Please has anyone any suggestions.... my staffy pup is 6 months old now and still i cant get her clean in the house! i am at home most of the day with her ( and my other 2 staffs) i take  her out walking twice a day, she plays out in the garden  (weather permitting!) the rest of it, but if i go  out and leave her even if its only for 1 hour,  ( she goes in a crate at bed time and when i go out) when i get back she has wet and usually pooed in her bed!! I have taken the vet bed out tried leaving her on paper, thought she might realise it was wet and didnt want to lay in it! but she seems quite happy to lay in it! also she wiil walk past the open door to outside and do it on the kitchen floor! My other 2 are so clean ,you can see the look of disgust on there faces when she does it! I feed her twice a day on green tripe and bisquits , she pooes quite alot ,i wondered if i changed her diet she might not poo as much? maybe a complete food? any suggestions welcome , IM DESPERATE!!!!!!! :-( , other than that she is such a sweetie . Thanks .

I didn't think that I would ever get mine house trained but I kept praising her when she went outside and she could tell by my tone of voice that I wasn't happy with her when she did it on the mat and with patience it worked.    I was lucky she never messed in her crate that could be a bigger problem for you.    I use washing powder solution to clean up any accidents I read somewhere that this was good to destroy odours, if she can smell where she has been it will encourage her to go there again.    Best of luck.

You've really got to catch her in the act and correct her or she will think it's ok to keep doing it inside. If you have 2 other dogs that are trained you obviously know what you are doing and it goes without saying that you need to praise her up to the hilt when she goes outside. Sorry don't know what else to suggest. Maybe if you changed her food to dry stuff it would cut down on the amount of times she goes a day. Maybe change the feeding times too. Hope you get her sorted. PS Use biological powder to clean up, it has enzymes that break down the odour.

I would keep her on leash in the house and every where you go so does she, this way you will know when she has to go, and go outside with her and alot of treat/praise. Treat her like a puppy and start from basic and allow her no free time unless you are able to give her 100% of your time watching her. Is the crate too big? It should only be big enough for her to stand, sit, laydown and turn around, only till she learns not to mess in it. Thats how I did it with mine and they now have huge kennels, my 2 children and 3 bostons have crawled in it when playing hide and seek with the dogs lol :D  Is her poo formed nice and solid? If not then maybe you may want to change it....Good luck :) I'm sure she will get there.

Do you have a word so that she knows when you want her to go to the toilet ? And do you praise and treat when shes been ?

I think at this age she should be displaying signs of when she needs the loo . Mine will bark/grunt when they want to go out but when they were tiny you could tell from the movements they made - for example they would circle a bit before having a number two

The more dogs you have the more difficult it is. You need to take a month out (from work, or whatever) and concentrate 100% on this dog. Someone else in the family must take time off for the others, because you daren't be distracted or it will take longer.

While the pup is awake you concentrate on her. You can read the paper with one eye, while the other is watching the pup. You do the ironing while watching the pup. The moment she looks as though she needs the toilet you abandon what you're doing (switch off the iron) and whisk her outside. When she has performed you praise her, play with her then take her inside again. And watch her.

It's hard work. You lose your job. But you have a house-trained dog.

Thanks for all your replys, very helpful suggestions, will try a smaller crate, i have a smaller one i use for shows. Jeangenie.... thanks ,we are trying that at the moment, my husband has sole ownership of her and is watching her like a hawk! we follow her about outside and tell her wee wees, we stay with her until she goes and then make a real fuss of her, she is slightly better at going outside but doesnt seem to understand she has to wait until she is out of the crate to go to the toilet. If i have been out ,and her bed is in a mess i dont tell her off because i am a believer in catching them "at it"  or im not sure they understand why they are in trouble after the fact.
Any suggestions which dry food is good? will try that as well, anything is worth a try! Im sure we will get there in the end, but yes it is v. hard work, but shes worth the extra effort, we love her to bits! Thanks again to you all, will let you know of Tia;s progress.:-) :-)

Just to add that I didn't think I would get my pointer, Milly, housetrained.  She was about 7 months when she asked to go out and now she is very clean.  Perseverance does work.  Good luck.

