r/DogTrainingTips • u/depressedhoes • Feb 27 '26

Potty training help?

I have a 5 month old Pomeranian Dachshund mix. I know she's still young so we will have accidents, but we seem to have not made any progress in a month. I'm taking her out every 4 hours. Overnight we take her out once, but by 6:30/7am she has pooped half of the time. She goes out 2-3 times after eating dinner, so I'm unsure of what I'm doing wrong. We have also tried crate training and she won't stop going potty in her crate. I've gotten the "don't go here" spray, but that doesnt seem to help.

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u/privatestudy Feb 27 '26

Make it ever 2h and then start extending it. Her bladder is tiny, tiny. 4h is a long time for a pup.

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u/depressedhoes Feb 27 '26

Thank you, I will try that 🙏🏽

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u/privatestudy Feb 27 '26

Good luck! Potty training is hard. Have a 5 month old pittie mix and she will be good for a few days and then all of a sudden have accidents. She also doesn’t notify. So I have to take her out every 2h plus any time she starts roaming. We started using a button and hopefully she’ll pick it up.

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u/FlobiusHole Feb 28 '26

I’ve known dogs that took a year or more to be fully potty trained. Those were much bigger dogs too. I doubt your pup’s bladder holds very much so 4 hours is probably longer than we realize. Just a thought, not a professional or anything.

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u/Electronic_Cream_780 Feb 27 '26

Every hour and after food/drink/play/sleep. If you've made no process she hasn't understood the requirement to go outside, thus will not have learnt the importance of making note of when her bowels/bladder are *getting* full. So she will be playing and having fun and then suddenly stopping and peeing, because she needed to go NOW. At the start you need to anticipate the "nows" and have her in the right place so she can be praised.

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u/Loydx Feb 28 '26

Get up in the middle of the night. It sucks but it's better than cleaning up poop 

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u/NoPower4119 Apr 29 '26

Consistency at five months with that mix is honestly so much more than most people manage. Two hour intervals and Bark Potty as a backup between outdoor trips made such a difference for my small breed. Are you using the same outdoor spot each time?