My Dog keeps going in his crate!?

the trick is to get them outside a lot. Take them for walks and let them mark their turf. Then when they need to go again later they will WANT to go outside. You don't actually train a dog to not go in the house, you train them to want to go for a walk. Dogs love it as much as they love food! They will learn what the leash means and how it leads to them going outside. Every time they see you put on your shoes they will think it's for them! At first you need to do it many times a day so they get into the habit and learn the ropes, some dogs learn slow than others. (It can be grueling at first, dogs are kind of dumb when learning new things and you will end up standing around waiting a lot while they sniff a million bushes.) After a while they will be sleeping by the door, waiting for you to come near it! Also, after a while you will only need to take them out a couple times a day and it's best to time it so that it happens around the same time each day, so their systems can get used to it. Making their meal times occur during specific times each day also helps you do this. Try to take them for a walk within an hour after eating or drinking. The reason this works so well is because dogs love marking their turf, even females, and it's all they think about once they have had their food and water. Once you train them to get into the habit, they won't ever want to quit! The only time it really starts to suck is in the winter, so make sure to train them in the summer so by the time the cold weather comes around you will only have to take them out for a short while. If you have an enclosed yard you can just let them out the door and let them do it themselves, of course this only works well AFTER they have been trained with walks. Try to use the word "potty" (or whatever) when they do the deed, then give them a treat. This helps when you are first training them, so that they know what it means. (it may take several walks to get them to even begin to understand it but after a while they will get it well enough) Then when you want to rush them you can say "potty" and reward them with a treat after they do it. After a while they will begin to rush themselves to get the treat.

Hope this helps!

He is still very young, consequently he must be taken into the garden/yard at least every two hours.

Your should also re-locate his crate, into a room with a hard floor and leave the crate door open. Dip a newspaper in urine that he has passed in the garden and put this on top on a thick pad of newspapers. If he needs to "go" the smell of his own pee will draw him to the newspapers and he will pee or poo on this.

He should not need to use this during the day, if he is taken into your garden/yard every two hours and taken for long walks. If you need to leave him for longer than two hours, get a dog walker or a friend to take him out.

I think that he was caught short a while ago and that you have used the wrong the wrong cleaning solutions to clean his crate and his blankets.

After your dog urinated or defecated in his crate, obviously you cleaned this up. Perhaps you thought that you had got rid of the smell and your friends will confirm this, however your dog will still be aware of the smell. Your dog thinks that his crate is his lavatory/toilet; dogs have a much greater sense of smell than we have.

There is a washing machine powder available in the UK, called Ariel get the BIOLOGICAL version Or get some special cleaning solution from the pet shop and re-clean his crate, blankets and the floor under the crate with this.

When your dog urinates outside and when it is in full flow use a catch phrase I say “get one”, always use the same catch phrase when your dog obliges. Praise profusely afterwards, let your dog sniff around the garden or yard and play with him. Use your catchphrase for the rest of your dog’s life and when it’s an adult it will pee on command. (Unless his bladder is empty.

If your dog urinates or defecates that you have cleaned, you have not cleaned them enough and you will need to do them again. However if the crate door is left open he will "go" on the newspapers. NEVER EVER USE PINE DISINFECTANT OR BLEACH BECAUSE THIS ENCOURAGES A DOG TO URINATE,

If by 'going' you mean messing in his crate, then I'd suggest he either has a medical reason to be doing this (in which case- vet), or you are simply leaving him in a crate for far too long. No adult dog should be left in a crate, overnight apart, for longer than 4 hours. And a puppy shouldn't be in there for much longer than 2 hours. Once a dog learns that you will be allowing him out to empty, regularly, he will learn to hold. It's true that adults don't normally mess where they sleep, but fact is if they are being forced to stay in a crate for hours, they'll just empty if they need to. There is a limit as to how much 'holding' any dog should be expected to do - too long without being able to pee can build up kidney problems later on.

By 6 months, your puppy should be able to be out of his crate during the day and only crated, if needed, at night.

If he's not trustworthy re messing in the house by 6 months, you've done something wrong. Right now, quit using the crate during the day and confine him to the kitchen if you need to go out. Get him outside every 2 hours, or 3 as he progresses, so he doesn't have the NEED to be messing indoors. It's prevention you should be focusing on - remembering his mistakes are your mistakes. If he makes a mess indoors, no punishing unless you catch him in the act in which case, say No! and get him straight outside. Clean up his messes in silence. When he goes outside, give him loads of praise so he learns to recognise the difference. There's no point correcting him after the event as all he'll hear is you being angry with him, not why.

Add Just to correct two points already made here - NEVER EVER push a dog's nose into their mess. This is degrading, and again all he'll understand is you being upset. As for exercising after a meal - dogs should not be fed for an hour after exercise, or exercised for 2 hours after being fed. What comes out after a meal isn't that meal - digestion in the dog takes 4 hours so if he goes after being fed, what's coming through is his previous meal. Not the one he's just eaten. A dog on 2 meals a day should only need to empty (stools) about 3 times in the day. Peeing is different and marginally less easy to correct as the male never completely empties his bladder in any case, always leaving some to over-c ock'. You just have to give him the change to pee every 2 hours, for now - extending to longer once he's got the message, and is older.

When potty training a do it is important to take him outside every two hours or so during the day, and take up his food and water at night. After he eats you should take him on a long walk, so that he goes to the bathroom outside. And PRAISE PRAISE PRAISE every time you see him going to the bathroom outside (treats and attention). Training a dog is all about time, consistency, and patience. Try to no get angry or yell at him when he goes in the house, negative reinforcement does not work well for training, and will most likely just cause him undue stress.

To crate train a dog you can not have it too large a crate. The dog only needs an area it can stand up and turn around to lay down again. If you have a unually larger crate you can section off part of it with a board or cardboard until he gets larger.

Also you have to take them outside immediately after taking them out of the crate. Also you take them outside after they eat, (about 15 minutes).

When they are puppies you take them outside every hour and then each month after they

can hold their bladder one hour longer for each month they age.

Starting over you have to take him out every hour again.

Usually a dog tied with a leash to a piece of furniture at night will not wet there

because that is he sleeping area.

We had to do that with a sneaky dog...that would not want to go outside in the

winter too long and would wet or poop under our dining room table at night when we were sleeping.

Make sure you have nothing in the crate that smells of urine.

Don't feed the dog just before bedtime and give it several trips outside before bedtime and allow

the dog time to find the right 'spot' outside before bringing it back inside. They usually

poop in one spot and pee in different spot.

If you are paper training your dog inside that usually only makes things worse.

to big?

in to long?

leash and take out, tell potty, praise

keep on leash in house, watch for signs, take out

crate when you can't watch, no more than 2 hours

get up at night and take out every 2 hours

You really need to do some reading about how to train dogs..

Labs are smart as they become older, for you i suggest... Its harsh but stick his nose in it. after 2-3 times they catch on not to do it here. Also if he wants to go outside to do it, reward him afterwords when he comes inside with a bone or somthing.