Training advice please?!

[noodle_]

Pup (cocker - 7 months...)!, will not pee alone.

What i mean is i let him out and if i shut the door behind him he will jump and bark at the door wanting to come in etc...
(he's fine when in the house i can shut him out etc so not really separation anxiety...)

Ive tried letting him out and standing at the door and telling him to "be quick"... he will pee/number 2 on command but to leave him too it he comes straight back in to follow me..!

Any advice how to stop this before winter really sets in?!

He's a good lad - he will pee on command/dry in the house (still pees like a girl though!! but would be nice not to freeze/open the door and let him out!


He does sometimes go out with our other dog (who he is incredibly attatched too!), but he just stalks her rather than does his business...id like to help him understand that he can pee alone!!!

any advice please?

new one on me lol!! all our dogs have never had an issue of peeing alone! they pee and then bark to come in!! this one just wont pee without an audience!!

 

[CorvusCorax]

Pup (cocker - 7 months...)
(he's fine when in the house i can shut him out etc so not really separation anxiety...)

Ive tried letting him out and standing at the door and telling him to "be quick"... he will pee/number 2 on command but to leave him too it he comes straight back in to follow me..!

Leave him to it. If you have to leave him out there for an hour or so, do it. He's got attention for following/scrabbling/barking, if you stop giving him attention he will soon get bored.

 

[CAYLA]

What CC said, be tough and leave him out his he associates barking/fussing gets me knowhere. Try a baby gate on the back door (externally) to close it and stop him scratching the door.

Also maybe try scattering food across the ground each time you let him out, make him go and scent instead of hanging around the door, and each time he goes out he will go find the food, after about 5 chucks of food, stop and chuck food sometimes and not others, confuse him and make he go and scent around which may encourage him to pass his motions instead of whinging.

 

[Kaylum]

put him out on the lead. First of all you want to see he does something, secondly he will associate lead with going to the loo.

 

[noodle_]

Thanks all

kaylum - he will do it on command - has done since we first had him really -hes a smart thing

He will go alone when he's bursting when he's come back from a walk for a poo ...but i dare shut the door its over!....he comes running in!


will try shutting him out and ignoring him for a few days - then i will try the food scatter!

thanks