She may do her business outside and a short while later do the same thing in the sitting room (or kitchen, or hall).
She does it when they are in. She does it when she left alone and they are out.
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This is the story of an adult dog who will pee regularly indoors.
In all other respects, Eddie is the perfect dog.
How do you stop a puppy biting and grabbing without constantly saying “no”?
Teaching puppy is about showing her what to do.
That sounds obvious really, but teaching puppy seems mostly about things we don‘t want her to do!
A puppy novice can soon feel bogged down by a new puppy – most particularly by her teeth.
Little Millie is a ten-week-old Cocker Spaniel puppy. Something had happened very early in her life and she had to have an eye removed.
She is the sweetest, softest little thing much of the time. At other times, like all puppies, she is like a small missile with sharp teeth at the front end.
New puppy owners often need introducing to some fairly, to them, revolutionary concepts.
Teaching puppy often involves ignoring unwanted behaviours. Can this be right? Shouldn’t teaching puppy be about correcting her?
Where possible unwanted behaviour should bring puppy nothing. Corrections and ‘no’ may get her confused and frustrated.
Over-aroused, the little sharp teeth come into action. (more…)
Why does an older puppy or young dog continue peeing and pooing indoors despite being told off?
Maggie is a beautiful, friendly ten-month-old Mastiff Staffie mix. Unfortunately, Maggie pees and poops in the house.
Family members are at their wits’ end. The man gets home first and is often met by puddles, sometimes both pees and poops. His understandable reaction is to be very cross.
Maggie is impervious to scolding. Zeus, their other Staffie mix, creeps off to his bed. He immediately picks up that the man isn’t pleased though I’m sure he won’t know why.
Maggie lacks general impulse control in many ways – particularly where pees and poops are concerned. She wants to jump up? Maggie jumps up. She wants to pee? Maggie pees. She wants to move in on Zeus’, food? She does it. (more…)
The peeing never happens in the day if people are at home. However, if they go out and leave the two dogs alone for just a short while they come back to urine.
They need to go back to basics with puppy toilet training and build up a reliable routine. Teddy has to learn that outings will be regular. Taking him out every hour or so to start with, gradually lengthening the gaps between trips, should do the trick. It’s not enough to open the door and send him out – he should be accompanied.
All the usual things like toilet training and jumping up, the best sort of nutrition for the puppy and walking happily on a loose lead, but also preempting future possible problems from ever developing like guarding behaviours, fear of other dogs and running off.
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