Bought Kennel Dogs Who Never Been Outside, Now They Freeze And Won’t Go To The Bathroom- Only In Their Bed!

Today I went bought 2 Italian Greyhounds. I love them to death already, but I’m having trouble. They won’t pee or poop outside. They’ve never been outside! Unfortunately they’re kennel dogs and never been outside. I was under the impression they were house dogs just being raised sometimes in a kennel. I guess not- they were in there all the time, They did their bathroom stuff in there. I guess it’s a HUGE kennel and there were a few puppies in there. They’re timid, but very eager to receive love. We live in MN and it’s cold and I can see the pads of their feet are freezing. We stay outside about 7 min. and I put them back in the kennel, take them out again after 15 minutes, but they WILL poop inside the kennel anyway. They have no idea why we’re outside. I’ve taken them seperatly and together. They stand there and cry holding up 1 foot. I have patience, but I’m nervous, kennel/petstore dogs I hear are HARD to train. Any suggestions?

Tell Me About Your Dogs?

I know it sounds crazy, but I have 30 dogs. No, I’m not kidding, and no, I’m not a hoarder. I live on a very large three generation working ranch. Please, no bad comments. We have a 300 acre ranch and need these dogs. Most are strictly working dogs.
I have a Bulldog named Chowder, who is 5 years old. He is strictly an indoor companion, but has proved his worth by breaking up more than a few fights between our holstein bulls.
Then, there is Geekie. He is a 12 year old Wire Fox Terrier. Back when we had a problem with foxes getting our chickens he was used to hunt and kill them. He is now an indoor companion.
Next is Scrumptious, an 11 year old Portuguese Podengo Pequeno. We use him to flush birds when hunting and he keeps rats out of the barnyard.
I also have a 4 year old German Wirehaired Pointer named Missy. She is our best bird retriever!
Oberon is a 6 year old Grand Basset Griffon Vendeen. He is our best rabbit hunter.
Intrepid is a 3 year old Giant Schnauzer. He is our cattle drover.
Caesar is a 1 year old Argentine Dogo pup. We bought him not long ago because we were having a problem with some large predator taking our livestock. We think it might be a puma or coyote, but aren’t sure. They definately stay away from him!
Kosmic is a 2 year old Basset Hound. Not the world’s best rabbit hunter, but loves the chase!
Dodger is a 10 year old Stabyhoun. He is our resident mole/gopher eradicator.
Charlie is a 3 year old American Eskimo Dog. He is my baby who sleeps with me every single night!
Cassius is one of our newer additions. He is a 1 year old Spinone Italiano. Cassius is another one of our retrievers.
Cricket is a 9 year old Thai Ridgeback. She is a retired breeding and we adopted her recently just as an exotic looking companion.
Harley is a 10 year old Pharaoh Hound. He is another rabbit hunter, very good, but getting a bit slow.
Cristyl is a 2 year old Berger Picard. Strictly a sheep herder.
Bruno is a 1 year old Dandie Dinmont Terrier. He is used alongside Scrumptious to kill any rats, mats, or other rodents that try to get into our grain.
Quasimodo is a 9 year old Coton de Tulear. Just another house pet!
Giggles is a 7 year old Great Pyrenees. 100% a sheep guardian.
Singer is a 9 year old Skye Terrier. Used to eradicate a fox once in a blue moon. We rarely have a problem with that, but have to keep our chickens safe.
Mu Shu is a Russell Terrier, about 4 years old. He is another ratter, but mainly works well out in the field and pastures.
Derby is a 9 year old Border Terrier, works in the western fields/yard killing rats.
Otto is a 3 year old Whippet. I bought him as a companion, but he also participates in recreational racing, just for fun, alongside other pet Whippets and Greyhounds
Tova is almost a year old Estrela Mountain Dog. She lives out with Giggles in training to be a flock guard so we can expand our wool business.
Chew-Chew is our retired Anatolian Shepherd Dog, around 9 years old. He use to guard our flock, but was badly wounded by some sort of large predator. We don’t know what, but it was very big to take down a 150 lb dog!
Ferdinand is a 10 year old Plott Hound. He helps find and take bear during hunting season.
Abby is a 5 year old Neapolitan Mastiff. She is a guard dog and has wrangled a few coyotes in her time. She is well over 100 lbs, lives and sleeps on our porch, but great protection.
Gopher is a 10 year old Cocker Spaniel. He use to hunt, but has been retired since.
Crawdad is our 6 year old Alaskan Malamute. Just a fun dog to have around, rescued from a kill shelter, pulls sleds for my younger brother and sister in the winter!
Gunther a Tosa or Mastiff Mix. We found him as a stray, about 7 years old. Great guard dog. Lives on the other side of our ranch and will kill any animal that comes near him. Loves his family though, but not strangers!
Tricky is a 10 year old Harrier. Use to hunt rabbit in his younger days.
Buginarug is a 12 year old Boxer. He is a guard dog for the east side of our ranch, but also helps out with the bulls when we have to move any for breeding.
I think I’ve named them all….Please tell me about your dogs!

