u/its_andi_with_an_i

Hey everyone, I have a 3mon German Shepherd who just can’t understand peeing outside. I’ve done it all, I’ve gotten the pee sprays, I let her outside every 15-30 minutes, but every morning I wake up to her soaked in her own pee. The crate has a divider so it’s a bit smaller so she doesn’t have extra space to pee in a corner or something. She’s eaten in her crate, she sleeps there overnight, but she just can’t stop herself. And I obviously clean it up really well just so it doesn’t stink her crate or smells like pee to her. She also always gets washed off and dried so she doesn’t smell but I’m just getting tired of cleaning her daily. Sometimes multiple times a day. She pees on the carpet, she pees in the crate, I just don’t understand what I can do to make her understand this is home and pee outside.

I’ve had her for 1 month now, she was super sick when I got her and just took her to the vet this week for her shots and checkup and I got a clean bill of health. She is no longer struggling or sick thankfully, but what can I do now to give her guidance.

This is going to sound a bit crazy but I’ve had this beautiful lady for 6 days and it’s been going very good- chaotic but not in any way she could help. I got her last Thursday, they just handed me to her, no paperwork or anything, and drove off. She was very sleepy and tired but I figured it was because she was so young and adapting. By day 3 she was vomiting and refusing to eat and having violent diarrhea- I was worried she had parvo. Took her to the emergency vet, and $400 later she had some weird bacteria I’ve never heard of before and a severe, and I mean SEVERE, worm problem. Poor thing was so sick and couldn’t even eat. Thankfully she’s taken to the meds and she’s gotten dewormed, she’s on her final dose for the medicine for the bacteria and she’s up and at it.

She’s so smart, she’s figuring out the leash (I walk her around my house leashed and we work on her following me and not fighting it). She also has figured out her name and sit. Still working on the other ones but it’s barely been a week and for most of it she was having the world’s worst tummy ache. A plate of bad spaghetti as some would say.

I’ve raised a puppy from 7 weeks before, he is a rat terrier/maltese and he was a menace to society at large. Took him 2 years and the neuter surgery to be at a point where he’s not only a well behaved gentleman, but also goes to daycare, boarding, and hangs out with any and all dogs no issues. Took a lot of time and effort though.

I am coming to this subreddit now because honestly I’m a little lost on what to do and what steps I should be taking. My first puppy it was such a fight to get him used to being in a car, to not fighting the leash, to be in his crate for periods of time.

But this puppy she sits in her crate, she does cry from time to time but when she realizes I’m not coming she settles herself. She doesn’t mind the leash, sometimes plays with it but I correct it. She also just passes out in the car and was so polite at the emergency vet despite being sick. We even went on a walk around Home Depot for 2 hours (she was in the cart and I didn’t allow any dogs to approach her) and she just sat there quietly observing the store and just smelling and listening.

Am I doing this right? Is there milestones I should be hitting by certain weeks? She got her first round of shots after the emergency vet incident Sunday (he approved it, said it was just bad worms and vaccines shouldn’t interrupt her healing/recovery) so now I’m just waiting for another 2 weeks for the second round and so on. Because she was so sick I’m a bit nervous taking her around Home Depot again but do you guys advise still taking her to get socialized and adapted to stores?

Has anyone else gotten lucky with just a very sweet GSD? I also am not hammering the training per se for now because she was so sick but the fact she’s figured out sit and her name so fast is crazy to me. When do you guys advise taking her to daycare, taking her to meet other dogs, what do you guys think?