Please help! Our boy is a year old next week, and still uses the bathroom where've he pleases. During the day, he goes outside, but only if I take him out every 30 minutes, and even then, he will just sit on the back stoop, ad not go in the grass. I have to physically put him in the grass, and make him stay out til he pees. We crate him at night, but he whines and barks all night. Literally. My husband and I are getting no rest at all at night, and the sleep we are getting is extremely interrupted. If we put the crate in another room, he barks and wakes up our boys. We have tried not crating him, but he goes to the bathroom everywhere, and destroys things.
We crate him at night now, and when my husband gets up for work, he lets hum outside, he feeds him, and immediately takes him back outside. This morning he said he was out for over a half hour, and he let him back in. While he was getting his shoes on, Hercules peed all over the couch
. When I woke an hour later, he had destroyed a huge bag of paper that we had to take to recycling. It was on the table, and my only guess is there was a bit hanging down, and he jumped up to get it.
If we crate him while we are gone, even an hour, we come home to a mess in the crate, which means a bath for Hercules, and a thorough cleaning of the crate. If we gate him in the kitchen (only room without carpet), he manages to still pee at the edge of the carpet in the dining room, and we have no idea how. He will pee and poo, and walk thru it. We have tried puppy pads and newspaper, but even taped down, he manages to dig thru them and make a gigantic nasty mess.
When we got Hercules, he was 5 months old, and trained to go on newspaper. We tried to continue that here, and he would go everywhere but the newspaper, including anywhere else that had paper (books he could reach, our printer, our kids homework, etc.). The peeing on the couch is new, and will not be tolerated at all. He will also pee right in front of me, and doesn't seem to care. We make a huge deal when he goes outside. My husband is at the end of his rope, and is already ready to regime him or surrender him to a rescue. He says we can't afford to replace all the carpet in our rental house, and is tired of us shampooing the carpet on a weekly basis. Now, the peeing on the couch, and the fact that we get no sleep. I don't want to get rid of him, but if he is going to go all over our furniture, we may not have a choice. Our 11 year old son will be heartbroken, as will the rest of the family.
He has been neutered if that makes any difference. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!