We Have A New Adopted Dog (apprx 1 Yr Old)that We Cant Get To Pee Outside.we Dont Want To Crate Train. Help!?
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We recently adopted a sweet shepard mix female from the pound. We were told she was 3 years old but it turns out she is only a one year old that has not been housetrained. She listens well and is so sweet. but she will rarely pee outside. We do not want to crate train her and we take her outside to where our other two dogs pee and she just sniffs and runs and jumps. She only pees about twice a day. All our family members are tired of walking her with no success. Our other two dogs (a Westie and a Cairn Terrier) were so easy to train. We love her dearly but need HELP!!!!!t
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Are you walking her outside on a leash? If not, put her on a leash. Don’t allow her off the leash until she pees. Sounds like she is more interested in playing when she is out.
Also, you do need to use a crate to successfully housebreak the dog. You can’t possibily watch her every minute she is in the house. When you can’t watch her, she needs to be in a crate.
Try crate training, and be patient since your dog may have developed some undesirable habits. The dog should go directly from the crate to the outdoors, and get LOTS of praise the moment she does her business. As soon as you can’t watch her in the house, she goes back in her crate. Help her succeed! I’ve had great success with crate training over a number of years and with multiple dogs. It’s ideal to have a crate for your dog to use throughout his or her life even after he or she is housebroken. It’s a safe and secure place for your dog to rest. Remember: Dogs are den animals. Also, a crate can be essential in an emergency. Be patient, positive and consistent, and have fun with your new dog!
I agree with you about the crate training. I don’t like the idea at all.
Try using a spray bottle filled with water, adjusted so that it will spray as far as you can make it spray. This is a long distance correctional tool. You see her taking position to pee & start yelling & spraying & stomping your feet. Take her outside imediatly.
Another long distance tool is to take a pop can & put in a few pebbles that make a loud racket when shaken. Seal the top of the can with tape & add a bail wire to the top of the can.
Again when she starts to posture to pee, sling the can by the bail wire so that it will land about a foot from her. When the can hits the floor there is such a racket from no where just as she starts to pee. When the can hits the floor you start yelling & stomping your feet & take her outside imediatialy.
Using the bail to toss the can becasuse if you actually threw the can there would be the rattle of the pebble as you go to throw it. So she would be alerted that it is coming. Using the bail there is no noise.
You might want to make 3 or 4 of these bailed cans so you don’t have to retrieve it right away. You don’t want her to know that the noise & yelling is coming until the can hits the floor next to her.
When you finially get to her to take her outside grab her by the scruff of the neck & shake her. This is a correction that her mama would do when she was doing wrong. So she will understand that too is part of the correction.
Give these two things a try & let me know how it is going. I can help you stop this.
Why don’t you want to crate train?
I once rescued a pup and was told he had been housebroken. Thank God for the crate! Otherwise, my home would have been ruined.
If you get the right sized crate, the dog will not “take care of business” in it. Your gal doesn’t know boundaries (i.e., it is NOT okay to urinate in the house but it IS okay to urinate outside). It will take a lot of patience to make her understand that. If you don’t use the crate, you will need someone around 24/7 to watch her. Usually there is some signal that she is going to go potty … that is when you quickly take her outside to finish up.
My rescue seemed to take forever to housebreak. (He was about 10 months old when I got him.) When I started giving him the run of the house, he would get lazy and just lift his leg. It was back in the crate for him. He had to earn the privilege of being loose in the house. Eventually (okay, it took a few years, if you consider the “accidents” because he wouldn’t let anyone know he had to go out) he got the idea, and now the crate is a distant memory.
Can you identify the times of day when your new dog needs to urinate? Making sure she is outside during these times may be part of the solution. The other part is with you and your family members — you can’t get frustrated or give up. And when she finally does go outside, praise her lavishly. She’ll start to get the idea.
if your dog can lay in one place and poop somewhere else it will.thats why people crate train…so unless you want to hold you dog in your arms 24-7 its the way to go.if you use the things that r written below without out the crate or pin it will still work..but its alot more work and everytime you dont catch him in the act it will take longer–but if u want to follow him around everwhere he goes its up to you.
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..
When we first adopted our female Akita, she did not want to go to the bathroom outside, we walked her out five minutes when she was done eating. Withen two weeks we got her to go to the bathroom out side. P.S.She hated crate training… Even now we a have a male Cockapoo, he is in an crate but we still walked him around the yard………. If you don’t want to walk her stand out side with her after she eats and dom,t let her back in until she peed. That stratagie worked my little hyper Cockapoo. It works! Trust me!
Crate training is the answer. Why are you opposed to it?
This dog had to pee in her kennel at the pound. This is a habit. Crate training would fix it.
She is different from your dogs.