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Standard poodle housetraining!
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?
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Give her food and water at certain times of the day.
Then, about 10-15 minutes after that, you'll know she's gonna have to go to the bathroom.
Get on a schedule, it should work :)
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Well, dogs don't go to the bathroom in their crates because that's their space, and they would have to sit in it for hours, so they hold it. To train her, whenever she goes to the bathroom in the house, gasp (dogs seem to know they did something wrong) and say "NO" firmly. Then bring her outside right away, and say "go peepee" or something like that. She will get used to that phrase and know to go to the bathroom, and she will eventually learn to go outside, not inside. Don't ever shove their noses in it.. that's just mean and it doesn't teach them anything- they will continue peeing in the house. It just takes time. But she'll learn eventually. And obviously, right after you take her out of her kennel, she needs to go outside to go pee RIGHT away because she'll have to go. Good luck!! :)
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You can, no matter what the dog, get it to do what you want it to. Weather that be going to the bathroom outside, or running trough an obstacle course. It all depends on how you train them, and what incentives you use that the dog looks forward to.
A popular way to train a dog to go to the bathroom outside is to crate it for a couple of hours, then go outside to a designated spot with it (it helps if its kinda out of the way) and literally wait as long as it takes for the dog to do its buisness. When it does you give it lots of praise and a treat, so that it understands that you are pleased when it goes to the bathroom in that spot. The dog is always looking to please its owner, and when you let it know that this is what you want it to do, and that it will get something good out of doing it, it will soon do it without prompt.
This could take some time, but done right it will work.
Good luck.
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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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She isn't going to go in her kennel unless she has no other choice. A dog won't go potty on their own bed no more than you would.
House breaking a dog is no easy task. It takes a lot of time, patience, and cleaning of indoor accidents. A 19 week old puppy is still learning a lot of other things, and potty training just can't happen in a matter of 2 weeks.
Do you go out with her? She shouldn't be allowed back in the house until she has done her duties. When she is locked up in a kennel, she can't run, so she goes outside and runs and plays. Give her plenty of time to run, play and go potty before letting her back in.
The smell is still there. She can smell it, even though you can't. Try spraying the area of the carpet she tends to go with Hartz Stay Off spray. (Link below so you can see what it looks like.) You have to spray every 24 hours until she understands she can't go there.
When she goes in the house, don't lock her in the kennel as a punishment. She doubtfully knows why she is being put there. Instead, as soon as she goes indoors, put her nose down to smell her mess, tell her "NO! Potty outside!" then take her outside and repeat "Potty outside!"
Be firm and consistent or you will get nowhere.
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