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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  It's your job to find out the reason. I'm assuming the peeing isn't marking and is actual peeing, but maybe he couldn't hold it long enough and couldn't get anyone's attention. Sometimes, owners ignore pleas to go outside, and the dog gives up. I don't agree with wearing a diaper, I think this teaches them nothing. Some dogs have to wear diapers because they are incontinent, but for a normal healthy dog, it really is a mistake, unless you are going visiting where an accident would be deadly! You say in the title, "It's back to wearing a diaper," so it sounds like you have done this before. You never want your dog to get accustomed to sitting in his on waste. You need to be consistent in your training. It's great if he lets you know, he has to go outside, but you have to ask him several times a day, or just take him outside. Keeping a diary might help you discover why he's having the accidents, and when he needs to go outside. I agree with the others, a pee pad might be helpful, if you are not there to take him outside. Training them to go outside, and training them to notifiy you are two different things, and so this takes more time. If he had a doggy door, he might never make a mistake. |
The diaper is my husband's idea, not mine. It's either that, or give him away, and you might as well kill me if that happens! I love that dog!!!
We taught Logan to ring jingle bells hanging on the door when he needs to go outside, which he does. When the pee accident happened today, I was in the same area as Logan so would have heard him ring the bell or paw at the door. So, he has learned to notify us when he has to go. But for some reason, he doesn't ALWAYS do so. We have house trained a dog before and had no problems, so it's not that we don't know how. We have been told that Yorkies are difficult to train.
I don't know what else to do. My husband will not tolerate a dog that potties inside the house. Since Logan is almost 2 years old, it seems too late to pee pad train him. When I'm not here, he stays in his crate (NO accidents there). We tried leaving him in a gated room, but he hated it. I'm just at a loss but feel sorry for him having to wear a diaper. He is miserable.