We received a puppy 3mths ago, he was 8mths and had never be in a house before!
So ever since we have been trying to toillet train him! He is castrated and still marke the furniture, worst he pee in the middle of the floor as well as poop when we dont see him! At night he sleeps in his crate and I have to put him there in daytime to when we are not home. It was going very well for sometime, he was always in my sight and last week I went downstairs to get something from the frezer and I found him crouching on the sofa peeing. I dont know what we are doing wrong. He does his little thing when we take walk with him, but if I tie him outside, when he get in he find a spot where I dont see him and does it there.
What to do? Beside that he is a wonderfull dog, not agresive and very good with childrens. I want to be able to let him out of my sight sometime and not walk into his stuff!
We love him and we dont want to give him away, but I'm getting tired of his doing this. He even done it in the vet office!!!
Help!
This CAN be worked around, but at this point, it's not simply a matter of training him, you're going to have to basically totally reprogram him. It's going to take a lot of time and a LOT of patience, so if you want to be successful, you're going to have to resign yourself before you even begin to make a concerted effort to not lose your temper, not get discouraged, and you're going to have to resist the temptation to simply throw up your hands and "take a break from training", even for a minute. The most successful method that I know of for reprogramming how a dog thinks is called the Nothing In Life Is Free (or NILIF) method. You can Google NILIF and there are many, many links detailing how this works and you can familiarize yourself with the method and begin to reprogram your pup. Again, it's going to take lots of time and even more patience, but if you stick with it, eventually you'll win. As long as you keep in mind that you're not just training, as I said, you are reprogramming him, you'll do fine. Keep us posted on how it goes!
Ghilly