I have a one year old Male Great Dane that is still peeing in the house and his crate occasionally.?

Question

We crate him when we are not home and he still poops or pees in his crate and even sometimes pees on the kitchen floor. Our other grate dane is almost 2 and she never has accidents. Please let me know what i can do to correct this? Thanks

Answer 1

If he has not been neutered that may help. Intact males tend to mark. I should add, when he has to go out, leash him and walk him. when he goes outside give him lots of positive reinforcement, praise treat...

Answer 2

There could be many factors to this, Do not get over worked up or worried. Though great danes finish growing by 12-15 months they can sometims take up to 3 years to fully matures. This is not abnormal, he is probably still very hyper etc.. Next comes the training. Make sure you are using possative reinforcment. This will make him happy to learn. Next make sure you are feeding him the same time every day. As well as make sure his bed time is the same every day. Take away all food about four hours before bedtime and any water away 2 hours before bed time. This helps so he wont of at night. Now make sure you are taking him outside regularly and on a timed schedule. My girls go out everyday right after they wake up, and right before bed. They go out periodicly during the day but they do their number two buisness during one of those two times.
Others have sugessted that he may have a problem, it will never hurt to have him get a physical. I dont think that is the problem though. If things still are not going well there are some supplies that may be useful. There are puppy training pads in which there is an attractive smell and usually dogs will only go on the pad. The pad is coted with plastic on the back to protect flooring, and is specally made to be super absorbent turning liquid into gel. These should be placed in the same spot each time. Their is also the bandiboo belly band that wrappes around the dogs abdomin to help preventing marking of their territory. It absorbes their markings and provides easy clean up.
I wish you luck and I hope things turn out great. Be patient, he is still learning.

Answer 3

Frist off make sure the crate is properly sized for the dog, just big enough for dog to walk into, turnaround and lie down.

Secondly, start potty training over...

You don't discipline the dog for going in the house, a dog that voids in the home is not trained...so the HUMAN has to learn to housebreak the dog not discipline it. Do not yell at the dog, bury it's nose in it or beat the dog....these methods are antiquated and abusive. Doing something as distasteful as these can cause the dog to not just continue to void in the house but to also hide it so you don't hit it, yell, bury it's nose in it and that would be worse than the dog just going in the open.

The proper way to potty train a dog...

Whenever the dog is in the house and not crated put a body harness and leash on the dog, tie end of leash to your belt. Wherever you go the dog goes. When you see the dog start to signal (sniff/circle/scratch) that it's got to go than run the dog out to where you want it to go. Praise, reward (immediately) and use a command word consistently. When the dog shows it's learned to go outside consistently by dragging you to the outside than you can undo the leash from your belt. Keep the leash on the dog still and keep an eye on it whenever it is in the house and not crated so if it starts to make an accident you can grab the leash and run it outside. Once it is going outside with no attempted accidents for at least a week than you can take the leash off.

The most common mistake in potty training is giving the dog freedom to roam the house without supervision where the human doesn't see the dog signal it needs to go.

Answer 4

If at this age this is still happening it indicats a couple of things 1) the training has been inconsistant and the dog is not 100% sure of housetraining or 2) that there is an underlying medical reason.

Take the dog to the vet and get a complete exam including bloodwork, urinalysis and fecal tests. rule out medical causes .If there are no medical reasons then you need to go back to square one with housetraining..just like he was a new puppy that had never been trained before..get him on a regualr feeding sched and also on a regualr sched to go out side..TAKE him out to do his business don't just put him out. Make sure when he goes in the appropriate place that you praise lavishly...when he goes in an inappropriate place do not punish but rather just clean it up with a good cleaner such as Natures Miracle with no fanfare, no reaction.

Answer 5

Hi ,
Has he been netured as he can be marking his territry in your house from maybe a nother dog?
Maybe hes still a young puppy as i know he is 1 yr old but he could still be acting puppyish!
When my border Collie was a puppy she was not puppy trainted till she was about 1 1/2 til 2yrs old!

Does another dog come 2 visit ?

Hope this helps

Answer 6

If your dog is soiling his crate, he may have an infection. Dogs are really loathe to soil their bedding. It goes against their instinct. When they do this and continue to do it at this age, start looking for a physical cause.

Answer 7

I think it might just be a matter of taking him out more often.

All dogs are different. My mutt only needs to be taken out 4 times a day, but my neighboor's dog needs to go every 3 hours.

Answer 8

Treat him for worms. If your treatment doesn't work, take him to the vet. He could have worms that generic worming medicine won't stop, or he could have a urinary tract infection.

Answer 9

some bigger dogs take up to 18 months to train

Answer 10

Stop giving him his Food or water,which will eventually solve the problem