A cute and beautiful shih tzu, if it has the habit of urinating everywhere, its beauty and well-behaved will be greatly reduced in the eyes of the family. The Shih Tzu’s bad habit of urinating and urinating is not only its own bad habit, it will also affect the family’s life and bring some trouble to the pet owner. Today I will share with you how to train a Shih Tzu puppy to use the toilet.
How to potty train a Shih Tzu puppy, just 5 steps.
Step 1: Spread newspapers where you want your Shih Tzu to go to the toilet. This is because Shih Tzus won’t be so smart to defecate and urinate directly on the newspaper for the first time. After letting it defecate on one of the newspapers with your encouragement, its training memory will be “newspaper + defecation = encouragement”, even if it is the first step to success.
Step 2: 10-20 minutes after feeding or after the activity, gently guide the Shih Tzu to the toileting spot. Close the door, let it move around in the space covered with newspapers, and use words to encourage it to defecate.
Step 3: once it has the intention to defecate, please don’t disturb the Shih Tzu pictures physically, but give verbal rewards at the first time. Such as “Good!”.
Step 4: When it finishes excretion in the newspaper, please continue to give soft encouragement. At this time, you can stroke its head and back with your hands. The purpose is to make Shih Tzu like this behavior pattern, generate memory and be willing to repeat this behavior.
Step 5: Complete During the training, if the Shih Tzu can defecate on the newspaper, gradually reduce the number of newspapers, and finally reduce the number of newspapers to one block, and the Shih Tzu will still go to the toilet in that position. Try to repeat the above training procedures at a fixed time every day, and finally the Shih Tzu will take the initiative to go to the toilet and defecate in the area of the newspaper.
Tips
Since the Shih Tzu is usually lazy, it will always have some discomfort during training. In order for it to be willing to accept the training content, we can use food to lure it in our daily life. With the stimulation of food, I I believe it will like this training process. Shih Tzu is actually very smart. As long as the method is correct, it can learn all the skills in less than a week.
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