Ask the Breeder - French Bulldog Housebreaking Nightmare
patpearce March 12th, 2008
French Bulldog Housebreaking Nightmare
I have a nine month old female French Bulldog. She has been absolutely impossible to housebreak.
She is in her crate at night for 8-9 hours without a problem. However, when not in her crate she will tend to go in the house. She is allowed in a few rooms in our house and is taken outside on a regular basis to go the bathroom to the same spot. If you put her outside by herself she will not relieve herself. Instead you have to go sit outside with her before she will “get busy”.
After coming back in the house she will sometimes still go. I know she can hold it longer but she persists in going whenever and wherever she wants. She is the perfect dog besides this problem.
Help! Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Pat writes -
Ahhhhhh - the housetraining question… I highly recommend the following housetraining article http://forpaws.org/articles
It is perfectly normal for a dog not to go when you put it OUT… They don’t know if you are going to let them back in or not… If you go out with them and praise when they do their thing CONSISTANTLY - for the 2 weeks and not allow them to have an accident in the meantime - things will begin to make sense..
When the dog KNOWS that it will get back into the house - she will relax and do her thing…
If she has an accident in the house UNLESS you catch her in the act.. ignore it … clean it up and go on… remember that attention to a dog is attention… bad attention is as good as good attention
Frenchies are smart little dogs - sometimes too smart for their own good… so you must be consistant…
Good luck
Pat
