Why Some of the Common Methods to Stop Your Dog Pooping In The House Don’t Work

Dealing with a dog pooping in the house is rarely pleasant, whether you come down to it in the morning, or come home from work or shopping to find it waiting for you.
Now, if you’re coping with a puppy, that is understandable for a bit, and the same thing is applicable to an unwell or old dog, but when it takes place on a regular basis, it can suggest a different sort of issue altogether.
Ineffectual Techniques to Stop Dog Pooping
There’s a variety of different approaches that may be used when a dog poops in the house, but ironically 2 of the most generally used are possibly the least effective, and could even make things worse.
The first is to make a giant fuss and holler at your dog and scold them to show that you are annoyed with their behavior. But while shouting at your dog could make you feel better, this approach can backfire and actually make your dog more certain to do it again for the attention they get! That is due to the fact that some dogs would rather have your attention, even if you are angry, than no attention at all.
The other method is to rub their noses in it to teach them a lesson. But given what dogs are quite pleased to sniff at and even eat, I can’t see this is much of a punishment. This method is also highly unlikely to work if they did it a couple of hours earlier as a dog lives in the moment, so if you return home a couple of hours after the event and rub his nose in it, he’s unlikely to relate it to the fact that he should not have done it in the first place.
So Why Is Your Dog Pooping in the House And What Do You Have To Do?
After you cross out age problems or medical reasons, we need to look back to a dog’s nature to realise why it might be occuring.
We all know that dogs will scent mark their territory. In natural habitats this is generally done by the leader of the pack for 2 reasons. The 1st is to scare off trespassers who could be a threat and the second’s to give their own pack members a way to find their way back to the den. Remember, dogs use their sense of smell much more than people so this is an efficient system in nature, but isn’t appreciated in our world!
You may find that the most common place that your dog poops is at a main door to the house, because that’s where you leave from and the external world comes in.
Separating Dog Anxiety From Attention Seeking
Some dogs will poop in the house for the attention they get, even when it will not be positive. They are most likely to do it where you can see them, so the simplest way to react is to pay no attention to the dog when it takes place. Do not look at them at all, or speak to them. Instead put them out of the room where it has happened and clear up without making any fuss. If your dog gets no attention for this behaviour they can after some time stop.
However , if your dog only poops when they’re left alone, this points towards separation anxiety in dogs as the cause. Fundamentally, in your dogs panic at not knowing where you have gone, the best they can do is scent mark the house as they might do in the wild, in the hope you’ll be able to smell your way back to the den.
Separation anxiety can be more difficult to handle than attention seeking behavior, but if you think this is what is driving your dog’s behavior, a good de-sensitisation training course and a lot of patience will stop this taking place. Anxious dogs will really benefit from you being leader of the pack, so find out how you can do that too.
Author Venice Marriott first learned about dog anxiety with her own rescue dog Sherlock, and has been finding out about the effects of anxiety and the most efficient methods to reduce it ever since. Get more information on how to stop your dog pooping in the house when you vist her blog.
Working around distractions is easier to do for some dogs than others. The key to training a dog to do anything anywhere is all about generalizing behaviors and proofing with distractions.
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