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Originally Posted by ralphmaddy  She isn't trained to go outside. I started her off on pee pads but now I want to start to take her out. I work from 7am to 430 or 5pm at times I try really hard to come home at lunch to check on her but sometimes its hard. I have to find a way to control her pooping habits so that she can only poop 2 times a day does that sound normal? Before she would poop in morning and then again at night and now it seems like she poops morning noon and night LOL!!! She's a pooping machine... One thing I do want to do that the book suggested is give her only 15-20 mins to eat and then I'll take her food away usually I'll leave her food in the kitchen with her so she has access to eat all day.... She never eats her breakfast so thats why I leave it but from looks of it. She's gonna have to learn I guess right? Do I sound harsh? I don't wanna be a mean mommy  |
Okay, so ideally you want her to go outside now, and you do not want her to play with her poop.
Yes, feeding her on schedule will make her poop (pretty much) on schedule.
Then you can schedule it so that she poops only outside (although if you are at work all day and have her in the kitchen with a pee pad, she will probably still go, but that isn't an issue for you, right?).
Feed her like the book says - put it down for fifteen minutes and what she doesn't eat, take up. IF she doesn't eat her breakfast, and has already done her morning poop before you leave for work, then you should be okay (no poop during the day). She will not starve. If she ends up being hungry, then the next day she'll learn to eat her breakfast when you put it down. (This is not mean, this is just a part of training her that food won't be sitting there all day for her to have the buffet.)
Once she does start eating her breakfast, make sure you are feeding her early enough so that she does poop before you leave for work. Teach her to only poop outside (and pick it up immediately afterwards).
So - what you work on is a) feeding on a schedule and then taking her OUT on a schedule afterwords and making sure she poops, and b) making sure she learns that she should only go poop outside.
I know it must be SOOO frustrating, but I think this could be the solution. It may take a week or so (or longer) to get her to realize she needs to eat on the schedule and to figure out how long it takes afterward for her to poop and then to time it so she goes before you leave for work - but once you get that down, you're pretty much in the clear!
She'll probably still pee on the pads during the day, since you should leave her with water and not crate her for that long, but if she is "empty" before you leave her then she'll likely not poop during the day and get a chance to play with it.
Good luck!!
