Dog re-education help needed... now pooping in the house

[Neilk]

Hi Pelicanites,

We adopted a 1 1/2 year old Beagle mix in January. She has been clean except for an occasional mistake, however, she has decided to ***** in our living room 2 out of the last 3 days. This morning I took her on a walk right after waking up and she didn't really do anything. I blocked off access to our living room, so instead of *****ting in the living room, she pooped by the door. I think she might be jealous of a friend's dog that we has been keeping for the past 10 days while they have been out of town.

She's a very sweet dog otherwise and has been great with our 1 1/2 year old daughter, but my wife/SO is ready to bring her back to the pound if she does it again. I won't let her, but it is getting frustrating. What the best way to change her behavior? I am not sure my scolding her is doing any good.

Thanks!

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Watch her. When you see her getting ready to go, pick her up and place her outside the front door to do her thing. Repeat a few times to reinforce the notion that "this is where you need to go". Patience.

Just clean it up and spray that enzyme cleaner stuff on there to get rid of any traces. It's part of the game - getting mad at the animal doesn't help.

[Rikao4]

caused by other dog,
he/she is marking the house..
this my house..poop is note for other dog.
Should stop, your doing good by taking her out,
you have to outwait them.
Rika

[Dan in Pasadena]

Jeff's right, patience, patience, patience. You will be trying to un-train or overlay a new training over an old.

House training a puppy (in this case an adult dog) is really training yourself. I can't speak to training an older dog but I know with my puppies I take them out immediately upon them eating or waking from sleeping and I take them outside and I use a term, "make pee-pee", do your business" whatever you want to say, but I use it EACH time they do their business. I praise them lavishly for doing it so they associate the urge with the location and the positive reinforcement. Then as they start to get it, like my dog now, he'll go to the door we let him out of and I say, "you want to go pee pee" and he wags his tail. He recognizes the sound and what he's to do.

Whacking them or sticking their noses in it, etc is just bogus in my opinion...I think its cruel. They're living things, they can't stop from having natural urges and if they associate reliieveing themselves with being hit they will hide it in a corner, a closet or wait as long as they can until they have the runs, etc. Just be patient and use the enzyme. Repetition, recognition and positive reinforement. Best of luck.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

[onewhippedpuppy]

Eye for an eye......he poops in the house, you poop on him. I use the same philosoply with my kids.

[Rikao4]

what Dan said,
or did this work on you.
your Dad throwing you on the little pot, and screaming here , not in your pampers.
Rika

[cgarr]

Get one of those hand held air horns and when you see her getting ready give it a shot, she will suck it right back up.., works on me..

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by cgarr

Get one of those hand held air horns and when you see her getting ready give it a shot, she will suck it right back up.., works on me..

Hell, do that to me at the wrong time and it would have ME "sucking seatcovers"!

Seriously, MOST dogs are pretty smart and they live for your positive attention. Anything that gets them patted and spoken to in reassuring tones, they'll try to keep doing. This dog will "get it" fast as soon as you do it over and over.

[notfarnow]

Kinda weird.

We have two beagles, and we're dogsitting for my father in law for a couple weeks. We are dealing with the very same thing... "protest poops".

Keep a close eye on him. There's no use scolding him if you notice after the fact... you have to catch him in the act, scold him, take him outside and praise him when he's done.

Right now we're giving the bad one treats for going to the door for a poo.

Man, you should have seen what I came home to yesterday after work. 3 dogs worth of pi$$ and $chit. I was tempted to just burn the house down and start over.

[KFC911]

Yep, this isn't a training issue about house breaking...she's sending a message with the "protest poops" (I like that ), and I don't really think it's a "marking the territory" thing either (or at least all dogs I've been around do so with urine). When the visiting dog leaves (how much longer?), the problem will correct itself. In the meantime I'd probably "crate her" to avoid the "wrath of wifey", since it seems that one more time will do that, and I wouldn't want to take any chances .

[the]

Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena

Seriously, MOST dogs are pretty smart

He's talking about a beagle here.

[stomachmonkey]

Crate em.

When you let him out it's straight outside, don't even let his feet hit the floor.

If no poop then, this is gonna sound weird but it works, get some baby suppositories. They are basically vaseline, we called them magic bullets.

Take dog outside, pop one in and poop comes out.

The dogs desire to rid itself of the "pill" causes it to evacuate.

Do this at the same time every day.

Within a week you will have a dog that craps like clock work, you can set a watch by em.

The above was recommended by my vet.

[tabs]

Why don't U tell your wifey the next time she pisses you off your going to take her back to the kennel where you found her!

[tcar]

Most dog problems are people problems.

She doesn't understand why you brought in a stranger (another dog). She's upset.

Send the OTHER dog to the kennel if any.

[alf]

Originally Posted by tabs

Why don't U tell your wifey the next time she pisses you off your going to take her back to the kennel where you found her!

Come on now. Lets try the crate and the suppositories first.

[Ronbo]

If nothing seems to work you may want to get the dog examined by a vet. There may be a physical cause.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by tcar

She doesn't understand why you brought in a stranger (another dog). She's upset.

Send the OTHER dog to the kennel if any.

Thats a terrible way to talk about his wife....

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by the

He's talking about a beagle here.

Oh....uh...huh...I have a Labrador and I guess I figure all dogs are like them.... No, huh?