Summerinohio
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Hi, I recently adopted the sweetest little eight year old Dachshund from a local shelter. She's an amazing dog who's fitting in perfectly with my family. She loves us and our kitties. The only problem is she isn't housebroken. I was told that she was but she clearly isn't.
Housebreaking her wouldn't be a problem but she's very strange. She will only go to the bathroom on carpet. I take her out hourly and go for at least two walks a day but she has never gone outside. She also won't use the puppy pads and news paper I set out. She will not go on concrete or in the rooms with tiled floors. Only carpet.
She sleeps in a crate and every morning I take her out and go straight outside and we'll sit there as she howls begging to go inside. She clearly has to go to the bathroom badly but will not go. I've sat outside with her hours at a time and she will not go. She isn't afraid of the grass, she enjoys being out there when we're playing or going for walks. She just simply will not go to the bathroom out there. I've bought that spray that is suppose to smell and make them want to go but it did nothing.
It's just confusing to me. Nothing I do will make her go anywhere else. She's held it up to 15 hours before because I wouldn't let her on the carpet. I don't want her to get sick from holding it too long but I can't have her going to the bathroom all over the house. I'd be happy if she'd just go on one of the puppy pads but she won't. I've soaked up some of her urine on one but she won't even bother smelling it, let alone use it. I thought she might have problems smelling but she has no problem smelling food.
I'm desperate for some tips. I really don't want to have to return her but if I can't figure out a way to get her to either go outside or on a pad I don't think I'll be able to keep her. It would break my heart to have to give up this dog.
Housebreaking her wouldn't be a problem but she's very strange. She will only go to the bathroom on carpet. I take her out hourly and go for at least two walks a day but she has never gone outside. She also won't use the puppy pads and news paper I set out. She will not go on concrete or in the rooms with tiled floors. Only carpet.
She sleeps in a crate and every morning I take her out and go straight outside and we'll sit there as she howls begging to go inside. She clearly has to go to the bathroom badly but will not go. I've sat outside with her hours at a time and she will not go. She isn't afraid of the grass, she enjoys being out there when we're playing or going for walks. She just simply will not go to the bathroom out there. I've bought that spray that is suppose to smell and make them want to go but it did nothing.
It's just confusing to me. Nothing I do will make her go anywhere else. She's held it up to 15 hours before because I wouldn't let her on the carpet. I don't want her to get sick from holding it too long but I can't have her going to the bathroom all over the house. I'd be happy if she'd just go on one of the puppy pads but she won't. I've soaked up some of her urine on one but she won't even bother smelling it, let alone use it. I thought she might have problems smelling but she has no problem smelling food.
I'm desperate for some tips. I really don't want to have to return her but if I can't figure out a way to get her to either go outside or on a pad I don't think I'll be able to keep her. It would break my heart to have to give up this dog.