We want to teach Louie to give a bathroom signal of some kind when he needs to go (especially when it's explosive diarrhea like this morning). Leerburg says to teach them to bark at the door, but our Louie doesn't bark. Any tips or methods on how to achieve this... either how to teach a dog to bark or what's an alternative signal that's good for this situation? Thanks!
I knew a dog who had been trained to ring a bell (hanging by the door) when he needed to go out. You could teach him to paw the door, pull a rope tied to the handle, etc...
However, none of these might work when a dog has severe diarrhea Any idea what is going on with his tummy?
Thinking about it a little more, it might be harder than I imagined. We sleep in the bedroom at night with the door closed (to keep in the heat during the winter). So we'd have to teach him to paw the bedroom door at night and our front door during non sleeping hours. Can a dog associate 2 identical contraptions (bells, pawing doors, etc on 2 separate doors) with 1 result (need to go out)?
He hasn't had diarrhea in awhile, so I think it may be due to feeding changes. I usually feed him 8 oz of chicken rmb in the morning/8 oz of ground beef and pumpkin at night but gave him 12 oz/4oz yesterday. Maybe that was the culprit? I'm home today keeping an eye on him just in case.
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Explosive diarrhea is not usually "warnable," IMO.
Was it particularly fatty, or is the chicken, say, more fatty (skin and fat) than the beef you buy?
Does he ever have accidents at night otherwise? If not really, I'd probably concentrate on this GI distress, starting with a fast but good hydration. If yes, I'd probably take him out later at night for pre-bed potty and examine his meal-versus-potty timing for possible adjusting. (I say this with - I think - the memory that he is reliable about potty now, right?)
The chicken is definitely more fatty than the beef, which is why I think the extra fat might have caused this.
He actually didn't poop in the house. My wife woke up to the sound of him peeing in the bedroom (he was "considerate" and peed mostly on a towel our humidifier is on) maybe half an hour before his usual morning walk. She then immediately took him out (learned from last time he peed in the house because he was holding too much liquids after drinking a lot of chicken broth) while I cleaned up the accident. Upon her return she told me that Louie dragged her with all his might from the elevator to outside around the back where he had the explosive diarrhea and obvious discomfort holding his poop stance for a long while. So we thought maybe his peeing on the towel was a warning to us and maybe we could train him to warn us another way (bell, pawing door, etc). He's been super reliable with the potty otherwise. Poor louie.
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