walked in to a nice present on my floor!
 

Jess is pee pad trained and does great. In the last few weeks Ive left her in the family room with her crate door opened so she can have room to roam and the tv on. Shes done fine and pees poos in the potty side. Today Im gone just under two hours and I open the door, smell poop but don't see any. Until I step in it right at the door entrance..needless to say she knows I am very upset with her, pointed out the problem and had her watch me clean it. I have now ignored her for awhile (mostly to calm myself) The big problem is she walks in it and spreads it around the room which is half hardwood and half carpet that's dark so I cant tell. Im grossed out. :mad: I have kids that sit on the carpet.
do I put her back in her large crate when Im gone (its 5 feet long) I hate to do it but I cant have her doing that. I know she knows better. help!

yes I would keep her in an ex pen while you are gone until she is older. I kept Pixie in an ex pen until she was 2 while I was not home bc I worried about her getting into things. It made me so that I did not have to worry when I was out.
Also when they are being house broken if they have too much area to run around in they are more likely to have an accident. I set up my ex pen the elongated way with a bed at one end food and water in the middle and a pee pad at the end near the door of the ex pen.
When I went somewhere she went in her pen..... hope this helps I have stepped in poop before barefoot and it is sooo gross!!!

shes almost a year and a half...problem is when I put her in the crate she poos then walks in it all over the crate and her bed! yuck..I guess that's better than my carpet though.....

That's why I now turn the lights on at night when walking through the house.:p. I had the same problem with Brandi when I crated her, she would poop right in her crate and smear all over the place. I switched to the expen same thing. I finally said screw it and let her roam the house. She use to poop all over the place but now at least she poops in close proximity to her potty pads which I can live with. Sometimes she poops on it, other times she poops beside it but she no longer poops wherever she feels like it.

It took some patience and persistence but eventually she learn what area to poop in. So now when she poops, I just pick it up with a tissue and flush it. She is so close to the potty pad I don't have the heart to get her to be perfect. Also her poop is so small, it doesn't really bother mean. Now my friends 120 boxer, pitbull mix is another story. Her poop alone is about 10 lbs. No way I'm picking that up!

Dogs frequently pee/poo for various reasons such as frustration, stress, anxiety, abject boredom, loneliness and many more. All but the best-trained dog will have these "accidents" from time to time and they often relieve themselves near the door or where their person's scent is the strongest.

Some say dogs poo by the door you use to leave them out of frustration and others say it's because they can still scent your sent on it and your scent is sometimes still coming in from the cracks around the opening. Others say dogs will relieve themselves by a door because they scent a passing animal from the cracks around the opening, an animal that they strongly respect or fear or want to mark their territory because of that passing. Others say they do it there trying to get outside where many naturally prefer to leave their pee/poo, for the whole dog world to scent and "enjoy"

Just Google "why does my dog have accidents" or "poop by the door" or "pee on the bed" and read many of the more respected dog websites' many replies for the why's of this and you will feel better. Dogs do these things until they are long-settled in their housebreaking routines and then some still occasionally do it for one of the many reasons a canine does.

We have jobs to do in our lives - jobs and habits we know well and have worked at for many years - and we still make mistakes in performing our tasks perfectly from time to time. We even occasionally do things we know to be wrong once in a while - often for what we consider to be a very good reason. We can't fault our dogs for being so human-like and making a mistake.

Remember your dog is a canine and subject to those natural instincts and urges and no doubt subject to some confusions in training plus the daily stresses of living in a human world and lots of inexplicable, worrisome things that happen to them trying to it into your world likely do conspire at time to upset and puzzle a dog. A dog that is probably trying her dead level best to do a good job learning to be your pet but still fallible. We aren't always the perfect teachers at all times and mixed messages from us, perhaps not enough time giving them as active and challenging a life as they need, will all sometimes to conspire to frustrate and stress a dog beyond what they can hold and they do the deed.

When I saw an "accident", I would always go get the dog, take them to the soiled area, matter of factly say "uh oh" to mark that event as something that wasn't good, take the dog outside immediately (or to the potty pad ) and say "good potty outside/potty pad" and smile. Even if the dog doesn't still need to go, I've marked the behavior I didn't want and shown the dog what I prefer and I believe that, together with the other housebreaking I was doing at the time, the message would get through. Eventually they get it - "Oh - don't EVER go in the house. Not even if you are unhappy or tense or the biggest baddest dog on the block sits on my porch by the door - I cannot do it in the house"! And they do, after about 1 - 1 1/2 years of training, usually stop having any accidents at all.

My last two Yorkies have been totally clean in the house after a year to year and a half of housebreaking training and confinement of one type or another during that time. It's a long slough to get there, but once trained, they are so reliable. Just don't expect them to be all that perfect until they are around 2 or so and only then if you have been a pretty good and very consistent teacher. Take a deep breath and just move on and say to your self that one day your little dear will get it if you've done your part right.

aww yes, the feel of yorkie poo on your toes. I too turn lights on at night!!!!

We have my dd puppy who is 7 months and is very not potty trained. I am happy if he gets near the pad!!

I say, I can clean--- bleach (or lysol) is my friend

all good points..thats why I walk away instead of blowing my top...I did show her it was bad and I had her watch me clean it. I later followed her when she went into the potty room and went on her pad. I gave her a big yes and a treat. I know she doesnt like to be left but I cant be a slave to the house all day. I feel guilty if I leave for over 2 hours. I don't know what to do with her if I leave for the day to take the kids to an amusement park this summer. :sad:

Before you got her, didn't you expect you'd have to leave her when you were gone with the kids for the day? And I'm sure you thought you'd just confine her until she was trained and have someone look in on her. Just put plenty of pads down and confine to that area so she can't use the wrong spot until she begins to be more fully trained. Leave her plenty of toys and things to play with and have someone check on her if you are going to be all day or take her to daycare or board her and she'll do fine. Just don't feel bad when a dog who is not fully housebroken and not fully confined makes a mistake - it happens and all you can do is expect it for a while yet. In time, a well-housetrained dog will become clean in the house. It really does happen.

:lol tears Sorry to laugh, but I almost started a thread about stepping in poo being the most annoying things to do! I did it this morning.....Tatiana has been sick and still has a little diarrhea......you guessed it....I stepped in some this morning! I didn't get upset because she can't help it but it is annoying! :)

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In the meantime, perhaps you should purchase a carpet shampooer. I bought the hoover shampooer and bissel spot cleaner. Both definitely comes in handy.

I've been thinking the same thing about this summer. Before we got Toby I knew that this situation would come up...but now that summer is here and Toby is here...I feel so guilty! Obviously he can't come and I know he will be fine at home (even though he will hate being home alone for half the day)...but I am feeling incredibly guilty in advance. (My kiddos still are in school--this is guilt in advance!)

Ah, this thread brings back memories of my 200 lb mastiff Sparky (think "The Beast" from the movie The Sandlot.). I remember one time when she got freaked out by a thunderstorm and left a huge present right there on the living room floor.

I will never complain about yorkie poo again!:eek:

I didn't think it would be this hard on her. I had a dog when I was younger and she couldnt have cared less if we were home or not. She doesn't play with toys unless your throwing them and even then she doesn't always want to. She really is potty trained, this was just new when I let her have a whole room instead of the large crate. She actually did great in the room too, at first..