Dog keeps weeing

[Suddha]

She’s a 2 year old shitzu. I walk her twice a day for an hour, which is as much as I can physically manage. I also put her out in the garden. She’s still sneaking to the front door maybe twice a week and weeing in the porch, without asking to go out.

DH is screaming at me every time. I’m autistic and I can’t cope with the screaming. I said why are you screaming at me, it’s not my fault? He said it is your fault because you haven’t trained her not to do it.

I don’t know what else to do. I’ve done the same as I did with my previous dog and she didn’t wee in the house.

Maybe ask in the Dog House section as the Litter tray is for cat people.

Thanks. I see this thread has been moved to the dog house. She’s just so naughty, I don’t know what to do. The weeing but also chewing and pouncing on your feet and biting your fingers. Or if you have a kindle or laptop she pats it with her foot and isn’t happy till you put it down and let her sit on your lap.

It sounds like a training issue - especially with your update about chewing.

Is she left alone a lot? Do you give her plenty of chews and mental stimulation?

Treat her like a puppy, take her out for a wee every hour.

Use a verbal command when she goes such as “wee wee” and give her a treat. This establishes “wee wee” as the doing a piss command and you should be able to use this to ask her to wee on command eventually.

Clean the area using a biological enzyme cleaner so the dog won’t scent the same area.

If this continues speak to your vet as it could be a sign of a UTI.

Think about giving her mental stimulation such as trick training, filled Kongs, puzzles or a snuffle mat.

No she’s very rarely left alone, only for 20 minutes when I’m out on the school run. I work from home part time and she sits in the office with me. I take her out round the block briefly in the morning, then I give her a chew while I work, then take her for an hour walk at lunchtime, then again in the evening. Plus going out in the back garden regularly, and I say wee wee and praise her. Sometimes she’s literally just come in from the garden and goes straight to the front door and poops on the mat.

But she’s constantly into everything. If my handbag is within reach she empties it out. When the electrician came she was immediately rooting around in his bags. She climbs into boxes of the kids toys and digs to look for something to chew. She will ignore dog chews and toys that I’ve given her but then gets in the box to look for their toys to chew. And the weeing, which she clearly knows she’s not supposed to do, because when she sees me find it she does a runner.

Have you had the heating on more with the cold weather op? Ddog drinking more? Mine need more of a prompt to go out lately..

I don’t think she’s drinking more. I have had the heating on. If she wants a wee she doesn’t go to the door to be let out, she sneaks into the porch and just does it. Then when I go in the porch she runs away because she knows I’ll tell her off.

First of all, don't tell her off! That won't help matters and will just confuse her.

Has she ever been reliable in terms of house training? Or has she always had accidents in the house? If the former, then I'd look for a physical cause of some sort. If the latter, it is probably an issue of training. Weeing in the house has become a habit, so you will need to work on creating new habits. As a PP said, treat her like a young puppy. So take her out frequently (every 30 minutes or so), praise her for weeing outside, etc.

@Suddha perhaps pup hears the "screaming" and is becoming fearful and trying to hide when she needs to go?

She runs away because she's frightened of being told off, not because she understands she's done something wrong.

You need to go back to basics and train her like you would a puppy. Clean up all her accidents with an appropriate cleaner and stop telling her off.

With the toileting issues, she is running away because of the anticipation of being told off. Not because she understands she's done wrong. Somewhere your training hasn't been consistent enough or has lacked at some time. You need to go straight back to basics. Lots of praise, no telling off, spend a whole couple of days dedicated to toileting. Take her out as often as you can. Sit out all day if the weather is nice and each wee or poo she does out needs to be praised.

It also sounds as if you need to reinforce some very clear boundaries. She is clearly lacking guidance in appropriate behaviours. She could do with being taught the "leave it" command, she should be able to leave anything that she isn't allowed to have. That's fairly easy, play with a toy of hers then stop playing, hold it (do not turn it into a game of tug of war), say "leave it", it may take her some time to let go while she works out what is wanted of her, once she has left go, give her a treat and praise, repeat.
When she is batting your iPad away in order to sit on your lap, stand up and assist her off the sofa while saying no. She will soon get the message that this behaviour isn't favoured and it should stop. And once you start getting a handle on those kind of behaviours the other behaviours should start to change as she starts to respect that you and your husband are the ones in charge and not her. At the moment it sounds as though she is lacking leadership.

Also I would also say that two hours of walking a day is too much for the breed, it's likely she is getting overtired which is also leading to some naughty behaviour.