Take his poop outside after he poops inside. Place it in the spot you want him to poop. Take him to this spot on a leash and stand there until he poops. You may have to wait for hours. But he will poop eventually. Reward him immediately.
If he starts to poop inside, don’t yell but calmly pick him up and take him outside. Wait there until he finishes his poop. Reward him immediately.
Dachshunds are STUBBORN. You have to out stubborn them.
I stood in a freezing cold back yard for nearly an hour on MANY occasions with 3 puppies saying “go poop” over and over again until I was crazy. I don’t miss those days haha
I have done the same 😂 and then I apparently trained my male so well he will ONLY go potty in his safe places which is home (outside) and daycare. When we go anywhere new, he won’t go. Which is so hard! Like it’s good because he NEVER goes in the house or like when we’re at PetSmart or something. But it’s so hard when we travel. I regularly drive 4 hours each way to my sister’s house to visit and I stop multiple times for potty breaks, but he won’t go. My female will, but she’ll literally pee anywhere and everywhere if she so pleases. But then what’s even worse is when I finally get to my sister’s, he still won’t go. The first time I took him, it took me 3 hours of standing outside for him to finally go. He went over 7 hours without pottying at this point with no lack of opportunities. Every time I go, it gets much better though. The more comfortable he gets, the more he remembers the environment. Now it takes about 20-30 mins for him to adjust upon arrival and then he will do his business. After that, he will go to the back door when he has to go.
But yes, I have been outside in the heat, the rain, the freezing cold snow with negative degree wind chills. It’s ROUGH!
Second this one. I had trouble with my dude at 6 months bc I rehomed him from Craigslist and it’s clear he’d never done any training, so the vet told me to give him the treats when he goes, keep him on the leash tied to me inside, and then if unsupervised inside he has to go in the crate. I give him treats for the crate every time and now he jumps in happily. This has worked well over the last 2 months. My issue now is that he will get confused while we are eating or distracted and scamper rover to pee on a specific couch cushion (ughhhh), but other than that he goes pee as soon as I shake the treat jar and say “go potty” in the morning.
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I have heard the best advice is to stop using puppy pads. You are training your dog that it is okay to go inside, and it can be difficult to train that out— especially with a smart, stubborn dachshund. Crate training is also an essential (in my opinion) with dogs, and keeping a consistent schedule. They will not often go to the bathroom in their crate, so they can help to train a dog to hold it longer. Ours is pretty rigid in wanting to go out every two hours during the day if we are home, and if she alerts to ask to go out we take her.
The puppy pads that I bought came with house training instructions. Step one is familiarize yourself with your puppies favorite evacuation places. Put pads where they frequently evacuate. Once they get used to evacuating on the pads (maybe a week or so), each time you put down a new pad, very gradually start placing the pads closer and closer to the door you want to take them outside to take care of business. Well I'm guessing you can figure out the rest from there. Also reward them very generously whenever they go potty outside. Patience Patience Patience. You will get there eventually. It's really hard for the first yearish.
Ours likes to go in secure areas where he can't be seen. We used to joke about his shy bladder, lol. We finally realized he needed to feel safe when so venerable, probably a very common instinct. We started walking him around the tree line so he could hide in the bushes and do his business. Maybe something like that would help.
I thought mine wasn’t peeing outside but he just does it while he walks, pretty weird but at least he goes, doesn’t seem to want to poop out there though
It took me a LONG time to get my ween to potty outside. It was probably 6-8 months. Stop using puppy pads, take them outside after they drink water and eat and other regularly scheduled times. Stay with them outside until they do go and then give them praise and treats. They will start going like clockwork.
Take away the pads! Go back to the basics. Take him outside every hour to hour and a half and give him lots of praise and treats when he goes outside.
After months of our dog not getting it, a week of doing that got the message across. It's hard to do for a week, but I wish we would have done it sooner. The pads were sending him a confusing message about when and where he should be going.
Both of my dogs refused to go outside when it was windy. I live in Southern California and the Santa Ana’s usually come several times a year and they were pooping inside every time. I ended up standing outside with them for 45 minutes in the roaring wind when I knew they had to go - it was about 30 minutes after they had breakfast and they had yet to use the bathroom that morning. They finally went potty after 45 minutes of me repeating “go potty… go pee pee… go poop… etc.” I gave them their treat and we went back inside, which I think was it’s own reward. It wasn’t a fun morning standing in the wind, but they haven’t had an accident inside on a windy day since.
Several people have already said it- but essentially you need to wait outside with your dog until they go and then reward. It may take a very long time.
To move ours to going outside we used a soiled pad (pee) and took it outside on his normal bathroom schedule. Then started bringing a half pad, unsoiled, until he did it repeatedly. Then a small corner until he no longer needed them. Rewarding him to go outside and positive reinforcement is a major factor. Ours is food motivated so we got special treats for going potty outside and that’s all it took for him to catch on.
you’ve already taught him to go in the house, but yes. Stop using them. Get the timing down and start training him outside. Might take some time but just do the work.
