please help, hubby is threatening to rehome Charlie

[Aspen and Misty]

so how do you know if he's potty trained? He's only had 3 accidents since he's been here. 2 by which was my fault.

These are the two parts that made me assume he is not potty trained.

marking his territory INSIDE even tho he has been neutered more than a month ago. Why inside tho?

What if he doesn't go in that 10 min, and ends up going on the floor?

You know him better then we do. If you think he is potty trained, then he may be. We just suggested starting over as an option we thought would help. When Nova began to pee in the house because we got another female dog we re-potty trained her. She was already potty trained, but because we re-potty trained her it ended her bad behavior. (Yup, Nova is our "problem child")

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What if he doesn't go in that 10 min, and ends up going on the floor?

Something else I thought of is you said you are home all day with him. Well you don't necessarily have to follow the schedule I set up, you need to make it fit your schedule. You can walk him as many times are you want. So maybe start off with 5 or 6, 10 minutes walks a day. Or you could start off with a 10 minute walk every 2 to 3 hours if you don't think he can hold it. Then slowly increase the time between walks and shorten the length of the walks (although I think a dog should have at least 10 minutes to potty, IMPO preferably 15)


Ashley