Help!!! Trying to potty train : )
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| I hope this helps, because as they say, been there, done that!
We had better luck when we monitored the food and water. You can kind of calculate how long it's been since they ate or drank water and then take them out... or if you want to risk it, you can wait til you see her start to go and then grab her and run out the door! It took us nearly a year to potty train JJ because he would go in his crate so we had to try other means and the food and water schedule was recommended to me by a dog trainer. It really seemed to help. Once they do go outside you clap your hands and act all excited and repeat whatever word you want to use to make her understand. We used the word potty. It works to this day, we go outside and say potty and he goes. OES are really, really intelligent.  |
| i'm having problems with my OE too. It seems whenever I turn my back for a while he does it on the floor. The same place everytime! i think maybe it's a little attitude problem. |
| How old are the dogs who are having house training issues? |
| We had a heck of a time with our Ben, too. I would take him outside, he would releive himself and I would praise him to the sky, and then 15 minutes later he would wet in the house. He could hold it all night sleeping on the floor next to our bed not even in a crate, but he couldn't go 15 minutes in the house without an accident. I started taking him out every half hour when he was awake. Then, one day, when he was four and a half months old, he just stopped. It was as if a lightbulb went off " Oh, you don't want me to go in the house"
In retrospect, I think the problem was that when he was playing, he just forgot about everything else, just like a kid. Don't get discouraged, your pup will catch on. |
| Same frustration with Tigerlily whoes 5 months. She doesn't soil her room. She knows that she is supposed to go outside. She just doesn't seem to know NOT to go inside. I take her out often, praise her, but still, the house at large is fair game. |
| Hope this helps. I was very frustrated at first...then we decided to limit access in our home, put Bentley on a scheduled feeding 6 AM, noon and 6 PM....amount of food determined by our vet....and then I set the timer on my stove and Bentley went out every 30 minutes....he naps at regular intervals of about 2 and half hours. Off to bed at 9. Wakes up at 6...PROGRESS!!! So far....MUCH IMPROVED....Bentley is now 14 weeks old. |
alinamarie wrote: Same frustration with Tigerlily whoes 5 months. She doesn't soil her room. She knows that she is supposed to go outside. She just doesn't seem to know NOT to go inside. I take her out often, praise her, but still, the house at large is fair game.
That's a good way to put it. Housetraining has been a challenge, but improving. Clyde too knows that he's supposed to go outside, however, if he has to go, and I don't respond fast enough, he gooes. But, now that we've trained him to ring a bell to go out, it's a 99% improvement. Like someone else was saying, he's like a kid and when he's playing hard he forgets, then all of a sudden "Oh, no, I gotta go!!" We were all wrestling on the bed the other day then all of a sudden Clyde jumped off and started running. Then he stopped at the stairs and just let loose, like he couldn't make it out. We tried to get him to stop but it just went on and on, like the pee in Austin Powers after he wakes up from the cryogenic sleep. It was so ridiculous we were laughing. Clyde actually put his head back, like "ahhhhh." |
| Well, the best advice I can give you - especially since we had one h*** of a time with training my Charlie is that we limited the food and water to certain times and amounts. Cut off the water after say 8 o'clock. (Don't forget to close the bathroom door and/or shut the toilet lid - someone was very sneaky!) I found Charlie wouldn't "go" in the house if he was in the bedroom with us with the door closed. But as soon as the alarm goes off in the morning or if you, yourself, have to get up in the middle of the night, it's best to get to the door ASAP and let him out. If you don't go to the door right away, it's an accident waiting to happen - no pun intended. Also, I found that if Charlie gets very excited - i.e. someone comes to the door or he hears all the other dogs in the neighborhood barking, he'll lose control. He's 11 months+ now and he's getting better, but nobody's perfect! Hang in there! I'm sure it will come in time! |
| Butters, LOL! We actually use that as an adjective around here - "We went to the park and Bailey had an Austin Powers pee"! |
| It was definitely the Austin Powers pee! Even he knew he had waited to long. He looked at me like, "oh, no, Mom, I gotta do this!" That was the first and last accident we've had in awhile too. |
| Every now and then I'll tell someone that we haven't had an accident in quite a while - and within 24 hours we'll have one! So I've become very Zen about it now. Two months ago I was completely compulsive about the cleanliness of the house, now I just laugh. I should check my blood pressure - I'll bet it's gone down! |
| It's definitely Murphy's Law at work. I don't say how great he's been doing anymore either because it always results in accident. Now I stay quiet and pray...
Clean house? What's that? I've got Clyde and my Briard/Beardie mix. I haven't seen a clean floor in, let's see how old is Clyde?  |
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