Hoping for some advice on a 5 month old Dachshund. I currently have a very well trained 2 year old Chihuaha/dachshund mix. So I know the basics of Potty training and all the tricks and techniques. But I am having trouble with an adopted dog that seems to have lived in very poor conditions and is very hard to potty train.
We adopted him from a lady that never potty trained him or even took him outside due to not having completed shots. We are trying to crate train him to use the puppy pads inside because he doesn't do anything outside. He just stands there outside with me and wants to be picked up. (He has separation anxiety I think because he never wanders on his own). He sleeps in his crate and when he wakes up he just pees on his bedding, or he will pee from excitement from seeing me in the morning on his bedding. I will move him to the pad and tell him to go there and he then just lays down on the puppy pad as he just peed on it from excitement. He has no accidents while he is outside of the crate, we have never caught him sniffing around to go potty either. But he won't go after he is fed or even after he naps. He just always want's to be held or pet. He also likes to lay/sleep on the puppy pads even though they have pee on them. I feel like he doesn't even know that he's peeing, he just pees from excitement or if he gets scared and also right when he wakes up as he sees me come into the room to let him out of the crate. I don't know how to start properly potty training him, because he can hold it in for a very long time. I will take him outside in 15 minute intervals after he eats and he still won't go. Any suggestions on different methods to get him to pee on the puppy pads or outside?
Any advice would be so much help!
We adopted him from a lady that never potty trained him or even took him outside due to not having completed shots. We are trying to crate train him to use the puppy pads inside because he doesn't do anything outside. He just stands there outside with me and wants to be picked up. (He has separation anxiety I think because he never wanders on his own). He sleeps in his crate and when he wakes up he just pees on his bedding, or he will pee from excitement from seeing me in the morning on his bedding. I will move him to the pad and tell him to go there and he then just lays down on the puppy pad as he just peed on it from excitement. He has no accidents while he is outside of the crate, we have never caught him sniffing around to go potty either. But he won't go after he is fed or even after he naps. He just always want's to be held or pet. He also likes to lay/sleep on the puppy pads even though they have pee on them. I feel like he doesn't even know that he's peeing, he just pees from excitement or if he gets scared and also right when he wakes up as he sees me come into the room to let him out of the crate. I don't know how to start properly potty training him, because he can hold it in for a very long time. I will take him outside in 15 minute intervals after he eats and he still won't go. Any suggestions on different methods to get him to pee on the puppy pads or outside?
Any advice would be so much help!