We have tried potty pads, scolding, making their kennels smaller, and nothing seems to work! I cant understand why as soon as we clean it up they go in there and go again. The boy is 10 months and the girl is 5 months and we let them out around every 4-5 hours except for at night when its 8. Any ideas would be awesome!!!!!
2006-10-30 03:52:45 · 7 answers · asked by jdlb0804 1 in Pets ➔ Dogs
We live in an apartment and work 9 hours a day. We let them out on our lunch breaks so they are in their kennels an average of 4-5 hours and at night for 8 hours. We have tried scolding, making the crate smaller, taking them out every 2 hours and nothing seems to be working.... any help would be wonderful!!!
2006-10-30 06:52:23 · update #1
Why do you have 2 puppies if you are at work all day and can't potty train them properly? Your expectations of the puppies is too high. They practically live their whole live in their crates - 17 hours of a 24 hour day. This is not good for ANY dog. You need to either get your dogs into doggie day care, have them stay with someone during the day, or give them up to beagle rescue. Beagles are family dogs, they need love & attention. 17 hours with little contact is not an ideal or proper situation for them.
2006-10-31 08:01:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you might have extreme burglary problems. A crate must simply be significant adequate for her to rise up, flip round and lie down once more while you're first seeking to crate teach and potty teach. I could return to a smaller crate. Does she cross to the toilet at lunch and after 6pm? It seems like she could have a little bit of separation anxiousness too. SOme puppies gets disenchanted whilst you go away so that they are going to urinate and deficate on your absence. Please do not hit her or exhibit her the feces after she's already long past. They do not realize and except you are saying "no" correct at the same time she's within the act of doing it then she may not realize what she's getting scolded for. I realize she does not devour her breakfast that's yet another signal of separation anxiousness. She is expecting your leaving so she may not devour. What you rather have got to do is figure difficult along with her at the weekends. Take journeys external each hour and each time she is going to the toilet external, gift her verbally, very enthusiastically and each few occasions she does it supply her a deal with too. Don't supply a deal with each time or puppies will be taught simply to invite to head out in order that they may be able to get meals. You could additionally appear right into a doggie day care or a puppy walker. I feel she could want extra awareness for the period of the day. Hope this is helping
2016-09-01 04:43:08 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have been locked up for too long when they were too young to control themselves, and they have now gotten used too being in a soiled bed. Its known as a "dirty dog".
You now have to start from scratch.. get them out more often, (every 1-2 hours as needed) and keep them and their bedding CLEAN. Clean the spots they have used to go very well, or replace the carpet altogether.. and be consistant, this will take time and a lot of supervision.
2006-10-30 06:17:49 · answer #3 · answered by think_about_this_gr8_1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know where your pups are from, but I do know that sometimes this is a problem with puppies that come from puppy mills (not saying that's where yours are from, just stating what I know of this issue). Internet and pet stores purchases get their pups from puppy mills. The reason is that the mills do not allow the dogs out of the cages, ever. This means they learn to go against the instinct not to potty where they sleep. It's also really hard to potty train a puppy from a mill as well.
My best suggestion is to try to take them out more frequently now. Reward them greatly with praise and even a treat to let them know going outside was a desired behavior. We even used a clicker training method with our puppy as it seemed to get the message across much quicker. Click and reward for behaviors you like.
Good Luck
2006-10-30 03:59:22 · answer #4 · answered by Shadow's Melon 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like they need 24/7 monitoring. I'm sorry this is going to be a lot harder on you, since they seem acclimatized to doing their business in the crate. You are not starting from a clean slate, but having to 're-program' the dog entirely. Hang in there!
Try leashing them indoors as well. Tie the free end to your belt loop on your pants. That way, you know where they are and what they're doing around the clock. Watch them. As soon as he lifts a leg or she starts to squat (or they start circling), grab them and RUN...run out the door, even if they're still doing it while you're holding them. You're trying to show them that 'business' is for outside only. Again, you are literally 're-programming' the dog. They will be totally confused, but dogs learn through repetition from us; they feel safe knowing a routine, so keep at it. It took me two weeks before my bichon started looking at me like, "Ohhh, you want me to do it THERE." instead of, "Why the heck are you grabbing me in the middle of my poop?!"
As for the crate....hmm, watch them again. Get ready to grab 'em and run out the door after you've cleaned up and they start sniffing around and squatting. Remember...you're trying to instill into them that business = outdoors only. Eventually, they will start realizing that when they want to eliminate, they should head outdoors. This is also a good time to associate a word for them to eliminate, like 'OUTSIDE!' or 'Potty' etc. so that when they hear you say it, they know to signal to you to open the door for them. (or they head out the doggy door, if you got one).
Also have treats handy when they DO eliminate outside. Lots of praise.
You will have to be patient with this. It took my bichon another 2 weeks before 'polishing' it up. And you got two doggies.
Good luck!
2006-10-30 04:52:24 · answer #5 · answered by AW 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what melon said is true,,, if your pups are from puppy mills then they think that going in there cage is just fine or if you got them from a pet store then they have no other place to go but in there crate... we got a puppy from a puppy mill one time and he done this too... It took alot of work to train him but after training it was all worth it... here is what we did for him to stop him from going in his crate we would after they go in there clean it right away and make sure you get the smell out of the crate completely and take the poop and the wet paper towel from the pee out side where you want them to go,,, make sure that you take them out more often then what you are doing now maybe every time they eat or at least every hour is good at first when potty training them for a little bit then increase the time that you leave them in there,,, make sure praise them every time they go out side to go potty with treats and make a big fuss over it and then they will learn that was a good thing is to go out side to their busness,, after about a month of doing this they should be trained to going out side to go potty,,, but make sure you always praise them for going out side,,, I hope this helps and good luck it will take time to train them to go out side,,,
2006-10-30 04:38:31 · answer #6 · answered by hunter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are locking them up for too long...they are still babies, you have to let them out to bathroom every 3 hours. And now that they've become so used to being locked up with their accidents, they don't mind doing it! You have to break them of that habit now.
2006-10-30 03:58:01 · answer #7 · answered by Redawg J 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