Wants to go Outside All the Time
 

Logan is a year-and-a-half. We taught him to ring a bell when he wants to go potty outside. He seems to want to go outside all the time. Even after we've gone on a 30-minute walk, and he's peed and pooped here and there, 15 minutes after we come inside, he'll want to go outside again. He doesn't always potty when we got out either. Sometimes he'll just stand there or sniff around.

Any advice?

Bently does this too
 

But he's a scammer... when we were first training him to go outside to potty we always gave him a treat to reward him. Now he's always wanting to go outside and then crys to get us to open the sliding door to let him back in just to see if I'll give him a treat.

He's trained me too.

John

When the weather is nice Chachi wants in and out all day

Nikko does this to me all the time too... and we don't have a fenced-in yard so we have to put the leash on him and walk him out. It definitely becomes very time consuming, and horribly aggravating. I'm considering going to the Home Depot and buying some of that temporary fencing, the plastic stuff, and some stakes. We'd still supervise him, but maybe at least we could do it through a window, or at least we wouldn't have to do the whole leash routine every five minutes.

I have no real advice, I'm sorry. The only thing I've really noticed is that he doesn't try to ring the bell or get outside when he's alseep, lol. So our best solution at this point is to completely wear him out. We do super long walks, invite the neighbor dog over to play, and today I'm going to go look at a potential doggie daycare place. Someday, I hope to have a place where we can install a doggie door that leads out into our beautiful big fenced-in backyard. But until then.... :-)

Lauren & Nikko

do you have a safely fenced yard? If yes, and you don't have hawks, owls, or other large birds or wild animals are around he may be safe outside. Others will disagree with me.

My Roxy would practically live outside if I would let her. Today it was sunny, but only about 38 degrees (after many very cold days), she was out today in a t-shirt & would not come in when I needed to leave this afternoon. She was sunbathing & I had to go pick her up :rolleyes:

We do have a fenced-in yard, but it's over an acre, and there are small places where my little dog could squeeze through. And we also have hawks. At least I'm not the only one having this problem :)

I know I am going to have this problem too... I say "going to" because I've had Baxter for only 3 weeks and he hates the cold. It has been really cold lately and snow still covers the ground so he is not real keen on staying out too long but the few days we've had nice weather he wanted to be outside ALL the time. I have a fensed in yard in a urban area so I am not too concerned with him outside but I can see it will be a summer full of hanging out on the deck watching Baxter in the backyard.

My only advice at this point would be to really exaggerate the praise when he goes potty after ringing the bell... if he rings the bell and doesn't go potty within 5 minutes and it becomes clear he is just out of the joy ride then bring him in without a treat... hopefuly he'll catch on that the bell mean potty only. You have to continue to take him out every time he rings the bell but hopefully he'll get just as annoyed at having to come in as you are having to take him out after a while.

Hope that helps!

Walter & Baxter

OK Here's the deal. When you are housetraining and they are small it's important to take them outside every time they ring the bell. Once you are confident that they are on a decent schedule and are empty from just going outside, it's OK to tell them to go lay down and stop ringing the bell.

I know that sometimes my guys will run out first thing in the morning and pee, then want breakfast and then ring to go back out to poop after they eat. So I always let them out then even if they had just been out. But if we go on a walk and they pee 15 times and each poop on the walk, then obviously I know they can wait an hour before they need to go outside again. Loki has to go out more often than most dogs (at least once an hour if he's not sleeping) but he uses it to his advantage when my mom comes over and rings every 5 minutes. She feels bad for him and takes him out and gives him a treat, so he's not stupid - he keeps it up :D

My point is that it's annoying for a while but once they are a year old they are usually pretty solid and you should know their schedule enough to say "You don't need to go out right now" I know if mine really have to go because they will lay by the door or lay on the stairs and look out the window, rather than go back to napping or whatever they were doing.

It also helps to run them around and get them really tired so they nap rather than bug you to go outside to chase squirrels :rolleyes: (We don't have a fence, they go out on leashes, yet Sam still tries to chase squirrels!)