I have an 8 week old yellow lab pup that I'm having housetraining problems with. Ihave a crate for her, and I take her out often to go to the bathroom which she does well. However, she has soiled her crate every night I have had her despite waking up to take her out. Every time I take her out, the first thing she does is go to the bathroom. How do I get her to stop soiling her crate? Will she grow out of this as she can hold it longer. I feel that I'm doing everything correctly as you have suggested in your training materials. My two other dogs have never gone to the bathroom in the house.
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Peter Meaden
Does she soil during the day when you take her out more often? My litter didn't hold it overnight until they were about 14 weeks. The puppy that I kept from the litter is now 18 weeks and he has just started being able to hold it overnight.
I agree w/Angela-8 wks is much too young for a pup to go through the night, even w/one trip out, I think. My pup went 2-3 times a night until about 12-14 wks, then it suddenly dropped to once a night for a while, then he started holding it all night around 16-18 wks or so. He's almost 6 mos old now, and he holds it for hours now, night or day.
One thing that helped me a lot was using a baby monitor at night (I already had one, but you can buy them cheap). He was crated in the living room, and he would whine to wake me up, but if I was tired enough I didn't wake up. The baby monitor basically stopped all crate accidents. Also, taking his food and water up early in the evening helped a lot, and make sure you take her out right before crating her for the night. Kodee's last trip out started out around 10:30 or 11:00 at night, but now if I go to bed early, he can hold it from about 9:00p.m. to 7:00 a.m. I don't even have to take his food and water up early anymore.
She doesn't soil during the day when she is out more often. It's just at night. The baby monitor thing is a good idea, but she doesn't whine much because she really loves her crate. I'll try it. Should I wake up more often and just take her out for the next couple weeks to avoid the accidents?
Yeah, if she isn't very noisy re: going out at night, you might want to just try to get up every 2-3 hours or so and take her out. Or, one other thing I did before I started using the baby monitor was I slept on the couch a few nights near his crate, so I'd hear him. If she doesn't whine to go out, does she get restless and start moving around first? If she does, maybe sleeping closer to her would wake you up. Other than that, you may have to just set an alarm for yoruself or something.
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Another thing...how much room does the pup have in the crate? If it's too big they will potty on one side and sleep on the other. Should be small enough to cuddle in and turn around (with night-time potty excursions mind you). If you don't want to do the baby monitor you can sleep where the pup is or move the crate next to the head of your bed also.
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