How Much Do These Dogs Cost?

I want another dog! all we own are border collies that are big time agillity dogs and most of the time they are training so this leave no “mans best friend” quailty time so this christmas i am asking for a small dog but my parents cant afford a couple thousand dollar dog and the dog i get for xmas is not going to do shows or agility cuz i know dogs that are bred for this cost more i just want a dog that will be my friend and loyal to me
Toy Fox Terrier
Papillon
Italian Greyhound
American Eskimo Dog (Toy)
Pomeranian
these are the types of dogs i have reserched and i am going to pick one that i would like to ask for for chrismas and
I would like to get the average price of each dog in this order 10 points to the best answer

Greyhounds As Agility Dogs?

are greyhounds smart and easy to train
are they good at agility training and agility
are they good pets personality wise (and companion wise)
and is it smart to have a retired racing greyhound that you rescue i heard that they tend to get seperation anxiety

Ok, So I Can’t Figure Out My Dog’s Behavior.?

I have a 5 year old greyhound. I’ve had him for almost 3 years, and when we adopted him he was already house trained. He never had any problems with doing his business outside, i was actually surprised for how long he could hold it sometimes. Anyway the last three days, he’s been having problems. He has gone to the bathroom the last three days in a row in the house, and he wasn’t even home alone for the first time. The two other times we only left the house for about an hour. We even let him out shortly before we leave.
This is very out of character for him, so does anyone have an idea about why my dog is suddenly going to the bathroom in the house?

If You Love Dogs… Please Answer!!!?

Okay, since my 1st and 2nd attempt try to post this question failed, because only 1 person answered, I decided to re-post it and make a poll, so things get more interesting.
It’s just that I adopted a retired Greyhound called Gracye. She is very wierd, but I honestly think that’s very cool… But 2 months after it gets sickening. Just read:
1st of all. As a retired racer, her only joy is to walk off-leash, but she runs away from me and I am afraid she gets run over by a car or gets lost. I tried luring her with food, toys and calling her. I also tried Clicker training, but she thinks it’s a game and keeps running from me I managed to catch her until now but I am so sick of this and afraid for her.
2nd, she isn’t potty trained, because she is an older dog and was never potty trained before. As I live in an appartment – yes, Greyhounds CAN live in apartments – it is not very enjoyable to find a puddle of pee waiting for me. She gets over-excited easily and wee-wees on the floor when so. I would like her to know how to pee in the terrace.
3rd, she is terribly thin. Need proof? – http://www.gpa-nw.org/images/PuddleDuck-… – the vet says “it’s normal”, but I’ve had whippets and lurchers who are naturally thin too, is it normal for them to be like this? She refuses to eat. I have tried rests of our dinner, all the dog food from the market, it’s just that she is a little… how do I say… strange. She only eats the food if I roll it throught the floor or give it piece by piece to her mouth.This is very irritating! And her stomach is so weak that if I feed her something a little bit diferent she pukes.
4rth (promisse the last question): I KNOW I must be pacient, of course. But just for curiousity: why does she don’t let me pet her when it’s my intention, but asks for petting when I am busy? Is it on porpuse, LOL.
POLL: What dogs do you have? Names? What is the most WIERD thing he ever done?

