 Help!!!
This is a duplicate to a thread I posted in the "Training" forum and haven't gotten any replies, so I thought I'd try here, too!
Drake is 8 months old and potty trained to use pee pads, which is how I originally wanted it to be! I trained him by using a crate in the beginning! It took a while, but we made it! He was neutered at a VERY young age...like 2 or 3 weeks! I was told since he was so young that he would never hike his leg or go through the "marking" stage and up until now, that was true!
He has always been inside unless he goes "bye bye" with me and when my hubby was on vacation for 2 weeks, he took him outside constantly for long periods of time! I noticed that he would walk behind our other dog, Harley, who is a yorkie/poodle mix but more like a standard poodle because he weighs 22 pounds! Anyway, Drake would walk behind Harley and when Harley would stop and hike his leg to pee, so would Drake! It was funny at first when he was doing it OUTSIDE!! He wouldn't always hike...just sometimes! Now he's been hiking his leg in the house and would do it on his pee pad, which was also cute while it was JUST on the pad! Now he's been going around peeing on everything and not just hiking his leg but also just squatting and doing it and sometimes right in front of me while I'm standing there watching him! There have been a few times that he pees while he's walking/running cuz there will be drips clear across the floor!
I have stopped him and taken him to his pad numerous times, have ignored it numerous times and have even spanked him for it but nothing is working!
I don't understand why all of a sudden and don't understand why the discipline isn't working! He did so good for months! I thought maybe it was just because he was learning to hike from seeing Harley do it but like I said sometimes when he pees on the floor, he squats!
I'm at my wit's end with this....I don't know what to do!!!! PLEASE HELP!!!!! Any and all suggestions/opinions will be greatly appreciated! |