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MY name is Tim, my beagle is Zoey, She is 8 months old now. We just adopted her about a week ago. She was in less than friendly household. They used bark collars and crated their dogs all day.
She seems to trust me and Sarah my girlfriend a lot and loves her new home very much. We are having problems getting her housebroken however. We walk her twice a day and she will only evacuate on these walks. So when we bring her out to her spot about once an hour and tell her to go to the bathroom she just stands and sniff's and gets distracted by every little bug or lizard. Then we bring her back in because she doesn't evacuate. She then proceeds to evacuate when we take showers or are making dinner ect.. We've tried putting paper towels soaked with her urine at her spot to get her to go and she refuses to go.
So we're now trying a method we found on a beagle web site which is to keep her in the crate all the time and bring her out and feed her on the regular schedule. She is supposed to figure out that when she goes out it is to evacuate. After 2 days of this she still refuses to go in her spot she only wants to go where the neighborhood dogs go. She would rather hold it and go back to the crate than go in her spot.
We're out of ideas. Please help, we hate to crate her so much.
She seems to trust me and Sarah my girlfriend a lot and loves her new home very much. We are having problems getting her housebroken however. We walk her twice a day and she will only evacuate on these walks. So when we bring her out to her spot about once an hour and tell her to go to the bathroom she just stands and sniff's and gets distracted by every little bug or lizard. Then we bring her back in because she doesn't evacuate. She then proceeds to evacuate when we take showers or are making dinner ect.. We've tried putting paper towels soaked with her urine at her spot to get her to go and she refuses to go.
So we're now trying a method we found on a beagle web site which is to keep her in the crate all the time and bring her out and feed her on the regular schedule. She is supposed to figure out that when she goes out it is to evacuate. After 2 days of this she still refuses to go in her spot she only wants to go where the neighborhood dogs go. She would rather hold it and go back to the crate than go in her spot.
We're out of ideas. Please help, we hate to crate her so much.