Dog regressing

[Anonymous]

We adopted an 8 month dog who was house trained. First 6 weeks no issues, now he's going to the bathroom in my walk in closet and in the finished basement. Given out of the main locations, thinking he knows it's wring. Thoughts? How to retrain? He seems to hate this heat too and wants to scoot back in the house when I let him outside.

[Anonymous]

You need to take him out ON A WALK and make sure he defecates. When you say let him out, it sounds like you are just letting him into your yard. Not enough for a young dog, ever. In the heat he shouldn't walk much but around the block until he poops, absolutely. You are doing him a disservice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need to take him out ON A WALK and make sure he defecates. When you say let him out, it sounds like you are just letting him into your yard. Not enough for a young dog, ever. In the heat he shouldn't walk much but around the block until he poops, absolutely. You are doing him a disservice.

+1

He needs daily walks not only for this reason, but in general. A fenced yard does not mean that you don't need to walk him.

When you are indoors with him, keep him on a leash with you, and follow standard operating procedure for (re)housetraining him - frequent outings, praise when he does, etc.

Also, clean up his messes with a pet-waste specific product so that the smell doesn't serve as a green light for him to go there again.