train dog to urinate in bathtub?

Question

Ok, please don't tell me I am lazy.

I want to know if I can teach my 3 year old beagle to pe e in the bathtub (if so, how can I?) under special circumstances:

1.i have a bad fever, and my ears hurt

2.it is freezing and snowing outside and i just took him for a spin around the block, and when i walked past the spot he first urinated it was near frozen.

3. i live on upper floor of a walk-up building in a high density urban city.

4. i won't be walking to the park because of bad weather so he will have to be on pavement the whole time anyway.

how can i teach my dog how to do this and only resort to this under these circumstances because it is gross and weird?

i love my dog, i take him on hour long walks in the the park every morning and throughout the day. i am not lazy, i walk or bike everywhere, and i own no car. i enjoy very much having this dog and i spend more time with him than most people.

i don't know how using the bathtub would be unsanitary, they have a drain and are the easiest thing to disenfect. how are they more unsanitary than newspaper and pee pads?

i thought of this when i walked my dog right now, and i was wondering and trying to rationalize this... thats all. i won't actually do it. thank most of you for helping. very good advice, and i appreciate very much your honesty.

Answer 1

I think it might be easier to pay a kid to walk him a few times while you are sick.

Because if you teach him to pee in bathtub he's going to want to do it there all the time, not just when it's convenient for you.

Besides, what are you going to do when he needs to poop?

Answer 2

I think this is too confusing of a concept for a dog to understand. You should either retrain him to go inside all the time, or train him to go outside all the time. I know walking your dog is extremely inconvenient. I used to live in an apartment, and I had three dogs at once, and I walked them constantly. It was a joy to me, though, because I love, love, love dogs. So I'm thinking you should remind yourself that the dog is helpless and dependent on you, and just put up with the inconvenience because in exchange you have a wonderful companion.

If you decide to train him to go indoors, use a cat box with kitty litter or puppy pads. I know some people whose Shih-Tzu has used puppy pads his whole life, and it works out fine. They keep the pads in the bathroom, not the bathtub. The bathtub will be too hard for your dog to get into when he is older or if he ever gets sick.

Answer 3

How is the dog supposed to differentiate between the day your ears hurt and any other day? He will always just go pee in the bathtub, and more than likely poo there too. He will probably quit letting you know when he has to potty. Basically you will be breaking the training that he has already undergone and just confusing your poor dog.

If you train your dog to go potty in the bathtub, your dog will always go in anything that resembles a bathtub.
Can you imagine having trained him to do that and then having your dog poo in your friends tub? I think having to scrub your friends bathtub while explaining that you thought it was a good idea at the time and that its all your fault would be kind of awkward.

Answer 4

How could you get a beagle to pee in the bathtub anyway ? Don't they have fairly short legs ? How would he get in or out ? {I mean, other than you picking him up ... what would he do when you weren't home ???}

As a pet owner, I understand you don't feel like doing some of the stuff (sorry you are not feeling well but that's no reason to put your dog through heck just because of that) you need to do but that's the responsibility you took on when you brought your pet home.

Answer 5

i'm afraid that doggies do those issues using fact they have not got any administration over their actual purposes till they're a minimum of 6 months previous. this is up on your cousin to commence housetraining them now. i understand if she is out at paintings all day this is going to be very complicated for her to accomplish that she could attempt and get tips from a neighbour or a chum to bypass in often for the period of the day to enable the doggies out to alleviate themselves. The doggies can no longer help it using fact they can't carry on all those hours to attend till she returns. as long as she cleans the section the place they have peed or pooped thoroughly with bleach and disinfectant then there's no longer any wellbeing risk to the two of you. I easily have been cleansing up after canines all my existence and that i'm nevertheless alive to tell the story. If everybody aggravating approximately this to such an volume then no-you could ever have a canines. this is merely area and parcel of possessing a domestic dog. I easily have in no way crate experienced yet i'm specific it has his advantages. a minimum of the canines could be constrained in a close-by the place it can't soil something of the abode so it ought to be a stable concept on your cousin to try this fairly if she is faraway from the abode for this type of long term for the period of the day.

Answer 6

First, how is the dog supposed to know when "these circumstances" arise?

Second, what about defecation? You still have to take him outside for that, and I don't think the dog will differentiate between the two. If you train him to urinate in the tub, he will defecate in the tub.

Third, it's unsanitary, and you'll never get rid of the smell.

Fourth, put on some ear muffs, get off your lazy a.ss, and take the dog outside! If you want to own a dog, you have a responsibility to take care of it!
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Answer 7

I'm afraid to ask... where is your dog supposed to poo? Pee? yeah ok, you can rinse that, a little gross but you can rinse it out... but poo? You may be just asking for health problems like e-coli to come from that, seeing that you stand in the tub and bacteria can enter through cuts, etc... I'd just take the dog out, or if you are unable, have someone else do it. Just a word to the wise. Best of luck! :-)

Answer 8

1) get over it, that's temporary and has nothing to do with your poor dog

2) it's cold in much of the northern hemisphere, it's December

3) You knew that when you got a dog

4) If he's gotta go, he'll go on any surface

If you're really too lazy to take him out, have him use newspaper or pee pads, but the bathtub? God damn.

Answer 9

Your dog wont be able to tell that you dont feel up to taking him to the normal "potty spot" so you will have to train him to pee in the tub using a command like "tub" or something he can associate with urinating in your tub. When he scratches to go outside you will have to take him to the tub. You will have to continue to keep him on his routine of going to the park on the days you are feeling up to it.

Now the fun part, when he does get the idea, he will use the tub when he wants and thus the downfall of all of your training to this point.

Sorry you're sick but your dog shouldnt have to suffer. I still seem to be able to take that 15 min walk (at minimum) to let them go outside. Plus, isnt this something you should have thought of before getting the dog, or before moving into the building you chose?

Answer 10

I hate when a person, wanting to torment their dog by not letting it pee outside, asks a question that doesn't just make me sorry for the dog but once again question so much about small dog owners...

And only one answer actually answers the question without clogging the forum with stupid opinions and moral objections? Do you think anyone gives even the tiniest of beagle s**ts that 'you think that's gross' or 'dur, maybe that's unsanitary'?

Get over yourselves! If you don't have an answer, GTFO! Looking for a place to spout off inane, worthless opinions? Then go back to pissing into the Winds of Facebook and stop mucking up... Human kind! Yeah, I said it! All of humanity! Those whom add nothing but waste and general snobbery to every conversation they've ever butted their fat f*%##ing face into is the cause of every disease, war, or religion evarrrr!

I'm sorry guys, I'm overreacting, but I just spent the last hour cleaning pit bull sh*t out of my shower drain. I'm on edge.