Help! Trying to potty train my dog and it's not going well!?

Question

We just got our new dog, Bailey,she's a dachshund and is about 7 weeks old. Her previous owner was using those pet pads (which I hate). My husband and I live in an apartment so we were concerned this would mean trouble in her potty training, but to our surprise she started off great, no accidents! But now, when we take her outside she will only pee a little bit (and yes we stay out with her a long time) and then when we get back inside she'll pee a little more on the carpet! What gives?! When we're outside with her and she goes potty we give her a treat right away. I don't understand why she's doing this and how to get her to finish ALL of her business outside. We make sure not to rush her when she's outside, but regardless of what we do, she's still having accidents. SOMEONE HELP MY CARPET PLEASE!!!

Answer 1

7 weeks is young to be away from mom and start the whole potty training. Dogs are pack animals and the pack really helps them learn. Anyway....Crate during the day, crate at night, crate when you go away. When you are home, take her out every moment. When she eats, take her out. When she drinks, take her out. Keep repeating go potty, go potty....and when she does, go nuts congratulating her and telling her good potty, good potty! When she goes inside make that mean mommy face and tell her bad potty! and take her outside. My dachshund is now 3 and I got him when he was 12 weeks old. I have 'command' potty trained him with that method and it still works to this day. I can take him out and tell him to go potty and he will. Every time. Command potty training was the best we could have ever done. Good luck. She will probably not catch on to the whole potty training bit for another few months since she is not even 2 months old. I would probably not even start REALLY potty training until she is about 3 months old. For the next month, just be her mom. Take care of her, be gentle and reassuring. Yelling at her and leash training her now is just going to get her scared. Then you will have a scared, timid dachshund that pees at the drop of a hat for the rest of her life.

Answer 2

get a crate.  crate train her a.s.a.p.  crate her at night and when you're not home.  take her outside every hour or less if you need to.  limit her access to water and take the water up at 7pm.  keep her on a leash next to you or gated in the same room.  u may even need to take her outside in the middle of the night.

give your carpet a good cleaning or get a new 1.  good luck.

Answer 3

crate train

Answer 4

Bailey is such a great name!  We have a 7 month-old puppy named Bailey.  Please know that puppies do not have fully developed bladders until around 4 months of age.  Know that it isn't anything you are doing that isn't correct, it is simply that her bladder isn't developed.  Keep the positive reinforcement.  She is most likely excited she did her business outside, and so therefore she...goes a little... when she comes back in.  I am wondering also if she is crate-trained.  Crate training is a wonderful tool to build up her stamina to keep it in.  This is her home, and puppies try very hard not to mess it up.  Good Luck!

Answer 5

put a puppypad outside

Answer 6

7 weeks is awful young to expect much so just keep with it and patience. Go out side more often. If she starts to pee inside pick her up and go right back outside. then praise her outside. Don't yell or anything just pick her up she will stop peeing. good Luck, crate would help too.

Answer 7

aaaawwwwww<3

i luv puppies.

i think what ur doing is great,

everytime she "uses the bathroom"..lol u give her a treat... which is good for typical dog training.

give her some time and keep doing what ur doing u will see progress. when she pee's inside dont give her a treat.

Answer 8

For the first thing a puppy at 7 weeks old is too young to be away from it's Mother.  Not beating you up here, just a fact.

Second if she is only 7 weeks old she is way young to have the housetraining thing down pat.  Put her in her crate when she comes in before you let her soil the whole house!  She has not earned the right to "run" the house before being totally potty trained.  She will learn, but it takes time.  Several weeks before they can be totally trained and at her age maybe a little longer.  Keep up the training, don't let her have free run of the house and keep up the positive training.

Good luck with Baily.