pike
01-06-2007, 06:17 PM
Hello,
I'm looking for some advice on my dog's potty training quirk. He's a 15-month old neutered Rhodesian Ridgeback/Chow/Boxer mix.
We've got him trained to tell us when he has to go outside to go potty, and for the last 3 months he has been accident-free...AS LONG AS WE'RE HOME! If we leave him alone for more than 2 hours, he urinates in the house.
It's very strange. I can have him in the house and ignore his pleas to go out for hours (I've actually tested this) and he will NOT go in the house. But once we leave him alone, all rules go out the window.
We have him confined to a small area of our basement when we go out, and every time he urinates we always clean with bleach but he always goes in the same exact spot. We originally had him in a crate (just like this one here pictured on petsmart.com (http://www.petsmart.com/media/ps/images/products/detail/large/June05/lrg_55601_48317.jpg), but not our dog :)) but he completely destroyed it in a matter of hours. He really has a thing about crates/cages.
-Mike
I'm looking for some advice on my dog's potty training quirk. He's a 15-month old neutered Rhodesian Ridgeback/Chow/Boxer mix.
We've got him trained to tell us when he has to go outside to go potty, and for the last 3 months he has been accident-free...AS LONG AS WE'RE HOME! If we leave him alone for more than 2 hours, he urinates in the house.
It's very strange. I can have him in the house and ignore his pleas to go out for hours (I've actually tested this) and he will NOT go in the house. But once we leave him alone, all rules go out the window.
We have him confined to a small area of our basement when we go out, and every time he urinates we always clean with bleach but he always goes in the same exact spot. We originally had him in a crate (just like this one here pictured on petsmart.com (http://www.petsmart.com/media/ps/images/products/detail/large/June05/lrg_55601_48317.jpg), but not our dog :)) but he completely destroyed it in a matter of hours. He really has a thing about crates/cages.
-Mike