Help! He just won't ask to go out I'm at my wits end. Mason is 2 yrs old and I would love to say he's 100% housebroken, BUT I can't. He NEVER pees in my house, but he does, on occasion poop in the house in different places and i clean with nature's miracle. On average, he may do this about every 2 wks. I feed him twice a day and he's not the typical eat and then poop. It may take him 8 hrs before he has to poo after eating, so I'm constantly watching the clock trying to figure out when he will need to go. I can't figure out his schedule. Sometimes he has to go once a day, sometimes it's twice a day. I am home with him all day long and I let him out every 2-3 hrs.,so he's not even having to hold it. Today, he pooped on my carpet upstairs and then hid under pillows after he did it. That was after being taken outside. He knows it's wrong. He has never been punished after the fact, either, so he's not hiding out of fear. I had an in home dog trainer who tried to teach him to ring the bells. And, I have also been trying to teach him. Let me add, I've been trying this bell ringing thing for 1 1/2 yrs and he still just looks at it. Well, I now have called the trainer to come back again. No charge, since the training has been unsuccessful. :confused: Any advice, I'm all ears. |
Are you taking him for a walk or just letting him out? I've found that most dogs need to walk to get their bowels moving. If he just goes out quickly and pees, as so many males dogs do, he may come back in too soon. Not all housebroken dogs will ring bells or tell you when they have to go out. They will go when taken out at regular times and just hold it inbetween. |
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Well, I can say my dog who will be two is 100% house trained and has been since about 9 months old, I have to say that she never has been able to " tell" me she needs to go out, I kind of just know by her actions. She will sometimes sit and stare at me, jump up and keep giving me kisses. No Bell ever worked for me either, she wont bark or scratch the door so I will keep an eye on this thread. For me its just my daily routine, up at 6 outside, quick pee, back in the house she eat breakfast.. around 9 am we go for a walk or go out in the yard and play ball, she will poop then ( somedays) , throughout the rest of the day I take her out every 2 hours or so, she eats dinner at 4 and we go for a walk every night at 7 , she always poops on that walk... ;) I think I have seen this by many yorkie people, they just sort of " know" when their dogs have to " go":D |
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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! |
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SAME thing with our little one. He is 6 months and i had the bell hanging there ever since we got him at 3 months. For the past two weeks we didn't have any 'accidents' because he was in the crate during the day and i would take him outside to go potty every two hours when home. But yesterday he couldn't wait for me to put my shoes on in the morning and went inside. Also in the evening when i was cooking dinner he went on the carpet. I jinxed myself by telling my friends that i think Freddy starts to get it and i was proud of him for not going inside the house.... we even left him alone in the house three times before for a couple hours ( not in the crate) and he didn't go....waited for us to come home and take him out... |
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