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09-11-2007, 03:28 PM | #1 |
Stewie Rox the Sox Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Chicago
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| I Admit It... (throwing up an SOS!!) Stewie is not potty trained. He poo's in the house 2x per day, and pees in the house constantly. Now let me say... HE DOES PEE OUTSIDE SEVERAL TIMES PER DAY! - Probably around 5 times OUTSIDE total. Neither my boyfriend or myself ever catch him in the house, but he pees on the living room berber carpet, on any throw rug or area rug he can see. Also, he poos outside once in a while - ok, once in a great while. When he poos in the house, I bring him to it and show it to him (no, I do not shove his nose in it), and I give him a firm "Stewie goes potty OUTSIDE!", then I put him in the yard. I used to free-feed him, but I put him on a schedule instead (2x per day) to hopefully regulate his poos. NOW, PLEASE TELL ME WHAT I AM DOING WRONG AND WHAT I CAN DO TO CORRECT IT. We have two other dogs aside from Stewie, and I need him to start going outside like them. I am sitting in the living room right now, and the berber carpet reeks like urine.
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09-11-2007, 03:31 PM | #2 |
Stewie Rox the Sox Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Chicago
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| Should add... Stewie will be three next month...
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09-11-2007, 03:37 PM | #4 |
Stewie Rox the Sox Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Chicago
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| He has free reign - I don't really have a choice, since the other dogs have free reign, and the house is small - we don't want to punish the other dogs. Oh, and I've tried belly bands, but he pees in those - and then he got Urinary Tract infections from them. Plus they don't solve the pooing problem
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09-11-2007, 03:40 PM | #5 |
Loves Hannah & Gracie Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: washington
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| I have tried to potty train Hannah and she will go on the rug too. I finally had to put the potty pads back down, it beats her going on the rugs and carpet. I also take her outside often to potty. If I can't be with her I will try to crate her until i can be with her and watch her. If you figure out how to potty train yours let us know too. |
09-11-2007, 03:41 PM | #6 |
Stewie Rox the Sox Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Chicago
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| He won't use the potty pads - only if I stand over him and tell him repeatedly to use them. I seriously am going bananas. I'm a pretty resourceful gal and I feel like exhausted all my options :X
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09-11-2007, 03:41 PM | #7 |
Stewie Rox the Sox Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Chicago
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| oh and he pees in the crate. I finally just got rid of it. He's really a sweet pooch other than this! and he's smart! I don't understand why he just doesnt get it
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09-11-2007, 03:49 PM | #8 | |
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Set him up for success, and take him out on a leash every hour on the hour and stay with him until he pees and ask him to poop each time (whether or not you get poop out of him, ask anyway), gradually increasing the time as he is successful. Don't forget to give him his favorite treat each time he does this outside when you tell him. Also maybe hang a bell on the door, and as you go outside every hour, ring the bell yourself and say "outside." Then watch for clues that he needs to go outside. This will come later, but he'll learn the word. You also need to get your carpet professionally cleaned and neutralized to make it so he doesn't smell his work--thinking this is where he is supposed to go because he smells his mess there. Hope this helps. | |
09-11-2007, 04:09 PM | #9 |
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| Can't you just lock him up in an xpen, so the others aren't being punished, and he isn't running free through the house?
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09-11-2007, 06:09 PM | #10 | |
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09-11-2007, 06:24 PM | #11 |
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09-11-2007, 06:24 PM | #12 |
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| Bad Stewie. Well I will also admit that until about a year ago Bailey would go in the bedroom in the middle of the night.. sometimes I would hear him jump down and I'd get up and take him right out..but sometimes ..evidentally I didn't hear him. Our turning point was one night he jumped down and I reacted a little slow and I got up and flipped the light on and he was BUSTED RIGHT IN THE ACT he was like this and I was he jumped on the bed and and I just kept saying (as I cleaned it up) NO! NO POTTY INSIDE.. BAD BOY.. Bailey goes OUTSIDE TO POTTY! and it has NEVER HAPPENED AGAIN.. now when I'm slow to react to his jumping down he whines LOUDER and LOUDER until I hear him..no more just going. So the moral to my story is.. I really believe in the catching them in the act so they know what it is they have done wrong.. Like ..OOOO she's mad and raising her voice cause I did that..OOO in the house..OOO I get it. I have no idea if that's true but I'm telling you it worked for us. Good luck. If Bailey can get it so can Stewart!
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09-12-2007, 02:56 AM | #13 |
Therapy Dog Donating Member | Hi Kristy and Stewie...I belong to another forum for Clicker Training and someone just posted the same thing so I'm going to paste what one of the clicker trainers on that forum provided as a possible solution and one more from another....maybe this will help even though Stewie is older this was for a 2 year old: 1) Has he/she spent much time in that room? If not, she may not see it yet as part of her "den." Pups who are semi-housetrained will often go off to eliminate in parts of the house that aren't usual family hang-outs because they haven't yet expanded their concept of "den" to that room. That's why 4 month old puppies should not have free run of the house. :} 2) Hmmm, is your 2yo potty trained? Does she still wear diapers, or 'pull ups'? Does she have potty accidents, especially in her bed at night? If no to all these Qs, then, is it possible that there is some residual odor of urine in her mattress? If so, I would assume the pup is drawn to the odor of urine, and is just attracted to going where someone has gone before. A dog's scenting ability is so much more discerning than our own. I'd do some serious odor neutralizing with an enzyme cleaner in the 2 yo's room, and keep the pup tethered to me when on the second floor, if not everywhere when not crated. I'd take her outside for potty breaks more frequently, and avoid taking her in the 2 yo's room entirely, for awhile, until she has the 'rules' better generalized. Hope this helps and if I see any more responses from trainers I will post. I'm going to post this on the training forum too since there were several posts the last few days on potty training accidents.
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09-12-2007, 03:26 AM | #14 | |
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what's your typical weekday like? do you work full time or do you stay home?
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09-14-2007, 05:36 PM | #15 |
Donating YT 14K Club Member | SHAME ON STEWIE! He KNOWS better! Take up all the throw rugs! I had to throw my living room rug away after a couple of months because London thought it was her urinal!!!! I have the bedrooms gated off so that the dogs can't enter...with the exception of Gracie. I have a couple of pee pads by the back door that London and Dallas use...other than that, after I took up the rugs, we didn't have anymore problems. Good luck, Kristy!
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