Dog House Training

Question: Older dog house training at night?

(Posted by: Lorraine J on 2008-09-09 02:03:25)

If anyone has any advice i would apreciate it, i have a 18mth maltese cross, and other than this problem is perfect and well behaved. But at night he has accidents most nights with number one's and two's. Never during the day, we have always put him out at night for at least 15mins, we would walk him but from a pup he has never fowled outside his own garden, so there seems no point, but at a last resort we did but to no joy. He can go for up to two weeks dry but then it starts again and we are left racking our brain thinking what we did different. So please, any tried and tested methods would be fanastic. Thanks Lorraine

Posted by: papaw on 2008-09-09, 03:08:20

Read up on how to do it, and crate train your Maltese. It will help you and them. If you crate train it. The dog will consider the crate its "bed " and as a rule, a dog won't soil it's "bed " If you train it right, it can be trained to wait all night to go outside, and can be left several hours during the day if you need to. It doesn't hurt the dog, just gives it good bladder and bowel control. That should be the first step in anyone's regimen of house-breaking a dog. Linda_Do is absolutely correct.! 18 months old is not too old to train it)

Posted by: danner on 2008-09-09, 02:12:49

I had to end up kennel training mine after i got her. If im awake she also does fine but if im asleep she poops in the floor. So i got her a kennel and put her in it at night to show her she CAN hold it. now she does fine. It took a few nights to get used to it casue of course she whined and wanted to get out bt we BOTH got used to it and it ended up working. so best of luck to you. :)

Posted by: Linda_Doxiegal on 2008-09-09, 02:20:31

Crate-training, serious crate training. Sorry, it's not your dog -- it's the fact that it is free at night. Corral your dog. He needs to stay in his bed at night -- therefore he needs crate-training overnight. Go to this website (It's really a PDF -- it has a bunch of schedules for dogs of different ages and levels of potty-training. It's really good! But, you've got to make the commitment for your little pal to do this. Commit for 4 weeks. Then commit for another 4 weeks, and so on until she's really house-broken. You Can Do it !! REALLY!!! ltah.net/ Housebreaking.pdf The schedules are great!!! Follow one of them to the LETTER!!!

Posted by: hippie314 on 2008-09-09, 02:24:44

Listen to the answer above me about crate training. I have a Cocker Spaniel who I thought I could never train to not pee and poo when I fell asleep. After a few months of being in the crate every night, he is fine out at night. He has learned to hold it. Just make sure you bring him out right before putting him in the crate and first thing when you wake up in the morning. Good luck!

Posted by: Love Training on 2008-09-09, 03:26:28

Crate training is an excellent idea. Also, *taking* the dog out instead of sending him out may help. When you send him out you have no idea of whether or not he actually relieved himself. When you leash him and go with him you are there to observe and will *know* that he is really empty. It could be that those nights he has an accident were nights that he got distracted by something outside and forgot what you sent him out to do.

Posted by: raregoldtx66 on 2008-09-09, 05:33:13

Instead of "putting " him out side by himself . GO out side with him and make sure he potties before coming back in .