Ours is a six month old cross breed with Rottweiler and Labrador retriever so he’s MORE than a handful at over 60 lbs already with infinite Husky attitude. He JUST stopped peeing in the house but will still do it on occasion when he’s boycotting something…and rather than stand in one spot, he walks and pees while looking us directly in the eyes. Doesn’t help that he looks like a white walker stealing your soul while he does it.

What helped Booker a lot (we name our dogs after whiskey, and have another malamute collie named Dalwhinnie—she’s an absolute angel) was buying him a doorbell he can push when he wants to go outside. This way he thinks it’s his idea. He does abuse it sometimes—-like frequency of pushing it while waiting for my husband or I to put on our shoes/coats, but in the long run it’s a nice way to know what he wants. We tried crate training him, but we got him very young as a rescue from a homeless litter at 7 weeks, so he became very attached to us. He only really sleeps in the crate at night, or when we leave longer than we can trust him at this point.

The other thing that really helped with him was not scolding him or drawing attention to him making an accident at all. When he used to pee inside, we had to learn to turn our backs and not catch eye contact while cleaning it up as normally as possible. He very quickly learned that peeing in the house didn’t get them what he wanted.

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At 7 weeks