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Thanks for all your great advice last week re house training. I have an 11 week old westie called Tessie and she's lovely. We were doing really well with the house training and went for 2 days without any inside accidents. However, she had her first injection on Thursday and since then has peed and pooed in the house quite a lot. She is still going outside, but also inside too. Fortunately, we have laminate flooring so it's easily cleaned up. I'm washing floors twice a day with disinfectant. The trouble is, sometimes, I go outside and stand with her for 10 or 15 mins, she doesn't do anything so I bring her back in and she promptly goes on the kitchen floor. I don't know what to do! Help please.
By RReeve
Date 05.04.08 13:07 UTC
Watch her like a hawk, you can loop a lead round your belt, so she is never out of sight, then at the first sign of sniffing/circling, outside like a shot.
Also clean up any messes with specialist dog mess cleaner, rather than household disinfectant which often contains some bleach, as the smell of bleach encourages dogs to pee.
Yes, disinfectant although it removes their scent from our noses, (which aren't that good) does not for the dog, so she can still smell where she has been and promptly uses your floor again. :-)
You will get times like this, just continue to keep re-training and being consistant, she will get it, she's doing very well for her age. Praise, praise and praise some more, and ignore her 'accidently on purpose' little accidents. :-)

i have this problem too. could you suggest a product to use when cleaning the floor. thanks
You don't need to spend a lot of money, just get any biological washing powder, soak in warm water and use to clean the area that the pup is using, scent gone completely! And the pup should look for somewhere else to go, preferably outside. :-)
By RReeve
Date 06.04.08 13:09 UTC
By Kasshyk
Date 06.04.08 16:05 UTC
Edited 06.04.08 16:07 UTC

I trained my pup using the bio washing powder inside as Carrington suggested but the ordinary disinfectant/bleach (it has the ammonia smell of pee!)on the patio to clean up but remember to rinse it down well afterwards. This encouraged her to go in the right place LOL (as she could smell the ammonia in the disinfectant) but then she has developed a strange way of toileting as I described in a previous thread!!
Angela
By pugnut
Date 07.04.08 17:43 UTC

I agree with the biological washing powder to clean up with.
You could try putting a sheet of used paper outside so she can smell where she went before, then she can associate that with the great outdoors. Hopefully it will encourage her to go where you want her to.
Definately keep watching her like a hawk though!
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