HELP! Getting REALLY frustrated! HELP!

    • Gold Top Dog

    HELP! Getting REALLY frustrated! HELP!

    Hi everyone, again asking for help! Bella is 1 week shy of being 6 months old. I have had her for 14 weeks and she STILL isnt potty trained. No matter what we do, she just goes where she wants. I know I know...she can smell where our other dog had accidents, but again we rent and will be moving in fall therefore trying to clean the carpets down to the pad isnt really an option. What oh what can I do??? She is fully capable of learning everything else...learned to sit in 10 minutes, knows the command "in your bed", knows what go potty means, and go outside, but yet she still goes inside! We take her out so many times each day its unreal, but she continues to do this....even after she goes outside a million times! [color=#ff0099]WHAT DO I DO? Its driving me and my husband bonkers not being able to train her as our other dog 1 year old is trained and although he may smell it, he doenst go inside! what can I do, I am desperate here.Angry[sm=angry.gif][sm=cry.gif][/color]
    • Gold Top Dog
    Hang a bell by the door she uses to go outside, when you take her out to go potty grab her paw and ring the bell DO NOT come back in until she potties and when she does praise like heck. In your case your dog dosnt know how to tell you that she has to go or that she is even supposed to tell you. This trick works best if YOU take her out at the appropriate times like after she's done sleeping, eating, in the morning and right before bed.
    • Gold Top Dog
    Hi there, thank you for replying! I take her out at 5:30 every a.m., out again after she eats, she then goes out several times during the day (when someone is home) or she is in her crate with one walk mid-day while at work), She goes out after she eats her dinner, again multiple times in the evening and before bed. She goes out probably 10+  times per day.  why does she still do this? Will this trick work even if she can smell pee in the carpet? I cant wait to move into a new place with no residual smells from Charlie...ini hopes that she'll get it. IS THIS NORMAL? For a dog to still not be even remotely getting it at this age after 14 weeks? I also do the major praising and treats when she goes outside....
    • Gold Top Dog
    1) get an enzymatic cleaner and spot-clean the carpet. Spray it on wherever there has been an accident, it will kill the smell.
    2) are you on a regular feeding and exercise schedule?
    3) Generally puppies who potty in the house aren't being watched carefully enough. When are these accidents happening? The puppy should be either locked up or in direct observation by someone at all times. A crate is an option. We use a room with a hard, easily cleaned floor. Dogs don't like to piddle on non-absorbent surfaces. While watching the puppy, if the puppy shows any sign of needing to go, out you go. If the pup actually starts to go, say "uhoh, outside", scoop up pup, and out you go.
    4)I'm wondering if you go out too often. Do you always stay out until the dog piddles? if so, this dog is piddling an awful lot and you may need to visit your vet. We take puppy out to the potty area, and we stand there being boring until the pup goes, then we praise, and then we have a  fun game of some kind before going back in--often puppies who are immediately dragged back inside after piddling learn to not-piddle-outside because they don't want the fun to end. A pup your age should be able to hold it for at least four hours, and definitely overnight while sleeping, so that would be a morning trip, a noon trip, an evening trip, and a right-before-bed trip. Eventually you cut out the noon trip.
    • Gold Top Dog
    I can imagine that there are way too many spots at this point t ojust spot clean and with moving in the next few months I dont want to resort to black lights, etc....plus I have my stepkids right now and cannot have wet carpet and I would have to soak down to the pad. IF ONLY we had known to do this when we werer training Charlie....but we didnt, and we adopted him at 5 mos so training didnt seem to take as long....  So being that this is not an option now, what else can I do? We have a crate and she spends quite a bit of time in it. She goes potty everytime we go outside, so I dont take her out too often. She is fed at the same time each day in the a.m and evening and given 20 minutes or so to eat and then it is picked up.

    She holds it all night so I know she is capable of holding it and doesnt have UTI issues...as per the vet. She wouldnt be able to hold it if this were the case.

    I also make going outside fun...she gets a treat for going outside when I tell her and she goes to the door to be let out...(trying to teach her to go to the door) and then she gets a praise party for going with a treat! I dont drag her back upstairs right after, we walk around, or I give her lots of love and we practice sitting for treats...she leraned to sit in all of 10 min.
    • Gold Top Dog
    I'm sorry, but I've always rented too, and dang it, cleaning carpets is not that big of an issue.  It's certainly a much smaller issue than living with pee soaked carpets.  You treat the spots, clean the carpets and leave for the day.
    • Gold Top Dog
    Just so you know, I have steam cleaned them MANY times and "left for the day" but as you know to clean EVERY spot that you cannot see is difficult and you have to saturate to the pad...
    • Puppy
    I agree with trying the bell idea.  Maybe part of your problem is that she doesnt know how to tell you she's gotta go? You said you rent so I dont know if that means an apartment or house but I would think and apartment might be a lil' confusing for a puppy.  I have a doggy door but I have trained both my dogs to use the bell for when I close the doggy door or for when we go to someone elses home. 
     
    Just like the other person posted --- It's really easy.  Basically just hang some bells on the door knob you use to take her out.  EVERY time you take her outside stop and ring the bells so she sees you.  Eventually one day she'll smell the bells or bump them on accident.  Even if you know she doesnt need to go out -- TAKE HER OUT! Everytime she rings them! Eventually she will realize what the bells are for.  Be patient because it may take 2 or 3 weeks but she'll get it!