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Wouldn’t it be great if your dog would quit crapping on the carpet? Or wouldn’t it be fabulous if the dang hound wouldn’t pee in the cookie jar?
Here are five helpful tips that will have the dog only marking their territory in the toilet.
Toilet Train Your Dog in 5 Easy Steps
- Increase their pay. Are you ripping off your dog with the salary you give them? Well then no wonder they don’t use the toilet. Get the hint!
- Trick them with naked dogs. If you have a male dog then just tape pictures of naked dogs in the toilet room. Once seeing these hotties they are sure to mark their territory in the right place.
- Offer moist towelettes. Who really wants to walk around with dirty paws?
- Have a nice reading selection. You know, maybe they are tired of reading “The Dog Whisperer.” Maybe you should be offering them something a little more spicy like “Rex and the City.”
- Have 3-ply on hand. Who seriously wants to wipe with cardboard like texture toilet paper?
Following these tips will lead to a happier dog and a happier you!
What tips have you used to toilet train your dog? Share in the comments.
Hahaha…
does this work for cat poo, too?!
Na, cats will poop on the carpet and then make you like it. They’re impossible.
They actually sell a training device to get a cat to use the toilet instead of a litter box. It’s a series of litter box inserts (with increasingly large holes in them) that fit over the toilet and conditions the cat to use the toilet. You still have to flush, though.
Thanks for sharing the Binky but man that sure sounds creepy. What if I am sitting down on the toilet and the cat decides it needs to poo. No telling where their claws will end up.
Thats the worst part is the remnants left in the toilet. If only I could get my cat to cover his crap in the litter box, things would be good.
Lazy cat!
I like that Rex In The City idea. That made me laugh out loud.
Glad you liked it. I thought it was the crowning moment of this post
I pay Dixie in Doggie fake chocolate carob treats. I’m with George the Rex in the City was hilarious. The 3 ply s a great idea too, nothing worse than your claws going through cheap thin paper.
I never thought about their claws going through the paper.
They’d be a bit scratchy on the bum
when they are near the toilet attack them with a vacuum cleaner. My dog always sh%ts himself when the vacuum cleaner comes out
You’ve got one wimpy dog. It’s always funny how dogs put on these tough fronts but in reality they are just scared little kitties.
For dogs you should make a walk-in toilet and lure the dog in with food.
I’ve tried this. I usually use wombie meat. They wouldn’t even sniff it. Go figure…
I’m calling the SPCA!!
Super Pickles Crap Apples? Why in the world are you calling them?
I needed some apples.
A dog that craps on the carpet wouldn’t be an indoor dog very long in my house. Unless it was my fault for failing to let her out. And I’ve heard of those cat things Binky was talking about.
I’d like to see the dog on the leash go to the dog bag dispenser, grab a poo bag, nose the poo in, tie a knot in it and carry it in his mouth to the receptacle.
That would be some trick!
I believe positive affirmation is also a possible. That’s why I don’t play “Hound Dog” while toilet training my dog. I have started playing the theme to “Rocky.”
So simple but so effective!
My approach to toilet training is to teach by example.
For the first few weeks after new dogs join my pack, I encourage them to do their toilet outside by peeing in the garden myself
Not only does this teach them where it is appropriate to do their business (i.e., not in the house) it gives them the chance to learn what my pee smells like (a mix of beer, wine, whisky, and curry). I then mark our territory by pissing on the front drive (an activity best done in the middle of the night when few people are about) to help the new dogs find their way back to the correct house if they get separated from the rest of us in the park
P.S. I’ve found this approach to toilet training to produce quite good results with dogs – but less so with babies
They let you sign up for fatherhood?
Also, thanks for that thorough example of toilet training your dog!
Hey Mel, have you got any advise on how to stop my elephant pooping in the corner?
I think we are all wondering how big your house is.
Try this: Feed you elephant lots of pasta. Every time my wife feeds me pasta I can’t crap in the toilet let alone the corner.