My Puppy just wants to wee in the house?

Question

My puppy is 8 week's old a great dane, we take her out shedoes nothing soon as she gets in she does her wee. It's driving us mad. she just dosent seem to understand, we have a pet detergent so she cant smell 'herself' on the carpet, i dont have a crate any suggestions please?

Answer 1

How much do you expect an 8 week old puppy to understand?

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House Training

House training your dog is simple if you follow a few basic rules. Remember that puppies younger than 10 to 12 weeks have little control. Accidents will always happen when teaching puppies to be clean in the house. Be kind and patient, and reward handsomely all outdoor elimination. Always remember that dogs do what works for them. Make outdoor pottying work really well for your puppy.


1) The puppy must have NO time unsupervised in your home. NONE. If you are not directly watching the puppy, it should be in the crate, or outside in a safe area. You MUST watch the puppy at ALL times when loose in the house. Use baby gates, crates, or tie the leash to your belt.

2) The puppy should sleep inside the crate by your bedside. This way you can hear if the puppy should happen to need to go out during the night.

3) You must go WITH the puppy outside for ALL trips for
elimination. You must have treats with you. When the puppy is
urinating, say "GO PEE PEE" in a nice praise tone of voice the entire time. When she is finished, pop the treat into her mouth at once, and praise praise praise. This should be something she gets at no other time, like tiny pieces of string cheese or boiled chicken. Same for defecation. Say "GO POOP" while she is going, and food reward and praise afterwards. You must observe and reward ALL outdoor potty time.

4) Keep a schedule. Feed at the same time, and walk outside at the same times. Your pup needs at least 4 trips outdoors each day, and 5 is probably better. Pup needs to go out at wake up time, lunch time, 4-5 PM, after dinner or any other meals, and before bed. Younger puppies may need to go out much more often.

5) Use a key word each time you go out. I say "Let's go out!!" in a happy tone of voice each time I'm opening the door to go out with the dog.


6) If you catch the puppy IN THE ACT of eliminating in your house, CLAP YOUR HANDS, say AH AH, OUTSIDE!! And immediately rush her outside. If she finishes there, do your usual food reward and praise.


The keys to getting your dog reliably housetrained are:


SUPERVISION: NO loose time in the house if you are not watching

REWARDS: ALL outdoor elimination MUST be observed and rewarded. If you only do this ONE thing, your puppy will get housetrained.

MANY OF YOU HERE WHO ARE REPLYING NEED TO READ THIS SEVERAL TIMES.

When training any puppy or dog, there should be NO HITTING. Whatever you want to call it. No tapping, popping, slapping, tapping, whatever. NO HITTING.

Rubbing any puppy or dog's nose in or near excrement is abuse. Pure and simple.

PATIENCE: Anger and punishment have no place in dog training. Elimination is a natural and pleasurable experience for your dog. You can teach her to not soil your house, but punishment will NOT help. It will only teach the dog to hide when she needs to eliminate.


If you have applied these techniques carefully for 4 weeks and you are still finding spots or piles after the fact, it's time for stronger measures. Roll up a newspaper and fasten both ends with a rubber band. Keep it handy. The very next time you find a spot of a pile that the dog has left behind, whip out that newspaper, and hit YOURSELF over the head firmly several times as you repeat "I FORGOT TO WATCH MY PUPPY".

Works every time. *wink*

Answer 2

To all the people who say 'rub a puppy's nose in it's wee or poo - THEY need a hard slap! Would you rub a baby or toddler's nose in it's wee or poo if it was left to it's own devices without a nappy? - I think not! It's a stupid, ignorant, abusive thing to do.
The puppy would purely mistrust you, think you are prone to irrational behaviour and presume you are punishing him for actually eliminating. The puppy would have NO IDEA that they are doing it in the wrong place so don't be so idiotic.
Dogs aren't people - they don't reason - they live in the present, they have no concept of time or that you may be punishing them for something which happened 1 minute, 5 minutes or 3 hours ago. If you find a puddle and you think the puppy looks 'guilty' IT IS NOT GUILT (dogs are animals - they don't feel guilt) it is FEAR as they are reading your angry body language.
Get a dog behaviour book such as one by Bruce Fogle. If you have no books on dog behaviour you aren't fit to own an animal.

