 Going potty
I have two questions............
1. Do you let your furbaby outside with your other dogs without supervision or do you always go outside with them?
2. When I'm home, I go outside with Toby and he knows I have treats in my pocket and I am trying to teach him the command "go potty". It's probably coincidental that sometimes he does and sometimes he doesn't. But he only gets a treat when he does go. Sometimes he takes a LONG time to go potty because he is constantly standing behind me just staring up at me. He does not get a treat if he doesn't go potty and I'm hoping he is getting the hang of that.
We've had him (a rescue) three weeks now (he's 3 1/2) and just the other day he started hiking his leg on the edge of the couch. So now I only let him in the family room with his belly band on unless he's just gone outside and when I see him start hiking his leg I tell him no and take him outside. But he sometimes won't go when I take him out. He is neutered and the first couple weeks we had him he didn't do that. I also have a puppy pad in the foyer where he seems to like to have accidents. He usually uses the puppy pad if we aren't home.
Am I confusing the poor dog or is he just being stubborn and trying to tell me HE'S the boss? |