# ARRGGGGG! Stupid dog! House-training advice please

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrggggg-stupid-dog-house-training-advice-please/657109>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 30, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrggggg-stupid-dog-house-training-advice-please/657109 "2013-04-30T15:18:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrggggg-stupid-dog-house-training-advice-please/657109/21 "2013-05-01T02:41:10Z")

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> [@redtail23](#):
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> Of course, this same dog will go out to pee and forget why she wanted out. If you don’t tell her to go pee, she’ll just run around sniffing and carrying on, then want back in. Then a minute later, it’s “oh yeah, I need out, gotta pee”.

Sounds like our Sadie. She’ll spend hours outside with us, come back indoors, and five minutes later she’ll do the Gotta Potty Stare.

It’s our fault for not telling her to Potty before we came back inside. With her, it’s Outside Play or Outside Potty. She doesn’t combine the two.

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**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arrggggg-stupid-dog-house-training-advice-please/657109/22 "2013-05-01T16:31:54Z")

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Invite another (trained) dog to your back yard and let him pee away. Dogs have an uncontrollable urge to re-pee over another dog’s pee. This provides opportunity for you to praise, praise, praise!

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