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I've had my 11-week-old male golden retriever for about three weeks now. He is not fully potty trained, so accidents are frequent. However, he suddenly started peeing a LOT in the house today. I'm talking twice in the span of 20 minutes. He does drink a lot of water, but this is uncommon for him. He hasn't showed any other signs of bladder infection but I'm still concerned. I had to go to work today, so he stayed in his crate for around 4 hours. also every night he can hold it from 10pm-7am, but i heard excessive potty holding can cause bladder infections.

I have an 11 week old male golden retriever. I brought him home around 3 weeks ago and hes still not potty trained. I take him out every morning, after meals, and before bed. I have a sliding door with a screen, and it conventially has a hole in it big enough for him to go through. Sometimes he goes out by himself to go potty (usually poo) but he usually goes potty in the house. we also keep pee pads in the house but he only uses them sometimes. One day he used it three times, but seemed to forget abt it the next day. On a good day he has 1 accident, and on bad days he has 5+. he has been getting worse lately and idk what to do

Hi, so I have a 5 month old lab mix puppy who has been having a very hard time sleeping recently. We adopted her when she was 3 months old and she never had any issues sleeping through the night in her crate until recently. She spends the majority of her day in the crate and when she is out of it she gets plenty of enrichment and mental stimulation.

I understand that she is teething right now but as soon as it’s time for bed around 10pm she is usually laying and calm outside of the crate and then we take her to go potty and then move her in. She gets about an hour of sleep inside the crate and then starts barking so we take her out to go to the bathroom and come back in to try and get her to settle again. The issue is she won’t settle again. I know this can be another issue with her being over tired but as soon as we put her back in the crate she immediately starts barking again.

We live in an apartment complex so it is hard for us to let her cry it out as we have already gotten one noise complaint from our upstairs neighbor.

Any advise on what we can try to do to get her to settle would be greatly appreciated.

hi,

so i have a 5 month old male lab. Up until now he was potty trained with pee pads, because he didn't have all his vaccines. He has been potty trained like this for a month.

Finally, we are able to go outside and we have been doing so for almost a week. He very quickly got over his fear of stairs (we live in an apartment complex on the 4th floor, we are very proud he beat the stairs).

He is also pretty well behaved on walks and he doesn't pull much, but he refuses to go potty outside.

We tried taking him out in the moments he usually goes potty at home, like right after he wakes up or some time after he eats, sleeps or plays. Nothing. We tried bringing a pad outside, he completely ignores it. He goes potty as soon as he comes back home.

We then decided to remove the pads and supervise him very closely at home, take him out every hour or so or take him out whenever he seems to want to go potty. Nothing.

Yesterday he held himself for 11 hours, completely refusing to potty, and i know there's nothing wrong with him, because as soon as we took the leash off of him to go to sleep, he immediately went potty. It seems to me that there's some anxiety that just won't let him potty outside, which is understandable, because even though our neighborhood is not too noisy, occasionally there are cars or birds (birds interest him a lot) and sometimes even dogs.

Last night we were UNFORTUNATE enough to run into an off leash Shitzu that came and tried to aggravate our puppy, with the most unresponsible owner barely mouthing the words "Come back". Our lab was understandably upset and kept barking back at the other dog.

Also yes, we do own a crate, which we put him in after walks to calm down. It is also important to mention that i do occasionally work for home, 2 weeks per month to be specific, but with the amount of work i have it's not possible to take him out every hour. Only in the morning, at 12pm, after work and at night before sleep.

We have absolutely no idea what else to do.

I have a 9 month old high energy Doxie mix. I give her plenty of enrichment games and do sniff walks with her.

She sleeps from 11pm till 7am and naps throughout the day but I feel like those naps aren’t like fully knockout naps? Like she’ll still open her eyes when we walk past.

We dint really crate or play pen train her cause she can settle on our bedroom floor quite well and will go into the crate on her own if she’s cold. And will pace and pee in the crate if we force her in.

Should I still crate train her? And I’m curious to know what’s your puppy’s daily routine like at around this 9 month old age.

Hi I was wondering how long it took to pad train your Pom! My mom had Malteses growing up who were all pad trained so I know it’s possible but wanted to know long it took your Pom and any tips and tricks please! My Pom is understanding it about 60% of the time (18 weeks male) but will also just potty when not given attention or scared.Im home most of the time so when I see signs I do take him to the potty room and he is also capable of going potty himself.Currently he is not crate trained since it was giving him severe anxiety,vets are involved and a trainer is coming this month to work on this. We live in an apartment so going potty outside isn’t really ideal but he will also potty on walks.We are also planning to neuter him at 8/9 months.