Niko is about a year old and still has accidents in the house but this is if we forget to take him out. We still have to crate him when were gone otherwise he will have an accident, he hasn't quite learned how to hold it for too long, either that or he just can't.
He goes out between 530-7 AM poops and pees
When I'm home I try to take him out at 9 30 to pee depending on if he ate/drank or not and again at 12 (depending on if he ate drank or not)
Definitely again at 3 pm poops and pees
7 30 pm pees
1030 pm pees sometimes poops
We have bells hanging at the door and we always tell him Niko Ring the Bell! We used to take his paw and ring it and now he does it on his own but only if we are BY the door and are just saying it over and over again. As in we get a signal from him (he stares at us, barks, whimpers or sits kind of like 10 feet away from the door), We go by the door and say Niko Ring the Bell Ring the bell and he does it like hes got marshmalllow paws..just like meehhh and he rings it then we put the leash on and out the door we go! He needs us to tell him to do it or we need to be on our way out in order for him to do it on his own. He never goes there and just rings it to indicate he needs to go. So to him its just another task he does before he gets outside..were hoping one day he will make the connection. We're still working on it, its been about 3 months now but maybe one day he will be able to run up to it and ring it so that he can tell us he wants to go out! |