Maybe others can comment on stain & odor removal. I'd try Nature's Miracle. However, if you've started with another stain remover it may or may not work. I just don't know.

I know what you are going through, and I hope you can weather the storm. It will pass.

:thumbup: I agree, I'm sure the perfect home is out there for him.

i am sorry you are feeling so stressed out. but i would like to put things in perspective and say that i think your dog is really not that bad!!! dogs will do what dogs do. unless you take the time and effort to train them. some require more time and effort than others, of course.

i would recommend a book to you, i think reading it would really cheer you up and make you realize just how good you have it with teddy!!!!

read marley and me by john grogan. it will really make you laugh! and you will see what a bad dog is. and by the time you are done reading that book, you might change your perspective and think that teddy is an angle! :animal36

When Baxter--First Pup-was a baby, he destroyed my $300 glasses by knawing on the lenses, right in my line of vision. He also chewed up the cable to my Comcast Modem, destroyed every corner of molding and doorframe in my BRAND NEW home, and chewed on the posters of my $3000 bed. Oh, and he peed on my $1000 matress, that was easily cleanable, but the feather bed on top of the mattress had to be professionally cleaned. I think Baxter owes me some money :D

I really felt like he was the devil dog sent to terrorize me from HELL!

He is now 3 years old, and it is very rare he gets into anything, besides dirty clothes and paper--he just can't resist them.

Everything he did, just like everything your dog does, was MY fault, for not putting things away, and for not putting him in a secure place when I couldn't watch him. You really need an x-pen. You can put his kennel, pee pads, and food dishes inside there, and he will have everything he needs.

IMO, it is dangerous to leave your tog tied to anything when you aren't supervising him. He could get choked easily.

I'm so sorry you are having a rough time with Teddy. I hope it gets better for you. If you do hang in there I'm sure it will be worth it. But you have to do what you feel is best, if you have had more than you can handle I don't think it is wrong to find him a new home. Best of luck to you

I have 2 yorkies and they both chew things. They chewed on my drywall where I put them and the moldings around them and one of my leather dining room chairs. Even their water container. As my husband said, they are still babies (16 months old). We both go to work and the dogs are usually by themself. Either it is boredom they chew on things or just trying to get even with us by leaving them I do not know....but they are fun to be with. Put your baby in a crate when you have to leave so that way he is confined in one place and does not destroy your things. I know how it feels when you finally buy something you saved money for and to be destroyed....you feel frustration. ON the other hand be a little bit more patient with him as usually boys are better in poo/pee training than girls. You should be consistent and patient. Give him a chance and give yourself a chance. Good luck.

well what i did last time he was tied/restricted was I hooked his leash to him and put the handle in the pantry room(which is tiny) and locked it to a certain legnth.. i would just give him enough room to not get to the couch which he would have NOTHIGN to climb up on. but I know he would freak out if he can't get to the door to tell me by.. he likes to stand by the door and watch me leave.

I normally close the bedroom door, i normally close the bathroom door and both times I forgot to he destroyed parts of it. I'mafraid to get the diapers because he does poop in the house when I'm gone, he does it on the linoleum which does not bother me that he does it because I work when I use to take himout for his 2nd potty of the day..

But I DO try to make it sohe can't get to things and somehow he manages to do it and I don't know how he does it I still don't know how he got up on the bathroom countertop, he couldn't use the toliet to get up and I have NEVER seen him jump that high, ever. He use to use the couch to get to the kitchen table so I moved the table over and the problem went away and I have to push in the computer chair from him to stay off the desk he still hasn't discovered he can stand on the cart beside the desk yet(it's part of the desk). He really goes out of his way to get into things and I feel better that other people have had the same problems and I REALLY REALLY REALLY hope things get better. I dunno how he's going to do when darrall gets home. He defended me against him whenever he first met darrall(I had him for a month before darrall got home) and then he got to the point where when darrall would approach him sometimes he'd pee out of fear or out of excitement..but with me he doesnt' do it.

I just really hope the baking soda helps with the vinegar smell because I hate being reminded of fair fries it makes me miss ohio.

and on top of his pee stress my husbands eye is forcing him to have to switch jobs which is a mandatory 2 year extentsion on his military status, which is fine I wanted him to stay in longer with the unemployment rates.. however we both have no idea where we're being sent now.

