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I wnat to get rid of my dog

118 replies

Nabooh · 29/01/2024 08:04

I won't. I'm just venting 😭😭😭

But I have 2 dogs age 5 and 7. Completely toilet trained since pups.

A close friend got a puppy and suffered a serious bereavement just weeks after. Breeder wasn't interested so I took pup to find a rescue to take her. Nobody had room anywhere or could help. I couldn't trust anyone to take her from FB or anything. This went on for weeks and months and eventually I just stopped looking.

But she's not toilet trained at all. I do everything I didn't successfully with my other dogs but she's just stupid. She just continues to pee inside and poo inside and this has made my older dogs start doing the same!!

Now if it's Cole or wet non of them will go out. They hold their pees in and just sniff about and act like they don't need it.

I'm trying my hardest to stay out with them till they go but I have health issues and standing gin the cold is SO painful waiting for all 3 to go.

I'm coming down every morning to piss and shit.

I've bought them new beds to crate train them.

In th night someone has got off the couch, gone to the bed and filled it with piss
. I'm just on my last tether

I wish I never kept the youngest dog. She's just ruined all the hard work put in with the other 2. They were toilet trained for years before she same along.

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Nabooh · 30/01/2024 14:59

catelynjane · 30/01/2024 14:57

They had breakfast late today 11am.

Is it normal for them to wait until 11am for breakfast?

I think you really need to try and get them in a set routine for meals - either three small meals a day, or one decent midday meal and two snacks either side, plus a bedtime biscuit or similar in their crates.

No, never. That's why I said 'late'

They always have it 8/9am when I get back from school but I was asked in playground to go in the office and talk about my daughter, she's having alot of issues so it was a long, unexpected meeting.

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catelynjane · 30/01/2024 15:21

Could you maybe do breakfast first thing in the morning, then get them out for a walk after the school run or at least get them out in the garden? Mine always goes within an hour or two of breakfast.

Then lunch around midday, dinner at 5pm and get them out in the garden as much as possible between dinner and bed.

honeyandbutterontoast · 30/01/2024 15:36

Just to give you a little bit of hope (albeit for the future)! My small dog was a total nightmare to housetrain. She took 2 years and I was doing everything I should and had no problems housetraining my other dog. She loved peeing on carpets, would go for an hour long walk and still have some left to go when she got home 🙄. She used to do angry pooping too, if she didn’t get attention she would just go in front of us. She could honestly pee 20 times a day sometimes, my carpets were trashed.

Then one day she was just fine. She just decided to go in the garden and never again in the house. She’s 6 now and never done it again. It was almost like she just didn’t get the hang of it till then.

Nabooh · 30/01/2024 15:44

honeyandbutterontoast · 30/01/2024 15:36

Just to give you a little bit of hope (albeit for the future)! My small dog was a total nightmare to housetrain. She took 2 years and I was doing everything I should and had no problems housetraining my other dog. She loved peeing on carpets, would go for an hour long walk and still have some left to go when she got home 🙄. She used to do angry pooping too, if she didn’t get attention she would just go in front of us. She could honestly pee 20 times a day sometimes, my carpets were trashed.

Then one day she was just fine. She just decided to go in the garden and never again in the house. She’s 6 now and never done it again. It was almost like she just didn’t get the hang of it till then.

Thankyou for this.

The little one is actually doing great today. I'm taking her out very, very frequently.
Older boy is too.

My pug is just being a dickhead 😂 she had that accident and is just looking at me like I've got 2 heads everytime I take her out.

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Nabooh · 30/01/2024 18:34

Should I give them dinner now or wait till later??

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oakleaffy · 30/01/2024 20:07

Nabooh · 30/01/2024 18:34

Should I give them dinner now or wait till later??

What time do you normally feed them?
A feeding time 'routine' {usually} means you can predict poos a bit better.

Nabooh · 30/01/2024 21:39

I fed them about 7pm and then walked them. Big boy and little legs pooped.

So fingers crossed they'll be good till the morning.

Big girl being a pain again.

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oakleaffy · 31/01/2024 00:33

Good luck! Hope no insolent indoor poos or wees tonight...

