DobermangoneRogue
Novitiate
Please, please, if anyone can help me do, because I am ready to give her to the pound but I’d rather not.
I got Rogue when she was about 10 weeks old. She had a really hard time of being house broken. Initially, she was going to be allowed to wander around the house and just let out to use the bathroom. She had a lot of accidents though, so I tried crate training her as a pup and young adult.
I work a lot {10p-6a twice a week and 6p-6a twice a week}. It’s a bad schedule, I know but I haven’t been able to find another job and I’ve been looking for six months, so I’m stuck for now. I live alone, so it’s just me taking care of her. I guess 8-12 hours was too much for her to hold it, because she had started regularly going in her crate. Nothing worked so when I had her for about a month I put in a dog door, and that seemed to work. She would have accidents for a while there but I’d put her nose in it, tell he no, maybe gently smack her snout and take her to the dog door. She got the hang of it and stopped going in the house.
I had decided to let her have free range of the house. I tried again when she was about 8 months old to crate train her, but it didn’t work. She would bark all day and I got nasty grams from the rude HOA guy, and once I got the police called on me for the noise, so I thought fine whatever.
ETA, She’s a year old now.
Then about three months ago, she chewed through the plastic dog door. I replaced it and sprayed it with bitter apple spray, and that was good for about two days, until she chewed through that too. I don’t have the income to spend $70 every time she does this, so after the last time I put a plastic insert over the door and I’ve been letting her out.
The problem is she’s stopped going outside. For the last two weeks she’s been sh****** in the house basically every day. I let her out in the mornings, and I let her out every two hours or so before I go to work. She will not go to the bathroom outside. I always come home to a mess.
Today I was off. I woke up at 6 and let her out every two hours again. She didn’t have to go so I went back to my room to lie down. Five minutes later I go to the kitchen and she had s**** on the floor. There was no excuse for this. I was HOME. I was AWAKE. She could have come get me like she used to as a pup but she chose not to. She could have gone when I let her out but she chose not to. Whatever, I cleaned it up and went out for the day
I came home to nine, yes nine, separate piles of s*** in my living room. I was livid. I put her nose in it again and smacked her, took her to the dog door again. This is killing me. I am ready to get rid of her or kill myself because it is absolutely disgusting. I almost threw up the smell was so bad, and my water bill has doubled from mopping every day, sometimes twice. The smell is nauseating and it won’t go away. I dumped a spray bottle of bleach on it and mopped it and I still smell it. It’s horrific, it makes me not want to be in my skin for the rest of the day. I’m afraid to come home because of what I might find.
How do I make her stop? What can I do? I tried a trainer and that didn’t work. I ended up paying $700 for the guy to quit on day 2 and tell me to take her to petsmart because I refused to use a shock collar. I am at my wits end. I don’t have anyone that can care for her while I’m at work, and I can’t -afford daycare. How can I make her either go outside or stop chewing her dog door? I’ll happily put a new one in, but she has to stop chewing it, I can’t afford $70 a day.
I got Rogue when she was about 10 weeks old. She had a really hard time of being house broken. Initially, she was going to be allowed to wander around the house and just let out to use the bathroom. She had a lot of accidents though, so I tried crate training her as a pup and young adult.
I work a lot {10p-6a twice a week and 6p-6a twice a week}. It’s a bad schedule, I know but I haven’t been able to find another job and I’ve been looking for six months, so I’m stuck for now. I live alone, so it’s just me taking care of her. I guess 8-12 hours was too much for her to hold it, because she had started regularly going in her crate. Nothing worked so when I had her for about a month I put in a dog door, and that seemed to work. She would have accidents for a while there but I’d put her nose in it, tell he no, maybe gently smack her snout and take her to the dog door. She got the hang of it and stopped going in the house.
I had decided to let her have free range of the house. I tried again when she was about 8 months old to crate train her, but it didn’t work. She would bark all day and I got nasty grams from the rude HOA guy, and once I got the police called on me for the noise, so I thought fine whatever.
ETA, She’s a year old now.
Then about three months ago, she chewed through the plastic dog door. I replaced it and sprayed it with bitter apple spray, and that was good for about two days, until she chewed through that too. I don’t have the income to spend $70 every time she does this, so after the last time I put a plastic insert over the door and I’ve been letting her out.
The problem is she’s stopped going outside. For the last two weeks she’s been sh****** in the house basically every day. I let her out in the mornings, and I let her out every two hours or so before I go to work. She will not go to the bathroom outside. I always come home to a mess.
Today I was off. I woke up at 6 and let her out every two hours again. She didn’t have to go so I went back to my room to lie down. Five minutes later I go to the kitchen and she had s**** on the floor. There was no excuse for this. I was HOME. I was AWAKE. She could have come get me like she used to as a pup but she chose not to. She could have gone when I let her out but she chose not to. Whatever, I cleaned it up and went out for the day
I came home to nine, yes nine, separate piles of s*** in my living room. I was livid. I put her nose in it again and smacked her, took her to the dog door again. This is killing me. I am ready to get rid of her or kill myself because it is absolutely disgusting. I almost threw up the smell was so bad, and my water bill has doubled from mopping every day, sometimes twice. The smell is nauseating and it won’t go away. I dumped a spray bottle of bleach on it and mopped it and I still smell it. It’s horrific, it makes me not want to be in my skin for the rest of the day. I’m afraid to come home because of what I might find.
How do I make her stop? What can I do? I tried a trainer and that didn’t work. I ended up paying $700 for the guy to quit on day 2 and tell me to take her to petsmart because I refused to use a shock collar. I am at my wits end. I don’t have anyone that can care for her while I’m at work, and I can’t -afford daycare. How can I make her either go outside or stop chewing her dog door? I’ll happily put a new one in, but she has to stop chewing it, I can’t afford $70 a day.