Pooing outside??

[Bnot]

Venus is 17 weeks old. She will pee on her pads, but seems to always miss with pooing. Well, seems today, she must be either pooing outside, or constipated. She's not crying though.

Do they just get to a point where they automatically start pooing outside?

I let her out a lot with Adonis (5 year old yorkie). I let them out back, then in about 5 minutes let them back in. Do you think she's watched him, and learned to poo outside with him?

Maybe tomorrow, I need to go out each time, make sure she's pooing in the yard.

Pooing on her pad seems to be the hardest thing she's tried to learn so far. She starts out on the pad....but she's a walking pooper. When she thinks she's through, will walk off...then it drops. Hard to scold her, cause she starts out on the pad.

Really hoping that today she started pooing outside though! Keeping fingers crossed here.

Still working on pee in the living room though. Its carpet, and she's just not getting it. I put a leash on her today in the living room, but then all she did was lay at my feet, in one spot. Pee pad was like 1 foot away, but she never walked toward it.

Looks like I need to get the carpet cleaner out, and keep it out. I do spray the spot she pees in, with 1/2 Vinegar, and 1/2 water.

She's 100% pee trained in the kitchen where there is no carpet.

[Pattie]

Sissy is 6 and 1/2 months old and she has just graduated from being a "walking pooper" as you put it
She also went through a phase where if she had any choice, she would piddle on anything that felt like a pad, carpet, blanket, scatter rugs. I picked it all up, woke her from her crate, placed her inside her playpen where I kept the "main pee pee pad" then when she went, would clap and play with both of them. One mistake I made was moving the pads (I keep one in the family room, they like this one best-it is hidden for their privacy (they both stop going if I stop and watch them , then the one in the living room area where the playpen "used to be" I moved that one, thinking to eliminate it, she went on the floor where it was

You are right, can't scold them if they start on the pad, Chloe was about 8 months when she got it right, Sissy is grabbing it at 6 months. The biggest mistake besides moving those pads, is giving them freedom to roam all around when your eyes can't be on them, that's when they pee pee without warning I have found. So 2nd time around, I did the playpen thing. To protect the carpets from "walking poopers" I got a matress protector from ears, the flat ones-not with fitted corners, I use it upside down UNDER the wee wee pads, then If you get a walking poo, it still is not on the carpet. By the way, I have to put down 2 wee wee pads, one right next to the other. My girls do not like to share the pad , yet they share food, treats, bones, toys and ME


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P.S.S. and to answer your first question, I think each doggie is different, just like human kids. My Chloe would not poo outside, she would cry to come back in to use her pad... Sissy on the other hand does go outside if that is where we happen to be. Both pee in or out. I wouldn't leave them outside alone for anything tho, you are taking a chance there I would think, hawk, squirrels, skunks, owls, humans, humans, & humans!!

[janc]

Originally Posted by Bnot

Venus is 17 weeks old. She will pee on her pads, but seems to always miss with pooing. Well, seems today, she must be either pooing outside, or constipated. She's not crying though.

Do they just get to a point where they automatically start pooing outside?

I let her out a lot with Adonis (5 year old yorkie). I let them out back, then in about 5 minutes let them back in. Do you think she's watched him, and learned to poo outside with him?

Maybe tomorrow, I need to go out each time, make sure she's pooing in the yard.

Pooing on her pad seems to be the hardest thing she's tried to learn so far. She starts out on the pad....but she's a walking pooper. When she thinks she's through, will walk off...then it drops. Hard to scold her, cause she starts out on the pad.

Really hoping that today she started pooing outside though! Keeping fingers crossed here.

Still working on pee in the living room though. Its carpet, and she's just not getting it. I put a leash on her today in the living room, but then all she did was lay at my feet, in one spot. Pee pad was like 1 foot away, but she never walked toward it.

Looks like I need to get the carpet cleaner out, and keep it out. I do spray the spot she pees in, with 1/2 Vinegar, and 1/2 water.

She's 100% pee trained in the kitchen where there is no carpet.

My female rat terrier did the same thing. If we had carpet in this house (we did till 6 mo. ago) she would go potty when I"m not looking. She's 1 1/2 yrs. old and she thinks it's grass I bet.