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Puppy won't tell us he has to go outside

Posted : 7/25/2007 7:40:26 AM

     About 2 weeks ago I found a shepherd mix puppy along the road and brought him home. We got him checked out at the vet and, although starved, he was fine. We are going to keep him. In the first week he had only two peeing accidents in the house, and we were fine because we thought "he's only a puppy, he's doing pretty well".
      The issue is that he has has four peeing accidents in the past 2 days because he just won't tell us he has to go outside. We've been keeping him on leash in the house, and he only gets off leash time if he asks to go outside and then does his business or if he is eating. While he is having off leash time, and very soon after he has just peed outside (like within an hour) he just silently walks off and when you go to look for him you find him peeing. So we say "OUTSIDE!" and he stops and goes outside and finishes. He has never had a pooping accident in the house. There was also a time when he was on leash with me sitting within 3 feet of him, and he just walked around the coffee table and peed without any indicator that that was what is was up to. Its like his looking for a toy, exploring the house, and looking for a place to pee inside body language all look very similar.
       Is there a trick to getting a puppy to tell you he has to go out? We also have an issue because the puppy is pretty much silent, so we don't get a big indicator of anything he needs. We have been following a feeding schedule, but giving him full access to water unless he is in the crate. Should we start giving him water on a schedule to? He drinks more water than any dog I have ever owned: drinks out of his bowl, the hose, the puddles in the potted plants, tries to lick the water off you when you get out of the shower. Could the "compulsive" drinking be an indicator of something wrong? Any information you can provide is much appreciated. Thanks

Hao Phan

Posted : 7/25/2007 8:41:25 AM

The way I housetrain my puppy is to take him out every hour or 2 hours depending on how old he is. Take him for a walk or just run around the lawn. When he does his business I would praise him and give him a treat. The idea to start a habit of going outside. Once a dog start a habit, they always want to keep to it. Dog usually also go in the same area. The scent attract them. I would get some pet odor cleaner and clean the area in the house where he pee. Basically, the trick is to not give the puppy an opportunity to potty inside. You are suppose to monitor your puppy when he is outside his crate. If you are too busy, the first hour after he did his business outside, he should be fine. I don't know about the obsessive drinking. Hope this help you.

Jewlieee

Posted : 7/25/2007 9:09:56 AM

I put a string of jingle bells on the back door. So, whenever we would go "outside" the bells would jingle with the opening of the door. Eventually, my pup learned to go to the door and jingle the bells with his nose to tell me that he had to go outside.

mudpuppy

Posted : 7/25/2007 9:32:02 AM

uppies should NEVER be left unsupervised, so don't let the pup off the leash in the house unless you can pay 100% attention to the pup.

Being let off a leash shouldn't be used as a "reward"-- you want your dog to think leashes are just part of life, and life is not much different whether you are leashed or not. You can accidently end up with a dog who completely ignores you unless leashed, or even worse, a dog who bolts away from you whenever you take off the leash.

Watching TV or doing household chores is NOT paying 100% attention to the pup. It's also a bad idea to immediately march the pup back inside after a successful potty outside-- many dogs learn that they get fun outside time only if they delay in their potty effort, something you'll really regret teaching your dog on those bad-weather days.

I don't want my dogs to "ask" to go out, I want them to learn to control their bladder until I decide to take them out. So with a young pup I'd take the pup out very often, every hour at first, and gradually extend the interval between trips as the pup's body matures.

houndlove

Posted : 7/25/2007 10:01:19 AM

I also do not put any empahsis on training to "ask" to go out. I found that over time once the dog understands that he has to hold it until we go out together, and that we surely WILL be doing so on a regular basis, they begin to understand that if there is an emergency they need to communicate, and if not they need to just sit tight. If there's an emergency, the dogs will pace and pant a little and I know that means we've got to go out ASAP. Otherwise, they wait until I'm ready to take them out. During training thise means lots and lots of trips outside ON A SCHEDULE. Dogs thrive on schedules and structure. Once the dog begins to figure out, "Okay, right now mom is drinking her coffee, and then she will brush her teeth and then we will go out and I can potty" they will learn to hold it through the coffee-drinking and the tooth-brushing because they know the potty opportunity is just around the corner. At first though of course until you can get that schedule ingrained, supervise 100% as the others have said, and make those potty trips very frequent.

I do use a cue word that signals that we're about to go out, so I can gauge their reaction to that word to see if they really do have to go or not. While training I'll say "who wants to go OUT?" every time before we go out. Now, I'll ask "who wants to go OUT?" if I'm not sure they need to go or not, and if they get up tails a-waggin and run to the door, I know they do. If they just look at me curiously and go back to sleep, I know they don't.

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