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seneedha · 03-28-2010, 06:29 PM

Thanks for the replies!

For the first question, he is 11 months old. We feed him Canidae All Life Stage dry food, which is what he has always been on.

I definately don't want him having a negative association to his crate, as he enjoys it as his "home" now and we've had a rather long road getting there. We stay outside with him at least 15-20 minutes. If he doesn't do both, we crate him (if we're leaving) or crate him about 15 minutes then take him back outside to try again. The main problem we're having is knowing how long is the right amount of time to stay outside. I have no way of telling when he may need to poop once and that be all or need to twice.

You speak of him having too much freedom being that young, at what age do you think he'll be capable of enough bowel control to have more freedom? I'm not clear as to what ages are associated with what classification for puppy, adult, etc. I've tried searching for this, but haven't found any really clear results.

For an update, we have left him out while we've been gone ~4 hours the last 2 days and he has done great! Only once he had a little bit of an accident. We were really proud of him!

03-28-2010, 06:29 PM	#5
seneedha YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Corinth, MS, USA Posts: 7	Thanks for the replies! For the first question, he is 11 months old. We feed him Canidae All Life Stage dry food, which is what he has always been on. I definately don't want him having a negative association to his crate, as he enjoys it as his "home" now and we've had a rather long road getting there. We stay outside with him at least 15-20 minutes. If he doesn't do both, we crate him (if we're leaving) or crate him about 15 minutes then take him back outside to try again. The main problem we're having is knowing how long is the right amount of time to stay outside. I have no way of telling when he may need to poop once and that be all or need to twice. You speak of him having too much freedom being that young, at what age do you think he'll be capable of enough bowel control to have more freedom? I'm not clear as to what ages are associated with what classification for puppy, adult, etc. I've tried searching for this, but haven't found any really clear results. For an update, we have left him out while we've been gone ~4 hours the last 2 days and he has done great! Only once he had a little bit of an accident. We were really proud of him!