sbreshears89

Hello all! I've had my grey for a little over a year and in that time, I've had a hell of a time house training her. I have the one dog in the world who does not like going outside. She does not give me any signs that she needs to go outside. So I will be doing chores, etc and then all of a sudden boom! accident! I tell her no, bad dog and take her outside immediately. I praise her when she goes outside, I've offered treats, but usually she's focused on getting back inside so she doesn't always take them. She's kept on a pretty regular schedule. During the week I take her out first thing, and right when I get home, right after her dinner and right before bed. During the weekend I take her outside at noon as well. My work is too far to come home and take her out during the day and at the moment I don't have the funds or anyone I know and trust to have come in my current location let her out at noon as well. She doesn't have any health issues. I've moved recently( two months ago) and have tried to keep her schedule as consistent as possible and we are moving again( for the last time) in a few months to a house with a yard. Which in the past she has had no issues going to the door( when in a house) and indicating that she wants to go out. I've tried starting over from scratch, but it doesn't seem to work. Long question short, any suggestions, ideas, voodoo magic I can use to get my dog to let me know when she needs to go outside, or to stop going inside? Thank you!!!

Thank you for responding! Sorry for the time it took for me to get back to this! Her schedule to go outside is 6:45am, first thing in the morning before she gets breakfast, noon, 4:30 6:30 and 10pm. Before we moved I was taking her out at 7:05am first thing. I stopped the tapping on her butt after the second time she did it, because obviously it didn’t work. I don’t raise my voice at her. I was starting to place her treats ( chicken or cheese) on every other step or every two steps with the intent of increasing the distance for a big treat at the bottom, and it was working pretty well. Then one morning she peed on the steps of the stairs while we were doing this. Still took her outside, then went back and cleaned up her mess. Then she did it again later, and again. I've stopped the treats on the steps and went back to moving her feet because I was worried that she’d confuse the treat to go down the stairs for a treat for doing her business. She's done this about 5 times now. She can go down the stairs. She did them fine before we moved. She did it yesterday on our way out for a walk with no issues, and when I bring her back in from doing her business I will work her on the stairs, just holding a treat in my hand in front of her or on the step and she’ll go down no problem. It’s just getting her down that first time that has become an issue and isn’t helped by the fact that she has started statue-ing in the hallway. Once she’s outside she is very keen on getting back inside and will keep trying to make a dash for the door until I’ve coaxed her to where she can’t see the door. She did this a bit back home as well though not as much. Part of the issue, I believe, is that we live next to a high traffic road and a hospital, so the sound of the cars freaks her out a bit (plus we’re in North Texas, it’s super windy here) and this is why she is so hesitant to go outside. I usually take her down the stairs farthest away from the car noise. I have been using urine remover quite vigorously! I grew up on a ranch with all kinds of animals and so she isn’t my first dog, but she is my first greyhound.

So, a little back ground: I have had Porsche for about a month, so we’re really just starting out together. She’s two years old, she did race but it wasn’t her thing. I'm a new greyhound owner, though I've had dogs in the past. I’m currently a grad student getting my MS, and I got Porsche from our group the first week of Xmas break. Besides a few accidents and statue-ing in the drive way before walks we were doing pretty well. Two weeks ago, we moved back up to where I’m going to school. My apartment is on the 2nd floor. There are two flights of stairs at either end of the building (same stair count, design, inside and well lit). I was dreading the stairs, even though we had practiced a bit back ‘home’. To my surprise she handled them really well the first day and a half. Then she decided she didn’t like going down the stairs. It could have been a loud noises from the street or the cold front that came through, but nothing was getting her down those stairs. I was expecting her to revert, so this wasn't terribly surprising to me, so to get her down I've been moving her feet down each step, using treats and praise. Then last week she started ‘protest peeing’ in the stairwell. I told her 'no, bad dog', tapped her butt to try and get her to stop (not hard and it didn’t work). She’s done this several times, not consistently and mostly in the morning. Though this afternoon she committed my worst fear and peed in front of a neighbor’s door. I’m not sure what to do. I’ve kept her on the same schedule since I first got her.I’ve started taking her out earlier, especially in the mornings, so I can get her down and have time to clean up messes if they occur and because of the peeing I know I’ve been rushing her a bit to get down to prevent accidents. I’m pretty sure it’s not medical, b/c she’s not peeing in the apartment itself and (the great thing about grad school) I come home every four hours or so to take her out, so I’m pretty sure it’s not a bladder control issue. So long story short: Any suggestion on how I get my lovely girl to stop protest peeing on the stairs when I try and take her out? Any help would be greatly appreciated!