Nabooh · 31/01/2024 19:01

No poos or wees overnight.

Barking at 5am for toilet, DH took them.

Only 1 wee from little dog inside today.

Doing great.

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Squiggles23 · 31/01/2024 20:42

Well done @Nabooh looks like you are making loads of progress!

YouJustDoYou · 31/01/2024 20:46

I rescued a dog like that once. The rescue assured me he was fully toilet trained etc. Wasn't AT ALL. Would come in from the school run to a crate FULL of shit. Piss everywhere. Wouldn't pee on walks. It was a nightmare.

oakleaffy · 01/02/2024 00:29

YouJustDoYou · 31/01/2024 20:46

I rescued a dog like that once. The rescue assured me he was fully toilet trained etc. Wasn't AT ALL. Would come in from the school run to a crate FULL of shit. Piss everywhere. Wouldn't pee on walks. It was a nightmare.

That sounds an utter nightmare.
What breed or type of dog was it, @YouJustDoYou ?

We adopted a Lurcher puppy who had been found on the streets like a little wraith, but she had never lived indoors before {they think she was from a site where travellers had been evicted}
She did one poo indoors the night we got her, and a few indoor wees, but was easy to train..Within two weeks she was completely housetrained.

Possibly as she had never 'learned' to poop in a house beforehand. [?]

Sounds like the dog you adopted had been used to messing in it's crate, maybe as it had been left there by previous owners for far too long...Maybe the rescue deliberately lied to you.

That's so bad.

If a dog is messing in it's crate, something is very amiss, as dogs will do almost anything to not soil their sleeping area.

Possibly your dog had past bad associations with the crate.

Did you ever resolve this issue?

Cleaning up poop and pee indoors {unless an obvious accident eg upset tummy} is certainly frustrating and unpleasant..an emergency clean up kit makes life easier!

Nabooh · 01/02/2024 07:32

I'm so pleased!

Went to bed at 11.30pm.

Just come down at 7.30 to clean crates and then they went outside to do everything . Well not older girl she's being a pain and we actually had a nightmare last night.

She wouldn't go in garden so I thought I'd take her out front at about 9.30. And I thought we're only on the road outside so I just clipped her lead to her collar, never ever done that before, don't know what I was thinking.

Well she just pulled her collar off and was running circles in the road, luckily is a very quiet road and I remembered reading something that said don't chase them. Sit down and they'll come to you. And she did. But I learned a bloody lesson there 😩😩😩

But apart from that it's been going really well and it's so nice to not have to deal with the smell of poo and wee first thing 😭

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Nabooh · 01/02/2024 07:52

Just been sat here and my older girl barked at me and went to living room door so I let her outside and she pooped

Her letting me know she wants to go out rather than doing it in the house is HUGE.

Then when making my son breakfast my boy scratched the backdoor and went and did a poo (he does do that normally but had started just shitting in the house)

So am feeling great this morning! ❤️

Perhaps I was just not putting as much effort into them as I thought I was cause I've definitely upped my diligence with them.

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weaselwords · 01/02/2024 08:09

I’m so pleased that this is coming together for you. Having to in effect housetrain 3 dogs at a time is a massive challenge!

Squiggles23 · 01/02/2024 08:22

You are doing brilliantly OP - sounds like the older ones have remembered what to do 👌🏼👌🏼 The collar situation sounds classic! 🤣😳

Nabooh · 01/02/2024 08:25

Squiggles23 · 01/02/2024 08:22

You are doing brilliantly OP - sounds like the older ones have remembered what to do 👌🏼👌🏼 The collar situation sounds classic! 🤣😳

She's only ever had a harness on and has a fat neck and a small head so I really don't know what I was thinking trusting her collar to stay on.

I had visions of me running down th main road in my dressing gown and sliders 😂😭

She came right to me though when I sat down.

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Nabooh · 01/02/2024 12:52

Just carrying on documenting this for myself really to see the progress.

No accidents in the house at all so far.

Older girl peed on small walk so I think that's the way forwards for her. Additional solo, just down the street walks a few times a day because that seems to make her wee instantly.

Have been out too and left them all uncrated and no accidents.

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