Helen

Yes it's hard catching them at it when they do it at night or when you're out, she probably thinks it's acceptable to do it in her crate. Changing crates to the show one may help- different scent.
With regards to dry food Burns is very good.

I crated my pup during the night or when I went out and he always peed in his bed and we tried all the different ways of training but nothing seemed to work.  He refused to go out in the rain and one time I freshly washed his bedding and put it back in his crate for him to stand on and pee on it in front of me.  We had to keep treating him like a young puppy and then at 8 months, he changed overnight and there was no more bed wetting.  So hopefully it will work the same for you also, as I know it is a very frustrating process.

Yep ,Tia is the same!! althought the rubbish weather lately is certainly not helping, none of them are keen to go out at the mo!! anyway fingers crossed maybe the penny will drop soon! :-)

I use Nutro Natural choice lamb, but you just have to find what works best for her. This food may work for my 5, Burns may work for some one else but does not mean it will work the same for your dog...Good luck :)

As some of you know, Busby seems to be weeing in his sleep. I've tried leaving his door open so he can get out to wee if he wakes up. We've also tried putting his crate upstairs in case he was waking, but not making enough noise to rouse us. Not a peep out of him, so it must be in his sleep. How do you all keep your pups clean when they do this? It can't be good for him to bath him too often, I tend to stand him in a bowl and just rinse him down as best I can without making him too wet. I got a puppy pack from the vet's (who I've fallen out with - long story) and there was a pack of "doggie wipes" in it, which made me giggle, but you can't use those until he's 12 weeks anyway. I'm half expecting Sparky to cock his leg over him to get rid of the scent!

I've been through just this scenario with one of my Staff boys...I kept 2 from a litter last year, both boys.  Beetle has been a dream to housetrain, Marmaduke however thinks housetraining applies to others, not him! :-)  It was a nightmare, and it got to 7 months and I never thought we'd crack it...it really was depressing...

However, it really did just click with him overnight, no idea how or why, just very thankful that it did! :-)  Just keep up the praising and rewarding when your pup peforms outside (I still do that even now with Marmaduke, in case he has a relapse! :-)) and she will eventually get there...

They're all different. Don't despair. Six months is about average for a lot of dogs. My boy Chihuahua mix got house trained within about 2 or 3 weeks of having him. I got him at 8 weeks of age. My GSD and my Lab learned also very quickly. I forget exactly, but maybe 2 accidents and that was it. They got it. My girl Chi is a long story, so I'll skip that. My Doberman pup didn't get it all squared away till he was about 7 or 8 months. And he's my smartest dog or at least neck and neck with my boy Chi mix. They're both very bright. So, it sometimes is about physical maturity too. With perserverence, your dog will get it too. It just clicks somewhere along the way. Don't worry.

Carrie

WHOOPEEEE !!!!!!!!!!! i'm soooo excited Tia has been clean in her crate for 2 nights!! and clean thro the day for 3 days!!! cant believe it, Im sure the neighbours must be fed up of hearing.... wee wee tia , What a GOOD GIRL!!!!!!!!  every 30 mins til bed time!! but it seems to be working!! Fingers crossed, although i have felt better about it all since reading all the post's, knowing that some of you were still having the same problems until an older age!  Thanks for all your advice i'm sure it wont take long now. :-) :-D

Good! And you know what? With Lyric, my Dobe, I thought he had gotten it too as he'd go for a few weeks with no problems and then, a-h-h-h-k-k-k!!! another boo boo. That happened a few times and then he finally did get onto it for good.

That was not meant to discourage you, but to prepare you to brace yourself so you don't despair if all seems well for a while and then the dog regresses a little. Eventually it will all come together.

Carrie

Well done Tia :)

Brilliant! Light at the end of the tunnel!
:)

ah thats fab!! Tally wasnt 100% until 9months!!! she seemed to just not be able to keep it in at night??? !and we had made the mistake of training her onto paper so she was used to going on the paper in the kitchen! and then it just stopped - literally overnight! she seemed to have just made up her mind to go outside..maybe all the treats helped her make that decision!