I need help with my puppy. He still isn't housebroken completly![]()
I don't know where I'm going wrong. Never rub his nose in it, never punish him for accidents, just catch him in the act and take him outside.
That's all fine and dandy. But now although he knows to go to the door to go outside, sometimes, he just doesn't care and will squat and shit or piss right ion front of me. It's like, hhe knows he wont get in trouble, so it must not be bad. He knows to pee outside, but he doesn't know not to pee inside. I dont know what to do. I tried keepign him on a leash so he never had a chance to have an accident, but how long can I possibly do that for? he's 5 months old now. He needs freedom at some point. When I started giving him more freedom, he started having accidents. Obviously, he never leaned pee inside= bad.
Also, he will not hold it. If he goes to the door to go outside and I'm not there that minute, he will go in front of the door. Now, I know he can hold it, he just chooses not to.
He was sick a few weeks ago with diarrhea, and he had a lot of accidents then, but I didn't even try to punish him for that because I figired he was sick and couldn't hold it. Thatseems to be whe more accidents started. He was doing good before that. He was even sleeping in bed with me at nigh, and was not having accidents if he woke up before me. Now if he sleeps in bed with me, he wil lwake up early go poop on the floor and come back to bed. So i started putting him in his kennel at night again.
I dont know where i went wrong, or what I'm doing wrong now. I did start to yell at him if he has and accident, I dont know how else to get the point across that pee in the hosue is bad. Go outside is good. When I take him out and he goes, I praise him like the sky is falling. He knows pee outside is good. He just doesn't know inside is bad.
My bf is getting very frustrated at puppy poop all the time, and I know it's my fault, but I dont know what to do right. Just keep trying and hope he gets it? He is a very smart boy. We shouldn't hav this issue. I just think he needs firmer discipline to know what's bad, but everythign I read said never discipline a dog for going in the house. They think that means their poop is bad, they dont know you mean poop in house is bad. But then what do I do to make him understand?
I know it doesn't take over 2 months to housebreak a dog. Espicially one as smart as him. He should have had this in a week, and the fault lies with me.
Any suggestions?


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