tray. Puppies of this breed will not go to the dirty toilet and will begin to look for another place, and this is unlikely to please the owners.
- Accustoming to a street toilet is quite troublesome. First, the puppy needs to be taken out to the street as often as possible - an average of 6 times a day. In this case, it is better to first wait until the task is completed, and only then proceed to games or other interesting activities. This will not be easy, because the husky is quite mobile and inquisitive. Often the example of other dogs helps in this matter.
Do not forget about the tips - perhaps the animal itself will ask to go outside or in every possible way to show its intentions.
Possible problems and solutions
- Rare misses even before reaching the age of six months are considered the norm. Sometimes the animal may tune up or not run. And the owners do not always have time to respond to the obvious requests of the puppies. This should be taken easier. Of course, mistakes should be blamed, and immediately - until the puppy has forgotten what he did.But to punish huskies physically or poke excrement is not worth it - you cannot accustom an animal in this way, but it is quite possible to intimidate.
- At the time of training, only diapers should remain on the floor. Everything else is better to remove. The missed spot must be washed well and treated with any neutralizing agent from the pet store. The smell of bleach or other household cleaning products can work exactly the opposite and attract a puppy.
- On the street, young huskies are often scared and also distracted by foreign objects or other animals. Therefore, for the first trips to the toilet you need to find a quiet, calm place.
- Frequent failures - this is just an excuse to change tactics (replace the tray, review the mode, diet). Depending on the situation, more firmness or tolerance should be shown. In extreme cases, you can contact a specialist. If problems began suddenly, after several months or even years of successful trips to the toilet, it is worth checking the pet's health and appearing to the veterinarian.
In the next video, you will learn how to train a husky puppy in the toilet on the street.