I am the owner of two rescue dogs, Charlie, a Tibetan terrier mix and Gizzi a dachshund, terrier, shitzu mix.
I first got Charlie and within a week he was already housetrained. One and a half years later I got Gizzi at 7 months. She had lived with an old woman in an apartment and had not been housetrained...
Both dogs are neutered and I have a dog door so that they have access to a rather large garden day and night.For some reason Gizzi will not use it at night or she will use it but she will not do her business outside!!!
All the dogs which I have owned in the past have been completely housetrained and would never go close to where they had done their business, but Gizzi doesn’t care. She will walk or lie next to her pee and pooh without a care in the world.
Things are now becoming worse because Charlie has started to follow in the same footsteps and pee in the hallway in the morning or at night! Especially if it’s raining because he doesn’t like to get wet.
I thoroughly clean and spray the area with vinegar but nothing seems to help. Sometimes Gizzi will not do something for two days and I am thinking to myself, wow she has finally got it and then there it is again!
The thing is that I do not want to crate my dogs (which we do not tend to do in Europe) also if I were to restrict the area Gizzi, would just pee on the carpet in my bedroom, which she has already done.
I have tried soaking kitchen towel paper in her pee and then putting it outside to make her understand that she needs to go there and not inside. She has got no concept and will even stand and eat the grass next to the soiled paper.
I would really appreciate any tips on how I can stop this behaviour.
