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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

Dogs frequently pee/poo for various reasons such as frustration, stress, anxiety, abject boredom, loneliness and many more. All but the best-trained dog will have these "accidents" from time to time and they often relieve themselves near the door or where their person's scent is the strongest.

Some say dogs poo by the door you use to leave them out of frustration and others say it's because they can still scent your sent on it and your scent is sometimes still coming in from the cracks around the opening. Others say dogs will relieve themselves by a door because they scent a passing animal from the cracks around the opening, an animal that they strongly respect or fear or want to mark their territory because of that passing. Others say they do it there trying to get outside where many naturally prefer to leave their pee/poo, for the whole dog world to scent and "enjoy"

Just Google "why does my dog have accidents" or "poop by the door" or "pee on the bed" and read many of the more respected dog websites' many replies for the why's of this and you will feel better. Dogs do these things until they are long-settled in their housebreaking routines and then some still occasionally do it for one of the many reasons a canine does.

We have jobs to do in our lives - jobs and habits we know well and have worked at for many years - and we still make mistakes in performing our tasks perfectly from time to time. We even occasionally do things we know to be wrong once in a while - often for what we consider to be a very good reason. We can't fault our dogs for being so human-like and making a mistake.

Remember your dog is a canine and subject to those natural instincts and urges and no doubt subject to some confusions in training plus the daily stresses of living in a human world and lots of inexplicable, worrisome things that happen to them trying to it into your world likely do conspire at time to upset and puzzle a dog. A dog that is probably trying her dead level best to do a good job learning to be your pet but still fallible. We aren't always the perfect teachers at all times and mixed messages from us, perhaps not enough time giving them as active and challenging a life as they need, will all sometimes to conspire to frustrate and stress a dog beyond what they can hold and they do the deed.

When I saw an "accident", I would always go get the dog, take them to the soiled area, matter of factly say "uh oh" to mark that event as something that wasn't good, take the dog outside immediately (or to the potty pad ) and say "good potty outside/potty pad" and smile. Even if the dog doesn't still need to go, I've marked the behavior I didn't want and shown the dog what I prefer and I believe that, together with the other housebreaking I was doing at the time, the message would get through. Eventually they get it - "Oh - don't EVER go in the house. Not even if you are unhappy or tense or the biggest baddest dog on the block sits on my porch by the door - I cannot do it in the house"! And they do, after about 1 - 1 1/2 years of training, usually stop having any accidents at all.

My last two Yorkies have been totally clean in the house after a year to year and a half of housebreaking training and confinement of one type or another during that time. It's a long slough to get there, but once trained, they are so reliable. Just don't expect them to be all that perfect until they are around 2 or so and only then if you have been a pretty good and very consistent teacher. Take a deep breath and just move on and say to your self that one day your little dear will get it if you've done your part right.

all good points..thats why I walk away instead of blowing my top...I did show her it was bad and I had her watch me clean it. I later followed her when she went into the potty room and went on her pad. I gave her a big yes and a treat. I know she doesnt like to be left but I cant be a slave to the house all day. I feel guilty if I leave for over 2 hours. I don't know what to do with her if I leave for the day to take the kids to an amusement park this summer.