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.
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…)
Sadie attacks the man. It sometimes looks like she attacks out of the blue. At other times I swear the little dog, a 10-month-old Pomeranian, sets him up!
How can a dog rescued from starvation and neglect still be so sweet — yet pin other dogs when things get too much?
I have just met Staffie Chester, featured on TV’s The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davis, rescued with two starving companions from squalor.
How do some of these dogs coming out of such a bad situation, come out of these situations and remain so sweet? (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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