Dog Health Questions: Help with dog training?

I have a Boston Terrior who is 9 months old. She is extremely bad about being house trained. She knows better, but for some reason she still does it EVERDAY! When I first got her she was put in a kennel when I went to work. She learned pretty fast. I bought a house about 3 months ago and it's progressively getting worse. I know she know's better than that. Any suggestions on what I can do to train her?

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Don't assume that she "knows better." Oftentimes people assume their dog is doing something out of spite but that usually isn't the case.

Dogs are human and sometimes things "click" in different ways to dogs than they do to humans.

It's probably some weird thing that doesn't really make sense to us as humans.

Remember, at 9 months she's still a baby. Since it seems to be the new surroundings, go back to square one how you housetrained her in the old place. She should pick it up a lot faster since she's both already learned and older.

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• 9 months is a bit long to start training. Putting her in a dog crate while away from home keeps them from soiling their own bed. All I can say is keep a schedule so you know when she'll have to go run her around outside that usually gets the insides digesting. Tie her to your belt with a dog leash so you catch her instantly in the act and can rush her outside with much reward.


• When you take her out, make sure you take her out at the same door every time. Because then she will realize if she goes by the door you will go over and take her out to go pee.


• Some dogs forget their housetraining, especially when they move to a new house. It happens a lot when they are young, like her. Try starting from the beginning and putting her in the crate. When you get home, take her out and give her treats for going outside. Just reinforce what she already knows, and when you're confident in her, let her stay outside the crate.


• New surroundings is probably the problem.
  
  Retrain her. Go back to using the crate, and make sure you put her back on a feeding & watering schedule.
  
  Also, only use enzymatic cleaner to clean up messes.


• You need to have an area for the dog to use the bathroom. Then you put it on its leash and lead it over to that area and say "GET BUSY" and wait for the dog to do its buisiness. Do this repeated times for the next month or two till the dog understands where to go.