A friend of mine has taken on an adult lurcher from the local Dog's Trust. He is a young adult, perhaps just a 'teendog' and she's had him a week but he obviously has no idea that he's supposed to be toileting outside.
She has another lurcher ( who is clean in the house), and dog sits/dog walks so there are plenty of dogs for the new boy to copy. She's taking him out every hour or so, and sometimes he'll 'go', but he'll quite often just come back inside and poo in the kitchen.
She was hoping not to have to crate him because of space issures but she's probably going to have to, isn't she?
I've only ever trained puppies as our adult rescues came to us trained. The puppy that took the longest was our lurcher, I'm not sure if the is a breed characteristic?
Could anyone who had a untrained adult dog let me know what worked for them?