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Originally Posted by ISpini  Ok so now the annoying part begins. Mia pooped and peed in her crate. On two separate occasions. I have been putting her on the pee pee pad every time she wakes up or I take her out of the crate. Last night I can understand why she pooped I was taking a shower and could hear her crying out. Couldn't do anything about that. But this morning I woke up to her having peed in the crate. I am a extremely clean person and this annoys me. Specially because there is only room for her to lay comfortably and stand up turn around. She's not supposed to pee in there. What do I do now? |
We have to remember that this precious little one has only been alive for *5 weeks*. And dogs aren't born potty-trained in any way, shape, or form - so it's up to us to communicate with them and teach them. At this very, very young age...I wouldn't really even be expecting any successful training at this point...she still needs to mature quite a bit. We also have to remember that, to her, going potty isn't unclean, it's just simply going potty bc her instinct says she has to go, so she does.
I know the pee grosses you out, but also remember that urine is actually sterile, so it's really just a sterile fluid that comes from the body -- it's really not that unclean, in other words. Not to imply I want some sterile urine everywhere, lol, but I'm saying this just to ease your mind a bit in terms of the cleanliness.
We have some great potty training threads in our General Training section, so I'd definitely recommend you read the potty training sticky threads:
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