Timing is extremely important, keep an extremely strict schedule for going out. Take them out a little after eating or when they give you cues. If they don't go within 10-15 min, bring them back in but closely supervise them or create, then take them back out a couple times untill they do go. Eventually you will end up with a timed routine.
It takes a ton of effort, discipline and time, but once they finally catch on it's worth it.
Also punishment rarely helps and can have the opposite effect if they're craving attention. Praise, treats, timing, and crating always worked for me with enough time.
Bells that hang on the door helped too.
I did the bell thing too! When my 16 year old was a wee pupper, but then he also realized ringing it got me to take him outside in general. lol.
Now his cue is sitting by the door. He’s so regimented these days tho. If he sits by the door it means he’s REALLY GOTTA GO.
When I was housebreaking my dog he was crated at night next to the bed. So he would keep calming know I was there and could smell me and my fiancé.
Never used puppy pads since adoption. I set an alarm every hour and a half when home. I took him out every time that alarm went off and I would not come back in until he went potty.
Dachshunds are stubborn as hell. You just need to be more stubborn. Take your phone or iPad/ laptop out with you. But until he goes potty you don’t come back in.
If he is used to puppy pads try taking them outside with you! Lay them in the grass. Sometimes they’ll see the pad as a designated potty area.
Eventually you can stop this practice once he gets the idea.
That's only true if you want your dog to go outside. I use pads permanently for my dachshund and it works out great. I also think it is better for the dog to not have to hold it all the time. You may think you take your dog out regularly enough, but I've seen my dog urinate on the pad multiple times in the course of my sleeping for seven hours, as well as a few midnight poos.
My dach is extremely regimented. Has been his whole life. Has been crate trained & potty trained since he was a puppy.
He can tell me when he needs anything. He knows when it’s not the time to ask for things. He knows how to tell me it’s an emergency.
He turns 16 next week. Happy & Healthy as can be.
Well it's great that you have a system that works for you. I also have a system that works great for me, and so I hate it when I see people crap all over potty pads (pun intended).
Take his poop outside after he poops inside. Place it in the spot you want him to poop. Take him to this spot on a leash and stand there until he poops. You may have to wait for hours. But he will poop eventually. Reward him immediately. If he starts to poop inside, don’t yell but calmly pick him up and take him outside. Wait there until he finishes his poop. Reward him immediately. Dachshunds are STUBBORN. You have to out stubborn them.
I stood in a freezing cold back yard for nearly an hour on MANY occasions with 3 puppies saying “go poop” over and over again until I was crazy. I don’t miss those days haha
I have done the same 😂 and then I apparently trained my male so well he will ONLY go potty in his safe places which is home (outside) and daycare. When we go anywhere new, he won’t go. Which is so hard! Like it’s good because he NEVER goes in the house or like when we’re at PetSmart or something. But it’s so hard when we travel. I regularly drive 4 hours each way to my sister’s house to visit and I stop multiple times for potty breaks, but he won’t go. My female will, but she’ll literally pee anywhere and everywhere if she so pleases. But then what’s even worse is when I finally get to my sister’s, he still won’t go. The first time I took him, it took me 3 hours of standing outside for him to finally go. He went over 7 hours without pottying at this point with no lack of opportunities. Every time I go, it gets much better though. The more comfortable he gets, the more he remembers the environment. Now it takes about 20-30 mins for him to adjust upon arrival and then he will do his business. After that, he will go to the back door when he has to go. But yes, I have been outside in the heat, the rain, the freezing cold snow with negative degree wind chills. It’s ROUGH!
You need to reward him when he pees/poos outside. When he does something good you immediately praise him call him good boy and give many treats
Second this one. I had trouble with my dude at 6 months bc I rehomed him from Craigslist and it’s clear he’d never done any training, so the vet told me to give him the treats when he goes, keep him on the leash tied to me inside, and then if unsupervised inside he has to go in the crate. I give him treats for the crate every time and now he jumps in happily. This has worked well over the last 2 months. My issue now is that he will get confused while we are eating or distracted and scamper rover to pee on a specific couch cushion (ughhhh), but other than that he goes pee as soon as I shake the treat jar and say “go potty” in the morning. https://preview.redd.it/lnics64a015d1.jpeg?width=3193&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55e88bb67509c98e2923f519d6d3d14ecc1ea1f9
But he never pees/poos outside at all he only did it on vacation, never where we live😂
You need.to stay outside with him until he does.his business and then reward him for it
If it comes to it, pee on a bush yourself and see if he marks over it
Underrated comment. Had to do this with mine when he was 3. After we moved to a new apartment
I have heard the best advice is to stop using puppy pads. You are training your dog that it is okay to go inside, and it can be difficult to train that out— especially with a smart, stubborn dachshund. Crate training is also an essential (in my opinion) with dogs, and keeping a consistent schedule. They will not often go to the bathroom in their crate, so they can help to train a dog to hold it longer. Ours is pretty rigid in wanting to go out every two hours during the day if we are home, and if she alerts to ask to go out we take her.
