Day Of Silence wrote:Sadies wrote:Hello, sorry to be a bother, I'm at my wits ends with my dog pooping/peeing in my house. He's a 2 year old stubborn rescue dog that won't toilet train. I've had him checked with a vets and they said there is nothing wrong with him to cause him to poop/pee in the house and even though I was sure I was toilet training him the correct way (putting him outside until he goes and then praising him. Putting him out when he does go inside), I checked with a dog trainer and a dog behaviorist who both agree that I'm doing all I can. But I've been toilet training for over a year now and he still poops/pees in the house at least 1 every few days during the night/day. We've had no routine changes, he's just being naughty.
I've been looking at getting him a dog wrap to stop the peeing but I wasn't really sure since I've never brought anything like this with my other dogs. I was wondering if there is some-thing that can also stop him pooping in the house. Also preferably some-thing that can be rewashed if he soils it.
Any help and I will love you forever.
Thanks :)
That doesn't sound fun.
I'd suggest crate training and umbilical cord training (have him on leash attached to you). So he's either in an area that he (hopefully) doesn't want to go to the bathroom in for nights or when you're not home. Then have him on leash and attached to you so he's supervised and you'll be better able to see his signs and take him outside.
I dog sat a friend's foster puppy and it was insanely frustrating taking care of him because he purposefully went to the bathroom inside (friend let him do his business in her house). It definitely wasn't just he didn't know better. He would be outside for an hour, pop inside, do his business and then go back outside. I wish I had known about umbilical training.
EDIT: Forgot to add some articles that could be useful.
http://thehousebreakingbible.com/wp/tra ... -training/
http://www.perfectpaws.com/crt.html#.VqkmAxgrJR0
Thanks for the suggestions.
I used to have a crate for him but it made no difference. We recently threw our crate out because for 1 it stunk real bad and 2 it just got in the way. He wasn't a fan of his crate either.
I have done umbilical cord training with him but it just tends to wind him up because he thinks he's going out, he makes an awful screeching sound the neighbors don't like and just won't settle down. He doesn't pee/poop inside when he's on that but I'm the only one that will do it with him, my family won't go to such lengths to do that with him unfortunately. (Mum doesn't like him under her feet which he tends to do on or of lead anyway.)
That seems to be exactly what my dog does. He will go outside, come in, poop then go back out. It's a pest. His old foster owners used puppy pads inside the house to encourage him to toilet train, I believe this caused most of the problems we are having now. We know the areas that he usually goes and have banished him from going into them (going upstairs).
It tends to be more when we are not there that he pee's/poops. He had major separation anxiety when we got him but we fixed that. I put up camera's to monitor him when we were out and he doesn't look at all anxious. He play with the other dogs, sleeps then just gets up and poops/pees for no reason then goes back to sleep. It's incredibly frustrating.
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@ Luzien
Hi, thanks for you reply. :)
We exhausted the crate idea the fist few months we had him. It was just making him get messy when he was in there.
We always let doggies out 1st thing in the morning and when we get home to go to the loo, that's no problem. We also do 1st thing before bed or whenever we go out. Most of the time some-one gets up in the night and lets them out but he still goes in the night even when we do this. (It's rare we don't get up in the night for him.)
We've been doing exactly that for the entire time we've had him. He seems to start learning and goes completely clean for a few weeks and then he goes back to his old ways again.
I'm literally desperate, my mums ready to give him up because of this. I honestly don't think there is any more training steps I can take other than what I am doing, honestly, you won't believe the amount of times I've asked my trainer and been online looking for other solutions/better solutions to this problem and everyone says the same things. "Keep putting him outside, stick him in a crate, correct him by putting him out when you see him go, watch him 24/7, keep him on a lead.
Sorry, I sound like I am ranting. You won't believe how much trouble this dog has caused and I just go round in circles doing the same thing with him over and over again. It gets a little frustrating because out of all the other dogs I've owned/trained/worked with, he is the only one that can't toilet train.
