PMSL. Shouted at Luna one day (long day, lots of family stress) and all she did was half hour later, bold as brass squatted and peed right in front of me without a care in the world.

Almost peed myself laughing

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I'll be needing to go back over this now lol. Because she's so small when we're up with the babies during the night I'm going to take her out as well but apparently she's at least partly housetrained.

i so wish my oh had seen this before telling muffin off she`s too scared to go in front of us now regardless of how long we stay outside so we`re having to hire someone to train her and part of me thinks she`ll never be trained. i wish he had listened to me in the first place instead of claiming he knew best as he always does mad:

you1ve wrote a really good guide for new owners

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i wonder if closing of this room where mika pees in would help in stopping him wee in the same place every day - or at least wee inside full stop at night?

What do you lot think? If i closed off the conservatory area you reckon it would stop him messing?

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Hi - hoping you might help?

My 3 year old Boxer has recently (a month ago) had an operation on her bladder, as she has congenital defects which were causing her to wet the bed. We still give her propanol to help her bladder sphincter at night, and it seems the bed wetting has stopped!

However, despite daily walks and regularly letting her out (including just before bed for a good 5 minutes), she is unable to control herself overnight. Not only does she wee, but also messes during the night too - and some nights it is either one and not the other.

The vet said that it is likely she is having to re-learn what it feels like to need the loo, and that this has caused her to take a big step backwards in her housetraining. She also said that as dogs don't differentiate between one kind of toilet mess and another, this may have caused the messing too. This has led to some frustration in the family, as we have small children and cannot easily tolerate a dog which cannot keep clean in the house.

I understand it is not the dog's 'fault' - blame is of no interest to me. We absolutely have to prioritise the children, and so the reasons for the incontinence is valid only as part of the process of solving the problem. Ultimately, coping with incontinence that cannot be cured is not an option, so I hope we can do something with this to solve it once and for all.

Any ideas, please?

Thank you! Advice all received and will follow.

Happy New Year to you all

why not crate her at nights?
if she does spring a leak, at least it is contained, not all over the floor.
--- terry

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The whole point of the surgery was to stop her wetting the bed - if we put her in the crate (again - we trained with it as a pup), we won't know if it is the older problem or the new one.

Thanks for the input

Fantastic thread!

Come at a perfect time for me and as a new puppy owner I think this is some of the best advice I've read on puppy house training. I think it should be "pinned". Really pleased to have read this too.

I don't tell Murphy off for having accidents in the house and tend to ignore it completely and clean it up straight away. Must warn though you use A LOT of carpet cleaner and floor cleaner. Paper is ok but for wee's it just seeps through onto the carpet anyway so doesn't really solve anything.

Anyway..GREAT thread x

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