So we've had my pup for a little over three weeks now. He goes through spurts of not having any accidents, then all of the sudden, he'll pull something wacky like yesterday. We have an air conditioned doggy room with a doggy door to a fenced in area. After I got home from work, I brought him in. He'd been in the fenced in area so I had to call him inside. We started playing inside the house. After about 30 minutes right in the middle of running around he stops and takes a dump. He's got an odd habit of making three piles. So, according to the training sites I've seen, I don't make a big deal out of it, but move him outside quickly. He pees outside and I wait about 5 to 10 minutes for him to make two more piles. He doesn't. So I bring him back inside and he starts playing with his toys. About 15 minutes later, I see him walk towards the front hallway (one of his favorite places to poop) and before I catch up with him, I find 2 piles he just plopped down.
Arrrrggggg!!!!! All my other dogs got trained the old way. Bring them over to the pile, tell them no firmly and put them out. I never rubbed their noses in it. I also used the coins in a can method where when they'd do something bad, you shake the can and they hate the noise. Everything I've read about potty training lately says that you don't discipline them for having an "accident", but these don't seem to be accidents. I'm thinking a rolled up newspaper might be effective..... :) What methods have worked best for you? zB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:240223 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
