Oh boy... where to start.
1) Before Ferdinand's neuter (he had it done about 2 months ago) he was 95% potty trained. He would have about 1 accident per week in the house. But ever since his neuter, he never asks to go out anymore - we will take him out to go potty and be outside with him for 30 minutes, then he'll come inside and pee right in front of us (thank goodness we have tile floors). Then as we're cleaning it up, he'll poop in front of us. I just don't know what to do anymore. The pee pads came back out this morning - and we're baby-gating him off from the hallway this afternoon (he seems to think the hallway is his own designated litter box). He chewed through the first gate, so we have to buy another.
2) The past week he's developed this horrible barking habit. He'll sit on the couch and bark, I'll firmly tell him "NO barking!," he'll stop long enough for me to tell him good boy (I usually wait a 30 seconds or so after I tell him no barking), then he'll start barking again.
3) Also, he sleeps in a crate next to our bed. For the past couple months he has been waking up between 4am and 5am wanting to go outside to potty. I'll take him out, then put him back in the crate, but he'll just whine until 7am when it's time to come back out. So I've been letting him run free in the house after he wakes up the first time so we can get some sleep. I thought he would grow out of the whining for 3 more hours, but he hasn't. Does anyone know how to break him of this and for him to be quiet until it's really time to get up? I'm sure letting him free in the house while we sleep for 2-3 more hours doesn't help with his regressed potty training.
Any advice would be so greatly appreciated. I just want my good little boy back.