I use to do the crate but it always made him so erratic.. he doesn't mind being put in there when he's sleeping or when he knows he's done something bad(he tells on himself and runs and hides in it) but when I leave he FREAKS out and starts clawing at it and uses the bathroom in it and howls up a storm!! and I've tried different methods and they seemed to work at first but then they didn't anymore(like covering up most of the crate)(treats..etc) but I noticed when i was leaving him out as an experiment he started to freak out less and less(i did the leave and come back in a few minutes thing) and no he hardly makes a noise but at the sametime i know he loves to look out my bedroom window but after the first evidence that he could jump on the bed(he made me believe he wasn't tall enough to get on the bed so at first I left the bedroom open) I closed the door and then the one day I forgot he I guess had a full bladdar

do the diapers work for pooping? I mean he can't stand a dingle berry he flips out and starts crying and flying around outside.. and just the idea of that being in there and him smashing it against his fur is a reason I don't think I should get the diapers.. I have one of those belt thingys but when he pees inside he pees a good bit and it would go right through it all. lol my dog can't just make it easy and just use his pee pad.

crate train him. He might not like it--but it is what is best.
You don't want it to be "okay" to poop in places that are not designated---otherwise, he'll never be potty trained.
Crating is the safest method..
I would not "tie" him to anything---he can choke
Crating seems mean, like they won't have "fun". But he'll learn. Dogs like to sleep in dens and soon he will love his crate too. Put a nice soft crate cushion, a blankey, some "safe" toys, a nylabone, water... he will be happier and soo will you.
And i've moved several times with my pups (not in the military though!) and there are always apartments available that allow small dogs.

make the crate pleasant for him...slowly get him used to it... 1 min...5 min...10 min...15...etc. He will get used to it.

it's a lose lose situation he poops in his crate and then smashes it around and it's a BIG clean up and I've taken him and the create to pet stores and asked for a smaller one and they told me the one I have is the correct size for him. I've tried everything to keep him from pooping in it. He just won't stop I'd rather there be an easy clean up then one that uses up a roll of toliet paper(i flush it)

he sleeps in his crate at night, he gets put in it when I eat.. he's had that crate for 9-10 months of his life..and his past owner had him in the crate when she went to work and he pottied in it too.

He goes potty before i go to work and STILL potties in it.

Izze is the same way... she steps in her poo in the crate. It's gross. She does the same in the bathroom. When I started putting her in my bedroom with Molly---she stopped pooping in the house!
With Izze, I leave her in my bedroom with Molly and there is nothing she can get to. She can't jump on my bed (too high).
I slowly left her--- 5 min, 10 min, etc... and now she is fine. I think that it helps that she has Molly.
Have you seen it's me or the dog? In it, she had those bed rails that would prevent the dogs from jumping up. She used it temporarily until the great danes learned. Maybe you should get those?
Maybe your baby has separation anxiety and he just needs you to slowly get him used to you leaving? It sounds like he loves you lots! This also means that he needs you to give him extra help. If you need any advice---we are here.
I have four dogs-- 2 pups, 2 rescues and we have had several issues over the years. I got my first dog when I was a young teen and she was such a brat. Chewing on everything...peeing everywhere. Luckily she loved her crate :) She is now my most well behaved dog...and it was because I worked SO much with her. it was very difficult but worth it. And if you put the time and energy into Teddy---it will pay off bigtime.
Each dog is an individual and you need to find something that works for him.
Regardless, I would not tie him up when you are gone. it is dangerous.

With teddy he's got A LOT better and I think he would get even better if I could get those pet zone thingiesthat go off and make a noise when the dor gets to close to them.. I would put it on the couch to train him to stay off of it. Just wish the dog smoke alarm(what I call it because it's what it looks like) didn't cost so much.

he was REALLY REALLY REALLY bad at his anxiety and he's gotten a lot better.. He still poops but I would rather it be on the linoleum then smashed in his crate that he cannot stand to be in when i'm leaving.. he never tries to dart out the door when i leave he just like to be by the door and roam around. He freaks out majorly in the crate to the point he was doing self harm to his eyes and when i left him out and just pushed in all the chairs he didn't seem to get into anything but I know he would climb on the couch(the fabric shows his paws). But he hasn't done anything to it other then lay on it with his chew toy with the zone thing I could stop that.
He doesn't howl and scratch at the door when I leave anymore.. before if I left he wouldn't eat until i came home now he eats.. he doesn't freak out when i go to take out the trash or get the mail. He's changed a lot and i thought he was at a good point but he has had a nasty couple of weeks behavorial wise and the vet said his peeing was probably just all behavior.. he's neutered he was nuetered as soon as he was old enough and recovered wonderfully(he wanted to play with dogs the next day).

