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03-11-2009, 04:47 AM | #1 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA
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| Litter Training a 5 mo old Poo eater I have heard of people litter training their Yorkies. But I don't know anything about training a dog to go indoors. All of my dogs go outside but I am thinking of maybe litter training Bella because she is eating Poo and just won't stop. I have been using Forbid with all the dogs for right at 2 months. Bella doesn't just eat her own poo. she'll eat any dogs poo! I was thinking maybe if I just keep her in that would cut off her exposure to it. If I could litter tain her to a self cleaning litter box then it might solve the problem. If anyone knows anything about this please help! Thanks in advance! |
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03-11-2009, 05:15 AM | #2 |
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| We litter trained Poppy from a puppy. Every time she had a little "accident" on the floor we were there behind her and would scoop her up and put her straight on to the litter tray. She was a little bemused about it to start with but she did start to associate that tray meant wee wee time. It did take a few weeks but our perseverence paid off and she started to use the tray herself. I can't help with the poo eating issue as we've never encountered that problem.
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03-11-2009, 06:33 AM | #3 |
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| I wonder if Bella is to old? |
03-11-2009, 10:26 AM | #4 |
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| Don't worry, I don't think that their ever too old to learn something new. If you persevere bella will get there in the end i'm sure.
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07-15-2009, 08:42 PM | #5 | |
No Longer a Member | Doggies little dirty secret I saw you plea of cries about your Bella and her poo eating habits As I have suffered with small animals doing this It is embarrassing and disgusting and you feel like there is something wrong with your pet and you cant tell anyone and you feel your a failure of a pet owner, but you are not I use to have one dog who would play games on me She pooped then she stood over the poop and barked right in front of it till I got there and soon as I got there to see why she was barking she snatched it up! HOw disgusting of her! I said no no and but she always snatched up the poop before I could get the poop I began policing her she pooped and I ran to grab the poop but she began feeling it was a challenge and reward for her to get to snatch up and eat her poop before I could get it from her I fought to get the poop before her it was a nothing but a poop grabing dirty little game she was playing with me How could I dare tell anyone obout this poopy game? she did this everyday she would poop to get me coming to her then she grabed it! even after taking her outside! I was exhausted with her poopy game! what was I to do? Till one day I was watching "Dog Whisperer" who I truly adore This one evening "Dog Whisperer" had on his show he titled it somthing like "Little doggie has a nasty little secret!" He had this shih tzu that ate her poop all the time and the owners were just like you! crying out for help Well "Dog whisperer" Milan is it? what he did is after the dog pooped Milan had a bannana always in his pocket and right after the dog pooped Milan broke off a piece of the bananna and put it under the doggies nose to derail the doggies sense of smelling the poop to the bananna. but Milan had to make sure that he was there all the time the doggie pooped Result the doggie smells the bananna and likes it better then the poop. As the doggie is eating the bannanna quickly go and clean up the poop dispose of it and then clean up where the poop was if it was on the kitchen floor then use a good detergent of some kind to get the poop smell away NOthing harmful to your pet so pick out your cleaners appropriately Always carry a bannnana with you in your purse it works but you must be persistant and aware each time your puppy poops Soon Milans shih tzu knew he would get a piece of bannanna soon after he pooped and he like the bannanna better then the poop but you must be there to assist also if you have a doggie that wants your food keep a bannanna and again break off a piece and put it under doggies nose and give it to the doggie But this is after you have corrected your doggie with no nos because he is not allowed your food these are two completely differant types of bannanna scenios let me know if you do this and how it works I wish you best as I am going to be doing this next time nadalia Quote:
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07-17-2009, 09:44 AM | #6 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Canada
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| Litter Training Hi! My yorkie is completely litter trained, but he prefers to go outside in the grass. At least he knows he has a 'safe' place to go if I don't get home from work in time. Please do ensure that if you do litter train, DO NOT use regular clumping cat litter. If they do eat the poop, etc, it will clump in their stomachs and eventually (gasp) they will not be able to get it out. I use either the newspaper litter, or the litter made from cedar (which has a wonderful smell). When this stuff gets wet, it goes from its compact pressed shape to sortof dust....Scooping it is interesting, since the dust (and poo) is what you want to get out of the pan. Also, for the litter box, I am using one of those under the bed (so its not too tall) plastic storage bins. I've heard doggie litter boxes need to be bigger than cat ones, since often they like to 'walk around' a bit before going #2, and these storage containers are perfect (just don't need the lid). ...hope this helps a little...
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07-17-2009, 02:32 PM | #7 | |
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07-19-2009, 09:14 AM | #8 |
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| The poo eating thing is disgusting. Jackson is two and we got him at a year and a half. He will bring in his own poop from outside and also when we walk him will try and eat the goose poop in the park or other dog poop. I pull him away with the leash and tell him "dirty" in a disgusted voice but he still trys the next time. If anyone can let me know how to stop this I would appreciate it very much. |
07-19-2009, 10:08 AM | #9 | |
No Longer a Member | Bananna trick stops dirty little habit! Please read what I typed it is what the "dog whisper" does with this disgusting habit with little dogs who have this habit It is much easier to do the bananna trick then to get all disgusted about doggies habit Bananna trick works marvelous you just must be persistant! It is not easy Quote:
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