gordonshumway
New Member
Hey all, you were all so helpful with my last question, I'm hoping you can help us out again
Tug is about 6mo old male English/French cross and is really a sweet dog, with one exception. He still isn't housebroken, and it's driving my wife and I nuts. I'm not an expert (by any means, ha ha) but it seems to be separation anxiety related. He will be fine most of the time, but if my wife and I leave the room he is in (mostly it's when we change floors in the house - upstairs/downstairs) we will come back to find a puddle. He's notorious during kids bathtime routine, where in the evenings we go upstairs to give our kids a bath, brush teeth, get ready for bed, etc. Every. single. time. we come downstairs to him having peed. So during bath time we crate him and that works pretty well. The problem is he also pees at less predictable times as well. Say if you just have to run to the basement to get something, maybe 1 in 5 he'll pee. Or if I take the trash out, boom, pee. I can't crate him every time we leave the room, that just isn't realistic or sustainable, but at the same time we can't keep this up either. Any suggestions? Oh, we also take him out A LOT. Like every 20 minutes sometimes. At bath time, we'll take him out to go potty, then give the kids a bath and he'll still pee only 20 minutes after having already peed. So it's not like he just can't hold it any more. The other thing is, it seems once he's peed once in teh house, for the rest of the night he'll pee again and again, to the point where if he's peed once in the house we have to crate him for the evening becuase if we don't he;ll pee all over. It's super frustrating!!
Thanks!
Tug is about 6mo old male English/French cross and is really a sweet dog, with one exception. He still isn't housebroken, and it's driving my wife and I nuts. I'm not an expert (by any means, ha ha) but it seems to be separation anxiety related. He will be fine most of the time, but if my wife and I leave the room he is in (mostly it's when we change floors in the house - upstairs/downstairs) we will come back to find a puddle. He's notorious during kids bathtime routine, where in the evenings we go upstairs to give our kids a bath, brush teeth, get ready for bed, etc. Every. single. time. we come downstairs to him having peed. So during bath time we crate him and that works pretty well. The problem is he also pees at less predictable times as well. Say if you just have to run to the basement to get something, maybe 1 in 5 he'll pee. Or if I take the trash out, boom, pee. I can't crate him every time we leave the room, that just isn't realistic or sustainable, but at the same time we can't keep this up either. Any suggestions? Oh, we also take him out A LOT. Like every 20 minutes sometimes. At bath time, we'll take him out to go potty, then give the kids a bath and he'll still pee only 20 minutes after having already peed. So it's not like he just can't hold it any more. The other thing is, it seems once he's peed once in teh house, for the rest of the night he'll pee again and again, to the point where if he's peed once in the house we have to crate him for the evening becuase if we don't he;ll pee all over. It's super frustrating!!
Thanks!