How Do I Get My Dog To Stop Holding His Bladder?
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My partner and I have just adopted a 10-month old italian greyhound. We’ve had him for a week and he is in the process of adapting to our home and to our 3 year-old italian greyhound.
We are currently having some toilet training issues and have encountered a new behaviour over the past few days.
We make sure he goes out to pee every hour. Lately he has been refusing to go while outside and trying his hardest to evade going out/get back inside as quickly as possible.
While our other greyhound asks to go out regularly during the night, the pup avoids doing so and choses to hold it instead.
Twice now he has held it to the point of bladder bursting and then peed all over. This has occurred once in the house right in front of people and once in the middle of the night.
Can anyone recommend a solution? He is stubbornly refusing to go no matter how many times I take him out. He has a large yard. Even going out with him is not working at this point.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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He is maybe nervous of going in an area which is heavily scented by your other dog.
Exercise is a diuretic, which means it makes you want to go pee. Take him a huge long walk, and keep walking until he eventually cannot go any longer and has to pee. when this happens, go absolutely crazy with praise.
Also, if he does have an accident in the house, wipe it up with a towel and place the towel in a corner of the garden, so then when he goes out he will recognise his scent and will happily pee there. Eventually, you can cut the towel in half, quarter, to eventually taking it away when he has established himself as co-owner of the territory
Adopted him? From where? If he was kept in a kennel or confined and learned to relieve himself on training pads or newspaper and never really went outside he may be reluctant and even afraid to go elsewhere. Changes like this can cause anxiety. Encourage and overly praise when he goes outside. Leaving him outside may work as well. Have you tried talking to a vet about this? A problem this severe may take advanced training techniques and possibly meds.
yea my dogs like that, i take him out at night to go potty and he cant wait to race back inside.
you just have to communicate to him that he doesnt get rewarded with coming into the house until he goes potty. using a soft calm voice repeat “come on, go potty, hurry up”
soon he will get the message and go out. maybe once an hr is a bit too much, maybe every couple of hrs instead.
when you let him outside to go toilet, no matter how long it takes you need to make him stay outside until he has been. and as soon as hes been give him plenty of praise so that he realises going toilet outside gets in alot of love. be persistant with him but don’t give into him.
he will get the hang of it soon
What you are describing sounds like a physical problem causing behavioral problems.
I would get him to your vet for a check up and give your vet the scenario you described above. I do believe he has a bladder problem rather than a stubborn problem.
you might want to see a vet for that. could be an infection. or talk to Ceaser Millan. he’s a dog expert.
that stuff that makes you **** yourself would hepl!!
kick em in the jollies
have you thought that maybe he has a bladder infection and it hurts him to pee?