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when??? When s potty training over? My little girl is now 1 year and 3 months, she just pees and pools when she wants to in the house. Not all the time, just sporatically. Its driving me nut. I have a 6 year old boy and he was so ready to potty train. I did start with pads in the house for her, then around 6 six months outdoors. That's when the confusion started. Is this normal? |
Dogs pee and potty for more than just lack of control or confusion where to go. Oftentimes they pee/potty out of frustration, fear, extreme respect, loneliness, boredom, etc. A good housebreaking program and a busy, happy and challenging life is probably one of the quickest ways to keep a dog from pooping for other than the inability to control himself or lack of knowledge of where to pee. Obedience training, challenging games, frequent trips outside and loving and play sessions are all key - key - to successful housebreaking for some dogs. Calm, submissive dogs often housebreak easily and don't require a lot out of life. Other dogs require a lot to be happy and pee/potty when they don't get that life. If you have a very active and bright little terrier who loves lots of activity, mental challenges and being on the go all of the time, you'll need to step up his lifestyle to one of more challenge to keep him from feelings and frustrations that can cause "accidents". |
Left out one of the biggest causes of pee/potty accidents and that's stress. A dog stressed from a boring or too harried lifestyle, another dog, people, kids, some type of bullying or whatever will often pee or potty to relieve their stress. Dogs can stress from separation anxiety and feel abandoned when left, for example. If we forget to spend "me" time with them often, it can stress some dogs. They can't go take a walk or read a book and don't do "self-talk", so they just pee/potty and relieve lifestyles. In a dog's world, urine and feces mean more than just body waste and where and why they deposit them is often well thought out and makes sense to them and other times, seems very spur of the moment. If you Google "why does my dog pee on my bed" or "why does my dog have accidents in the house" and terms like that, you will see from a wide variety of dog people that there are very many reasons for it and give you a lot more insight into what may be going wrong. Sometimes it is as simple as mixed messages from you where they are to go but usually it is often more than that. |
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