GAbeachBum
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OK, so I am seeing a recurring theme here. For the most part, I am seeing that English Bulldogs are, for the most part, hard to housebreak.
I just don't know what to do. My husband trained dogs in the military and never had this much trouble training dogs. Our friend is a dog trainer, and said we are doing the right thing but nothing seems to be working.
We are trying to crate train her, which my husband, and the trainer, said is the best way. We have housebroken puppies this way before, and it usually works very well. Not with Lily. She pooped in the crate, so we made it a bit smaller, and last night she pooped in the crate again.
We take her out so many times a day, and we feel like she is just not getting it. I praise her profusely when she pees and poops. At first, we were trying to train her both using the crate and puppy pads, and then we read that puppy pads are the worst thing you can train a puppy with because it tells the puppy it's OK to go in the house. So about a month and a half ago, we completely got rid of the puppy pads and went straight crate. The first few days, it was great. I'd get up in the morning and immediately, she'd poop. Then I'd feed her breakfast and she'd poop again (yes, two times within 30 minutes). Then she'd have the run of the house all day, until mid-afternoon. I would take her out several times throughout the morning to pee, which she always did, and mid-afternoon she'd poop again. Then at dinner, I'd feed her and she would poop immediately after dinner. She'd have the run of the house again until bedtime. We've When she was doing it that way, she never pooped or peed in the house. Then - all of a sudden, it just stopped. We'd take her outside, and she'd do nothing. Just sit there, looking at me. Now, for every 20 times we take her out, she poops maybe once or twice. Before, it was almost every time, when it was time for her to poop, she'd poop.
The food is the same - we haven't changed anything. We feed her Blue Buffalo Wilderness puppy food. The time we feed her hasn't changed.
What should we do? We got her at 11 weeks. She is now 5 months. I know that she must have to go, because she always, always poops right after she eats. Also, I know if she doesn't poop, and runs around the house, she'll poop in the floor. I know that crate training says that if you take her out and she doesn't poop, you should crate her. I can't do that, though, because that would keep her crated too long.
Are they normally this hard to train? Of those of you who have successfully crate trained your puppy, how did you do it? And what am I doing wrong?
We have read so many conficting reports of what should be done, and the best way to train. I've hard "let her have run of the house" and I've heard "do NOT let her roam free." I've heard to crate her if she doesn't go and I've heard to NOT crate her.
Thanks so much in advance for any help anyone could give me. I don't know what to do.
I just don't know what to do. My husband trained dogs in the military and never had this much trouble training dogs. Our friend is a dog trainer, and said we are doing the right thing but nothing seems to be working.
We are trying to crate train her, which my husband, and the trainer, said is the best way. We have housebroken puppies this way before, and it usually works very well. Not with Lily. She pooped in the crate, so we made it a bit smaller, and last night she pooped in the crate again.
We take her out so many times a day, and we feel like she is just not getting it. I praise her profusely when she pees and poops. At first, we were trying to train her both using the crate and puppy pads, and then we read that puppy pads are the worst thing you can train a puppy with because it tells the puppy it's OK to go in the house. So about a month and a half ago, we completely got rid of the puppy pads and went straight crate. The first few days, it was great. I'd get up in the morning and immediately, she'd poop. Then I'd feed her breakfast and she'd poop again (yes, two times within 30 minutes). Then she'd have the run of the house all day, until mid-afternoon. I would take her out several times throughout the morning to pee, which she always did, and mid-afternoon she'd poop again. Then at dinner, I'd feed her and she would poop immediately after dinner. She'd have the run of the house again until bedtime. We've When she was doing it that way, she never pooped or peed in the house. Then - all of a sudden, it just stopped. We'd take her outside, and she'd do nothing. Just sit there, looking at me. Now, for every 20 times we take her out, she poops maybe once or twice. Before, it was almost every time, when it was time for her to poop, she'd poop.
The food is the same - we haven't changed anything. We feed her Blue Buffalo Wilderness puppy food. The time we feed her hasn't changed.
What should we do? We got her at 11 weeks. She is now 5 months. I know that she must have to go, because she always, always poops right after she eats. Also, I know if she doesn't poop, and runs around the house, she'll poop in the floor. I know that crate training says that if you take her out and she doesn't poop, you should crate her. I can't do that, though, because that would keep her crated too long.
Are they normally this hard to train? Of those of you who have successfully crate trained your puppy, how did you do it? And what am I doing wrong?
We have read so many conficting reports of what should be done, and the best way to train. I've hard "let her have run of the house" and I've heard "do NOT let her roam free." I've heard to crate her if she doesn't go and I've heard to NOT crate her.
Thanks so much in advance for any help anyone could give me. I don't know what to do.