my sons dog keeps weeeing!

sisbod

HELP my sons dog is 18months old and keeps weeing everywhere - it is not an excitement thing! I am not sure if he is just leaving his scent or whether he is just being a real pain!
He has access to the back garden almost 24/7 and when he goes for a walk he is constantly sniffing and watering the plants lampposts etc but still comes back and waters my furniture.
I am seriously getting to the point of wanting to commit murder!
Any ideas how to train him not to do this?

suki1964

Was he ever trained to go wee wees outside? Or was the back door always left open for him as a pup?

sisbod

He was trained to wee in his cage and then was encouraged to go outside. but he has always had a par-chant for carrier bags!
We stopped using the cage after a fortnights holiday without the cage as it was originally used to keep him in one place. He was already weeing everywhere and had the back door open by then.
As to specifically training him - no they never did actually keep up the training - grr!

suki1964

You trained a pup to pee in his bed???

No wonder the poor wee thing is confused

Its back to basics then Im afraid. Get that back door shut and take him out every hour on the hour on the lead to wee - and give him the wee wee command whilst weeing and LOTS of praise when hes been. And I mean LOTS

Have a hunt though the threads here for the toilet training ones - we all say the same thing - you have to take them outside and teach them thats where they are to go

Sure you have an older pup now but you can teach an old dog new tricks. Work hard and dont skimp and he will pick it up in no time

Sequeena

I agree with Suki, you'll have to go back to basics x

laurz

is he neutered?
dogs can start to become territorial around this age and it can be much worse if they're not 'done'.

moomin5

My new 3yr old dog previously lived in an outdoor kennel and we house trained her as suki posted, she quickly picked it up. Its worth doing for a while to re-establish and make sure you clean any accidents up properly with stuff to get rid of the odour that will draw them back to that spot. I use simple solutions spray that P@H sell but think you can also use diluted bio washing powder.

sisbod

Thank you all for your advice!
This is pretty much as I thought - I personally argued against using a cage full stop and then objected to the expectation that he would know not to wee in the house never mind the fact that he was using the cage but was over ridden due to it being their dog! :mad:
This I accepted for quite a long time as he is not my dog but given he is in my house I am glad to be vindicated and will now take over whether they like it or not but I needed to be sure that I was in the right direction!
Guess who is going to show this to them!

silentkiller

We used a cage for our dog until he was about 5 months old and he was housetrained by about 4 months old. He has had the odd excitement accident in the house and has peed inside since being on steroids for the last couple of days but as soon as he's off it, I expect he will be going back to peeing outside only. We have the added advantage that even though I am at work with my parents every day 9-5 apart from weekends, my nan is always there and we leave the back door open all day if it is not raining.

Fire_Fox

Your son needs to clean all places that have been wee'd on with an enzyme-based product as otherwise the dog may continue to associate those areas with urinating. You will be fighting a losing battle unless the dog is neutered as you seem to be describing scent marking more than a full bladder. You should not be taking the responsibility for this, if your son is old enough to own a dog he is old enough to train him, neuter him and clean up his mess.

hethmar

I dont like cages - I know lots of people think they are great and the dogs dont mind them but somehow it just seems totally wrong to me.