April 21, 2011
My dogs successfully use puppy pads. Occasionally, I find poop and urine in my carpeted dining room upstairs. What can I do differently?
Full Question:
Hello,I have a 1 year old toy poodle and a 2 year old yorkie. They successfully use puppy pads during the day and they are gated in a sizable tiled area. When I am home, they have full run of the house and they always go downstairs to use the pad. However, if I leave them in the house for even 15 minutes alone or I am in the shower, I find poop and urine in my carpeted dining room upstairs. It seems as if they make an effort to go to the bathroom. I am also not able to figure out which one is doing it or if it's both of them. They never do this behavior in front of me. What can I do differently? I would really love to leave them ungated.
Thanks,
Shari
Cindy's Answer:
Dogs that go to the bathroom in the house at any time are not considered house trained and in my opinion shouldn’t be allowed free access to the house. Using pads in the house sends mixed messages to the dogs, so I don’t like them.
Most likely your dogs are anxious about you being gone, so they inappropriately urinate and defecate.
We have a section on the website about housetraining.
If these were my dogs, they would be confined when I couldn’t watch them or I would start from scratch and housetraining them like they were new puppies. There is no quick fix to this unfortunately.
I’d also direct you to the search function in the upper left corner of the website. It will find posts, articles and Q & A’s that deal with your search terms.
Cindy
Most likely your dogs are anxious about you being gone, so they inappropriately urinate and defecate.
We have a section on the website about housetraining.
If these were my dogs, they would be confined when I couldn’t watch them or I would start from scratch and housetraining them like they were new puppies. There is no quick fix to this unfortunately.
I’d also direct you to the search function in the upper left corner of the website. It will find posts, articles and Q & A’s that deal with your search terms.
Cindy
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