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Okay...so here's the problem. Myself and Kyle both work from 9-5pm from M-F. Harley is taken for a walk before we leave for work and after we come home. We also take him for a run in the evening and he is offered food in the morning but taken away as he dumps it when we're gone. He is fed his big supper (with egg and some type of meat) at supper time and he is left with water all day except at night. He is not kenneled when we leave but he has access to the whole house and he is given newspaper/cardboard in the basement which he does his business on. We have a run built but are waiting to put the doggy door in so he'll eventually be able to come in and out as he pleases.
Now our problem: Harley will usually poop twice during the day and every day we find him peeing and pooping on the paper/cardboard but we always find a "brownie" on the carpet on the opposite side of the basement. When we are home he doesn't ask to go out and has even went as far as peeing infront of us (always on the carpet). He once even peed in the house only 15mins after his walk. He's a year a half old and I don't think my mom had him fully house trained. She would let him out often enough where he never had to think about using the bathroom. How do we make him think about going to the bathroom and asking to be let out? He's not understanding that he needs to pee and poop on a walk. Before bed and in the morning he is taken for 20 min. walk and sometimes wouldn't pee or poop. Or he'll pee only on the way back home. We'd like to eventually be able to have him whine and let us know he needs to go and go as soon as he's taken outside. He seems to have no clue what the purpose of being let outside is. He's never tied unless we are working in the yard, so he's always walked. I know he's getting enough exercise as we take him on good runs where he swims and runs and kicks and bucks for up to an hour or more.
My boyfriend has thought that he couldn't smell. We try playing hide and seek with him and he doesn't use his nose and hasn't once found his hider. We'd walk by putrid roadkill that he wouldn't even notice and almost walk on. We hide goodies in his food and he doesn't find them unless we show him they are in there. Is there any "smell tests" we can do at home? If he really can't smell is this the reason he doesn't automatically pee and mark his territory like most male dogs? He doesn't sniff anything out when we are out on our walks. He was also neutered at about 6 months and we are noticing that didn't have the chance to mentally mature before taking his "man" hormones away. Or so we think.
We don't want to crate him as he'd be in there all day. We realize that getting this doggy door installed would most likely help but that wouldn't solve the underlying problem he has. He's not asking to go out even when we are there and he's not thinking for himself to realize he needs to pee and needs to be asked to be let out. If he is asking he's giving very subtle cues that we are not picking up. We tell him he's a good boy and give him love when he does pee outside. We are beginning to clicker train him so any clicker training advice or ANY advice would help! I feel like a failed parent

Now our problem: Harley will usually poop twice during the day and every day we find him peeing and pooping on the paper/cardboard but we always find a "brownie" on the carpet on the opposite side of the basement. When we are home he doesn't ask to go out and has even went as far as peeing infront of us (always on the carpet). He once even peed in the house only 15mins after his walk. He's a year a half old and I don't think my mom had him fully house trained. She would let him out often enough where he never had to think about using the bathroom. How do we make him think about going to the bathroom and asking to be let out? He's not understanding that he needs to pee and poop on a walk. Before bed and in the morning he is taken for 20 min. walk and sometimes wouldn't pee or poop. Or he'll pee only on the way back home. We'd like to eventually be able to have him whine and let us know he needs to go and go as soon as he's taken outside. He seems to have no clue what the purpose of being let outside is. He's never tied unless we are working in the yard, so he's always walked. I know he's getting enough exercise as we take him on good runs where he swims and runs and kicks and bucks for up to an hour or more.
My boyfriend has thought that he couldn't smell. We try playing hide and seek with him and he doesn't use his nose and hasn't once found his hider. We'd walk by putrid roadkill that he wouldn't even notice and almost walk on. We hide goodies in his food and he doesn't find them unless we show him they are in there. Is there any "smell tests" we can do at home? If he really can't smell is this the reason he doesn't automatically pee and mark his territory like most male dogs? He doesn't sniff anything out when we are out on our walks. He was also neutered at about 6 months and we are noticing that didn't have the chance to mentally mature before taking his "man" hormones away. Or so we think.
We don't want to crate him as he'd be in there all day. We realize that getting this doggy door installed would most likely help but that wouldn't solve the underlying problem he has. He's not asking to go out even when we are there and he's not thinking for himself to realize he needs to pee and needs to be asked to be let out. If he is asking he's giving very subtle cues that we are not picking up. We tell him he's a good boy and give him love when he does pee outside. We are beginning to clicker train him so any clicker training advice or ANY advice would help! I feel like a failed parent