help..10 week puppy is peeing and pooping in crate

missjenneygirl said:
If your girl got you up in the middle of the night for two years, then she trained you well. How could you ever leave her during the day if she couldn't hold it at least 4 hours?

I think dogs need to adapt to our schedules not the other way around.
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I didn't get up, I ended up putting a pet loo in the garage. And during the day she can go outside to pee. Saw the vet about it was told it was common in small dogs (Tully is tiny). Making her hold on made no difference - I just ended up with a very unhappy dog and a puddle to clean up, she just could not hold on. Nowadays she actually doesn't pee enough and her urine is too concentrate.
 
missjenneygirl said:
Breeders have to start crating them at that time. You just can't imagine the mess you have if you left them in an xpen overnight. The puppies stomp through it and your house smells really, really bad. The clean-up is a awful way to start your day. Ask Ann how she liked it...:gaah
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Yes, I could hardly wait to get them into crates! The trouble was, their crates were dry after a few nights but they howled their way through the next 10 sleepless (for me) nights! They finally settled down 3 nights before going to their new homes and went off both crate- and overnight-trained at 9 weeks old.

This breeding thing certainly is NOT easy! It takes special people to do it and do it right, that's for sure. :yes:
 
yup usually by 7 weeks you walk in the room from the night and they have smeared poo on every surface known to man and you curse up and down and that night they are individual crated. There is usually that very fine line of one night they are precious little creatures and that next day the are the spawn of hell:lol:
Starting when I put them in at 7 weeks most usually stay dry until they go to their new homes. There may be a piddle here or there but id say about 95% of the time they are dry. I start them in 100 airline crates..plenty big enough!
 
I used fake grass for my puppies. It had a plastic liner thing, and some fake grass, and at 4 weeks they learned to pee and poop on that. Never another issue. When they had to go, they wandered over and peed in the grass. Now, that doesn't mean one of them didn't also sleep on that grass :ick but at least there wasn't a mass of mess in the pen.

I have a 22 week old puppy. I quickly figured out that he would pee on a whelping pad (a 3x3 plastic lined fabric hospital like pad that is washable). I have one in the living room, and one in the bedroom. He was getting me up at 5:30 to pee. This displeased me. So I put that pad down and let him sleep loose. He gets up at 5:30, wanders over, pees on the pad, then goes back to sleep, and I don't have to be involved in the process. I wash the pads every couple of days.

He's just gotten to the point that he can hold it for my whole workday, and this morning his overnight pad was dry. So he's catching on (and growing up!).
 
I just want to add; make sure he is actually going potty at night before you let him in. If you are letting all the dogs out at once he may just be playing with the other dogs instead of going to the bathroom. My rule with puppies is, If I didn't see you go potty then you didn't go!

I currently have a 13 week old golden retriever pup that I am raising to be a guide dog. She can make it through the night without going potty, but every once in a while she does wake me up at 4ambecause she cant hold it any longer so she cries to be let out. I do get up and let her out. When I first got her I would let her out by herself (with me)just to make sure she was going potty and not playing with the dogs. I also took a treat with me to give to her after she went potty.

Oh and when do you remove food and water for the night? My dogs do not get fed after 5pm and no water after 8pm, while they are young. I do give water at night to the older dogs.
 
ClantyreSheltie said:
I used fake grass for my puppies. It had a plastic liner thing, and some fake grass, and at 4 weeks they learned to pee and poop on that. Never another issue. When they had to go, they wandered over and peed in the grass. Now, that doesn't mean one of them didn't also sleep on that grass :ick but at least there wasn't a mass of mess in the pen.
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I used the fake grass for my litter too. It was the smartest thing I did. I started them at 3 weeks and they were trained in days. Yes, they did sleep on the grass too, but it was worth it for the lack of mess in the pen! I got two grass pads, changed it daily, hosed it and rinsed it in vinegar. I lined the pan with the housebreaking pads and it was a great system!
 
My Tuppence was the same, she would wee and poo in her crate. I did the whole taking her out in the middle of the night, limiting water in the evening etc but it took ages for her to learn not to. Once she was older she seemed to just click . But I did make a rookie error and put her in a crate that was way too big ! I admit it!

Jacks never went in his crate, even at 12 weeks . I got up and took him put at night and he would go, but after a couple of weeks he would just yip at about 4 or 5 to get up, I would take him out and he would go, then back to bed. I again, take no credit for that! I think I'm just lucky! He has been a nightmare to housebreak though! Dosent seem to mind peeing in my house! Gotta love them!
 
2 years? I guess every pup is different. Cookie was holding it overnight consistently by 14 weeks. I have never gotten up in the middle of the night to let him potty. He slept infinitely better in the bedroom with us (still in his crate)- when we left him alone in his crate in another room, he would howl for hours. Even weeks after we got him. So we moved him to the bedroom just to try it. He never howled even one time after that. I agree that the crate needs to be small enough just to turn around and lay down.
 
Ann said:
I used the fake grass for my litter too. It was the smartest thing I did. I started them at 3 weeks and they were trained in days. Yes, they did sleep on the grass too, but it was worth it for the lack of mess in the pen! I got two grass pads, changed it daily, hosed it and rinsed it in vinegar. I lined the pan with the housebreaking pads and it was a great system!
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Are you talking about basically artificial turf- or is there something else out there? Just wandering, because I may use this technique in the future.
 
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