Dog owners: What is the longest amount of time it took to housebreak your dog?

My gawd! I have two Boxers.

I work from home and am with them all day long.

The first Boxer took a full year to stop peeing and pooping in the house, on beds, etc. Now..she's golden.

My latest Boxer is 9 months old and it's like she's freaking laughing at me with her sneaky peeing and pooping.

We've tried everything...crate training, teaching them to jingle a bell, we built a huge fenced-in area for them to run, we've closed off most of the house, we let them out after they wake, after they eat, after they drink, after they play. They have both been in obedience classes since puppyhood. They are lovely and they get along very well together.

I know she will grow out of it.

Just curious if my house holds the world record for the most dog accidents on the carpet.

does it count if the dog lives in an outside dog house and goes wherever it wants?

Silly rabbit.

He had to be sequestered from the rest of the house.

I got when they were 8 weeks old. The mixed breed was house-trained in two weeks. The Siberian Husky took 2 long YEARS.

Also had the Siberian in training classes....didn't help.

but fortunately no problems ever, just a couple of accidents the first week for each and a very small # of accidents over the years (them sick or my fault)

But the were 2yo and 1yo when I got them.

One more reason I'll adopt adult dogs! :)

always on the cement floor in the basement. She seems to think this is okay. Prob'ly associates cement with being outside. Accidents are nearly always my fault--not getting home in time, not waking up when she tries to get me to, etc.

She's my third dog, all adopted as adults (she was just a year old, but housetrained). As in so many areas of life, I let someone else do the work, while I reap the benefits.

one of the bad things about it in shelters. I think odors sink into it and you can never get them all out even with the enzyme cleaners. And then they tend to go where it smells like, well, the potty room. At least concrete is easy superficial cleanup for the humans. Nice doggie! :)

Occasionally, there will be an accident. I leave for work at 6 a.m. and don't get home until 4:30 p.m., so sometimes, the dogs have a problem holding it that long.

and the sheltie still poops occasionally on the floor.

both took to it pretty quickly. The current dawg used to have the occasional accident, but he hasn't done that in a long time.

doggie door



my sheltie had lots of pee accidents, she'd just leak while she was asleep. the vet gave me some pills and it cleared right up

Gah. It's like a sewer in there at times. It makes me ill.

a yorkie-mini dachshund mix with ideas of his own

she was about 7-8 weeks old. She's around 6 months old now and were still trying to housebreak her

around Thanksgiving she went 7 days without an "accident" - then blew it

around Christmas she went 8 days - the blew it

as of Monday - she went for 15 days in a row, but on Tuesday she went to vet to be spayed, brought her home on Wednesday and blew it...

we have a set of bells on the door, she knows if she jingles them she will be taken outside to do her business - problem is that sometimes she jingles the bells AFTER she's peed on the floor

My Cattle Dog, adopted as a stray at the age of eighteen months or so back in '95, still isn't 100% housebroken, but in the last year or so has--finally--settled into a routine. Thank goodness.

We trained it to go in a litter box. She has an accident here and there but she's usually really good with it.

had a pet door, there have been no accidents in the house unless it's raining. The Guinness has a spot in the hall he has designated as his special spot.

and so I have just accepted my fate....

She is fine in the crate when I am not home - she holds it.

She is fine all night when she is in my bed - she holds it.

But if something wakes her and she jumps off the bed, I had better go with because she is just going to pee and poop on my Tabriz carpet.

I take her out first thing in the morning (before I even go) and then feed her (which is when I get to go). Then she goes out again. I get ready for work and take her out again. Little MB takes her out before she leaves for school. Mr MB takes her out before he leaves for work....you get the point.

There is always a tootsie roll somewhere to be found. I just accept it now. There is nothing more I can do.

I figure as long as she is doing most of her peeing and pooping outside I have won. I don't know her history, but she was rescued from a kill shelter in Ohio just hours before euthanasia and then I got her from the rescue group (who billed her as housetrained, BTW)

the 2 year old is better but he's bigger too. Our little one has a bladder the size of a peanut.
We were warned that IGs were hard to housebreak, but did we listen?

Blue, the Lab, was an indoor dog all his life. There was no training required 'cause he hated anyone seeing him pee or poop. After school one day, my son calls to say Blue had an accident in the house. He says he has cleaned up the mess but what should he do about the door? Blue, not wanting to disappoint the Humans, had tried to eat his way through the front door! Good thing it was time to replace it anyway!

A few years back, my house was on the market and the real estate agent put Luna in the mudroom - a room that the dog was not supposed to be in because that is where the cats ate and had their litter box.

The agent left the house with the dog in the mudroom.

I came home later to find the entire bottom 3rd of the door missing since the dog tried so hard to get out of there AND had gone potty since she could not get to the doggie door.

When she saw me, she had her tail between her legs with that "woe is me" look on her face. She could not look me in the eye for a couple of days. She was so humiliated.

I've had a couple that never seemed to fully grasp the concept and were subsequently demoted to "yard dogs."

Spiffy: never.





God I'm glad he's gone.

see my post #17...

lol

Our dog Vicki took almost a year to housebreak. :( She goes outside almost all the time now. If it's raining or really cold, she sneaks off and takes care of business in the house sometimes. She knows she's not supposed to, and she always comes and tells us when she does. We got her at eight weeks old at the animal shelter, and she's nearly five now.

within a week he knew what to do. He just walks up and stares at me and makes this grunting noise. That's his signal.

I had her poop-trained in a couple of weeks, but she had a couple of bladder infections as a puppy-the vet said it was like in those ads for Good Nites, that her bladder didn't grow as fast as the rest of her. Once she got over it, she never reverted back to going in the house, although she had diahrrea a couple of years ago and was going into the basement to poop, which beat having it all over the carpet.

Housetraining a cat usually consists of pointing at the litterbox and saying "it's over there."

Well, close, anyway. :7

(and I really do love dogs & can't wait until I can have one again someday)

we've been fighting since...March of last year...:eyes: