Apollo's Dobermom
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I know what you're thinking..if he's peeing and pooping in the house and kennel, you're definitely not taking him outside enough to use the bathroom..wrong! Apollo is smart..too smart for his own good actually. So here's what happens. He is the type of dog that NEEDS to be crated at night and can't be left anywhere unsupervised or when no one is home. Example: Whenever he is out of his kennel and I am not playing with him every second that he is out, the moment I look away, he poops or pees on the carpet..and this is RIGHT AFTER we come inside from our walk!!! He literally will save up some pee and poop just so if I don't pay attention to him later on, he will poop and pee inside to get me to pay attention to him. I decided to let him play yesterday while I was cooking dinner and the moment I took my eyes off him for a few seconds to check on the food, I walk back into the living room a minute later to poop all over the floor, and yes, I took him outside right before all of this.
The BIGGEST issue right now isn't that though. The biggest issue is that he started doing it in his kennel. He is 1 year old now and knows that he isn't supposed to pee in his kennel. He was crate trained since he was 12 weeks old and rarely had accidents up until recently....he has started peeing in his kennel every single night before bedtime after we put him in his kennel when it's time to sleep. It literally has forced us to have to wash his blankets every night at 11pm and give him a bath afterwards because he smells like piss..imagine doing this every night of the week that late at night when all you want to do is go to bed. We take him out a lot for walks and a bathroom break right before bed. But he will literally stop peeing at a certain point and we will come inside and crate him at night and he HATES being in his kennel/bedtime so recently he figured out that if he still wants to be out, all he has to do is squeeze out any bit of pee left over in his system all over his blankets and that'll make us come back over to let him out again so we can clean his kennel and him....What can I do to stop this behavior?! He is getting exactly what he wants by doing this at night (later bed time and more time out of his kennel) but we can't just ignore him and let him sleep in his piss. I have read that it's called "revenge peeing" and is a way of the dog manipulating the owner. I don't know how to outsmart this dog in this situation. Help.
The BIGGEST issue right now isn't that though. The biggest issue is that he started doing it in his kennel. He is 1 year old now and knows that he isn't supposed to pee in his kennel. He was crate trained since he was 12 weeks old and rarely had accidents up until recently....he has started peeing in his kennel every single night before bedtime after we put him in his kennel when it's time to sleep. It literally has forced us to have to wash his blankets every night at 11pm and give him a bath afterwards because he smells like piss..imagine doing this every night of the week that late at night when all you want to do is go to bed. We take him out a lot for walks and a bathroom break right before bed. But he will literally stop peeing at a certain point and we will come inside and crate him at night and he HATES being in his kennel/bedtime so recently he figured out that if he still wants to be out, all he has to do is squeeze out any bit of pee left over in his system all over his blankets and that'll make us come back over to let him out again so we can clean his kennel and him....What can I do to stop this behavior?! He is getting exactly what he wants by doing this at night (later bed time and more time out of his kennel) but we can't just ignore him and let him sleep in his piss. I have read that it's called "revenge peeing" and is a way of the dog manipulating the owner. I don't know how to outsmart this dog in this situation. Help.
Surely not?? 