Ever Noticed How Many Rescue Volunteers Know Nothing About Dogs?

I have found that the vast majority, in fact pretty much all the rescue volunteers I have met here in Ireland, on website and in person, know little or nothing about the breeds they deal with and nothing about pack structure and training. In fact I have had a whole forum of people tell me that pack structure dosn’t exsist when I gave sound advice to someone. Seriously.
I have been told that prong collars are… (let me try and remember) Somthing like “unbelievably cruel” and the word torture was used a lot.
This was when I told someone the correct way to use one on a dog that dragged them down the street on walks. They reccommended a halti, which can actually do a lot more damage to a dogs neck than a prong, as well as being not as effective!
Someone was rehoming a Weimaraner because it was not an effective guard dog, and the rescuers were all saying that the person was stupid to expect a Weim to guard, they are nothing but softies, that they would never be a good guard dog. Anyone who knows anything knows that a Weim has quite a strong protective instinct and can be a hard dog like many German breeds.
When I even mentioned the word e-collar for training (correctly and responibly after learning how to use them, obviously) I was hit with a torrent of abuse and actually banned from that particular forum. These were well known dog rescuers in Ireland.
When I volunteered to do some basic obedience with the dogs in the local centre here to make them easier to rehome,the essence of what I said was basically ignored, and I was told yeah, they really need people to help out and clean out the dogs pens or walk them. I said I would train them, like I am volunteering to train the dogs, I don’t have to do it, and they tell me I can clean out their pens? No thanks.
I have given a lot of money to the ISPCA and strongly support animal rescue, but the attitude of the volunteers would really put you off.
On another note about animal welfare in Ireland – Before when I went to do some volunteer work at the local SPCA holding spot located at the vets, a van full of lovely healthy but sad looking collies, crosses and some greyhounds and lurchers came pulled up. I was talking to them, assuming they were going onto the rescue to be rehomed. They were led into the vets, a few at a time, I heard the most awful screams I have ever heard (I’m not exaggerating) and they came out in green bags. In my county its still legal to put down dogs with bolt guns.
But anyway back to the attitude of recuers -
Has anyone else found this with them?

What Is The Best Way To Introduce 3 New Dogs?

Me and my family go on holiday with my aunt and her children every year, and they have to dogs, a greyhound/ lurcher mix who is quite chilled, never lets anything bother him and is great with dogs and children, there other dog is Golden retriever mix and is OK with dogs once she gets to know them, they both came from the shelter.
They are coming over between christmas and new year(live like 5 hours away) to see the rest of our family and stuff and there bringing there dogs.
And seen as though we are going on holiday later that year i think it’s best to make the dogs meet when mine is younger.
So i have a GSD 4 nearly 5 month and will be 7-8 months then, he gets on well with calm dogs and then he wants to play, he goes puppy training and has done since his shots where complete but giddy dogs bug him.
So what is the best way to introduce these dogs to each other.
I was thinking in a neutral place one dog at a time.
BTW all dogs are spayed and neutered well mine is not yet but will be when they are here.

Ok, So I Can’t Figure Out My Dog’s Behavior.?

I have a 5 year old greyhound. I’ve had him for almost 3 years, and when we adopted him he was already house trained. He never had any problems with doing his business outside, i was actually surprised for how long he could hold it sometimes. Anyway the last three days, he’s been having problems. He has gone to the bathroom the last three days in a row in the house, and he wasn’t even home alone for the first time. The two other times we only left the house for about an hour. We even let him out shortly before we leave.
This is very out of character for him, so does anyone have an idea about why my dog is suddenly going to the bathroom in the house?

How To Train The Duh Duh Dogs?

I have two greyhound mutts that i rescued. They are both female. They pee outside and poo inside. Driving me crazy. They also chew everything up. and jump jump jump. I have a huge back yard so they have tons of room to play. But when they are in the house they go coo coo! please give me me advice!

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