Toilet training help!! mini daschund

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Hi everyone

I have a 6m old Daschund who is having lots of issues with toilet training. Any advice welcomed!! Tonight she urinated on the sofa as soon as I left the room and she had just been taken out.

All I can think of is that my husband has been telling her off for urinating inside, and so I’ve put him on a strict ban and told him to let me handle it. Tomorrow I will be really building her confidence with the garden and lots of playing outside and positive reinforcement for going to the toilet outside. She’s usually really good at using puppy pads inside. She is on a daily supplement to support her UTI tract but if urinating on the sofa continues I will get her checked out by a vet.

Anyone else have a mini or dealt with this?

I don't have a dachshund but a terrier. House training her has been a nightmare. However, at nine months it is as if something has finally clicked. For the first months we only did positive reinforcement and ignored her mishaps indoors. But a month ago she just sat down and peed in the living room while looking me straight in the eye. I couldn't help myself, I just scolded her. She looked very surprised but hasn't peed inside since!
What works for us is taking her out four times a day with no puppy pads in the house as it is just too confusing. Just keep going, eventually your pup will finally understand!

I have 2; one was easy to house train within 6 months, is bomb proof and would never consider going indoors.

The other one is 2.5 and still goes inside given the opportunity!

With the second one we shut all bedroom doors/use a stair gate for upstairs to stop her sneaking away to do it, and use lots of positive reinforcement. She's very good focused so she gets a biscuit every time she goes outside. Now as soon as she's been outside she runs to her biscuit cupboard.

We find she doesn't ask to go outside like the other better trained one does, so we have to offer it at regular intervals.

I would stop using puppy pads, it teaches them it's ok to go inside on rugs etc. We still can't crack weeing on the bathmat during the night, but we choose our battles!

Good focused should say food focused

The puppy pads might confuse her. My friend has a small dog and he used the pads most of the time, but there were always accidents. They got a dog trainer who told them to get rid of the pads. Its easier for them to learn “all pee goes outside” instead of “its ok to pee inside sometimes”.
It took a few months, but the dog is housetrained now. We just got a puppy not long ago and didnt use pads. She learnt it very quickly.
You have to always watch them though, so you can catch them when they are about to pee and quickly put them outside.

Oh, I've been there! Stubborn little buggers aren't they! I had an unfixed male mini...took nearly 9 months and only really cracked it when he stayed with my parents (who have a house with a garden vs my London flat) and so could a) make the connection more easily re "back door = go to garden" and b) my dad was probably old school and held his nose in indoor mess... (I wasn't thrilled)

We had a trainer who said that the breed isn't stupid, just stubborn. We'd get back from walks that saw no pee action and the second we got inside, he'd look me in the eye and pee on the carpet. Trainer said: "well, wouldn't you do the same? Cold February night on the pavement or pee inside in the warm?"

So, I guess wait until the weather gets better! I also second ditching the puppy pads - confused mine too. Once mine hit puberty, it became easier - marking every lamppost we went by was a gamechanger!

I've never understood the principle of puppy pads all it does is make them think it's ok to go in the house. I've never used them myself.

Get rid of the puppy pads for starters - all they're doing is teaching her that it's okay to pee indoors.

She won't understand why it's okay to pee on the pads but not the sofa or the floor - especially if she's been getting told off for it.

Saying that dachshunds are notoriously hard to toilet train and I'm afraid I used to walk a wire-haired standard who was nine and still went in the house

Another mini family here. Ditch the puppy pads!!! All it does is give the message that it’s ok to go inside.

outside every 30 mins and lots of lots of praise and treats when they toilet. Totally over do the praise. Positive reinforcement without a doubt

Not one flippin photo!

How disappointing..

mum has a daushund and pees in the house no matter how many times go out. Pure defiance like he marking its territory and also doesn’t stop barking all the time.

Not a mini but I do have a 21 week old Chihuahua who follows my other dogs when they go outside. Is always put outside about five to ten minutes after eating and if needs be I stay outside until he has done the number 2.
I do not use puppy pads. He was on them when I got him and I suspect this is why he uses the bath mat.
You just have to be on it with the wees and give lots of encouragement and a treat when they wee outside. Good luck !

I've got one that weed on command about 90% of the time and even she tried to turn back at the door recently when it was pouring down.

Like others have said, get rid of the puppy pads, use and enzyme cleaner in the sofa, say wee-wee a lot when she is weeong outdoors them make a huge fuss of her when she's finished.

You’ve just got to watch them like a hawk really, six months is still young so don’t despair yet. I find it helps to use a particular phrase every time you’re lucky & catch them doing it outside, I say hurry up. One of my old ones got so she’d to it in demand hearing that…very handy 😁. Then the huge fuss of course, go manic with it, & when they come in a treat.. Never foolproof, my one year old now keeps asking constantly to go out ( darent ignore her even though I KNOW she’s just been) runs round the garden once then straight back in to wait expectantly near the treat tin. 🙄

Thank you all!

Ive ditched the puppy pads today. Just added one to the garden that has pee on in hopes of inspiring her! Lol.

We moved homes just before we got her and annoyingly had to replace the fence! She now does have access to her own small fence in the garden. But that is why we had to start with puppy pads. We also had a loose dog come into our garden!

She doesn’t seem to enjoy being outside and I joke she’s more like a house cat! Lots of laying around the top of the sofa, naps a lot, jumps around on toys similar to a kitten.

Dd has a mini. He is without doubt the most stubborn, strong willed creature I have ever come across. He’d pee on your foot rather than go out in the rain and I’ve known her to have to stand with an umbrella over him.
He is gorgeous, but bloody hell are they Baird to train.

Hard to train. No idea what my keyboard is correcting to 😂