I have two dogs, a girl and a boy. The girl is just over a year old now. Had her at 8 weeks and took her outside every 30 mins or so, stood in the garden with her, used a key word etc. She then usually goes, but it can take 10//15 minutes of encouragement. Give her a treat and then back in.
She will go outside but equally will just get up and wee/poo on the floor. This could be 10 mins after you have taken her up the garden. She is a toy breed who I had heard were particularly difficult to house train.
I've been waiting and waiting to get to the point where I could leave her (as in not be staring at her not as in leave the house) and not constantly be thinking 'whats she doing?' and where she'd bark at the back door to go out. This just hasn't happened.
Our other dog who we had after her, is only 5 months old and we did the same with him - he's brilliant, barks at the door if he wants to go out. Goes to the toilet straight away when you take him out, just seems to 'get it'. He's the same breed but he seemed to 'click' from about 10 weeks.
I hadn't realised how long this had been going on for with my girl dog but I've been cleaning up poo and wee every day for months now. What on earth am I doing wrong?
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I think I've gone wrong somewhere - house training & she's over a year old!
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Stepissue · 14/04/2013 21:34
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