Answer 3

RedyreRottweiler pretty much said it all. I'd just add a couple of things. For an 8wk Dane, I'd feed 4x/day. Add some grease/lard & milk to the chow, let it soften. Set up feeding times when you know a responsible person will do it on time. Don't set up nighttime feeds if you like to sleep at night. She's still small enough that you can put her in a large cardboard box in your room; dogs don't like to soil where they sleep, so she'll whine. Get her out! Just remember to enjoy her puppyhood; time goes fast. I wouldn't take her to public places--her shot series isn't complete, too risky.

Answer 4

8 weeks is very, very young. You're right, she probably doesn't understand that you want her to go outside, she's just thinking "This is my territory, so I'll pee here." You just have to be consistant over the coming weeks and months.

Make sure you take her out after meals and do not come back in until she's gone. Don't rush her (yet.) just wait it out. Take her out every two hours and again, just wait. It might help if you play with her right before you take her out as exercise will make her have to go.

Don't punish her for going inside, it will make her think you disapprove of her eliminating all together and she definitely won't go while you're watching.

Answer 5

In any given situation, focus on what you do want your dog to do instead of on whatever he’s doing wrong. Learn how to train your dog https://tr.im/6ljiI

For example, suppose that on many evenings, your young dog gets busy looking for trouble just as you’re digesting your dinner. He grabs a boot from the mat by the front door and gallops through the house with it. You yell at him and take it away. He grabs its mate. You yell and take it away. He heads for the kitchen and starts checking out the counters in case something tasty’s been left behind. You chase him away. And on and on, until you’ve lost your temper and torn out clumps of hair you can ill afford to lose.

Answer 6

First thing you have to do with a dog is us the same dry food. Dry food is the best because it cleans there teeth and it is not full of water. Until house broke, the dog should only be feed once a day at the same time every day. Walk the dog after you feed it. And I mean walk do not just stand there. Then walk him again a half hour after that. You should walk him as many times a day as you can until house broke. Walking helps it pass the food. Walk it in the same place every day. When they smell there own potty it makes them have to go. When the dog goes in the house, clean it up with vinegar. This does 2 things kills the smell+vinegar has a urine bass smell and the dog thinks you r marking this as your turf. When the dog goes in the house put the potty outside where you want it to go. Remember smelling his potty makes him want to go. So no potty smell in the house but lots of potty smell outside. You should have a pin or create just big enough for him to lie down. Most dog will not potty where they lay. Do not put anything in the pin that will soak up pee. When you are not watching your dog, he should be in the pin. If he goes in the house, you should catch him in the act and grab him and yell no then take him outside. Clean it up and take the potty outside. So to rap this up. Walk him as much as you can tell him good boy when he goes outside. When your not watching him keep him it the pin. When he goes inside tell him bad boy and take him outside..

Answer 7

I have a puppy that is 12 weeks old. She doesnt no yet. It takes a lot of pradice. Go to classes at Petco they help a lot i am going to one next week for my puppy. Bring your dog outside after ever meal and inbetween meals and say good job and give him or her treats after they go to the bathroom outside.

Answer 8

This is totally normal. This is why you would probably have to go through training classes or try to teach her yourself. You need patience. Do not use any liquid that has ammonia because it attracts them more to wee in that spot where you have sprayed or put the ammonia liquid.

Answer 9

8 weeks is very young to expect her to know she has to wee out doors it takes time and a lot of patience to train them to go outside, my collie was 4 years old before i got her clean indoors and i had had dogs for over 25 years and never had one like her, our other dog was totally clean in no time but it didn't seem to pass onto the younger one what was expected of her, it was hard work but perseverance one in the end, dogs are like babies. patients is the word.

Answer 10

I'd recommend getting a crate. When I got my 1st dog, I was very, very opposed to crate training because I saw no point in keeping my dog 'in a cage'. Therefore, house training with him took much longer and was more stressful than with my puppy, who loves her crate and was housetrained so easily!
Crate training makes it easier. Far better to learn about it and save your sanity than to be so upset, right?
http://www.inch.com/~dogs/cratetraining.html