I have raised two poodles.
A few years ago, I raised a reddish-brown male poodle, two years old, very beautiful. Because the previous owner had a child, he abandoned it, which made it very insecure and had severe separation anxiety. But at the same time, he was self-righteous because he and his family didn’t know how to raise it (it would hit him if he did something wrong), so its personality became more distorted and it started to bite people. I had to abandon it and give it to a patient retired person. I felt sorry for it. So, here I want to advise those who want to raise a poodle. First of all, you must have the hardware conditions. If you don’t have a family of your own, it is not recommended to raise a poodle, unless your family is very loving and patient and likes dogs. Secondly, when the dog is disobedient, you can beat the dog, but don’t beat it for the sake of beating. You must be gentle, but the tone must be very strict and the command must be clear. If it does it right, you must praise and reward it in time! Praise works better! Believe me!
Now I have a white female poodle, who was brought home when she was 4 months old. Her personality is completely different from that of the male dog! Super well-behaved! Timid, obedient, and sensitive. When I first got it home, I didn’t dare to walk an inch. I shivered in the hallway, but I got used to the environment slowly. Since we have to go to work and are lazy, and the dog hasn’t been vaccinated against rabies or dewormed, the white dog gets very dirty when we walk it, so we basically keep it at home now and walk it once a week before bathing it. I’ll start walking it after the weather gets warmer and I’ll deworm it.
After I got it home, I first entered the stage of holding the poop and pee. At this stage, the dog can’t hold the poop and pee. If it pees or poops, it needs to be wiped immediately and sprayed with disinfectant and deodorizing water. I don’t know if we didn’t seize the good time for training or if there was something wrong with the training method. In short, the dog didn’t learn to defecate at a fixed point. Later, when the dog was about 6 months old, we also read many posts on Zhihu and learned a lot. Based on our own practice, we taught it like this: prepared a dog toilet, pee pad, inducer, and fence. Every morning at 6 o’clock, take the dog out of the cage and put it in the toilet surrounded by the fence until the dog has finished urinating and defecating, then take it out. At about 6:30 in the evening, when I get home from work, I also take it out of the cage and put it in the toilet. In this way, it basically maintained regular excretion for a period of time.
It would not pee at home or in the nest. However! When someone came to the house, it peed on the sofa once, and then the nightmare began. Because it could go to the sofa at will, it always peed on the sofa, and the sofa cover had to be washed almost every two days. I felt that this was not working, so I decided to teach it to go to the toilet systematically. First, deprive it of the right to go to the sofa at will. Every time it came up, I would tell it loudly: Get off!!!! If it didn’t go down, I would push it down. Of course, this was on the premise that it would definitely not get hurt. It was also very well behaved. It knew in almost one day that it could not go to the sofa at will. Secondly, reflect on my previous training methods.
I observed that it was actually quite resistant to the dog toilet. We couldn’t come back at 6:30 every night, and it was impossible for it to poop at 6:30 every day. For example, it actually pooped at 6:40 today, but we locked it in the toilet at 6:30. For it, those 10 minutes meant that it was imprisoned in the toilet without doing anything wrong, so it must not like that place from the bottom of its heart. And every time we carry it from above, it won’t take the initiative to go in. After further learning, I first removed one of the four fences, no longer imprisoning the dog, allowing it to enter and exit the toilet freely. Then I took advantage of the morning time to train it first, because the dog had been holding it in all night, so it had to pee at least in the morning. Although I was on vacation, I got up at 6 o’clock every day, first guided it to the toilet, put it at the door of the toilet, and let it go in by itself (this is very important!!!!), at first it may not pee, but come out immediately and play around me, then I continued to put it at the door of the toilet, after it went in, I squatted in front of the toilet, blocking its way, but it didn’t feel locked up.
And it can’t hold it in for long, it will pee immediately, then you have to whisper: pee! pee! After it has finished peeing, let it walk out by itself immediately, praise it at the door of the toilet, touch its head, point to the toilet and say, pee here! That’s great! Then give it snacks. Soon it learned to pee in the dog toilet. During this period, there were times when my dog peed outside, mostly when someone came to the house. At this time, I would hold its head, let it smell, lightly hit its butt, and sternly say: You are not allowed to pee here! Then I would guide it to the toilet, gently tell it: Pee here, and touch its head. Then, whenever my dog peed in the wrong place, I would find it and sit in the toilet in fear (maybe it was related to the previous wrong training). It already knew it was wrong, so I would say to it: Come out! Don’t let it think that the toilet is a place to be punished, otherwise it will resist.
Now 95% of the time, it will pee in the right place! And it will take the initiative to go to the toilet. But my dog is more troublesome. If there is a small area of urine on the urine pad, it doesn’t like to go in to poop, so sometimes it will poop outside. In fact, if conditions permit, it is better to go out for a walk.
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