my 16 week old GSD had been doing great with house training but recently has started letting a little pee go as soon as he leaves his crate
I have to pick him up immediately and bring him outside. He wont go inside the crate but he used to be fine holding it all night until i let him out. I started to cut back time in the crate and let him out a couple of times during the night but he seems to have made this immediate tinkle a habit now.
could it be that I haven't done a sufficient cleaning job and he smells urine somewhere still or should I go back to square one and let him out every hour or so until he breaks this habit?
and i should mention that I thought it might also be due to excitement when exiting the crate so I have been working on calming him down before I allow him out. He calms down immediately now but it didnt help the peeing problem
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my 16 week old GSD had been doing great with house training but recently has started letting a little pee go as soon as he leaves his crate
I have to pick him up immediately and bring him outside. He wont go inside the crate but he used to be fine holding it all night until i let him out. I started to cut back time in the crate and let him out a couple of times during the night but he seems to have made this immediate tinkle a habit now.
could it be that I haven't done a sufficient cleaning job and he smells urine somewhere still or should I go back to square one and let him out every hour or so until he breaks this habit?
Connie, yes just a dribble but that is because i pick him up right away if i left him he would empty his bladder as i found out the hard way. Also this dribble will never occur when he is out of his crate and roaming around the house, also there is no whining during urination...he was at the vet recently for booster shots and checkup but i did not mention anything about a possible UTI because i didn't think it was
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Then I would do this:
.... should I go back to square one and let him out every hour or so until he breaks this habit?
It sounds like an automatic answer, and it kinda is, because it's SO much easier to lose a habit at the very beginning, and if he has no (or very little) pressure on his bladder, I think it will be way less likely that he will leak.
I have adults, but each one was pre-owned, and I've had plenty of experience with dogs who had had to use their kennels or in some other way had no reliable potty training. Even one who I guess was wee-wee-pad trained. AARRGGHH!
Consistency and frequency and everything else that Ed talks about and we talk about here have never failed me. The few weeks of concerted attention and alarm-clocking and so on are always worth it.
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Whining (or not) is not at all a reliable indicator of a UTI, so I'd keep an eye on that. I'd probably even drop off a sample (not very expensive) if the backing-up-to-square-one wasn't successful immediately. JMO.
Does this happen only upon exiting the crate first thing in the morning or anytime you take him out of the crate? I would definitely start anew especially if it is only first thing in the AM. Also, he's so young, as his intake of water and food increases, the bladder may need a little time to catch up.
One other thought....is it possible he likes being picked up and rushed out? Funny what reinforces our dogs I would make sure interrupting the flow is as boring and low key as possible and relieving himself outside results in a Mardi Gras.
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I would make sure interrupting the flow is as boring and low key as possible and relieving himself outside results in a Mardi Gras.
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