How to stop my dog from using my house as a bathroom?

How to stop my dog from using my house as a bathroom??
A week ago I asked a question about how to train my dog from using the carpet for his bathroom. I have a cocker spaniel 1.5 years old male. I walk him 4 times a day with a very precise schedule: food twice a day before the walk and the walks are at 7, at 12, at 6 and at 9. I work, so the schedule can not change, but I keep the time of the walks even in the weekends. All he does outside is sniffs and sniffs and sniffs and does not do his business. Sometimes he does, sometimes he does not, but the fact is that EVERY DAY when I come home from work - there is either poop or pee on the carpet! And he knows that he has done wrong, he meets me with a guilty look. I do not beat him, but put him in a dark room for 15 minutes time-out. I do everything I was told in order to stop this behavior. He has plenty of love, attention, play and everything. But this ruining the carpet business is wearing me off, I am ready to give up and just let him go. What can I do?

The answers I received were all about crating the dog to housebreak him. Now I leave him at the kitchen behind the dogie gates when no one is home. I just received a phone call from the apartment manager that the dog makes noise and bothers neighbors and that they are going to call the animal control. It looks like I have to give the dog away. Is there anything else I can do to keep the dog and save the carpet and the neighbors? Thanks!

This is a tricky one.

I can't tell you what to do about the neighbours because I don't know enough information on that front, however to stop your dog peeing and pooing on the carpet there is an easier remedy.

All you need to do is designate a place in your apartment for him to do his business. If it's in the kitchen or lounge, whatever - just place down some news paper and/or special dog litter. The reason why he does it on the carpet is because there's no place for him to go from the sounds of it, other than on the carpet.

He knows he's doing wrong and so I'm guessing if you designate a special area and train him to do it on there he will stick to it.

Just quickly - if he's noisy and loud then that generally means he's either got a lot of energy or he's frustrated. The best thing I find is to get him as tired as possible through walking him and playing with him and then he should be relatively quiet for the rest of the day.

I wouldn't give him away just like that. He's part of your family now and he deserves more time to adapt. When I had dog problems like this, I used a book called Sit Stay Fetch which taught me about the fundamentals about keeping a dog.

You can find more info on this book @ http://www.dogtrainingsos.com/sitstayfet...

Honestly, probably nothing you can do. If you crate him he will bark and be noisy.Its not worth th carpet, losing your apartment, and pissing off the neighbors. You should try getting a cat, they are less trouble for apartment dwellers.

putting your dog in a dark room is not going to do anything he is not a little kid it doesn't bother him...get doggy mats and when he poops on the carpet pick it up and put it on the dogie mat get him and stick he noise up to the mat and the poop and he will start understanding to use the dogie mats... and for the peeing situation before you clean it up stick his noise in the wet spot and whoop him (just pat him not gently but not too hard towards the back to the side) then since you live in an apartment you prolly don't have a yard (if you do leave him outside till he uses the bathroom) but find a box (if you can that is big enough) and leave him in it for a little while...i had to do this to two of my dogs and it worked...

Don't punish your dog by putting him in a dark room. Can someone walk the dog more times like a neighbor. Four times a day isn't enough to walk a dog. They will poop in your house. Maybe a neighbor can do it. Maybe you could leave the radio on for the dog. It would drown out the dog's noise. kh