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My wife and I have two labs, a black (15 months old) and a yellow (9 months old). Potty training was relatively easy. Take the dog out regularly after eating and say "go potty", then reward them. They were both trained within a week of adoption.
Then we got a shih-tzu.
We've had this dog for a month and I'm getting frustrated. First off, the dog seems impossible to potty train. Spend a while outside playing, dog comes right in the house and pees on the rug. She just doesn't seem to get it. We take her out often. We reward her for going outside. We've tried taking the rug outside, letting her sniff it to see that pee belongs outside. She doesn't get it. She goes in and pees on the hard floor.
So I did some research online and found a dog intelligence chart. Labs scored #7, Shih-tzus ranked #70.
Does anybody have any ideas about how to potty train this dog?
Then we got a shih-tzu.
We've had this dog for a month and I'm getting frustrated. First off, the dog seems impossible to potty train. Spend a while outside playing, dog comes right in the house and pees on the rug. She just doesn't seem to get it. We take her out often. We reward her for going outside. We've tried taking the rug outside, letting her sniff it to see that pee belongs outside. She doesn't get it. She goes in and pees on the hard floor.
So I did some research online and found a dog intelligence chart. Labs scored #7, Shih-tzus ranked #70.
Does anybody have any ideas about how to potty train this dog?