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Peeing in her BED every night!!!!!! Bella (almost 9 months) is crated at night because she can't seem to hold her pee all night. She has a pee pad and bed in her crate but every morning i go to take her out of her crate and her pee pad is dry but theres pee all over her bed :eek: I am washing her bed every day and i don't know how to stop this. I don't give her water or food after a certain time at night. Is there a spray or something I can use to stop her from peeing on her bed? She knows how to use a pee pad because thats what she used b4 I trained her to go outside. |
I'm so glad you asked this question! My 1.5 year old does the same thing. I think it is laziness and not wanting to have to go outside. So I have stopped putting anything too absorbent in the crate with him. He only gets a little blanket. Now when he has to go, he will bark to be let out. I hate not giving him a big comfy blanket or bed but at least he has stopped "wetting the bed". |
When you crate train they're only suppose to have enough room to comfortably lay down. When Reuger was younger he started peeing in his crate so I looked up crate training and discovered that he had too much room. They will not pee or poo where they have to sleep. I took a box and filled up the back of the crate. From then on he didn't have anymore accidents in the crate. Do a search on crate training. Hope this helps. |
i leave my crate unlock at nite so when he has to go...he will go to the pee pad which is near the front door. |
:animal-pa this is just a suggestion....so take it for what it's worth...you may need to get up at night to take your dog out to go potty. some nights i have to get up and go to the bathroom and i know my bladder is a heck of a lot bigger than our little yorkies bladders are~it's kind of unfair for us not to expect them to have to go at night. i am a light sleeper, so if wicket makes a peep in his crate i hear him and get up and take him out to potty right away. |
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are you sure the crate is big enough for a pee pad? cuz my crate doesn't even fit half the size of the pee pad. maybe your yorkie is confused since where she sleeps is so close to the pee pad. would u like to smell/sleep next to your own urine? |
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Do you crate train? because it's kinda hard to crate train without their pee pad being near them :rolleyes: If you have a solution to this I would love to try it out. |
I think you are confused about crate training. Crate training is to train them to hold their bladder for long periods of time. Just as was suggested earlier, take the pee pad out of the crate. Reduce the crate size (you can fill up all that space with cardboard boxes, foam board or whatever you have) to accomodate only your puppy laying down. There should only be enough room to have them get up, turn around and lay down. The idea is that once, there is ONLY room to lay down, she will hold her bladder. If you are giving her room to urinate and then move to a dry spot, then she will not hold her bladder. Only when she has no place to go, will she learn to hold it. In the begining she may whine in the middle of night. Get up with her and take her out. Eventually she will hold it all night. If she has learned to go outside, you should dispense with the peepads altogether and make her only pee outside. No more peepads. |
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i just want to echo what ladylavender said...and add that some crates actually come with extra panels you can insert to shorten the length of the crate. i think it is recommended that you never leave your dog crated more than 4 hours (less if he/she is really young) during the day. for the first 2 months after i got wicket, i would get up in the middle of the night to let him go to the bathroom. as he has grown, he has gained more bladder control and usually sleeps through the whole night without having to go. but, as i said before, sometimes he does wake up and lets me know he needs to go by making little whining sounds. i always let him out right away. it may take a little time since bella is used to having the pee pads in the crate, but take them out and in time she will get the hang of it. best of luck! :animal-pa |
I will try taking the pee pads out. Bella's only crated at night, she is never crated during the day or when i'm not at home because she is 100% house trained like my other yorkie. It just seems to be at night that she has her accidents. Anyways thanks for the addvice and i'll definately try taking the pads out and either buying her a smaller crate or try putting something in there to make it smaller. Thanks :) |
At almost 9 months she should be holding it all night. But it sounds like her crate is just way too big, getting a smaller one will help that little situation a great deal. |
Try crate training |
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