Posted: 6/12/2006 7:43:57 PM EDT
| Hey gang. My Basset hound, Floyd, has turned into a Bastard hound. The little fucker will not stop pissing and shitting in the house. He is about a year and a half old, and had gone about ten months without using my floor as his throne. About two months ago, my sister had her three month old shit-poo over here when she spent the night. I suspect the mutt pissed somewhere and that set my dog off. What the hell can I do to remedy this problem, short of cutting off his God-damnits? Any help would be great. |
This is a good suggestion. If it were me, I would also make a trip to the vet to make sure there are no underlying medical problems that are causing incontinence. If the vet gives Floyd a clean bill of health, then you can proceed with adjusting the hounds attitude. |
+1 Vet, then crate-training. Don't be mean, just learn what to do and do it. The dog isn't being vindictive, he's being a dog. |
Yup, dogs don't act out of vengence or spite. Get the guy checked out by a vet and proceed from there. Buy an enzymatic cleaner such as Natures Miracle and use it on the spots where he goes to the bathroom so that he can't smell it there anymore. They will go where they smell they have gone before. |
I don't know. Dogs get pissed and do things. One of my jackass dogs took a dump on the couch one day. The onyl thing that saive her was that I didn't know for sure which one has done it. |
LOL. I start my labs in crates and add a training collar when they get old enough. It really doesn't take too many hits to get their attention and break bad habits. (especially running deer, digging holes in the yard). A little "nick" is all it takes. Funny thing is, my dog actually gets excited when I pull the collar off the charger. (I never even turn it on) 
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Your dog is acting out, but it's not rational and self-aware. It's not a little human. When it's anxious, left alone, its routine is disturbed or something else is wrong, one of the first thing a dog does to re-establish its place in the world is to shit all over everything. It's not a game, that's how pack animals behave. Once you really look into the cause and effect of pack behavior, you will see many actions that in the wild make sense, but in the comfort of home look an awful lot like fido is mad at your ass. But, that doesn't make it so. |
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With a dog's nose something like a million times as strong as a humans no amount of cleaning will make him forget it's there. Crate him is your solution. He wont mind and you wont be dealing with his mess. To those who think dogs wont do things because they are angry listen to this. Me and the missus were getting ready for vacation. Had all the bags packed and on the bedroom floor. Vito ( my Italian Greyhound) was on the bed and eyeballing me in a funny way. I told my wife to look at him. When she did He looked directly at her and then directly at me and then squatted and pissed. He almost lost his nuts over that one and I guarantee it was that he saw the bags and knew we were leaving and was pissed!! |
| I have two Bassets, they can be very hard headed little bastards. They are also very very schedule oriented, change up there environment even a little and they will let you know they don't approve. The only way I was able to adjust there attitude was the old cold shoulder. I tried tanning there ass did nothing to modify behavior and actually made it worse. If one of them screw up now they get to go to the crate for a while and after that we just act like they aren't there for several hours. My male, Norman will almost panic, and will follow me around the house until I decide to "accept his apology". The only time we have a problem is when the routine is changed. As for the house training thing, my wife hung a small bell on the back door, whenever we took them out as pups we would ring the bell. Now, whenever they need out they ring it. We even take the bell when we go to a friends house or travel and no worries. |