Going potty in the house
By pb9669
@pb9669 (4)
United States
June 20, 2009 4:06am CST
We have three dogs. A Dashound, and two Toy Poddles. Our Dashound, Baby, is seven years old and house trained, Cuddles,(poodle #1), is over a year old and is also house trained. But Snuggles,(poodle #2), is eight months old and is NOT house trained yet. I have tried everything, I take him out once every thirty min.,I have tried rubbing his nose in it and saying "bad dog", I have even tried the puppy pads,(they worked with my other two), and STILL can not get him to go to the door when he needs to go out. I have given him praise when he does go potty outside and even a doggie treat, but wen i bring him back inside, he goes potty almost immediately. What Can I do?
1 response
@LilyoftheThorns (12918)
• United States
20 Jun 09
Have you tried spanking? That's what I have to do when my cat has an accident. I grab her scruff, show her the potty, and spank her. Nothing too hard!!! Just enough of a slap to get her attention and make her understand that she did something wrong. And then I bring her to the litterbox; in your case you'd put him outside because that's where he should be pottying.
And, when you take him out to go potty make sure you bring the other 2. Treat it like party time! lol. He'll see his older siblings going potty outside and want to be like them!! :D And do what you do now, when he does potty outside give him a treat and act like he just pooped pure gold! lol
And it's possible be might just grow out of this. Overtime our dog grew out of a TERRIBLE chewing habit, he might just grow out of pottyin' in the house.
Good luck!!
@pb9669 (4)
• United States
20 Jun 09
Yes, I have tried spanking him, it has not helped. My mother told me to try mixing water and vinger in a spray bottle and after cleaning up the mess to spray the area with it. All this did was make the house smell like pickles! He knows when he does this thats its bad because after he goes potty in the house he ALWAYS goes to his doggie crate and tries to hide. The only good thing about this is that we have hardwood floors and not carpet.
