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Location: Dogsey and Worcestershire
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Hi Countrydogs and welcome to Dogsey
do you mind if I make a couple of observations to add to the good advice already given..
Just a small point first, you say in response to a poster...
Originally Posted by
2countrydogs
I never once said I LOCKED my dog outdoors!!! You must be confused! She has been raised outdoors all her life and its all she knows.
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..but in a previous post you state..
Originally Posted by
2countrydogs
It was a mild day,
so I put her outside at 10 am, and brought her in at 3 pm as it startd to cool off,
I think this would indicate to many that you had indeed shut or 'locked' your dog outdoors. You also say ...
Originally Posted by
2countrydogs
but so far I have had 2 responses, first was an attack to say the very least!
and second was slightly less rude!
slightly less rude ..really? I find the post you are referring to post number 3 both polite and helpful
Now to your dog , you say..
Originally Posted by
2countrydogs
They said she was outside all the time, only came in at night to sleep in a kennel.
From this I would deduce that she has never actually been house trained in the first place.
Very few dogs will soil in or near their beds, I guess it is a natural preservation thing because doing so would 'invite' flies and disease to the area in which they sleep and eat. So, to a dog anywhere that is not their bed (or adjacent to it) is to them an acceptable area in which to relieve themselves.
House training is teaching a dog what is acceptable to us and where we wish it to relieve itself .So I would start from scratch with your dog as with a puppy.
This means watching the dog like a hawk for signs that it wishes to go out like sniffing the ground/circling then rushing it outside. Also
taking the dog out on a lead at the times it will most likely want to relieve itself /after sleep/food/play/excitement/ and every hour or so to begin with , then praising and reward it for relieving itself in the appropriate place. If you add a word like 'be clean' when it is in the middle of relieving itself then praise/reward immediately it finishes it will learn to associate the words with the actions and will eventually go on command.
If you just shut the dog out it will never learn what is required of it and will go on soiling in the house. Rubbing a dogs nose in a soiled area can make the dog afraid of you, it may also encourage the dog to 'go' in places which can't be seen like behind furniture or to 'hide the evidence' by eating it . It is better to clean the soiled area well with a biological washing powder to eliminate the smell and ignore the incident.
I previously house trained an older dog which had been outside in a kennel all its life. It took a very short time to train it because unlike a puppy once it began to learn what was required it had the ability to wait a time to relieve itself.
Good luck with your dog