Reverse Potty training can possibly cause frustration to a lot of pet parents.
Imagine walking into your bedroom and stepping over pee puddles.
Or accidentally smashing over a dog’s poop and having a mini-heart attack.
Few things for pet parents can become really challenging.
Dogs who are stubborn to pee and poop inside the home give a tough time to their owners.
Such dogs make sure that they release indoors despite how easy access they have for outdoors.
Though this condition may arise for various reasons anxiety, stress, and underlying medical causes top them all.
So, are you too having a hard time coping with your dog doing his business indoors?
Do your dog refuses to poop outside? If yes, then you have housetrained them a really wrong way.
Looking for how to re-potty train them? Consider going with the flow of this article.
Reverse potty training for dogs
As per researches, several dog owners give up on their pets simply because they cannot get through their habit of peeing and pooing indoors.
However, the pet parents who luckily found ways to improve this habit live happily with their canine buddies.
Reverse house training or reverse potty training for dogs can prove a challenging task for several pet parents.
Though with an effective approach and some patience in hand, you and your dog are definitely going to pass this hurdle.
Is Your Dog Reverse Potty Trained?
Several signs indicate whether your dog is reverse potty trained or not.
We insist you go through the list of questions below and find out the right answer for your dog.
- No matter how many hours you were outside, did your dog refuse to pee and poop?
- Do they signal you to get inside the house after just a few minutes of being out?
- Your dog just released himself the minute his four furry paws touched the indoors of your house?
- Your dog is guilty of their indoor business and often looks for sight when you are not focusing upon them?
If you have a YES for all of these questions, your dog is surely Reverse Potty trained.
How to Reverse potty train a dog?
Why do my dogs poop and pee inside despite training them the other way?
Why does it actually happen? Before you actually fight the matter, you need to go to the root cause of this behavior.
As straight as it can go,
- Some dogs pee or poop indoors simply because their owners fail to give them a chance to go outdoors.
- Puppies and older dogs have trouble controlling their pressure until you can take them outside.
- Older dogs with age lose their control over their bladder and bowel, which makes them do their business inside.
- Dogs suffering from canine cognitive dysfunction may tend to fail their training and thus pee and poop indoors.
- If your dog is not only stressed with the thought of doing their business outside but even refraining from going for a walk, they may have some kind of fear with that particular environment. It can be of any human who may have scared your dog or anything relatable. If so, find the cause behind it.
- Dogs under stress due to food, environment or humans may end up pooping indoors.
- Un-attentive training may lead to certain behaviour in your dog.
- Dogs who pee and poop inside may do so because of the extra cold temperature. Owners who leave their dogs at home unattended for long hours often forget to maintain temperature for them. This may lead to a drop in temperature indoors, resulting in circumstances you were not expecting.
- Dogs who have surface preference also end up doing their business indoors. It is because they were trained to poop over a blanket or hardwood floor. This happens mainly with dogs who were kept in cages for a long. Your living room carpet or your quilt may feel like the blanket they used to pee upon.
- Even young and healthy dogs can urge to pee and poop inside due to any underlying medical condition. Thus, as soon as you sense so, take them to your Vet immediately.
How to Re-potty train a dog?
Before you actually begin with the process of re-potty training with a dog, do rule out the medical reasons first.
If your dog is doing accidents at home due to any medical condition, you must then consult the Vet first.
While with adult dogs, your Vet will suggest you have patience as that voiceless being is certainly difficult to retrain.
However, in young dogs, both medical and behavioural reasons can be improved.
How to potty train an older dog?
Potty training adult dogs is a matter of high patience. Though these tips will somehow help you in the process:
- Choose a location that is not very far from your main door.
- Take your dog at least 2 to 3 times outside and every day at the same hour. This will help them remind and remember the reason they are outside for.
- Praise and encourage your dog to poop. While you find them take the position, say words like Yes, Poop, Good job, etc. This will remind them what they are doing here and are meant to do every day.
- Adult or old dogs who are really difficult to train for doing business outdoors can train them at your home bathroom. It is easier for individuals who have a squat toilet at home.
- For older dogs, consider using pee pads or building a soil corner where they can poop and pee indoors without messing up your space.
Toilet Training Your Puppy or Dog
While you welcome a furry little canine at your home, do not expect them to bring their training along.
Regardless if you have opted for a well-trained dog; then the scenarios are surely different and easy.
However, with untrained puppies, the first few days in the house are totally going to become a roller coaster ride.
Expect them to poop and pee anywhere they want (No jokes).
Though no one can take this situation for very long, it is better to start toilet training your dog from the very first day.
Wondering how? Here are some easy and useful tips.
Disclaimer: This Toilet training guide is for puppies and dogs who are fully vaccinated. Taking the ones out who are not vaccinated can lead them to catch infections easily.
- To begin with, set feeding hours for your dog. From morning through evening, give them their meals ad treats at the same hour every single day.
- When you have a new puppy at home, consider taking them out every 1 or 2 hours. By this time, neither you nor they know when they will like to poop. Puppies also have more urges to release themselves then grown up dogs.
- Take them to the same spot every day where they pooped the earlier day. Command them with phrases like, go to the toilet, Poop (name) and so on. The motive here is to teach and encourage them for the purpose they are here.
- Do not play with them outside until they are done with their toilet session. Even avoid extending walks before that. Else they may take the outing as their playtime or walk time.
- Praise and appreciate them once they have pooped and peed. You can even offer them treats as an act of encouragement.
With this, it will take no more than a week or two, and your puppy is trained for his toilet session.
The Do’s and Don’ts of Puppy Potty Training
Do’s
- Be consistent and patient.
- Have a Designated elimination area.
- Talk, praise and encourage
- Use keywords like Toilet, Potty, Pee, Poop etc.
- Know when to take your dog out
- Ensure a healthy diet that is full of Vitamins, Minerals, Protein, Calcium and fiber (basically all nutrients)
- Maintain a regular and timely schedule
Don’t
- Never respond with anger and frustration.
- Never urge them to stick at a place. Let your dog explore the area and choose where he wants to poop.
- Don’t stop training them too soon. Maintain the same pattern for a few months.
- Don’t lose your focus by engaging with some other dogs or humans during the hour.
Wrapping up
Re-potty training is a task with dogs; however, there’s nothing impossible associated with the same.
By managing a schedule and showing some patience, you can get through this job within no time.
They may take weeks and become frustrating; however, almost every pet parent has to go through it.
At the end of the day, only remember that for anything you want them to learn, your dog needs enough training and an overload of love.
