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I have a 1 1/2 year old male boxer. I live in the country and since he has been housebroke I just open the door and let him in or out as he pleases. Lately he has been going to my neighbors house which happens to be my father in law and pooping on his sidewalk. While I have to admit it is funny my father in law doesn't think so. I there any way I can get him to go in the woods instead of on the sidewalk?

You are going to have to verbally reprimand the dog every time he heads over to the other house to go to the bathroom.

You need to tell him no, and take him to a spot where you want him to go......You will probably have to keep him on lead for awhile to make him go to the bathroom in the woods where you want him to go.

Well just pick it up afterwards. Shouldnt be a problem then.

it might not just be such an easy thing to fix did you father inlaw do something to make the dog upset it could be just pay back

I Guess Scare Him Away before He Poops Or Just Walk With Him For A Couple Of Days

Take him on the leash for a few days/ a week to get him to go where you want him to go... eventually he will get the idea... and his scent will be there too... this worked well with a papillon I had that my boyfriend's parents wanted to go in the wooded area of their yard instead of the lawn.

Also, I know this is about poo... but neutering him helps too if he's not already neutered... this could be a territorial thing (more with the peeing though)

Start taking him where you want him to go by putting him on a leash and wait until he goes then praise him when he goes there. You may need to do this a few times until he gets the idea that you would rather he poop in the woods then on the sidewalk. Unless he knows what you want him to do, he will do what he wants and where he wants.

just clean after her sure your neighbors are disgusting she knows

With all due respect to the students of the "positive reinforcement" technique, this approach demands far too much in terms of time and effort.
I advocate something much more direct, and will (more or less) accomplish the same end result. It goes something like this;

Dogs like nothing better then to eat - and enormous quantities at that. We humans generally act as canine appetite cops, and for good reason. We don't want Fido to blob out to the doggy equivalent of a sumo wrestler. Nor should we, it's bad for his heart among other things.

There are occasional exceptions to that rule however, and this is most definitely one of those occasions. Oh hell yeah.

The objective is for Fido to ingest so much food that he experiences a historically unprecedented urge to take a shit, and to do one at the earliest possible opportunity, without a moment to spare.

There is a marginal possibility that you'll get this so right that he's gonna shit all over your kitchen floor, but science is science and an occasional mountain of dogshit is a small price to pay for behavior modification...but I digress.....

Assemble the "breakfast of champions" which ideally should consist of burritos, fajita's, left over macaroni - in fact whatever you can dig up from your people food repository. Make sure it contains lots 'o meat, because as we know, Fido digs meat bigtime.

Now slather the pile of left overs with copious amounts of olive oil, and mix thoroughly. I'd suggest a laxative like Ex-Lax in there too, but that may not be necessary. Finally, pour about 2 bottles of brown ale in dish, more if the bowl is big enough.

I suggest the alcoholic beverage because after a heroic night of brown ale consumption, I can shit through the eye of a needle the following morning, and if I eat a hangover breakfast on top of that..well...the bathroom is uninhabitable for the rest of the day.

I keep getting acutely sidetracked, so back to the method.....

Make sure the beer is warm. If your dog is drunk enough, the positive reinforcement technique may accomplish the goal in the space of a couple of days. Yes folks, this is an effective tool for good time mamagement techniques.

Now let him get torn into his breakfast. Don't leave the room however (if you do, paragraph 5 applies for sure) because you need to be there when the result manifests itself. After he empties his bowl, (depending on such variables as metabolic rate, weight and activity index) Fido is also gonna need to empty his bowels - rather badly.

At this delicate stage, you need to calibrate his need to take a dump with acute precision. Wait too short a time and he's gonna deposit an even bigger load on your neighbor's sidewalk, and that's not what we're aiming for here....noooo....you need to wait until such time as he's almost ready to break the back door down with his paws, and gives you that crazed almost hallucinatory look which basically says; "if I don't take a shit RIGHT THE HELL NOW I'm gonna explode" and then release the back door.

Fido should explode out of the door like a shit powered guided missile and basically take an immediate dump on your doorstep, or fairly close by. The urgency will outweigh the choice of preferred location.

When that happens, fundamentally you're there. The cycle has been broken. Now repeat these feeding habits until he's patterned into crapping on your property (trust me, by the time he makes it out of the back door, he's just going to be overjoyed to eliminate the 3000psi pressure on his asshole).

What should happen then is that he'll pass out somewhere for a few hours to sleep off the effects of the beer. When he wakes up, give him more beer immediately, and after he's consumed all his beer, feed him another massive bowlful of people food laced with olive oil and yet more beer all over again.. He should get to the six-pack-a-day level within a week, and your back yard is gonna look like a B52 carpet bombed your property with dogshit. At that moment, believe it or not, you've won.