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    Foster issues

    So we brought home our first foster yesterday, he is a year old lab mix. He is a good boy, bUt... He is pooping in the house. We have a doggy door down in the dog room and it is taking him a while to get the hang of it... He is kinda spooky. The baby gates kinda freak him out and I think the flap on the doggy door does as well. Last night he pooped all in the dog room (doggy door gets shut at night) and then just a little while ago he pooped right inside the doggy door... When it was open. I realize we are now going to have to make sure we let him out regularly and not just depend on the doggy door, but I would love any tips on training him to let us know when he needs to go?

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    Anytime a new foster arrives I treat them like a brand new, untrained puppy. They get limit freedom in the house (sometimes I tether even), frequent trips outside (supervised, reward when they pee, start training cue's). Crated when I cannot supervise. Freedom is gained with time, baby steps though like a puppy.

    separately you can desensitize to the doggy door and he eventually hopefully learns to follow the other dogs in an out.

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    You need to start from scratch, forget the doggie door unless he automatically took to it. We took them out on leash to a spot we wanted to establish as the spot. And set up a routine, we do about a half hour to an hour after meals.

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    honestly, even a fully house trained dog can have accidents in a new house. I dog sit for friends and even super well behaved perfect dogs have marked and had accidents. New house, strange environment - dogs act differently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tanya View Post
    honestly, even a fully house trained dog can have accidents in a new house. I dog sit for friends and even super well behaved perfect dogs have marked and had accidents. New house, strange environment - dogs act differently.
    I think this might be the case.... We are only at day 3, but he hasn't had any accidents in the last 24 hours.

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    Sounds like he is learning fast. Give him time to settle in and he should do fine.

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    He is doing really well and is a fast learner for sure. He has mastered the doggy door and made it through the day while I worked with no accidents. Both dogs still have both ears (I work .4 of a mile from home so I was running home every few hours to check). Now if Starla would just let him eat.... At the moment we are eating in separate rooms because Starla gets very very mean and won't even let him in the kitchen while I'm fixing bowls...
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    you are leaving a new dog loose unsupervised wtih your dogs? i never trust "new to the house" dogs enough for that, not for months.

 



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