New pug, housetraining issues.?

ok so ... i have the same dog, a pug ! & she was certainly from a puppy mill. so she is very weird as well. when it comes to different things. we got her late as well .. at 5 months.

it is very easy to train. but will take a lot of patience & dedication.

KEEP TO A SCHEDULE !

i take my dog out now (9months) every 2-3 hours or so.

there will always be an accident.

my dog still has accidents. pugs are very stubborn.

but to start we took her out every half an hour. took her to the EXACT same spot every time.

waited for her to do her business, sometimes took half hour but i waited.

once she went i gave her a treat & said something silly like "yay go pee" or "good girl, go pee"

if she didn't go to the washroom, she did not get a treat or praise of any sort.

as well if she went in the house, she was ignored & i just cleaned it up. as much as i wanted to yell & scream. lol.

eventually you will be able to tell when they have to go. & then you will leave them with no choice but to go outside because if you can tell & you bring her outside & she can't hold it she will have no choice but to go outside & then get a treat & praise for it.

pugs are usually very "treat" or "food" motivated.so it always works.

also watch when she eats/drinks.

we didn't keep her water down at first. we only gave her water so many times a day after we got used to her pee schedual so we would know how long it took after she drank, she would have to go pee.

same with when she ate.

then eventually you just know.

like for example. this is our schedual (yours would change based on work/school/etc.)

i work 7-11am. every morning.

9pm - bedtime (crate trained)

5:30am - outside

11:30am - outside

12:00pm - num nums (feeding time)

2:30pm - outside

5:30pm- outside

6:00 - num nums

7:30pm - outside

8:45pm-outside

9pm - bedtime

that's how our pug does her business.

but she still sometimes makes accidents.

depends like i said on their drinking schedual. & being summertime, she has been drinking so much more. so she has been peeing so much more.

also, crate training works a lot for housebreaking.

because they do not like to pee/poop where they sleep/eat.

so research on crate training.

i recommend it 100% just do not abuse it.

hope it helped.

REMEMBER -

SAME SPOT everytime.

so they associate that spot with going to the washroom.

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People seem to think that once a dog is trained, that's it. Not true. You must reinforce the dog's training every single day in some way. It's best if the owner and the dog go together to get trained. As a professional trainer once said to me "We can train any dog in 2 days. It takes longer to train the owners

My roommate has a pug that has had a ton of housetraining issues. What we found helped is taking her on long walks. Our pug used to only use potty pads inside, but taking her on long walks and having her use the bathroom outside taught her that going potty outside is better

clearly your dog is afraid of your husband which is quite common from my knowledge what my mom did when my dog was afraid of my dad she decided to put her my dad arms and when you do this u have to say good girl or good_____ w/e her anme is to comfort her around being with your husband to know that its ok and for the she wont go poop outside we find that when my dog goes pee or w/e we say good girl and stuff that may help and theres nothing to loose by doing that and also how long have you had her for because she may just be trying to get used to you guys after seperating from her original owners because right now she's really confused and wouldnt i wouldnt be surprised if she was scared so all i can say is try comforting her and this will probably pass