Dog toilet area?

[Welderpaul]

The variety of subjects on this forum never ceases to amaze

We have a scatty 18 month old black lab who although well trained, delights in digging in the garden and laying in the hole she has just dug, as well as doing her 'jobs'. Missus cleans up after the dog, but the dog still ends up carrying soil from the garden in the house. It's all tiled but even so we need to stop it.

We're going to pave the back so most of the soil will be gone anyway, but still need to give the dog somewhere to do her jobbies. A patch of gravel won't help as she'll just have it all over. Anyone got any ideas? What about a bit of fake grass that can be hosed down?

She gets taken out regularly (dog, not mrs), but for early hours and in the morning she will still get chucked out the back for a weewee.

 

[Bobtail4x4]

ours like to squat in front of me, as when young they were told "good dog" when they did,

when Im not about they are trained to go in a rough corner of long grass, I dont go in that bit of the garden,

 

[Melvyn Best]

Our Jack Russell bitch likes to do her business either on gravel which is easy to clear up ,or she hides it in piles of dead leaves which isn’t She tends to deposit 2 or 3 times on a walk .

 

[BrokenBiker]

My lab wasn't very well trained when I had him at the age of 4, but it didn't take long to train him to use the same area every time in the garden, and as he was a worker, he was trained not to go unless instructed when we were out as the farms we were shooting has lambs and so forth...

My method was to never use treats, he got a box of toys the first week at home and we watched to see which one he preferred (a small rubber squirrel of all things), then that was taken and only given when being praised for doing as instructed. So when he was circling by the back door I would open it, toy in hand and walk firmly to the corner of choice, he would follow and I would command, he would go, I walked to the middle of the garden and gave the toy...if he went elsewhere, he didn't get the toy but he never got punished for it. Took about 3 weeks before I slowly started alternating between following him out or staying inside, and about 2 weeks of that before he was consistent and I then starting slowing down the amount of times he got the toy until he was using the corner every time and not expecting a reward. We also encouraged playing with that toy over others in the house so he was always excited to get it and also helped us stop unwanted behaviour by taking it away.

They toy was a wonderful tool until I started the gun training...then I found a pigeon was a better motivator to him so every session was started with me dropping a pigeon, him retrieving it and then using that as a reward for every time he sat until commanded after the shot, or being used as a decoy dropped when he was out flushing, then sending him back for a blind retrieve...

I miss that dog

 

[Kayos]

When we had a dog we left a "wild" patch behind the garage and he would use that if needed

No amount of walking would stop him using it several times a week

It was out of the way and because it had grass and weeds he didn't dig

 

[northwest]

My next door neighbour when I lived "oop norf" had, in the corner of his garden a "Dog Waste" receptacle set into the ground, the idea was the dog waste went into it, he added a chemical and it settled into the ground, something like that. One night a would be burglar was disturbed in a nearby garden and he chose to jump over a low wall, landing some way down into my neighbours pond, then in order to facilitate his escape, stand on the "bin lid" in the corner and put his leg right down into the contents of this "bin". He limped off into the frozen night and my neighbour wanted to know why I didn't chase after him!

 

[Jackimus]

It sounds silly, but I do believe there is a subscription service where they will send you a square of turf in a flat cardboard box, you just take the top off, plonk it down, the dog uses it until saturation, you chuck it out and they send the next one.

 

[winchman]

I once trained a hamster to wee in a jam jar, never managed it with the dogs though, we let them have part of a patio so no digging and easily cleaned

 

[gaz1]

do they do the same when you take them for long walks ?

or do they do the same or short walks

or is it just in the back garden

 

[Mark 5]

The variety of subjects on this forum never ceases to amaze

We have a scatty 18 month old black lab who although well trained, delights in digging in the garden and laying in the hole she has just dug, as well as doing her 'jobs'. Missus cleans up after the dog, but the dog still ends up carrying soil from the garden in the house. It's all tiled but even so we need to stop it.

We're going to pave the back so most of the soil will be gone anyway, but still need to give the dog somewhere to do her jobbies. A patch of gravel won't help as she'll just have it all over. Anyone got any ideas? What about a bit of fake grass that can be hosed down?

She gets taken out regularly (dog, not mrs), but for early hours and in the morning she will still get chucked out the back for a weewee.

Slightly raked, non-slip tiled area for her, surrounded by a 200mm trench filled with gravel/pea-shingle. You will still have to pick up after her but hosing down will be easier and will drain off in to the gravel trench.

 

[roofman]

Owned a "used"dog once that while doing its stuff would cower and shiver with its ears back, i bet the poor thing used to get booted by previous owner when doing it on the new grass or indoors maybe...i could not break its habbit of this all its life

 

[Mark 5]

Owned a "used"dog once that while doing its stuff would cower and shiver with its ears back, i bet the poor thing used to get booted by previous owner when doing it on the new grass or indoors maybe...i could not break its habbit of this all its life

Is it just possible animals like humans, when having a c*** are, (1) usually at their most strained before relaxation, (2) at their most vulnerable in a squat position?

 

[Bobtail4x4]

we had one bitch spaniel that given chance would squat in running water, sea river etc, other times if no water would stop 15 foot in front of me and make eye contact, apparently its a trust thing,

 

[Blobber]

Training the puppies we use artificial grass, they certainly go to it out of preference, don't wash it with chemicals it needs a bit of scent

 

[Migmac]

Train it to do its business on one part of the concrete.

 

[brightspark]

all my other dogs learned to krap in my small field they tried the gravel drive at 1st till a light boot up the ring made them think differently the one i have now just does it anywhere on the gravel if the grass is wet so im on turd duty everyday cleaning up

 

[MattF]

they tried the gravel drive at 1st till a light boot up the ring made them think differently the one i have now just does it anywhere on the gravel if the grass is wet so im on turd duty everyday cleaning up

That's your payback for booting them in the rear.

 

[Shedendman]

The variety of subjects on this forum never ceases to amaze

We have a scatty 18 month old black lab who although well trained, delights in digging in the garden and laying in the hole she has just dug, as well as doing her 'jobs'. Missus cleans up after the dog, but the dog still ends up carrying soil from the garden in the house. It's all tiled but even so we need to stop it.

We're going to pave the back so most of the soil will be gone anyway, but still need to give the dog somewhere to do her jobbies. A patch of gravel won't help as she'll just have it all over. Anyone got any ideas? What about a bit of fake grass that can be hosed down?

She gets taken out regularly (dog, not mrs), but for early hours and in the morning she will still get chucked out the back for a weewee.

Why Does My Dog Dig Holes And Lay In Them - [Vet Explains Pets]

Dogs are known for their quirky behaviors, and one common behavior that many dog owners have witnessed is their tendency to dig holes and then lay in them.

vetexplainspets.com

 

[brightspark]

my dog dug up the gravel; drive under my van and laid in it a few month ago in the summer . it was a red hot day and she was cooling off in the shade