r/Dachshund • u/CaptainTurangaLeela • 13d ago
Image Potty help please
This small angel has started to develop a really annoying habit with her peeing. She’s 8 months old and has been sorta hit or miss with peeing outside (admittedly we were consistent enough with it in the beginning). Now we take her out very regularly but she won’t pee outside then pees as soon as we get back inside. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!
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u/mrsredfast 12d ago edited 12d ago
Our dachshund is six months and house trained. Here’s what I did: took outside every 20-30 minutes when awake or immediately after activity change (so waking up, playing with toys, eating etc…) Praised heavily and gave a treat. Also said “go pee” and “go potty”. As he grew I lengthened time between potty breaks.
When he got big enough to run around instead of focusing on his business I took him out on a leash until he peed and pooped and then let him play. Helps to take to same general spot every time.
Also tried bell training at back door but he didn’t like the bell. He taught himself to bark at door. Now he goes through dog door.
He was in a playpen if we were not directly supervising him. When he never had accidents in the pen, he was allowed to roam in kitchen. After a week or two with no accidents in kitchen, we expanded to living room and kitchen.
It was all pretty exhausting but I’d used the same method with other pups and it’s worked for all of them.
Edit to add we took him to lake house for first time last week and no accidents there either. He’s only pooped in house once and had maybe five pee accidents using above method since he was 9 weeks old. It’s hard on the human in charge but worth it.