I'm not going to be much help, seeing as I came on here this morning to ask a similar question! I know that you have probably read it a thousand times, but it really is all in consistency. We got Ralphie on a schedule and we try to stick to it. We got him at 8 weeks and started training immediately. We were timing how long it took for him to poop and figured it to be around 3 hours after eating. That worked for a while, but now that he's older he's been holding it a lot longer (almost 8 hours and most of the time sleeps through the night.)
Our problem is when we have to leave to be somewhere. We typically aren't gone for very long, but there have been three incidents where he has gone in his kennel. We also block off his kennel, but I use half of a shoe box and then a rolled up towel on top, so he can't climb up there (we had that climbing problem too, and this seems to have worked).
He's still young so I know that we will have these set backs, but it just bugs me that he will go in his kennel even with half of it blocked off, but he can hold it for 8 hours other times! Are there any tricks to get him to stop doing this in his kennel?
Have you tried the potty on command trick yet? That works for peeing with Ralphie. When you put them outside, don't say anything until they pee and then say "potty" while they are doing it and praise them...we used treats in addition to this. So, now he knows when I say potty to pee...he's gotten quite good at it.
Oh wow, sorry so long, and to have hijacked your post! Good luck! |