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Not looking for training advice as much as I am just trying to see if this is normal. I've had Opal for a few months now. She's done about normal as far as I can see when it comes to training. She just started last week a training class for beginners. She's learned fast and is quick to pick up on things. She does struggle in some areas. Namely, she is scared to death of people other than myself, Steph, My paretns, or my sisters family. She doesn't like anyone else and freaks out if I have someone over. That's not the problem. THe problem lies in this. She's been doing extremely well in potty training. I got her at about 6 months old so she already had some bad habits, but we've worked hard to get that out.
For the last 3 weeks we've had virtually no problems as far as her going in the house. She has a normal schedule where she gets up at 8 am and pees/poops, then pees around 12 when I come home to let her out of her cage, then pees/poops at 5 when I get home, then eats. The remainder of the night, she gets let out often. I'd say once every hour to hour and a half and she usually pees. This worked fine, till yesterday. Yesterday for some reason, she peed 4 times in the house. The annoying thing is nothing has changed. Her diet is the same, she's drinking the same amount of water and being let out the same amount of times. She would go out, squat, pee, go back in and about 10 minutes later, she'd just squat in the middle of the floor and pee again. Mind you I just cleaned the carpet. No sign that she needed to go out again or anything. Just peed. The worst part was tonight, she got home from class and we took her inside. When we came in, she ran straight to my bedroom (which 99% of the time the door is closed to prevent situations like this) jumped on the bed (working to stop that) squatted and peed a lake. S
he was JUST outside and had just peed. We didn't know it because we were putting her training lesson stuff away and generally taking care of some things. This is why I leave the door closed as all through her potty training she's peed in locations where we couldn't see, so we try to limit such locations.
My question is this. Is this type of relapse normal? I wouldn't think so, but again, I've always had a puppy since they were verry very little and trained them immediately, so this having been a 6 month old puppy was different. I'm just really discouraged with this. I can handle training a dog that jumps on people or barks, but when she ruins our bed for the night and pees all over the house I start to have issues with the dog.
For the last 3 weeks we've had virtually no problems as far as her going in the house. She has a normal schedule where she gets up at 8 am and pees/poops, then pees around 12 when I come home to let her out of her cage, then pees/poops at 5 when I get home, then eats. The remainder of the night, she gets let out often. I'd say once every hour to hour and a half and she usually pees. This worked fine, till yesterday. Yesterday for some reason, she peed 4 times in the house. The annoying thing is nothing has changed. Her diet is the same, she's drinking the same amount of water and being let out the same amount of times. She would go out, squat, pee, go back in and about 10 minutes later, she'd just squat in the middle of the floor and pee again. Mind you I just cleaned the carpet. No sign that she needed to go out again or anything. Just peed. The worst part was tonight, she got home from class and we took her inside. When we came in, she ran straight to my bedroom (which 99% of the time the door is closed to prevent situations like this) jumped on the bed (working to stop that) squatted and peed a lake. S
he was JUST outside and had just peed. We didn't know it because we were putting her training lesson stuff away and generally taking care of some things. This is why I leave the door closed as all through her potty training she's peed in locations where we couldn't see, so we try to limit such locations.
My question is this. Is this type of relapse normal? I wouldn't think so, but again, I've always had a puppy since they were verry very little and trained them immediately, so this having been a 6 month old puppy was different. I'm just really discouraged with this. I can handle training a dog that jumps on people or barks, but when she ruins our bed for the night and pees all over the house I start to have issues with the dog.
Call the vet as they may give you the medication without an office visit (kinda depends on the vet and the situation) Keep in mind though even without a UTI they usually can't be considered solid potty trained until 1 year old.
