Learn to Never Punish a Dog for having a Bathroom Accident 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 in this final clip here, we are going to be talking about never ever punish your dog if they have an accident in the house. You should have touched on that subject a couple of times in some of the other videos but if your puppy or adult dog has an accident in the house, it is essentially your fault. We are the ones responsible for teaching them that they cannot go to the bathroom in the house. They were not born with this knowledge. Dogs are typically naturally clean in the area that they live, sleep, eat, drink and play. They are typically naturally clean in those circumstances but especially with puppies, they simply do not have the mental capacity nor the physical capacity to hold it or to understand that your entire house is part of their area. So if you come upstairs and there is a large dump poo right on top of the floor landing, it is not your puppy’s fault. You cannot go find your puppy, drag him to the mess, stick their nose in it, hit them over the head with a rolled up newspaper. You must never ever use punishment for your dog if there is an accident in the house. I’ll just let you know what a dog learns from this. They certainly do not learn that 4 hours ago when they went upstairs and made a mess on that floor, that that was the wrong thing to do. What they learn is that in the presence of a mess of poo or a pee and associated with their owner, their owner becomes in a bad mood and is a dangerous person. We become unreliable to them. A lot of times people will say oh no, my dog knows when it has done something wrong because if I come in the house and I look at that poo then I look at the dog and the dog is cringing and looking guilty. Yes, because the dog has made the association that oh, if there is poo over there and my owner comes in and gets all big and puffy and then looks at me, I am going to get walloped. So yes they are making an association of the presence of poo and their owner and that is that poo makes owners crazy not I shouldn’t poo. That’s the message we are trying to get through to them. So you will just basically be terrorizing your dog and making them think that you are an unstable individual if you drag them up to messes and punish them after the fact.

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