Comments on: Advice needed

by: BuddytheDoxie

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:10:30 +0000

Well Sterch might be just old enough to have some little thing’s wrong and hooman’s with all the love we give you all.. Just how heavy is a poop??? lol 1 or 2 little poop’s just makes you look down when you walk around.. lol

Hay when you hoomand’s do bad (poop) you are put in a place with bar’s (Crate) and when you get out… you go and do the same thing again (poop) and back to the barred place(Crate) That’s just from a Doxie’s side….
hope he get better.. Buddy

by: MSH

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:20:17 +0000

I know we usually think of dominance issues with marking, urinating. Could he be trying when he’s alone to mark his territory. Is he eating at irregular times. Does he get treats throughout the day which could mean more poop at different times. Is he for sure pooping when he goes out? Can he be walked right before time alone? Walking usually stimulates pooping. A crate is vital. It is unlikely he will poop in there unless the crate is too big. I too would shut doors if you can. He is maybe still testing the waters to see who is head pooper in the house. Good luck. It’s great you took him in, I hope it works out.

by: Kendra

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:51:49 +0000

my advice is not use a soft kennel. we had bought 3 and Matilda got out of EVERY one of them. Hard kennels are expencive at petsmart or petco BUT there is a great site that has very reasonable prices AND they usually send something free with the kennel, I get the medium size and its perfect. We got littel fleece blankies with our kennels. I have two doxies that I could leave out but the other two have to be kenneled, SO everyones gets the same treatment.
The hard kennel has a door he shouldnt be able to open unless he is REALLY smart. Brilliant even!
The website is www.Ryanspet.com they have great prices on other stuff too. We get regular packages from them. Good Luck!

by: Phillip Shaw

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:11:55 +0000

Here is some information from the Dachshund Club of America’s website:
http://www.dachshund-dca.org/faq.html#housebreaking

In short, all you can do is keep trying but you may just have a dachshund that is going to be a life long challenge.

One of the important things to understand is that it may not be a failure on your part, it may be just that he is not going to ever be fully trained.

Keep working with him, keep trying different things. You will eventually find something that works or something that works well enough to keep both of you satisfied.

by: Brandy & Amy

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:58:49 +0000

An easy solution. Confine your dogs to one or two rooms. My dogs can only go to the kitchen, living room and dining room. I use baby gates to gate off the hallway to the bedrooms and bathrooms. I have bought the gates at Walmart and Petsmart.