tashakota

With Kota, when he was a pup, he came mostly housetrained but if I was in another room, he'd walk away into the room where the door is. If I didn't call to him, he'd pee in that room. So if he walked away, I'd call to him, he'd look at me and we'd go out. He was about 5 months old. Tasha, she was mostly housetrained but she seemed easier, I knew more. She would kind of stop what she was doing. Whether chewing a toy, or playing, she would stop and I'd ask her, "do you need to go out"? She would look at me and out we'd go. I took her out A LOT! he he... but it seemed to do the trick. If I couldn't watch her, in her crate she'd go. Even if we were watching TV, I'd keep her in front of me where I could half watch her. Once movement stopped (movement being playing, chewing, etc) I'd ask that question.

Are you sure he isn't giving you some kind of signal he's about to go? Like sniffing the ground? Or pacing a bit? You will still need to watch him when he's tethered to you or he will go when he needs to. I had to learn their signals before I could teach them anything new. And it varies for each dog. Pepper was a sniffing thing, she would begin to sniff the ground and it wasn't long, maybe 4-5 seconds after that, when she would begin to pee. I had to be that quick to ask her, "do you need to go out?". She would then look at me and we'd go out. But I found I had to read them first before we could come up with a solution that worked for both of us. If I could use the familiar "need to go out" BEFORE they had an accident, they learned to come to me first because I caught them AS THEY WERE THINKING ABOUT IT. Not as they were doing it.

With 4 dogs, 2 crated and 2 free, gated in the living room, we were having about 2-3 vomits a week. I kept persisting with the vet about this because it didn't seem right. I finally requested a general de-wormer and poof, no more vomitting. While they are all on year-round heartworm, I was told by the vet that there are some worms/organisms that the monthly pills do not get. Just my 2 cents.

We have 4 dogs in our house and would find vomit a couple times a week but we were never sure which dog it was. I kept pestering the vet about the vomiting because I started tracking it on a calendar and it was 2-3 times a week. The vet finally said that they may have some kind of worm that regular de-wormers might not eliminate. I had them all wormed then and now, no more vomiting. We have about 8 acres where we let the dogs run around under supervision and of course there's all kinds of fun stuff to eat out there, like rabbit and deer poop, etc.