"Favorite room" to poo Hello all-- I'm hopling you can help me out with something that is driving myself and my wife absolutely nuts! We've had Hulk for 7 months now (got him at 9 weeks). He's almost 100% trainied on pee pads (one accident outside the pads every two-three week), but he's only 50% pooping on the pads. The funny thing is, he's not pooping anywhere in the house he can, there's a particular place he likes to go (on the hardwood floors in front of the bookcases). We've tried blocking it off, we've tried making sure he's got clean potty pads (he's pretty finnicky if his "grass" is too wet), etc. He just loves to go back to that spot and poo. Every other time, he does go on his pad. We're thinking we may need to start over with the potty training, but wondered if anyone had seen something similar with this "compulsion" to poo in one place. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! |
Yep mine would always goe to the same place. Clean it with a neutrallizer and go back to crate training or pee pad traing whichever you do |
Put a leash on him and stick him to your belt and/or crate train him. Praise him and give him a treat - make sure you catch him! - when he goes where you want him to. Don't allow access to the other area OR watch him CONSTANTLY and when he starts to squat pick him up and RUN to the pad, then act like he chose to go there. We outside trained and Loki got the pooping outside thing down months before he got the peeing outside thing down. There must be a reason he wants to go to that spot. Make sure you clean very very well. |
Well, I suppose you could try the easy thing and see if he will poop on a pad placed in his favorite spot. Otherwise, I think Erin is right - it's back to puppy kindergarten. One thing to try is pick up a piece of his feces with a clean pad, discard the poop, then lay the pad down where it is supposed to be. That may help him figure out that this is the appropriate poop spot. |
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