We cannot house break our 6 month old beagle puppy.?
We have a six month old beagle mix puppy. We have had her home since she was 8 weeks old. We followed the books and took her out frequently, rewarded her when she went and ignored her when she had accidents. That did not work. We crate trained her. We found she would go all over herself. We tried that for a long time, and it did not work. We tried putting her in the crate only when we could not watch her and continued taking her out almost hourly. She will go outside use the bathroom, walk through the front door and go in the floor!! I am starting to think she is unable to be trained and that maybe beagle puppies are better left outside, or as hunting dogs. We have basically given up on her being a house dog and have built her a dog house outside in fenced area. Does anyone have any suggestions before we give up and leave her outside. Also, we move her into a garage at night to keep her out of the elements at night.
try puttin a bell on da door nd ring it every time u take her out. then she should ring it wen has 2 go out side
You can try crate training her a little differently. What you can do is block off the crate so that it is only a VERY small space that she can just fit into. You want to eliminate the option for her to go in one corner and move somewhere else. Having the small amount of space will force her to hold it until she can go more comfortably. If this doesn’t work, you can try taking her to a dog obidience trainer, they usually do the trick. Good luck, and don’t give up on her just yet!!
We too own a beagle puppy who was housetrained completely after we had her for 2 weeks.
I have come to understand that dogs understand a slap across the muzzle more than they understand the word “No”. Well, that isn’t quite true, they understand the word “no” quite well but there is a power struggle where they can become quite stubborn.
If you look at how a dog is raised by its mother in the wild she will often bite it when it is doing wrong. I am not suggesting you beat your puppy but it needs to have a strong deterent and a loud NO! at the same time immediately after it has an accident. Then it must be brought outside where it can finish and then rewarded.
There can be no faltering on this. You can not let it get away with an accident one time and then punish it the next time. This is classical behavior shaping and it will be housebroken if the deterent is strong enough. It must understand that urinating or deficating in the house will result in a smack across the muzzle. It will think twice once it has this in its head.
if you are taking her out hourly and she is still having accidents I would suggest taking her to the vet. it sounds to me like there is a medical reason for the incontinance. by six months, she shouldn;t have to go that often
Once a dog has peed and pooped on the floors or rugs, they can still smell it and have a tendency to go there again. That might be her problem. She enjoys going in the house. I would say NOOOO real loud and take her back out again. If you have done that, I guess you have to be consistent. 6 months is still young. My dog is really smart but it took her almost a year before she got what I was trying to tell her.
Has she been to the vet? she could have an infection?
i love dogs and i suggest go to petsmart and buy one of those plastic pens, put news paper all over, put her bed food and water at one end and when you see her start going frequently in one spot remove a little newspaper around her bed and gradualy keep the newspaper in a small spot. if your not quite sure then try moving her bed aroung. you dot have to use newspaper but you should use something absorbent
When she goes inside don’t ignore her. Make some noise and say no, then pick her up and put her outside. If she pees outside praise her profusely.
Don’t you dare leave her outside!!!!
Try puppy training classes…….
if you keep your dog outside you should rehome her……
I am sad………..
You should take her to the vet and rule out that there is not a physical problem. Beagles are energetic and not the brightest dogs always. Have you punished her when she goes in the house? Not abuse but saying No very sternly, pushing her face towards it, etc? And still reward her every time she goes outside. She may become very lonely and turn into a worse behaved dog outside in the yard and garage all day and night. Spend a few bucks and find a trainer to help you find the cause. Puppies are like kids…some take alot of time and patience. My son didn’t get out of diapers for almost forever despite what I tried…your puppy is like a 2 year old still…a baby. Keep trying…its heartbreaking to hear the dog has been stuck outside like unwanted patio furniture.
Oh no never ignore an accident unless you didn’t catch the pup in the act. And if you’re doing it right you should be catching the pup in the act!! You should be allowing the pup confined freedom in a room with you and supervising as it it’s a toddler in a room of Ming vases. And crate the pup when you can’t keep close supervision. To be flat out honest, it’s not the puppy, it’s you. Not trying to be insulting at all, but all training is based on how well the trainer knows how to do it and how well they do it.
Completely ignoring accidents is no different that say..allowing a child to urinate on the kitchen floor and hope some day they will get it. They won’t. Puppies and dogs, just like children needs corrections as well as praise to learn.
PLEASE CHECK THESE LINKS:
http://www.inch.com/~dogs/housebreaking.html
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/housebreaking.htm
http://www.inch.com/~dogs/cratetraining.html
If all else fails contact a trainer that will take the dog and housebreak for you. Banning a dog to the outdoors to spend so much of it’s time alone is not a good idea…an animal that needs social interaction is not a good choice to isolate. And DO enroll in an obedience class. Housebreaking is just the tip of the iceberg!
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Make sure all accidents (old ones too) are cleaned up so she can’t smell it. A water/white vinegar mix works very well, just remember if it’s carpet, as the urine soaks in so should the vinegar mix.
Beagle’s are pretty tough to train. I have two myself & the youngest has given me the most problems with potty training. I have crate trained & everything else you’ve mentioned that you have tried … but to my dismay, nothing seems to be working. Even in the crate, if I block him off in the smallest area, he will still go poop in the crate. He will soil himself in the poop as well. I feel horrible when I come in and see that he’s layed in his on poop.
I have always been told that a dog will not mess (or soil) their beds. This is not working out to be the case in his situation. He doesn’t seem to mind either way .. it’s really strange. And nothing I seem to do, seems to work.
This has worked for me, believe it or not: I put a babies diaper on him. I have to cut a hole in it where his tail will fit through. But he doesn’t chew it off or anything (which is exactly what I though would happen, even before I tried it). He’s gone in the diaper once (lol it really wasn’t as bad as it may seem). But other than that, he will not go until I take it off of him .. and then out the door we run.
Also check out the ‘Dog Whisperer’. You can see videos of him on You Tube. He has some AWESOME advice & seems to really be in tune with what actually works.
Good luck! And I will be checking back on this thread to see other people’s suggestions.
Beagles are notorious for being hard to housebreak!!! I have 2 adult beagles–and we still have nighttime “accidents” occasionally, and considering 2 years ago there was pee and poo as far as the eye could see, we’ve come a long way!!! Now it’s maybe one time a month (and just a little puddle). You’re on the right track but I would take her to the vet and make sure everthing is okay. I’d still do the crate at night and if I were you–put “blue pads” in it (the ones they use at the hospital and nursing homes under people–you can get them at the drug store) it makes clean up easier. My beagles are in the house and they are very sweet little dogs, but they are as stubborn as the day is long!!! It can be done!! It just takes ALOT of patience!! Please don’t tie her in the backyard!! That’s no life for a pup!!
Hi, we raise beagles and sell puppies, and what several people said is true… you HAVE to physically punish your pup when he disobeys you!!! He WILL NOT hate you as you may think, or grow mean, or whatever. He has to know that your the boss, not him. Beagles are very thick and stubborn, so if they get away with something once or twice, they’ll think it’s alright unless you physically show them otherwise. Hope you have success!