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10-09-2007, 05:45 AM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Boston
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| Won't Poop Outside? Linus is pretty good about peeing outside, but he stubbornly refuses to poop outside! He'll crouch to go inside, I'll say, "no" and carry him outside, and he won't go outside. We'll go back inside, and the same thing will happen over and over. It's to the point where he'll hold it for hours and hours until he has no choice. Anyone know how to encourage him to go outside without such a production? Thanks! |
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10-09-2007, 06:01 AM | #2 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: May 2007 Location: Indiana
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| Feel your pain! I am having similar problems. I want to hear what everyone has to say on this subject. My yorkie named Jack is 9 months old. Will always pee either on the pee pad or outside. In the morning he will sometimes poop outside, but always poops again inside the house. We can't even get him to always poop on the pee pad. It is like he doesn't want to pee and poop in the same place. So we put out two pee pads in two different places in the house and that hasn't worked....At a Loss. |
10-09-2007, 06:10 AM | #3 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Huntsville
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| Harley (5months) refuses to poop outside also. When its time to poop I will take him out, and we will be outside for 15-30 min, waiting for him to do his business, nothing! BUT as soon as we come in POOP! Lol. He does use his pee pads though. ( Someone told me to put them in a out of the way place where he can have privacy, and that seems to work.) He still has the occasional accident. But Harley has never pooped outside. So I would like to hear what others have to say also.
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10-09-2007, 06:31 AM | #4 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Clinton Michigan
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| Me too! Charlie won't poop outside! How funny! I won't bore you going over the details, they are the same as the other posts on the subject. We'll all wait for explanations and tips together! Charlie is young but she always pees where and when she should and then sneaks off somewhere to poo...I have to hunt for it everyday...it's a daily mystery treasure hunt. Thank God she's tiny! |
10-09-2007, 06:37 AM | #5 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Huntsville
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| Lol! Lol! Well I am sure glad to know I am not the only one with a "picky pooper"!
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10-09-2007, 06:49 AM | #6 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Boston
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| Too funny. I wonder if this is programmed in them somehow! Hopefully someone has some sage advice out there for us. |
10-09-2007, 07:08 AM | #7 | |
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10-09-2007, 07:11 AM | #8 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: May 2006 Location: Massachusetts
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| yes awaiting for any replies! I too have the same issue. I got Bustah about 3 years ago at the shelter. He is the cutest little thing but didnt come without alot of baggage. I love this little guy to death and can only imagine the life he had before. He goes through these periods where its hard to get him to go outside and poop. He will hold it in and i can see that he has to go and take him out and say "ok go." and usually he does go but every once in a while he doenst. This particular time i did just move beginning of Sept. and last week and the weeks before he was ok. Now he will go a little but i can tell its not a "complete" bowel movement and hold his stump of a tail under and we go in and out until he finally does his business but sometimes he will just think its ok to go on the carpet when we have our backs turned. I would be the first to think his anal glands needed to be expressed (he has had problems before) but he has no problem going on the carpet. He does seem awfully nervous these days so i wonder if its the move. He hates when i leave to go to work for the day. He will sit and shake and look at me very pathetic. I feel bad for him but what am i going to do? I have to go to work! This morning i am doing my regular routine. I let him out when i get up as usual. When he is done he sits and gives me the look like "Ok i am done.". I let him in and go about getting ready. I close all the bedroom doors to avoid the whole "hide and seek thing" to put him behind his gated area with his crate to leave for the day. He is in my sights the whole time. He leaves my sight for no more than 30 seconds as i am getting my lunch together and i turn around to turn off the lights in the house and then i see the wonderful "presents" in the hallway. I was so perterbed to say the least. I am not sure if i should show it to him and say "NO" but thats what i did. I put him in his gated area (somewhat irate) and cleaned up the awful mess. Not to get graphic but it did seem "loose" so i want to think its nerves? Now what i have to do is outsmart him again (as i have learned to close all the doors because he hides under the beds before i leave) and put him in his gated area when i wake up? At least if he does go it will be on the linoleum instead of the carpet. I havent crate trained him because he seems to really dislike being locked up in a crate so i leave it in his area opened so he at least has an area to go in to to feel safe. Any advice? I should mention he is about 7 years old and i has recently had his check up but this was a non issue at the time so i didnt ask the vet about it then. My husband thinks i am "too close" to him..Meaning i give him alot of affection and he is pretty much attached to my hip when i am home. I have gone down the whole behavioral modification route also. I took him to a behavioral specialist at Tufts University here in massachusetts. They recommended clicker training and "nothing for free" methods and using the gentle leader as a way of trying to cure his aggressive behavior towards strangers but it hasnt really worked. Also recommended Prozac. Tried the Prozac for a while with no difference and the clicker training. Maybe i didnt give it enough time though? He sure is a stubborn little guy! Good thing he is cute-lol.... |