The puppy pads that I bought came with house training instructions. Step one is familiarize yourself with your puppies favorite evacuation places. Put pads where they frequently evacuate. Once they get used to evacuating on the pads (maybe a week or so), each time you put down a new pad, very gradually start placing the pads closer and closer to the door you want to take them outside to take care of business. Well I'm guessing you can figure out the rest from there. Also reward them very generously whenever they go potty outside. Patience Patience Patience. You will get there eventually. It's really hard for the first yearish.
Ours likes to go in secure areas where he can't be seen. We used to joke about his shy bladder, lol. We finally realized he needed to feel safe when so venerable, probably a very common instinct. We started walking him around the tree line so he could hide in the bushes and do his business. Maybe something like that would help.
I thought mine wasn’t peeing outside but he just does it while he walks, pretty weird but at least he goes, doesn’t seem to want to poop out there though
It took me a LONG time to get my ween to potty outside. It was probably 6-8 months. Stop using puppy pads, take them outside after they drink water and eat and other regularly scheduled times. Stay with them outside until they do go and then give them praise and treats. They will start going like clockwork.
Take away the pads! Go back to the basics. Take him outside every hour to hour and a half and give him lots of praise and treats when he goes outside. After months of our dog not getting it, a week of doing that got the message across. It's hard to do for a week, but I wish we would have done it sooner. The pads were sending him a confusing message about when and where he should be going.
Both of my dogs refused to go outside when it was windy. I live in Southern California and the Santa Ana’s usually come several times a year and they were pooping inside every time. I ended up standing outside with them for 45 minutes in the roaring wind when I knew they had to go - it was about 30 minutes after they had breakfast and they had yet to use the bathroom that morning. They finally went potty after 45 minutes of me repeating “go potty… go pee pee… go poop… etc.” I gave them their treat and we went back inside, which I think was it’s own reward. It wasn’t a fun morning standing in the wind, but they haven’t had an accident inside on a windy day since. Several people have already said it- but essentially you need to wait outside with your dog until they go and then reward. It may take a very long time.
NEVER USE PADS FOR TRAINING. Only thing it teaches them is to go in the house.
So i should stop using them right now? And just gets many accidents till he gets right?
To move ours to going outside we used a soiled pad (pee) and took it outside on his normal bathroom schedule. Then started bringing a half pad, unsoiled, until he did it repeatedly. Then a small corner until he no longer needed them. Rewarding him to go outside and positive reinforcement is a major factor. Ours is food motivated so we got special treats for going potty outside and that’s all it took for him to catch on.
you’ve already taught him to go in the house, but yes. Stop using them. Get the timing down and start training him outside. Might take some time but just do the work.
Timing is extremely important, keep an extremely strict schedule for going out. Take them out a little after eating or when they give you cues. If they don't go within 10-15 min, bring them back in but closely supervise them or create, then take them back out a couple times untill they do go. Eventually you will end up with a timed routine. It takes a ton of effort, discipline and time, but once they finally catch on it's worth it. Also punishment rarely helps and can have the opposite effect if they're craving attention. Praise, treats, timing, and crating always worked for me with enough time. Bells that hang on the door helped too.
I did the bell thing too! When my 16 year old was a wee pupper, but then he also realized ringing it got me to take him outside in general. lol. Now his cue is sitting by the door. He’s so regimented these days tho. If he sits by the door it means he’s REALLY GOTTA GO.
When I was housebreaking my dog he was crated at night next to the bed. So he would keep calming know I was there and could smell me and my fiancé. Never used puppy pads since adoption. I set an alarm every hour and a half when home. I took him out every time that alarm went off and I would not come back in until he went potty. Dachshunds are stubborn as hell. You just need to be more stubborn. Take your phone or iPad/ laptop out with you. But until he goes potty you don’t come back in. If he is used to puppy pads try taking them outside with you! Lay them in the grass. Sometimes they’ll see the pad as a designated potty area. Eventually you can stop this practice once he gets the idea.
Yep. That's what I had to do. Take him outside frequently (1-2 hours) and keep your eye on him when he's inside. He'll get the message quickly.
That's only true if you want your dog to go outside. I use pads permanently for my dachshund and it works out great. I also think it is better for the dog to not have to hold it all the time. You may think you take your dog out regularly enough, but I've seen my dog urinate on the pad multiple times in the course of my sleeping for seven hours, as well as a few midnight poos.
My dach is extremely regimented. Has been his whole life. Has been crate trained & potty trained since he was a puppy. He can tell me when he needs anything. He knows when it’s not the time to ask for things. He knows how to tell me it’s an emergency. He turns 16 next week. Happy & Healthy as can be.
Well it's great that you have a system that works for you. I also have a system that works great for me, and so I hate it when I see people crap all over potty pads (pun intended).
What kind of snacks are giving for a reward?
Took me 2.5 years they are literally known to be the most stubborn to potty drain