Catching Your Dog in the Act of Going to the Bathroom in the House

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Hi! This is Elise McMahon for Expert Village.com and in this video series we are talking about house training your dog. If you would like to find out more about my services, you can visit my website at canineheadstart.com. So, we are talking about what to do when you catch your dog in the act of going to the bathroom in your house. If you are employing good management practices, then when your dog starts to have an accident you will be right there and you will see what is happening. If you are with your dog and your dog starts to squat and pee or squat and poo, what you want to do is make a very sudden and startle movement, let them know, get their attention and then you want to scoop your dog up if they are not already peeing or pooing. If they are already peeing and pooing and actually I employ a method where I go right from behind and kind of squeeze their legs together, scoop them up and carry them out. You do not want to take a dog by their collar that is in the act of peeing or pooing and drag them out of your house. The only thing you are going to do from doing this is drag the urine or the poo all the way to the door. That is going to give you a much bigger mess to clean up. So it is very important that if you are vigilant when your dog is loose in the house that you keep an eye on what is going on, what they are doing; and as soon as they start to squat, you catch that ideally before they begin to pee and poo and you scoop them up and take them outside of the house. If they have not begun to urinate or defecate, then yes you can put their collar on and run them out. Just be aware of whether or not they are already in the act. You don’t want to drag it through your house.

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