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Originally Posted by simbie Thank you to everyone for the helpful tips.
Karaboomer to answer your questions:
-Simba is crated 8 hours during the day (m-F) on the weekends maybe 3-4 hours tops.
-He does extremely well holding it all day. In fact, when he is let out, he doesn't immediately go potty he wants to play and eat first.
-He can not go anywhere in the house without me or my husband. We try to keep an eye on him and give him free range of the room were are in.
-We tell him to go potty and when he does we give him lots of praise and sometimes give him treats. We used to give the treats everytime but started limiting how often we gave the treats.
There are times that he will be out with us and automatically go into the laundry room and potty without us having to tell him and he will do this for days consistently. Then he seems that he forgets and will pee on the floor. He of course now is not allowed on the couch or the bed unless he is in our lap. My husband is now putting him in the crate when he doesn't go potty (like when Simba has been in there all day) for a few minutes and letting him out to see if he will potty.
I think Simba likes to walk around and sniff before he decides to go. Most of the time he will eventually go but there are times that he won't go for a couple of hours. We are trying to be consistent with him so he is used to a similar routine but he will shift the schedule on us and we have no idea why.
We are definitely getting him fixed and I hope that helps. |
Stick with the treats and positive praise EVERY time -- just break treats up if they are too big and get ones that are as healthy as possible for them.
IMO, you need to bring the dog RIGHT out to pee when you get home, even if he wants to play. Make it clear that you can play as soon as he potties, and hold up your end. If it is strictly indoor training, we used to sit next to the pad with the pups and put them on the pad and say "go potty". they would try and play and run around and we would put them right back on the pad and repeat for up to 15minutes (however long it takes, that's the longest I remember having to sit there) until they go, then start with the play, praise, treats, etc.
Also, they will usually have to go within a 1/2 hour after eating/drinking a meal, so you can time it and be right there a 1/2 hour later and do the same process.
It WILL sink in.....just takes plenty of time!
The fact that Simba can hold it in the pen for 8 hours means that the bladderr is well-developed enough to prevent those kinds of accidents, now you just have to do a "boot camp" training to make it sink in.
Good luck....I really hope you are able to keep him. We had to rehome our 2-year olds after some terrrible circumstances and it was TERRIBLY difficult for everyone involved.