My baby Gracie doesn't seem to love me...

[dawn27]

Originally Posted by Minniesmthr

Thanks to all who have responded.

We are about to go insane with this lovely little girl. I can deal with her loving my husband so much while falling in last place myself, as I understand things may change with time just as Crystal changed. There are other issues.

* What we are having more trouble with is getting her to go outside to do her business. She will go outside, pee and then come back in to poop on my hardwood floors. My husband sat outdoors with her for 30 minutes yesterday to no avail. When they came back inside, you can guess the rest.

Potty training can be such a chore when it come to these little ones especially when they do this. This is why is suggest cage and paper training, which is how I have training all four of my pups and have had great success with it. You can find more info on how I successfully trained my pups on my web site below.

The other behavior, that is really difficult to deal with, involves poop eating of her own stool. We are trying Forbid, but don't see any improvement after 2 days. There are other Internet suggestions: putting meat tenderizer on her stools, adding pineapple or pumpkin to her diet, changing her diet and attempting to teach her to "leave it."

Now this is something that I tried and tried to prevent but still to this day have three poop eating pups. I've tried the yuk mouth with no luck. I tried changing to a better food not once but three separate times with no luck, tired the pineapple and still nothing. One of mine even prefers eating poop than her food. I has to be one of my greatest failures when it comes to training my pups. But how do you stop something like that< I wish I knew.

All of this is making having a new puppy not much fun, and as the 24/7 caretaker, I am at my wits' end... I could hang in there until she learns where she needs to go to poop, but the poop eating certainly does not make us anxious to have her up in our faces or laps. Internet searches for solutions for poop eating are not very encouraging...

I know exactly how you feel !!

Cathie

Hope you can find what works and get on the road to truly bonding with your new pup. It is never easy but it is a very rewarding feeling seeing that all of your hard work and persistence has created this wonderful well trained and loving companion and addition to the family.