How do you stop a puppy from peeing in her crate at night?
 

Lilly is 4 months old, We are trying to crate train her, but she likes to pee in it at night. She doesn't even give us a noise to wake us up.

Will she grow out of this, or should we stop crate training her???

her crate is probably too big- use pillows or towels to stuff int he back and leave her only enough room to lay down and turn around- dogs wont' pee where they sleep and this will cause her to cry to wake you up and let her out.

Puppies are suppose to hold their bladder for 1hr for every month
that they are. Making the crate smaller is a good idea because
they don't usually potty where they lay. Take her out as late as
you can before bedtime and hold the water until morning.
You have to get up early to take her right out. Then you can go
back to bed if you need to.
As long as she is not in a hot place she won't need to drink water during the night,which of course will make her potty. Since she is only four months old she should be able to hold her bladder for 4hrs or about that. Some hold
longer, some hold less. Test her and see where she is. Another month
or two and she will be ok I'm sure.

i am also currently house training my puppy thru crate training. He is 4 months also. I got him this kennel from Walmart Walmart.com: SportPet Pop-Open Kennel, Medium: Dogs

I got the medium one so that he will have room plus it will be big enough for his bed. I put his bed inside along with his two toys and 2 towels. So far, we only have two accidents in it. He pee in the kennel the first time we got him and didn't start potty training yet. He poop in it the first time the other day when I didn't wake up to take him out. I cleaned it up right away and washed his bed, towels and toys to get rid of the smell. Now everything smells like snuggle fabric softner which he loves.

He is pretty good at night time. I stopped feeding after 6pm sometimes 7pm. He gets to go out one last time at 10:30pm before bedtime. I take him out in the morning at 5:30-6am. It helps to stop feeding him before bedtime otherwise he will need to go in the middle of the night.

I put a different blanket in the crate, one that takes up more space, and last night she did not pee in the crate. Thats only one day though, so hopefully this works. Thanks

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: This is pretty much how I trained Bella and it worked for me. I didn't let her have any water after 8:00 pm and had to get up really early to let her out.

I had the same problem with my little girl. I cut down her crate size and that did the trick, but with my little man he still can't hold it for long. He does well, but not great. I will put him to bed around 10 or 11 and he never whines during the night. But if my son doens't have me up by 6 he will potty in his bed most of the time. I think that his crate is still a little to big for him so I am going to try and downsize again. I think that giving them just the space to turn around is the best advice I got and the best advice that you will get. Hope your pup starts to do better.

Day number 2 and Lilly did not pee in the crate again.

I took the advice of putting a bigger blanket in the crate to take up more room. Lilly also pee's on command, so I make sure she goes before bed.

The new trick is did, was put a little night light hanging off her cage, just enough light, so I can she what she's doing in there.

At 6am, I heard some slight rustling around. I waiting till she whimpered just slightly, (hoping that she will whimper louder eventually to let me know), then I got up, and took her to the pee pad. She did have to go, so that worked.

Thanks for the tips. I really find the site very useful.

YAY LILLY!!! so glad it worked!

peeing in crate
 

My Molly did this too for several months. She would pee in her sleep, wherever she was, including our new couch.

I tried making the crate smaller, but it didn't work long term. I hope that does for you, but Molly finally did outgrow it. Good luck!

Carla

thats exactly what i was going to suggest. The best way to tell if the crate is too large/small, you want your dog to be able to stand up, do a full circle, and sit down.

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My Coco is already 20 months old and occasionally, she will pee on the bed. Is this natural. I thought they are very clean dogs and will not dirty their bed. Sometimes, she confuses the hell out of me. As my instinct (like the suggestions here), I will not put water after 8:00 p.m. but my Cody only drinks a little bit at a time, and he is sooo good with going to the pad (both pee and poo) and I am afraid he is not getting enough water and maybe thirsty as he goes to the spot where I put the water (after I have taken it out). Any suggestions for older dog. My Girl is the one who can't hold her pee at night eventhough we have taken her out (in the freezing temperature) to do her business. Any advice anyone.

Tootsieroll...
 

When Molly was peeing in her bed my vet said that it could be a hormonal issue, I believe. He told me if she didn't outgrow it by 12 months that I might want to have her checked. I don't think it was a major problem, but she stopped before 12 months so I didn't have her checked.

You might want to check in with your vet to see.

