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My dear fellow bichon owners
Really need some help and advice.
My bichon has been giving me and my wife so much of stress. It’s only 2 of us in the house and we do try as much as possible with our busy schedule to take him out to exercise.. We somehow manage like twice a week walking him for 30 minutes around the neighborhood. And on Sundays we take him for an hour of obedience class.. He does really well in class and everyone days I have a wonderful obedient bichon and that I should keep training him till competition on levelWe are crate training him and take him out at 5.45 in the morning to do his business but sometimes he has already peed in the crate and when we take him out he poos.
Then we have to wash him and wash his crate and he is watching us do all this before we feed him in crate.. Then we put him back in crate for us to catch a bit more sleep before rushing to work. We take him out lunch time and he pees.. At 7pm we take him out again and he poos but doesn’t pee.. We bring him back in and feed him in crate again. Then he is given free time in the house and we do some short training and some fetch games in the house.. He only plays awhile and just stops when he feels and just lies down by himself and catches a nap.. We try our best to keep him awake pet him etc.. But he just lays down and doesn’t move.. Then it’s 10 PM and when we take him out to pee sometimes he goes but most times he just stands on the pee pad outside the house just being stationary . literaryly frozen. Sometimes he even sits on the pad and we will startle him so as to not dirty himselfWe do use words hurry up everytime we want him to do his business and he already is accustomed to the words.
It’s as if he is not being let out the crate for long time and doesn’t wanna do his business as he knows if he does he will go right back in crate so he is like buying time.. We are guessing.
When we ask him to go home.. He seems tense and runs in to his. Crate and goes all the way to the back of the crate looking scared
Please help me guys
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How old is he? Does he still need to be in his crate? Does he seem happier outside it than inside it> I’m no expert–have just done this with one dog, but we only crate trained him for a few months–altho we had him sleep in his crate for a couple months after that. I gave up trying to rush him go potty pretty early. If I had to stay outside with him for 10-15 minutes to go potty, that’s what I did. Perhaps you need to speak to the vet.
What might be some factors that influence this: “When we ask him to go home.. He seems tense and runs in to his. Crate and goes all the way to the back of the crate looking scared”
If he doesn’t really like his crate, why is he running there looking scared? Do you use a different tone of voice at this time?
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