Around the time with his behavior and peeing he also started whining fo rmy food which he has NEVER been given people food, he has however climbed and managed ot get some thats why i crate him when I eat it's what i did when I first got him(he use to BEG and cry for me to feed him my food) and it stopped. I also put him in the crate just periodically to get him use to being in it and he's fine in his crate if he can see me.. if he's by himself after awhile I'll hear him start crying and once he even started howling.

What's funny is my 2nd time meeting him from his previous owner(i bought him at 5 months, saved him from ending up in the yorkie rescue in VA) he took to me fast, started following me around and listening to me, he adjusted to me being his owner in a matter of days too and loved my husband on their first meeting. I do not want to give him up I just wish i had some help and yes I know there are classes but if I can't splurge for those zone things and training is over 100 bucks at petsmart it's just like "ahh" My husband is good with dogs and actually we taught him all of his tricks from a book and he was able to learn all of the tricks except paw right away(paw took a few months for him to get the concept). SO I know he's very smart and I still cannot believe he made me think he couldn't jump on the bed.(when I first got it I was laying on it and he was crying trying to jump on it and so I thought he couldn't and I told him no after he got to the point he started clawing at it with his paws).

Do you know where I can get those paw things?

i really don't want to sell teddy just the idea of not having him around is...not a normal feeling to me at all and the idea of someone walking off with him and the fact he plays with my neighbors dogs regularly and him not having uggie and lucy to play with would just be horrible to me..especially since lucy looks for him first whenever she comes out and so does teddy. I don't know what he's going to do if we have to move away from here.

What is his exercise level like? You might just need to jog the Devil out of him before you leave him by himself.

Housebreaking sucks. I had a Siberian Husky who never fully housebroke and she left devastating piles and lakes of pee in her wake. She also destroyed $1,000 dollars worth of lawn furniture. I had to take up sprint running just to keep her baseline psychotic.

If you are having problems training him to the pee pad inside, I would try housebreaking him to go outside. Maybe the pee pads are confusing him to the point that he thinks every place in the house is good to go on. Making him go to the bathroom outside may help define the difference between where he can go and where he can't.

Try leaving a Kong in his pen when you leave him. I recommend that he be x-penned and not crated, simply because he sounds like a mill puppy that has gotten used to sleeping in his own excrement. I think training him not to do that would be particularly difficult, considering it was an issue with his previous owner as well.

I recommend the book Surviving Your Dog's Adolescence, by Carol Lea Benjamin. It's a really, really good book for people dealing with the psycho teenage years of their dogs. I learned a lot from it.

Worst case scenario, if you must give him up, you will have less regrets and feel less guilt if you feel like you did the best that you could with trying to train him. Sometimes between hectic circumstances and a troubled past, it just doesn't work out. Given your situation, you may just not have the energy or the time to commit to work out Teddy's problems. There may be someone out there better suited.

But I urge you to at least give it a shot. You will probably feel intense guilt if you don't think you did the very best that you could for him. It sounds like you love him very much.

And if you decide to rehome him, please do not put him in a "Free to good home" ad. Labratories take unwanted pets through these ads and use them for animal research and vivisection. Try Yorkie Rescue or a local humane society. Also be honest with people about his problems. This ensures that he will get a new owner with the experience necessary to rehome him permanently.

