GermanShepherdTraining

Miniature dachshunds are a courageous, fun loving and warm breed of dog. Unfortunately, they are also notoriously difficult to house-train. In this article, I’ll show you how you can get the upper hand.

Your new dog keeps pooping around the house. You seem to have tried everything, showing it the door, picking out a favourite spot in the yard, reinforcing good behaviour. But it still likes to use the house as a toilet!

Unfortunately, this breed are notorious for being difficult to house train. But don’t give up and don’t be one of those nasty people who abandon this breed every year. With a little patience and a little work, you can show this dog how to behave correctly.

This breed will often learn to use the outdoors and the indoors. They just do not know the difference between right and wrong. You need to show them how. Hang with the dog and be vigilant. As soon as it looks like it will use the house as a toilet, tell it strongly “NO” and grab it and show it out of the house. When he does eventually do it outside then praise him a lot.

Make sure you clean religiously the spots in the house where he has already gone. Otherwise he might be back and mark his territory with his urine.

Especially if he is only doing brief urinations and not letting go fully then your dog might be marking his territory. You should consider getting him neutered if this is the case.

Also, when you can’t supervise the dog then get a crate. Make sure that it is big enough for him to stand and turn around in but not big enough so that he can go to the toilet at the other end of the cage. This will reinforce that the toilet is only inside and not inside.

If your dog is taken outside and then comes inside and go to the toilet then I suggest you put the dog in its crate after coming indoors then wait ten minutes and go back outside until he learns that he will only get the run of the house after he has been to the toilet. Obviously, don’t do this if your dog doesn’t need to toilet at all!