[MyFairLacy]

Originally Posted by dansby32776

The problem is I am not catching him when he poops. He seems to be sneaking. So what do I do to correct him? Do you not think he understands when I take him back to the poop and correct him? He goes quite a bit, so I just changed from Science Diet to Cannidae. When I am able to catch him, I say no and pick him up and carry him to his pad. He still continues to poop on floor and in air! He goes in soo many differ places. When shut up in his gated area, on he poops on the floor. He never did this even as a small pup! I guess maybe time is the key!

No he does not understand when you carry him over to a piece of poop, show it to him, and tell him NO. He doesn't correlate you being angry with him pooping there. They will only correlate the NO with pooping in the wrong place if you catch them in the act. How old is he? It sounds like he has too much freedom in the house when he's not ready for it. He needs to be confined to a smaller area unless you are directly supervising him. Once he learns to poop in the right place in the smaller area, you can gradually incease the space he gets. If the problem is that he's pooping when you don't see it, that means he needs to be supervised when he is running around the house. You are going to have to start catching him if you want to tell him No.

Maybe you can potty train him to poop outside? You could still use the potty pads for when he isn't able to go outside, but maybe he would do well pottying outside