Good luck! Keep us posted! :animal-pa

it sounds like love. don't give up.

i have no explination about the bed thing...and i DO understand your frustration. maybe he got up, got scared, and couldn't immediately figure out how to get down....

edgar was a crate mess, too. and pads?? he'd shred them and pee elsewhere. he's 3.5 now and most of that behaviour has stopped. he does still have accidents in the house and a bit of separation anxiety, causing messy messes....

some things i've learned....
even if they've just gone out 20 minutes ago, my 2 go out before i leave the house.
they don't get water after 8p because they may not make it through the night.
i let them out 10-20minutes after they drink or eat.

it will calm down as he gets older, especially when the testosterone calms down. 'they' say that can take a few weeks to a few months. for us it's been a few months and i can tell a bit of a difference.

have you considered trying to find base housing? they are generally pet friendly. (but you are unsure of your new station as of yet, right??)

I hope things are improving with Teddy. I do have an excellent product for you to try though. I bought from my Vet, but found it online:
Amazon.com: Equalizer Carpet Stain & Odor... Works great! Has a nice smell to it! The stain disappears very quickly too!! I pd $12.00 @Vet.....think I will order from Amazon!:)
Good Luck! Pls don't give up on Teddy!!;)

I've had my baby for a couple months now and there's only been one time I've been ready to throw in the towel. At that point I stopped and thought. Why was I upset? What did he do? What didn't *I* do? How did *I* fail him? He's a dog and he can't understand me like my husband can when he's bad! (heehee) When I brought him home (like a baby I, myself, gave birth to) I stood resolute and was in for the long haul with him. I am the only thing he has. He looks to me for direction and love. I am obligated to give him the best life he can have! Just like a human baby... I can't give him away...

Don't let your little one down! Take the time out to give him some rigorous training - try everything! Read books, talk to people... I don't think there are any hopeless untrainable dogs.


-Belly bands are awesome! So much off your mind!
-Take him out every couple hours to the same spot so that he knows where to go his business!
-Feed him at the same time everyday, then you'll know when he has to poop. Like clockwork!
-Write a schedule for him and stick to it! Same thing everyday! Same activities same time.
-Repetition is your friend and what he needs!
-Take him out for walks to get some pent up energy out!
-Praise him when he's done something good and give affection when he's earned it, not just whenever you want to give him some.
-Watch for the signs he's getting ready to go potty and take him out when he does Use the same words to tell him to potty each time!
-Get some apple bitter or shake a can of pennies when he's going after and chewing on something he shouldn't be. Give him something acceptable to chew and praise when he does.
-If you think his crate is too big, but a smaller one. You don't HAVE to listen to pet store staff lol

Once he's got the hang of things you can probably slack off on the schedule a little bit. My Hiro is getting used to things but I want to make sure I have reinforced the good and weeded out the bad. I give him little freedoms at a time as his crate training progresses. He will have his whole life to run around my house and check things out! Right now I think it is important to have some structure and discipline so he can be a happy, well adjusted, well trained member of my family.

Be patient! Give him the same dedication he gives you! He's not trying to be bad like we may think! Humans, well, humanize things. He's not being human; he's being a dog! :D

MORE TIPS PLEASE!! I'm even going to write them down... :D

You may already be doing this, I dont know but Ive been watching alot of the dog whisperer to help with the rescues Im fostering and he always says to walk the dogs for at least an hour a day preferably in the morning then feed them and they will sleep all day instead of having anxiety when they are alone. I have been doing the 1 hour in the morning and I also have been doing a quick walk right when I get home from work and right before bedtime. Its a pain to get up an hour earlier and its alot of walking but Im not spending time cleaning up other dog related issues so thats good. The poor dogs are so tired they only sleep but they seem content. He says in the wild they walk all day so its un-natural to stay pent up in the house in the daytime. I hope things work out for you.

here's what i do with teddy. I've had him seven months so I know about the scheduling.

- he goes outside as soon as i get up and he pees in the same area EVERY day and everytime he pees
- He poops in the same area every single day too he poops by noon but usually will not poop again unless i stay outside for over an hour trying.. HOWEVER if I leave for even 20 minutes, he could of just pooped.. he'll poop again and it doesn't matter if he's in a crate or not he will poop.. just in his crate he dances on it.so it's a HUGE mess to clean up.
- I bought the pads and use to put them down whenever I would leave. Well he used them twice in the entire 7 months I've had him and so I just started using them to clean up spills. But with his recent pee attacks(which he hadn't had since monday until today) I put one out JUST incase he couldn't hold it in that maybe he would use it instead and I put it in the area where he normally will poop when i leave.
- His exercise: playing with a jack russell beagle mix, and a pug dog. I only play by throwing his toy around but he rough plays with both of them sometimes at the sametime.. Just the past couple of days he hasn't got to play with them because of the cold. My husband is the one that rough plays with him(he has thicker skin).
- He gets fed at the sametime and HAS to have alittle bit of food before bed or I wake up to him having this empty stomach throw up thing going on. If I feed him alittle before bed it doesn't happen.
- The pottying is part of his separation anxiety but I do not know how to break it because if he's in the crate he poops if he's out of the crate he poops.

