She may do her business outside and a short while later do the same thing in the sitting room (or kitchen, or hall).
She does it when they are in. She does it when she left alone and they are out.
How can good routines, calm enrichment and consistent toilet training in the early weeks prevent future behaviour problems? Rusty is a gorgeous 12-week-old Chihuahua Jack Russell mix. Puppy basics There are just a couple of areas where the lady wants to make sure she gets the puppy basics right. She Read more
This is the story of an adult dog who will pee regularly indoors.
In all other respects, Eddie is the perfect dog.
Why does an older puppy or young dog continue peeing and pooing indoors despite being told off?
Maggie is a beautiful, friendly ten-month-old Mastiff Staffie mix. Unfortunately, Maggie pees and poops in the house.
Family members are at their wits’ end. The man gets home first and is often met by puddles, sometimes both pees and poops. His understandable reaction is to be very cross.
Maggie is impervious to scolding. Zeus, their other Staffie mix, creeps off to his bed. He immediately picks up that the man isn’t pleased though I’m sure he won’t know why.
Maggie lacks general impulse control in many ways – particularly where pees and poops are concerned. She wants to jump up? Maggie jumps up. She wants to pee? Maggie pees. She wants to move in on Zeus’, food? She does it. (more…)
Why would an older dog suddenly start pooing and peeing indoors when left alone?
Poo and peeing indoors.
Invariably during the night, alone downstairs in the kitchen, Meg has diarrhoea. When she is left alone during the day she is likely to do the same.
The challenge here is in separating facts from assumptions.
Meg is a twelve-year-old Dachshund – the longest sausage I have seen! She and her sibling Mini came to live with the couple at eight weeks old and had never been apart.
Six months ago, Mini died. (more…)
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Has your previously house-trained dog suddenly started toileting indoors again? To poo indoors once seemed the natural thing for the twelve-year-old Tibetan Terrier. Tipsy was a breeding bitch who had lived in kennels for the first five years of her life. It took them a year to house-train her, but Read more
At my suggestion, they have just filmed her to find that she runs about in a panic from the moment the leave, defecating as she goes. She pees all over the place. She is constantly pacing, running back and forth and jumping at the door. It seems she does this the whole time that they are absent.
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