Category: Top Dog

Anyone have any advice for getting your puppy to go to the bathroom on walks?

We live in an area that gets coyotes often and my neighbors have always warned me so late nights/early mornings I’ve always done in the yard. My puppy is 7mo (had him from shelter since 2mo) and has been amazing with going in our little front yard (in his favorite spot though…) and he used to be awesome at pooping on walks but always preferred to pee at home.

I tried praise and treats if he randomly would pee or poo on a walk, but now it’s gotten really bad. He basically refuses to poop or pee at ALL while on a leash, I’m sure he thinks he’s not supposed to.

We took him to a national park for some walking and he peed at 4am and not again until 3pm even though we were outside all day, cueing “potty”. He literally had dribbles coming out until we finally found an area we could get him off leash and he went.

I’m feeling terrible and really lost in how to help him now! He obviously is fine when he’s off leash and he always goes right after our walks but if I walk him for longer until he goes, it just never happens.

I have a 3 – 3 and a half months old puppy. Now before I get to her peeing habits I must let you know we do have another dog who is over 1 yrs old and she is fully potty and pee trained. So back to our puppy peeing, she learned how to potty in the right area during the first week she came to us and it made us very impressed. I know it takes time to train puppies for going potty in the right spot but it seems like she has no bladder control when it comes to peeing.

She pees while playing, lying down, standing, when she's excited etc etc. I did try redirecting her in the right direction/area where she has to go to pee but it doesn't work. She does listen to commands like sit, leave it, come here and go there but when it comes to peeing even picking her up and putting her in the right spot doesn't work.

It's kind of confusing cause she doesn't even show a tell tale sign of when she wants to pee, she doesn't even make a sound then. With our first dog who is now over an yr old when she was a puppy she would show and give us a sign of when she was about to pee but our second pup is proving it to be quiet the challenge ( we don't mind it though).

She is very careful not to potty inside but she does pee. There are days when she won't pee inside but when she does pee inside she makes sure to do quite a lot.