I've had many dogs throughout my life and potty training wasn't ever a problem. But recently I moved out and got a puppy with my boyfriend. She's a 5 month old miniature schnauzer and we've had her for about a month and a half now. Since we got her we've had her in a 4ftx4ft pen and we keep her in there unless she's playing with us or eating or when we take her out to potty. We used to put a peepee pad in her pen but she keeps tearing it up and just pees on the floor. We have carpet so I got sick of having to clean it so after shampooing it with an enzyme and carpet cleaner... we not lay down plastic. I understand her urge to chew and we've got her chew toys but it's like she gets bored of it or just prefers to chew up her pee pad?
Now here's the big issue I have... when we take her out to use the bathroom she will sniff around forever! We'll be out there for 45 minutes and she'll just wander around and just get us fustrated. So.. we just assume maybe she's not ready to go yet so we take her back to her pen and AS SOON AS SHE STEPS IN she'll wait for us to turn our back and she pees!
I've been reading up on potty training and have tried lots of different things. Putting some of her pee on the pad so she'll know that's where to go. Nope.. she just tears it up again. Picking up her poop and putting it outside in the grass after she makes an accident inside and taking her out there... Nope, still doesn't fix the problem. My boyfriend is an avid ceasar milan watcher but even he's getting inpatient with our puppy :[
Any advice?
I don't get it, what am I doing wrong?
Now here's the big issue I have... when we take her out to use the bathroom she will sniff around forever! We'll be out there for 45 minutes and she'll just wander around and just get us fustrated. So.. we just assume maybe she's not ready to go yet so we take her back to her pen and AS SOON AS SHE STEPS IN she'll wait for us to turn our back and she pees!
I've been reading up on potty training and have tried lots of different things. Putting some of her pee on the pad so she'll know that's where to go. Nope.. she just tears it up again. Picking up her poop and putting it outside in the grass after she makes an accident inside and taking her out there... Nope, still doesn't fix the problem. My boyfriend is an avid ceasar milan watcher but even he's getting inpatient with our puppy :[
Any advice?
I don't get it, what am I doing wrong?