Hi,
To give you a little background, I have been around dogs for about 30 years, which I would say gives me a healthy amount of experience. I grew up in a rural area and my neighbor lady (who was severely disabled and widowed) had about 30 beagle/mutts in a large chain link pen, and I was given the responsibility to feed and water them, which I did every couple days religiously. Needless to say, after about 15 years of this, I learned their patterns and needs as animals.
Anyhoo, I’m 31 now, and I have two kids and I haven’t owned a "house dog" ever in my life, but the wife and kiddos wanted a pooch so I caved. We bought this critter at a pet store inside the local mall for a ridiculous price that I won’t even bother scaring you with. He’s a AKC partial registered (whatever the hell that means) full bred beagle-poo. Since he’s half beagle, I figured I’d revert back to my expert days as a dog caretaker and understand this hound. Boy was I wrong.
I’m trying to house break this flea bag and I am beginning to think he has brain damage from possibly fighting with other dogs in his litter as a young pup. Basically, he isn’t learning sh*t, and it’s been 4 months now. I get up in the morning, and there is piss and crap mounds all over the house. His bed is in the living room by the front door so that he can bark at intruders, and most of the time (when he’s not WAILING and crying), he just tries to get in our bed or sleep in the kids’ beds. He almost never goes to his own nice, expensive, pet bed by the door. That’s a whole different story. Anyway, I’ve got about an hour of crap cleaning every morning. I rub his nose in each puddle and each pile, and "correct" him with a rolled up newspaper or a snap of a dish towel each time, and he does respond well to this, but the long term results aren’t happening.
My real concern is, if the dog has crapped/pissed this many times in my house, and I HAVE been very dedicated in my corrections both mental and physical, and yet the dog not only continues to drop loafs indoors, he also NEVER seems to pinch one when he’s outdoors. I give him a good 5 to 10 minutes whenever I can, and he just runs away from me and never makes anything happen. A feller I work with said this could be a strong sign of brain damage, and there’s no vet within 100 miles of where I live, and I also don’t know of any vets, and so I’m doing my best to figure this out without a big gas bill or a big vet bill.
If you have any knowledge of canine brains, please let me know. I have all the basics of dogs and pet ownership down to a science, but I’m no vet, and I can admit when I need help.
thanks
Honestly it sounds to me like you shouldn’t own an animal. As for your basics of dogs and pet ownership? You sound totally ignorant of any of the basics. Sorry. Feeding a bunch of penned dogs every couple of days doesn’t teach you jack squat besides how to properly NEGLECT a dog.
First, no vet within 100 miles? If you can’t afford to have the dogs shots and checkups you shouldn’t own one.
Crate train. Common sense. Put his nice, expensive pet bed in a nice, expensive pet crate that is appropriate for his size if you want him to sleep in it and if you don’t want dog poo all over your house. Lock the dog in a crate at night and when you cannot be right there to take it out repeatedly.
Every time the dog gets up to play or move-take him outside. PRAISE him when he does what you want. We are talking taking him out maybe a couple of times in an hour or at the very least hourly. Sounds to me like you want to take him out a couple of times a day. It’s not going to work. It has to be constant, repetitive and POSITIVELY reinforced. The wife and kids who wanted the "flea bag" can help you.
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