15 month old pooping at night in house all of a sudden
HI All, I have a 15 month old puggle. She is completely potty trained as you would expect at this age. Because my wife and I are gone the early part of the day (7-4) during the week, our dog is therefore in the crate a lot. She does fine in the crate and has not had any accidents for some time.
Back in August, knowing things would get busier with school starting again, we began to let her sleep in our living room by herself at night. It started because we had forgot to crate her one night, and she was just laying quietly on our coach anyways. We woke up and she was fine, just laying there.
Over the last few months I have trained her to sleep by herself there. I'll give her a treat occasionally if I leave her for 20 minutes and come downstairs (during the day) and she is laying down. I make sure that she has ample opportunities to use the bathroom before I leave her for the night. I also make sure to pick up everything (besides her toys or bones) downstairs just incase so she doesnt get herself in trouble. The bigger goal too is to train her to free roam during the day. Speaking about the daytime free roaming, she does OK sometimes, but I have also caught her chewing up shoes (which she normally never does in front of us)
Last week, I slacked a bit (bad weather and being tired), and only took her out for a few minutes before bed. She had pooped not long before, so I thought her peeing was sufficient. Turns out it was not. I had left her for the night at around 10pm, and when I woke up at 4am (early day at work), she had pooped on our carpet. I cleaned it up and didnt scold her, and when i took her out she pooped some more outside. I thought "OK its my fault, i didnt give her ample time last night."
Fast forward to last night. She had been doing fine since the accident the week prior. I was up watching football and took her out 3 different times thinking she probably had to poop. Once at 8pm, 10pm and 11pm. On the last attempt, it seemed like she would try to poop. She knows "go potty" and usually starts looking and goes quickly after saying that. However, when she doesnt have to go she still will sniff around and then ultimately do nothing. I kind of just figured that was the case and that if nothing else she'd be fine until the morning. I mean I took her out 3 times and nothing. I woke up today and she pooped again near the same spot she did the other day (I clean with the enzyme cleaner stuff). Once again, didnt scold her, and she went outside and pooped a good amount.
Im not sure what I can do differently. One thing that I was doing last week after the accident is that I took her for a 20 minute walk before bed. I felt like it did probably help with her potty habits, but on the flipside she was then hyper when we got back inside. I dont want to rely on that either because sometimes weather and other things dictate that I cant take her for a walk every night before bed.
I am going to put her in her crate to sleep for the next few nights to try to get her back on schedule. After that I might let her sleep out in the living room again, though Im really not sure anymore about that. I'm looking for some advice from experienced dog owners who have gone through something like this or anyone who can offer some advice. Thanks!
TL;DR: 15 month old dog had been sleeping in living room fine by herself but has now pooped in the middle of the night twice in 1 week.
Submitted October 29, 2018 at 06:07AM by Mikwelque
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