10-09-2007, 07:14 AM | #9 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anaheim
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| I have you ALL beat!! Oh, I have you all beat with this one!! My Bella refuses to poop outside too... She will ONLY do it on the couch. Preferably on one of the couch pillows... wonderful, I know! We have tried punishing her, giving her treats to go outside, everything. I don't know what to do!! |
10-09-2007, 07:23 AM | #10 | |
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You CAN fix the problems, but you have to be on it constantly. Every time you let up, it will impede her getting over this. good luck! | |
10-09-2007, 07:25 AM | #11 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Clinton Michigan
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| Oh! That is the best story! You win!! Isn't it awful that even when they're bad we laugh? Look on the bright side, at least you know where to look. Our little Charlie goes everywhere! We have a large full home with five kids and dark carpet, finding Yorkie poo is beginning to be much dreaded event. I've seen children tip toeing around at night like they're worried about land mines. Two years ago, we kept a large mutt who just showed up one day, she spent her days in and out of the house, and worked with my husband a lot of days at his dairy farm...she pooped in the house one too many times and I promptly shipped her off to the farm permanently...not the proverbial farm, a real one (where she is spoiled and very happy). My husband teases me that if our furbaby won't stop pooping in the house we'll have to ship her off to the farm...I can't imagine my enormous husband with a baby girl Yorkie tucked in the front pocket of his overalls...what would the other farmers say? Let's all be thankful the poop is small poop. |
10-09-2007, 07:27 AM | #12 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: May 2006 Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 4
| Yep here too Bustah once in a while goes through his phases where he wont poop outside and just keeps holding it in. I will let him out and he goes a little and i can tell he didnt go all the way 'cuz he does his sniff his butt routine and hold his stubby tail under. I will let him out again only for him to sit and look at me like "No i dont have to go". THEN like this morning he goes on the CARPTET I got him from the shelter a couple of years ago. I just LOVE the little guy but i fear he has some baggage. Good thing he is cute-lol... |
10-09-2007, 07:47 AM | #13 |
Rosi & Poli's Mom Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Apollo does the same thing, seldom he poops outside, we could just come back from an hr walk and as soon as we come in , he runs to his pad, even though he sees Rosi pooping outside But i have to say, he allways goes on his pad
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09-20-2011, 08:53 AM | #14 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: San Antonio,Texas,bexar
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| Ok I'm goin through the same thing right now we adopted Toby about a month ago he was goin fine outside up until a week ago.....so does anyone have any solutions????? |
09-20-2011, 05:51 PM | #15 |
Therapy Yorkies Work Donating Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Central, Florida
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| POOP IS SPECIAL. It only takes a couple drops of pee to mark. But poop is more special, they can only do it when the feces are ready to be expelled. It is not a tiny pee message but, a big Poop statment 'this is my secret special place. You can break the cycle if you are willing to put in the time and effort. Pooping in the house in the least desirable places is fairly common. Dogs will poop on or near their humans favorite things, the people bed, sofa, recliner, new shoes etc.. And most do it in private. You can retrain, and end this behavior. Select a place were you want them to poo. Put doggie on leash and take them to the poop place. Every poop they do in the house must be taken to this spot with them on the leash. When you find a surprize in the house put doggie on leash show them the mistake and say in a very sad voice No, No, No, while shaking your head. Pick it up with a tissue and go right to the Poop spot. Put the poop down and say GOOD POOP ! ( Pottie , Busy or what ever you call it) Act all happy, you can even clap. Do not treat your dog unless he/she poops in the target area. Do not clean the poop area in front of the dog. The poop (to them) will just disappear. This will prompt them to mark the target with a fresh messege. It usually takes 10 days to create a new habit. When they poop in the right area continue to treat, as long as you need to. I still treat my 8 year old every day. Good luck
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