Min Pin house breaking problems--HELP

We have a Min Pin male puppy that we have had approximately 1 1/2 months. He is doing great on basic obedience like, sit, lay down, leave it, and he comes when he is called but house breaking is a bit challenging.

The problem is he has no problem peeing where he lays. We started by kennel training him but instead of whining at night to be taken out he pees then whines. Since he would pee in his kennel, we started tethering him on a short leash and letting him sleep with us so when he wakes up it would wake me up. It worked well for about a week but he has already had 3 accidents. It appears he is peeing, then getting up and whining. I have also found a few "accidents" in the house. Luckily we have all hardwood floors so they clean up easy and we have been using the spray to neutralize the urine odor.

The thing that is strange is as soon as we take him out he will pee or poop. So he understands that he pees outside. We have kept him right with us since we got him, and take him out at least every 2 hours. And we take away his food and water around 8pm. We wake him up and take him out between 12am -2am before going to bed, and I wake up and take him out around 6am, or earlier if he wakes me.

He was an outdoor puppy when we got him at age 8 weeks so we expected it to take a little while to train him. Both of his mother and father became outdoor dogs after having repeated issues with house training. I figured the problem was with the owners not properly doing it. Since we already have a 5 year old rottweiler/ Lab mix that we house broke without much problem, and my husband always had dogs growing up, we figured we wouldn't have a problem house breaking him.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I read Min Pins are difficult to train but peeing where you lay seem like a fundamental problem. Any help would be great!

My daughter-in-law has one....or rather a Min Pin has my daughter-in-law for a pet, I call it cujo. have you tried using the training pads.

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Originally Posted by llovelace

My daughter-in-law has one....or rather a Min Pin has my daughter-in-law for a pet, I call it cujo. have you tried using the training pads.

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Kind of. We put a puppy pad at the bottom of the kennel after I got tired of having to do laundry to wash his bedding constantly, but I didn't leave it in because she tried to shred it, and I was afraid he would eat it.

How old is the puppy

Try this site
http://www.totalminpin.net/housebreaking.html

He is about 13-14 weeks old now. We started house training at 8 weeks.

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Originally Posted by llovelace

Try this site
http://www.totalminpin.net/housebreaking.html

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Thanks! That completely describes him, and I will say I am not going out with him every time like I did in the beginning. I will keep working on it. Is sounds like we still have a while.

My rottweiler/lab mix training pretty easily in about 3 weeks, and stopped waking up to go out in 1 week.

It appears Min Pins are just going to take a lot longer.

Best of luck :), and post some pics of him.

Here are some pictures of him (Hunter) and my other dog Abby (Rottweiler/lab mix) and our former dog Dina (German Shepherd).

We adopted Dina at the age of 7 and had her for a couple of years when she got really depressed. She had come from a dog kennel as a breeder and we thought she needed another dog around so we got Abby. Abby was a crazy puppy and seemed to only make things worse for Dina. She bullied her. I think Dina was just too old by that time to deal with such a big, hyper aggressively playful puppy. It got to the point that Abby wouldn't let Dina off the couch without attacking her. One of my in-laws dogs died about that time and they agreed to take Dina for us. They live right down the street from us, so we still see her all the time. She gets along great with their two older German Sheperds. She is so much happier now. Almost a completely different dog. Now that Abby is 5 and she is 13 years old they are both much calmer and enjoy each others company when they visit. It was a hard thing to do but I know Dina is much happier. Abby is great with hunter since he is much smaller and she has calmed down greatly.

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Awwwwww I want him!, love the first pic CUJO! lol