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We have a 19-week-old female standard poodle. We are having problems housetraining her. We got her at about 14 weeks, and we thought that she was trained not to go potty in the house within two weeks. but recently she started going inside the house. It's not because she can't get outside... No! It's happened several times that we will let her out four times within an hour, and then she'll wet inside the house a few minutes later, in plain view. We had trained her to ask to go outside when she needed to go, but she only asks to go outside now when she's bored. But the thing that irks us is we know she can hold her water! We can leave her in her kennel for three hours at a time while we go somewhere, and she won't wet in there. But we come home, let her outside, and five minutes after she gets back inside, she wets! We put her in her kennel and punish her for it, we take the smell out of the carpet, but she still goes inside! What caused this and how can we stop it? (link)
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I have about a 50 lb labradoodle which is mostly poodle so I thought maybe my answer could help a poodle owner. Lucy, our dog, did the same thing! So had a door to go out but yet she would just squat looking right at us!
You are doing the right thing keeping the smell out of the carpet but they still seem to know. What I have learned about the poodle brain is that they run the show. Lucy is very smart and even after weeks at a trainer he even said good luck with her.
To be honest, Lucy is almost 5 years old now, I don't remember exactly how or when she stopped but she just stopped--when she decided to! She wasn't that old but I think what really helped was we walked her more. Poodles like exercise and even now if she doesn't get her walk and ball time we pay for it at night!
I would walk her every morning and soon she found a place she liked to go potty. Then after work same thing, I would even come home sometimes at lunch to give her a quick walk. They get bored and their minds need something to deal with--I am no dog behavior expert this is just our experience.
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