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Baxter Tiberius
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Well, Baxter has been fully potty trained about 15 times, only to revert back to 100% zero.
He has a crate with "pen" area. This is directly connected to a doggy door. And a patch of grass on the balcony. Despite this, I wake up every morning with pee all over the floor. Sometimes poop. Even though he's less than 2 feet from the doggy door. During the day, he goes wherever he wants, whenever he wants. After 8 months of daily training, it has been 100% wasted effort.
I've used treats, praise, positive reinforcement, even 4-5 walks down 22 floors and over to the little park nearby. Half my day is still dedicated to making sure Baxter doesn't piss or poop in my living room. Its like we never graduated past puppy phase, and I am still having to "leash" him to myself, watch him like a hawk, meticulously time his meals, and can get very little work done in my office.
After 8 months of this I have come to my wits end.
So I decided that I am going to crate him at night, with a divider. Only room enough to turn around. No bedding. Hopefully force him to learn to hold it.
He usually does well the first couple days, then suddenly gets lazy, and stops trying. Back to "doing whatever he wants". The first night he didn't pee his crate. I was awestruck.
The second night I saw a bone dry crate again. But he himself reeked pungently of urine. I didn't see any runoff in the crate or anything. Maybe he laid in it and soaked it all up.
Tonight is night # 3. Fingers crossed.
I make sure to bring him manually to the patch of grass 2-3 times before bed, to try and get as much pee out as possible, and I rarely sleep longer than 6-8 hours. So at his age, he should be able to hold at least 6 hours. Especially when he hasn't had any liquids for nearly 5 hours before his last pee at bedtime. Yet I'd still wake up to 1 or 2 pees on the floor. So in his crate he goes now.
How many of you came to the conclusion that this must be the "arrangement" into perpetuity for your bully? Even after 1 year of age, 2 years of age, etc?
He has a crate with "pen" area. This is directly connected to a doggy door. And a patch of grass on the balcony. Despite this, I wake up every morning with pee all over the floor. Sometimes poop. Even though he's less than 2 feet from the doggy door. During the day, he goes wherever he wants, whenever he wants. After 8 months of daily training, it has been 100% wasted effort.
I've used treats, praise, positive reinforcement, even 4-5 walks down 22 floors and over to the little park nearby. Half my day is still dedicated to making sure Baxter doesn't piss or poop in my living room. Its like we never graduated past puppy phase, and I am still having to "leash" him to myself, watch him like a hawk, meticulously time his meals, and can get very little work done in my office.
After 8 months of this I have come to my wits end.
So I decided that I am going to crate him at night, with a divider. Only room enough to turn around. No bedding. Hopefully force him to learn to hold it.
He usually does well the first couple days, then suddenly gets lazy, and stops trying. Back to "doing whatever he wants". The first night he didn't pee his crate. I was awestruck.
The second night I saw a bone dry crate again. But he himself reeked pungently of urine. I didn't see any runoff in the crate or anything. Maybe he laid in it and soaked it all up.
Tonight is night # 3. Fingers crossed.
I make sure to bring him manually to the patch of grass 2-3 times before bed, to try and get as much pee out as possible, and I rarely sleep longer than 6-8 hours. So at his age, he should be able to hold at least 6 hours. Especially when he hasn't had any liquids for nearly 5 hours before his last pee at bedtime. Yet I'd still wake up to 1 or 2 pees on the floor. So in his crate he goes now.
How many of you came to the conclusion that this must be the "arrangement" into perpetuity for your bully? Even after 1 year of age, 2 years of age, etc?
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