well I use to take him on a good 30 minute walk around the complex but when it gets cold I turn into a hermit and I HATE the cold.. I would have to do his walk then rewash my hair(because my beanie leaves a mark in my hair and I can't find the ear things that go behind your head). He seems to do really well when I walked him. I might have to just force myself to go out inthe cold.. it's just when it gets cold here it gets REALLY REALLY windy which is what makes it awful. I don't know how I dealt with the ohio winters! They were worse then virginia but then again I had good gloves, and things for my ears.

I'll come back to this thread later---I really need to get to studying...however...
Maybe he just doesn't like where you are keeping him during the day... I mean...maybe it's an excitable place.
I keep Izze in my bedroom---where she is familiar... it's quiet and dark. It does help that she has a friend, but I wouldn't suggest one to you because you can't add another when you aren't committed to this one.
Walking is different from playing in the yard...I would start walking him before you leave to tire him out...so he won't be anxious...as someone said.
Also---Please reconsider and get the thought of rehoming him out of your head. Be resolute and committed to making this work out---put in the hard work and effort. If you do that... you'll have the best friend for life.

then walk him! I hate the cold too, but I walk my babies...
My skin bleeds---and I still walk them. I am in the midwest too and it is freeeeeezing...and I still walk them.

Ive also heard that playing with another dog isnt considered exercise they have to walk and at least an hour. Its sounds like from what you said he was better when he was being walked. Sucks its too cold to do this.

I know this is going to get a lot of objections But----------------

You are blaming your dog for bad behavior that you yourself have created.

Dogs do not behave badly for spite or revenge or even for attention. They behave that way because no one has taken the time to properly train, teach, and socialize them.

Get a professional to educate you on what you should and should not be doing.

If you leave an untrained dog home alone you can expect there to be big trouble. worse yet, if they are not properly trained they could injure themselves.

It's like leaving a small child home alone. It is yhour ob to teach them and to protect them from themselves.

Dogs are not mature until they are at least 2 years old. Too many people get a puppy and never bother to educate themselves on dog behavior, or how to train them. And then wonder why the dog has issues.

the hell if it isn't exercise you should see these guys play.. they don't just roll around they run around and play chase and tackle.. by the time they are done teddy comes inside and sleeps a good long nap! The pug and him constantly play chase almost the entire time they play but lucy and him wrestle pretty hard.

:confused: :rolleyes: :eek:

have you thought about getting a cat instead. of a dog. Some people are just not meant to own dogs.

or even an older dog that is already house broken.

Ok I shouldnt have used the word exercise. The walk according to trainers is a mental stimulation that helps them fulfill something instinctual and help them to be calm and relaxed that playing cant give them.

All I can tell you is our obedience trainer taught us a long time ago, that when a dog does something wrong, it's NOT the dogs fault, it's the owners fault..He should have been penned up if you weren't right there with him..or, you should have had your door closed..And as Barbara said, if this upsets you, please do not have kids..I've had babies that have thrown up on good couches, thrown up on good carpet, gotten diarrhea on the carpet, and on and on...accidents happen, I have a $3500 leather sectional that is ruined from my puppy days of chewing, etc, but, it wasn't there fault, it was mine for going out to mow and leaving them in here not crated..but, their lives are so short, that little things in life don't really matter..Couches can be replaced..my carpet out here reaks of pee, mine are pee pad trained, but, I think at night, they just squat wherever they want out here, you know what?? I don't care, this is their room, they are blocked from going past the kitchen. I will replace this carpet one day...If you're upset with this sweet little guy, then yeah, maybe you should find him a good loving home. Has he been neutered? If not, then this could be why he did this.