Well, the barking has slowed down.....

[coastie_wife]

......now my previously almost 100% housetrained dogs can't come in the house without messing :o

Actually, my beagle/terrier mix, who we've had almost a year (since he was 8 weeks old) has only messed in the house 2x (in the 2.5 months we've been here), and both have been urine when I did not let him out before bringing him in the house . The dogs are currently in our heated/air conditioned workshop, which is full of doggy toys, treats and their beds....not happy about it, but until I can trust them better, it's where they stay except for a few hours of the day. I let them outside every hour and a half to two hours, and then they come into the house for up to a half an hour before going back in the workshop. They get plenty of attention, and get daily walks.

It is our chi mix who refuses to go potty outside. We took her in off the street 5 months ago and when we first got her, she rarely, if ever, went potty in the house. Now she refuses to potty outside. Once in a while she will mark on a spot where our male does (they are both spayed, but she just got spayed last week), but usually she just goes wherever she is.
We have tried taking her out more often (every 20 minutes or so for over 3 weeks...pain in the rear, but I'm a stay home mom), but she shows NO interest in it.

She doesn't get punished for making messes in the house, but as soon as she does, she gets put back in their room, immediately, while our other dog gets to spend more time with the family. Is there anything else I can do to get her to stop messing inside? I can't help but feel she's punishing us for leaving her (during the move it was necessary for us to leave her with my mil, and leave the terrier with another family member--they are best buds and can't stand being separated) this summer, although there was no alternative. The ENTIRE house is carpeted, so them peeing is more than the simple nuisence it was in our last home, where everything was hardwood and linoleum.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

[DogPaddle]

I would suggest appropriate sized crates and leashing the dogs to you or watching one at a time like a hawk when they are not crated and a very rigid schedule. See the training sticky for more info or PM me. Retraining is hard and once one dog starts slipping the chances that the other will increase. You must be having such a hard time of it, its nice that you have that heated/cooled shop though.

[coastie_wife]

Thanks, kind of thought that would be the answer...and our terrier/beagle mix is good for that....