Has anyone tried this housebreaking method?

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hulkamaniac

Discussion Starter · Mar 18, 2009

I saw this mentioned in passing on another web site and realized that it's basically what I did with a terrier I once had many moons ago. Back then I was working 3rd shift and was working multiple 12 hour shifts in a row. I did not have time during the day to let a dog outside. When you've just worked 3 12's in a row and you've got 8 hours before 12 hour shift #4 you want to spend as much of that 8 hours sleeping as you possibly can. It was 20 degrees outside so I couldn't put the dog outside and leave him as that would be cruel by any definition. I put the dog in his crate, took the crate door off and pushed it up to the dog door which I left unlatched. When the dog had to go, he wouldn't want to go in his crate so he would walk out the dog door and do his business out there. Essentially, he kind of house trained himself as he developed the habit of heading out the dog door when he needed to pee.

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blackrose

· #8 · Mar 20, 2009

While I don't think that training meathod will be a maricle cure (you should also take "proper housebreaking steps" when the dog is loose), but that is how Blackie and Rose were housetrained. I think of it like modified crate training. The only difference is that the dog isn't really given a chance to mess in its crate, because it always has the opportunity to go outside.

Blackie and Rose have been outside dogs, but they have very good house habits. They are so used to going to the bathroom outside, that going inside has never been a problem with them. It also helps that they have a very good "denning" instinct, in which they don't want to mess where they live.

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