Dog won’t be toilet trained

[jugodenaranja]

The dog was never specifically toilet trained, I’m not experienced with dogs, she wasn’t learning and I found it frustrating and gave up.
the problem is that alongside using the garden as a toilet my dog would also have “accidents” in the house, until they stopped using the garden almost altogether. for years they solely have solely used the house as a big toilet and carpets have had to be replaced because of them.
mats was layed where they would go and they would toilet beside it. Mats were layed to cover the areas so they refused to toilet there anymore and so they did it somewhere else. Currently their toilet place is in my bedroom and the living room.
if let outside when they would usually “go” they will hold it in and wait to do it in their places inside later. Even it outside for hours.
They are a small dog and at this point I am considering keeping them in some kind of playpen all day at this point, apart from walks. I don’t want to have to do that but my house smells disgusting and training hasn’t worked

You need to go back to basics and toilet train the dog , you cannot just keep it in a pen for the rest of its life because of your own laziness .

Don't get a playpen but do start restricting access to your bedroom until you've gone back to basics and trained.
On top of training you really need to work on eliminating the smell because to a dog it's like a gigantic neon sign that says please pee here.

Training hasn’t worked? Errr no - you ‘got frustrated and gave up’.
A playpen all day? For heaven’s sake, get the dog under your arm and out into the garden every 20/30minutes until he learns. Plenty of treats for training.
Take him in the night.

repeat repeat repeat.

I’m afraid your dog has trained you to accept that it would prefer to use your house as a toilet.

Its probably trainable but will be an uphill battle and you’ll have to bring out the big guns of motivation to change how it thinks about going outside.

If you really want to address this issue I’d probably invest in a few sessions with a dog trainer who can advise on the best strategy which you need to stick to.

And for goodness sake at the very least keep your dog out of your bedroom and any rooms with carpets in. Baby gates are your friend to restrict access to rooms with a hard floor that you can clean, sterilise and ‘de-scent mark’ more easily.

What breed is your dog?

I ask because some are much, much harder to house train than others and will have accidents inside throughout their lives if you're not really, really on top of things.

You can't just "give up" and keep your dog in a pen though, you need to work on training your dog and it's something that lasts their entire lives.

You've actually trained your dog to wee in the house - if it's not going outside but only going inside then it's absolutely trainable - he thinks the toilet is inside.

You have a non-binary dog?

You are the problem, not the dog. I don’t really know how to respond to your post. Toilet training can be hard, but so worthwhile if the effort is put in. We spent hours outside with our dog, we still do at night and he’s 5 years old. All I can suggest is to try going back to basics with training outside, high praise and high treats if dog does go when you are out, so dog soon gets to know they get praise and a treat for going outside.