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07-11-2013, 12:59 PM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Boston MA
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| poop all ovet the crate. I know Ive mentioned this before but I figured I'd put it out there again. Jess is 100 percent pad trained (except for a loss of brain function every 6-8 weeks or so when she has an off day and seems to forget where it is. Anyway when we go out we keep her in a 5 foot crate with a separate potty side, Its for her safety and the couple times I left her in a big room with the pad she pooped on the floor. Everytime we go out she poops on the pad side which is fine..but then she steps in it and drags it all over the sleep play area and her bed and its stuck to her feet. EVERY TIME. I put her in a smaller crate today 3 feet that she sleeps in in my daughters room when I took the girls to the pediatrician today. It takes hours because I have 4 of them. Well she did it again..stuck to her feet, smooshed all over. Im so tired of cleaning her feet and the cages. Im ready to train her to use the toilet! If she cant flush no biggie my kids don't half the time either! I don't know what to do. Is there some contraption out there that when they poop on it it falls underneath? Am I onto something here? Should I get out my design hat? Any help would be appreciated and on behalf of my ever growing stack of paper towels, and cleaner, and washing machine. dryer, sink and always dry hands from washing them, I thank you in advance. Oh and we have done all the separation stuff, it hasn't worked. shes like fly paper, stuck to you all day. |
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07-11-2013, 03:43 PM | #2 |
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| That is an interesting issue. I don't have any ideas what to do. Maybe be sure to take her out before you leave. But the invention sounds like a great idea. Might have some big $$$ on the way! |
07-11-2013, 05:30 PM | #3 |
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| she doesn't poop outside, sadly only inside on the pad |
07-15-2013, 05:22 AM | #4 |
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| If I may add my two cents, we had the same problem with Bella. She was pad trained, but she'd travel. Some dogs are travelers and some just stand in place to do their business. So...she'd poo on her pad and then take off with it still attached to her bottom, only to drop it somewhere else, or she'd poo on the pad and step in it and wander off. This is difficult to train because they DO go where they're supposed to, and you don't want to admonish/scold them for anything around the pad, because that will only confuse them...and make them think they're doing bad by going on the pad, and then you've opened a whole new can of worms. I think Jess is not pooping on the floor. I think when you come home from being out and you see her poo on the floor it is most likely what Bella used to do - poop on the pad but run off before it had fallen *to* the pad. The only way I could fix this issue was by taking a week and devoting it entirely to Bella. I would watch her like a hawk, except for during sleep, and through the night I would wake 1 time to take her to her pad to potty. Otherwise, my days were nothing but Bella for a week straight. It worked. When Jess goes to her pad and begins to poo, slowly walk over to her and hold her with one hand on one side of her rib cage and the other on the other side - gently...and say "potty still". Well...Bella knows "still" means don't move...so I don't know if this will work for Jess. With Bella we use still at the vet's office and for grooming and nail clipping, so she knew still meant to not wander off and potty meant 'do your business'. It took a week of this, but after that week we never had a problem. It sounds to me like Jess knows where to go, and she's going where she should - she just doesn't stay for the entire 'poop process' to finish before wandering around, which is causing her to step in poo and run off with it before she's done. I could be wrong - but it sounds exactly the same as Bella's issues early on. Good luck! PS - I wouldn't go for anything that has a slatted base for the poo to fall through. Yorkies are too tiny for that and there have been broken nails, broken toes and even broken foot bones reported with toy breeds kept on wire bottoms or slatted bottomed kennels/cages. |
07-15-2013, 08:45 AM | #5 |
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| Hi, Thanks for the advice. I think the problem is she does poop in one spot. If we are home and the crates open she poops all the way finishes it and walks away. leaving a nice mound. I think she gets nervous when we are out so she poops normally, then goes to her bed/play side but eventually gets anxious so she start running around, steps in it and runs back and forth. I may have to try an bigger gated area and eventually try an bigger room again.. |
07-15-2013, 08:53 AM | #6 |
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| Well the new information certainly does change things. Given the new info I have no idea what might stop her from doing it. =/ For her sake and for yours, I hope you're able to find a fix for it. |
07-16-2013, 12:48 PM | #7 |
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| well were were gone for 3 hours today (another trip to get physical for one of my other daughters) and lunch and we came home to poop crate mayhem. It was everywhere! I am at my wits end. I wonder if I put tin foil on the poop side around the pad would be less inclined to go in there? short of lining the entire five foot pen with pads I don't know what to do. If I make her crate smaller I know she would do the same thing but just sit in it. She rarely ever has a mistake when we are home and certaintly never walks in it. |
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