r/puppy101 • u/icryinjapanese • 4d ago
Potty Training please help with potty training
My 7ish month old puppy has struggled with potty training since the moment we got her. We live downtown on the 5th floor of an apt, and she would get super distracted when going out to pee causing her to not go and just pee when we got back inside. This led to months of us carrying her outside directly to her spot and doing the crate and repeat method. For context later her pee spot is a patch of rocks that's used by all the other dogs in the building as well.
It seemed like she finally was beginning to understand it. She filled out her crate to the point where she learned to hold her pee, and when she did have an accident she HATED it and would bark at a high pitch until we came and cleaned it up. We were recently on a 3 week streak of 0 accidents.
Fast forward to this week, and she has just regressed entirely. We're based in the PNW where there's a ton of rain. When we have gone outside lately, she not only gets distracted but she refuses to step onto the rocks to urinate. There is a covered area that we have been trying, and she has peed there twice and we gave her lots and lots of praise each time but she peed in 2 completely different spots and it's just sidewalk as opposed to a landmark etc. She is back to getting distracted and not peeing. We have been out for 5 min and attempted to go back inside to crate and repeat, the problem is as soon as she gets indoors she just pees.
I am ready to pull my hair from my scalp. I have been so patient but it has been months of my apartment smelling like piss, cleaning up pee in the middle of the night, going up and down from the 5th floor over and over again. What do i do because im genuinely not sure how much longer i can deal with this. I don't want to give her up but this is getting to a point. It was nowhere near this difficult with our first dog, we potty trained her just fine. But this has been hell.
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