Hello! I am not usually on Reddit but i’m seeking out as many sources as i can.
I have trained other dogs before that I have had and even rabbits! However this small breed pup I purchased has been a stressful nightmare for me for the past month and a half. I got him at 3 months old and he is now 4 1/2 months old. (YorkiePoo)
The first week he sort of understood how to use puppy pads, then completely ignored them and still will till this day. The second and third weeks he had many accidents in the house but was peeing outside too, with lots of praise and reward. I was also teaching him tricks twice a day in short intervals. He knows sit, down, come here, paws, high five, snout in the hand(hole), get down, roll over, spin.
The end of September he had the full week of pottying outside with no accidents. However, the beginning of October he made an accident, he deliberately squats right in front of me a couple of feet from just taking him out of the cage, and eliminates. I tether him with a leash to go out and have a positive voice saying ‘lets go potty outside! outside outside! lets go lets go!’ and he follows along but he pees on the way to the door. Now this is every time. He knows it is bad. He gets guilty and tries to become small or run back into his cage. I take him out anyways “good potty! good potty!,” and reward him and have a good tone, not like the “No!” inside. He gets happy and im able to do more tricks or play.
Back inside the house he runs back to his cage tethered or not, and refuses to respond to ‘come here.’ I patiently wait for maybe 2 minutes (sometimes more) until he comes out of the cage where I am sitting with a treat. I am sometimes am able to do a couple more tricks too if he is in a good motivated mood. But when I stand up it’s instant unmotivation and not listening to absolutely anything. Just sits and had his ears back and lays down. So i put him back in the cage to take him out again later and try to train. Trying to take him out to potty now, he refuses to leave the small room his cage is in (didnt have a play pen and the area i offer is the size of one) and if he gets close to the exit of the door, he runs back to his cage. It’s almost like he is afraid of peeing, he knows he has to go but also knows he gets in trouble for peeing in the house. Why does he not understand he gets the rewards outside? He knows its good outside. He has never eliminated in his cage and will hold it for any duration until i take him out— just for him to pee immediately on the floor. So i know its not a small bladder issue since he can hold it however long. So im at the point where i semi-lift him walking to the outside door just so he wont pee inside, because the second I put him down on all fours and walk, he eliminates. I also have a larger dog from which he has not learned from him outside either and also only wags his tail with the larger dog, but not when I appear or my partner. Playing is difficult, training is difficult, pottying is difficult. It has been a month and I have reached out to a few behaviorists, and trainers, asked my vet, sought out a training website attached to my pups initial purchase. I haven’t received any information regarding his specific behavior since; only how to do positive reinforcement and how to train the puppy pads.🫥 (puppy pads are useless, he cannot decipher the difference between floor and pad, even with his pee on it, it gets ignored).
Thanks for reading please let me know if there is something i can do, i’m so stressed out. Also i do use an enzyme cleaner for his pee in the house.
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