Dogs are social animals, and they want to make you happy. Once they understand what you are trying to teach them, they will be overjoyed to obey. The first step to housebreaking a dog, is to be watchful. You have to catch them in the act. When you see your dog about to go inside, gently take them by the collar and take them outside, and let them stay out there until they complete their business. After enough times of this, they'll get the message, and will hold it until you let them out. If it's a dog that was previously housebroken, but has started to urinate inside again, there are other issues going on. It could be psychological or physical. The dog could be lonely, depressed, bored, or stressed. If this is the case, you'll need to do whatever is needed to improve the dog's environment, and thus its emotional state. The other possibility is that your dog may have problems with their urinary tract, bladder, or the nerves involved in urination. In this case, you'll need to consult your veterinarian for treatment options.

I love dogs! I think the best way to train a young dog to stop urinating or pooping in the house is to rub its nose in it, not too rough and give it a soft paddle on the but. Point at his noise and say bad dog. Take him out to the yard and let him run around a bit so he/she knows where you would like him/her to do that sort of thing. Pet him...call..him a good dog and take him back inside. After awhile, your dog will realize that it has to whine in order to go to the bathroom so you can take him/her outside. Make sure you take your dog outside when it tells you or it will break your training efforts. Every dog I have had, I have done this with and it works.

The easiest way to house train a dog is to crate train it. Many people have problems with crating their dogs, but please understand that to the dog the crate is a den. My Corgi sends himself to his "box" to hide from the world when he is feeling upset. Back to crate training. Take your dog outside and wait for him/her to do its business. Then bring it inside and put it in its crate. Wait a couple of hours and get the dog out and walk it. Tell it to "do its business" and wait. When it goes praise it. Let the dog out of its crate, then crate it, and then walk. Its important to take the dog outside everytime you get it out of its box. Crate training is based on the idea that a dog won't go on its bed. This uses what the dog naturally does instead of punishment to get the desired result (clean floors). If your dog has an accident simply clean it up and start over. No one gets everything on the first try. Both my Corgi and my Manchester Terrier are crate trained and we haven't had an accident since they were puppies.

to add to that answer when ever the dog does make a mistake in the house you should take some type of absorbent material ( paper towel , news paper ect. ) and soak up the piddle and take the soaked paper and the dog outside where you want him to do his biz place the paper on the ground making sure that the dog sees and smells it while petting him at the same time to reassure him and soon he will get the message .

The previous poster is completely incorrect, and I question their sense. The ammonia in a puppy's urine can damage their olfactory cells in their nose. This will cause them to not be able to track, (if you’re into hunting dogs) and could create negative behavior down the line, due to sensory imbalance. If you “love dogs” never EVER do this.

i have a dog and there are two ways to teach it not to urinate in the house. 1. 15 minutes after each meal take it to the place that you want it to do its business time by time it will learn to go there by its self. 2. you can phurcase 2 types of sprays from a vet. one that attracts your dog to a particular place to urinate and one to stop it urinating at the place you dont want it to. you just spray it at the spot and it will smell it and do its business there. go to your local vet and ask him if thay have it

Plan A. House train it Plan B. If house training doesn't work than go to the pet store or your local veterinarian and ask if they have urinating pads or male dog diapers. The male dog diapers are straps or belts that go around their abdomen and prevent the male from urinating on the furniture. (what I mean to say is "when they lift-a-leg the grossness won't end up on your furniture or your precious carpet") You can buy the "pee" pads at a pet store. train them to pee on them by watching your male for a few days and whenever he lifts a leg tell him no and set him on the "pee" pad. After he learns to do that move the pad outside and he will urinate on it or near it because he knows he has soiled on it before.(make sure you give him praise or a treat when he uses the pads or he will have nothing to look forward to.) After he learns this method take the pad away and clean it or throw it away so he can not smell it or you'll end up doing the proccess over again. Hope that helps.

They are still in the learning stage at 1 yrs. old. What worked for me was I sprayed a wee wee pad with some stuff in a bottle they sell at pet stores, which has a scent on it similar to urine. Humans can't smell it, but your dog will. Put the pad where the dog urinates. When he pees on it, give him a treat. Over time, move the pad closer and closer to the outside door. Eventually move it outside the door.

Hmmm many different answers here. Here's what we did. When you catch it in peeing in the house, grab your dog firmly making lots of noise and fuss, and take it outide. Don't worry if it's still peeing, just get it out there. You can clean it up later. As soon as dog is on the ground outside, tons of praise. The noise you make when catching it will make the dog know it's doing wrong. As has been said, a few minutes after feeding, take the dog out and let it run around till it pee's. Whilst it's peeing and after (don't touch dog when peeing) give it tons of praise and get that tail wagging. Take the dog out every hour, so it can do it's business. Tons of praise for the dog when it does. It didn't take long for my bitch to learn to go outside with the above methods. In fact now she will pee on command.

You may need to give this young dog...(puppies are not considered to be "full grown" until about 14 months of age...so you still have a puppy on your hands!)..a FUN refresher course in HOUSE TRAINING! I would treat him as if he were a much younger puppy with not a lot of good sense or understanding of the correct behavior and proceed to support him in NOT being able to make mistakes! This means that you TAKE HIM OUTSIDE or potty trips, along with your zip lock baggie of cut up human grade beef jerky...or whatever top shelf treat will make him TAKE NOTICE..,no ho-hum biscuits for this training. YOU want to make a BIG impression that going potty OUTSIDE earns this PRIME REWARD along with PRAISE...you can not succeed if you are just opening the door and letting him out...YOU need to be there to provide the PARTY immediately after he has gone potty in the correct place (outside!) Use some Nature's Miracle to clean up with...but please understand that if it has gotten into your carpet pads or the floor boards...bad news...you may not be able to get the smell totally out...and as long as the dog can smell it...it's kind of a big green light to that over active nose TO KEEP DOING IT IN THE HOUSE! Support your dog in NOT doing the wrong thing by using baby gates to gate him/her in a safe, easy to clean space and/or by using a crate when you are not home. If it is happening when you ARE home, don't allow the dog free access to the house without you watching it AND/OR using a tether to hook the dog to YOU....so that you can take your eyes off of the dog, but know exactly where the dog is and what the dog is doing! The tether should be long enough for the dog or move about some, but not long enough to move out of your line if sight! You can shoot me an email (addy on profile) and I'll send you a copy of Potty 101...also discusses the use of pads, litter boxes training...and so on. Good luck...you just need to support the correct behavior and things should work out well soon.

We got one of our dachshunds when she was 4 or 5 years old. They said she was house trained, but she wasn't. We tried several methods, but what really worked well with her was the following: Take him/her outside often and whenever he/she potties outside, give him/her their favorite treat (don't ever give him/her this treat without him pottying outside). Then when he seems to have that concept, change the training so that he gets the treat when he lets you know he needs to go outside. You have to watch him, though, to be sure that he isn't just going outside to get the treat. With this method, we had our dachsie totally housetrained in 3 weeks.

well, your dog is basicly still a puppy, so he or she would require some training, or make sure that you have a timetable for when to put your dog out in the garden.