Need more doggie advice!!

Well, it looks like Lucy is going to be with us for a while. (Our recently rescued pup). OK, if she is to live with us, she needs to get house broken. Please, share your advice on this. Puppy poop makes SWMBO a bit crazy.

Crate training. It's the only way to do it. I damn near killed our first dog, getting that crate was the only thing that saved him.

We gave up on training ours. 4 years in, she runs to the door when she's gotta go, and we take her out. Hasn't had an "oops" indoors in a few years now. (knock on wood) She can also go 5 or 6 hours between potties, or all night.

I'm 100% with Clyde. Get a nice, big crate. It is well worth the money. My dog was puking and dumping all over the living room. After a while in the crate and taken out to the yard every time she needed to go, it was no problem. Since then, she has taken one dump in the house because (I assume) she wasn't feeling well.

Crate or "experienced" dog to help train. Our first dog was very motherly towards our second and she'd take him outside (he's almost 9 and hasn't had an accident in years). The third dog was more of a challenge but the crate helped until she outgrew it. With the cold, the dogs have been inside a lot more and no accidents, thankfully, though the cat food is disappearing at an alarming rate.

Two things help tremendously: a crate that is big enough for the dog to turn aruond in but not much bigger, and a regular feeding schedule. Make sure you have a high quality dog food with meat as the first ingredient, not grains. Always praise (maybe go a little overboard in this department at first)when they do their business outside. If you leave food down all the time, stop doing that. A dog that can nibble all day can have to go at any unpredictable point during the day too. Feed in the am and then again in the evening, it makes the poopin' schedule much more predictable. If the dog seems to be a little bonkers for no reason, it probably has to go out. Good luck, it takes patience. :)

get them outside fairly often, and on a schedule. when they poop/pee outside, praise them, if they go in the house, put their face right down in it and scold/correct them.

it probably helps if you take them in/out of the same door every time so they know to go to that door when they want to go out. we have a "doggy doorbell" that she rings to let us know when she wants to go out. to train her to ring the bell when she wants to go out, when she is at the door about to go out, jingle the bells, after a few times they connect the bell ringing with going outside and will start nosing the bells when they want to go out.

Feed, kennel for 20 min, outside to poop

ultraclyde wrote: Crate training. It's the only way to do it. I damn near killed our first dog, getting that crate was the only thing that saved him.

+1. Do it until they are 2 years old.

How big is the dog? Weather where you are? I had a lab-mix that was an outside only dog for years. When I moved and had to convert her to an inside dog she was so used to going outside that that was the only place she would do it. The rescue toy poodle we have now was housebroke when we got her. She came with a crate. Still have it but use a baby playpen instead. Did have to make a PVC pipe top for it to keep her from jumping out. A couple bars across the top kept her from jumping out and pissing SWMBO off. She's getting too old to jump out now so I can probably take them off. She has a hard time jumping up on the couch now. Estimate that she is probably between 12-14 years old (human years) and has a bad hip.