Is There Any Reasoning With Dogs?

[Deleted]

Ok in our Back Room people before had Chickens and Dogs back there on the Carpet.

My Dogs were going back there messing even though there is a Doggy Door there. Ok we put Plastic over the Carpet, if they messed on it I throwed them out for short time. They have gotten to where they don't mess during the day but do at night. Then I throw them out.

So as I can and it get warmer I'm taking the Carpet out and replacing with Linoleum. Any ideas until then?

Rockpile

[Deleted]

That's nasty. The carpet should have been pulled, and that room sanitized, before you ever moved in. Crate the dogs, in that room of the night. You need to spend about three days of constant vigil with the dogs of the day and catch them just before "the act" and mildly scold them while forcing them outside. Treat them when they return back inside after a success.

Nasty, just nasty.

[Maura]

Use a bleach solution on the floor after you rip out the carpet. Make sure you are the only one in the house because the ammonia and bleach together are toxic (I'm sure you know this).

Put up a gate or something to keep the dogs out of the room. When you see them showing interest in getting past the gate, have them sit nicely, then let them into the room and right out the doggy door. Go outside with them and have a couple of treats ready, give treat the instant the dog is done, same with the other. Walk around a bit to make sure they are empty.

Follow this much longer than you think it is necessary. I think a change of surface will help, but they are still acclimated to using the room, so you need to make pottying outside very rewarding.,

[Deleted]

Until now, all I had to worry about was onsite/downstream E. coli, Salmonella, Crytosporidium, Roundworms, Giardiasis, Coccidia, etc. I now need to concern myself onsite/downwind for Chloramine and Hydrazine.

I make an early nomination for this to be thread of the year.

[manygoatsnmore]

Jan 2, 2016 1:38:21 GMT @skamp said:

Until now, all I had to worry about was onsite/downstream E. coli, Salmonella, Crytosporidium, Roundworms, Giardiasis, Coccidia, etc. I now need to concern myself onsite/downwind for Chloramine and Hydrazine.

I make an early nomination for this to be thread of the year.

Huh?  What the heck are you talking about?

[Deleted]

Jan 3, 2016 3:27:54 GMT manygoatsnmore said:

Huh?  What the heck are you talking about?

Health concerns with chicken and dog feces as well as the toxins produced from mixing ammonia and bleach.

[motdaugrnds]

Well, you started off all wrong as I'm sure you know by now. I agree with others that you need to pull that carpet immediately and clean the floor under it.

If you do some research on a dog's digestion system you will learn they deficate shortly after eating; and that will help you house-break your dog. However, given the dog already is thinking it is ok to use your house as a bathroom, you will need to do both, i.e. feed your dog and watch to see how soon afterward it wants to use the bathroom (which will let you know WHEN to put him outside) AND give your dog a treat it especially enjoys immediately after it uses the bathroom outdoors. However, if you don't take care of the smell in your house, you could very well continue to have problems there.

[Deleted]

I'd use an enzyme cleaner. It's really the only thing that seems to take the scent out completely so they can't smell it (and that's what keeps them coming back to a spot). Detergent and other cleaners take it out so People can't smell it but those magic dog noses still can. Enzymes eat the bacteria so the smell is gone even for the dogs.