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Originally Posted by Jammer1973  Ok I guess I should be a little more descriptive:
1. She sleeps in her kennel at night, she is let out before we go to bed (10-11) and at 3am every night she has to go out. Not a UTI she has just recently gone to the vet and that was ruled out.
2. Grass outside: yes she hates it when it rains and she will not get in the grass if it is wet. Also if we are not closely watching her when it rains it is guaranteed that she will not only poop but pee in the house. VERY IRRITATING...
3. During the day she is in the bathroom with a peed pad, we are gone for about 10 hours during the day.
4. Main problem is when we are home or want to run to the store real quick:
a. we leave for the store and get back say no more than 45 min and there is poop on the floor. She immediately runs to the kennel when we walk in know that she has been bad. I keep trying to tell Autumn that if we are not there she has to be in the bathroom or the kennel and she says that is so cruel she is penned up all day..... yadayada....
b. we are watching tv she get away from Autumn and within seconds there is poop on the floor.
5. She has a dog door, she has a pee pad. When she has been bad Autumn takes her to her accident and and firmly says no and puts her outside and closes the dog door.
a. is this a bad idea? Will she register that outside is the place for being bad or will it register that Autumns says bad girl potty out side?
Frustrated in Houston......... |
OK - Number 5. I think taking her to her accident is NOT right and putting her outside she is associating outside with bad things and not outside with "the place I pee and poop and get good food" Dont do this, it's just going to make it harder and worse. Also, if you haven't used Nature's Miracle to clean up the smell, it's literally like throwing someone out of the house for peeing in the toilet. Where she smells old pee and poop is the place she goes. You need to be able to praise her for doing whats right, so you need to know when and where she's doing it.
Number 4. a crate would eliminate this problem. Sometimes dogs get anxious when people leave, but if her crate is a safe place, she'll be fine and she wont go to the bathroom. Personally, I feel better about having Banks in the crate, I know he's safe and cant get hurt in there.
Number 2. rain or shine, she needs to know that outside is the place to go, which means you AND your girlfriend need to get your umbrellas out and take her out to pee and poop. Banksy doesn't like the rain, but he knows he's gotta go outside, so he has no choice.
Lastly, have you thought about a dog walker for the weekdays. This would help with house trainging and you could crate her during the day which would eliminate any inside vs. outside problems. it's not that you can NEVER use pee pads, I just think since she's got so many issues, you should just take things one step at a time.
Good Luck!