My Layla pees and poops in her crate some nights too, we take her out pretty late but she still has accidents. I got her crate bigger so she can grow into it and tried putting towels and pillows on the other side to make it smaller but she keept peeing and it leaked all over everything so I had to take them out, tried putting cardboard too (as a divider since the crate didn't come with one) but she just tried to rip the edges to shred. Not sure what else to try, I hope she grows out of it too!

Thanks for the tip. I will have to check with the vet. Her check up is due soon anyways.

Regards,
Tootsie

If we put her to bed at around 9 pm, my puppy wakes up at around 1:30 am and we have to take her out to pee. Will it stop when she is older? Will she be able to sleep all night later in life?

Honey will still pee in her crate but only if I am gone to long. It really makes me mad but I know she can not hold it all day while Im at work plus I been working over time. I wanted to try the pads again but I dont want her tairing them up again

Honey did this at first but the she learned when it was time for me to get up. Her bed time is also at 9:00 and she knows it lol. She is now my alarm clock because she wakes me up at 4:45 ever moring to take her out and feed her.

Thank you for the good news. How old is Honey now?

Mugsy is 13 weeks - he goes to sleep about 9 and holds it most of the time until 5:30 am. I have had him for 4 weeks now, he started with 3 times a night and now sleeps thru the night.

Well, you guys, at least I feel like I am in good company. My 7 month old Yorkie, Will aka William,just does not get the potty training idea. He poops and pees all over himself at night and it doesn't bother him one bit. He goes to bed at 10:30 and is up at 5:30 and his bed is full of both! I think I shall try the rolled towel or blanket trick and see if it works. I know he can hold it. At times he last slept with me on the couch at night and can go 7 hours or so and has no accidents while sleeping with me.

My Jess didn't care about peeing where she slept. So I got a bigger crate that fit her bed and a FABRIC pee pad. Worked like a charm. Still sleeps that way 18 months later and she doesn't have to hold it at night if she doesn't want to. I guess being a gal if someone told me I couldn't pee all night long I would be so anxious I would have to pee more!

I have only one comment. Drink a good size glass of water, wAke up during the night yourself having to pee, see how long you last and how much discomfort you have? Why people do this especially to puppies I cannot fathom. My dogs and puppies have the option to use a wee wee pad OR I suck it up and get up take them out.

Most dogs begin to hold their urine through the night as they get older and learn they don't like wet/dirty pads, blankets, etc., in their den or nest. As they mature, they seem to begin to realize sleeping on or near wet or feces-smeared surfaces is not healthy for them. It seems to be a hereditary knowledge that more mature dogs begin to innately come to understand; so staying away from urine, feces, unhealthy sleeping areas in a dog not forced to live in it 24/7 will eventually begin to dictate their bowel behavior at night. And as they mature in brain/bladder/bowel capacity, they learn how to hold themselves to prevent having to live or sleep in or near wet or feces-covered surfaces when they know they will have a chance to relieve themselves outside of the enclosure in time. Sadly, dogs that never do live outside of confinement begin to accept living in, sleeping around urine-/feces-covered areas and accommodate more to it. But I think Mother Nature begins to instruct the mature dog how to keep himself dry and clean of bodily wastes and how to best do that for his own health's sake so the majority of them do learn how to hold themselves in time.

Aside from that aspect of it, healthy dogs just prefer to sleep rather than to take every chance there is to pee as they mature. Once they get older, the will even forego you're giving them the chance to go outside unless they really need to go. I never thought Tibbe would stop taking every single opportunity to go outside to play and/or pee, but he did and now, when it is very, very hot, cold or raining hard, he may only go outside 3 or 4 times in a 24 hour period, even though I ask him much more frequently if he wants to go outside.

Great question! When our Princess Sophie first came home, I had heard on YT that I would need to only give her enough room in her crate to lay down and turn around so I put a box inside the back of her crate and covered it with beach towels and this worked great. She never had an "accident" in her crate.

Good luck and please let us know how things work out!

Yes good point, but I just want to warn people that withholding water isn't the way to go either, not that you're suggesting that, but I've read others who have suggested it. Available water can actually aid in housebreaking because it allows the bladder to grow and stretch naturally so that the dog can gradually hold more.

So i also keep my pup in a crate at night and shes potty trained to go to the bathroom on this product i have called fresh patch -- its basically a small patch of grass that i keep in the crate so she can go to the bathroom and it even absorbs the smell of the urine its great! i replace it every other week with a new one that i get in the mail. this might help your pup potty train since dogs are attracted to natural grass !

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A fresh patch? Very interesting I have never heard of that. Is it real grass that you grow or buy somewhere and does your dog use this easier than using pads or newspaper?

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