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puppy potty-training help?
my pups around 5-6 months, female, shepperd mix, and she pees and drops one every night down stairs! i don't give her anything to eat before bed time so what's up? i heard they releave stress whenever they have their accidents, is this because she's alone downstairs in the dark? :[
i'm really clueless, this is my first dog.
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When my Shih Tzu was that age he did that a lot. You're suppose to let a pup out every 30-45 minutes so they learn to go to the bathroom outdoors. We did kennel training. Get a kennel (dog crate) for your dog to sleep in at night. Not too big because then the dog will use it as a bathroom. But dogs wont use the bathroom in a crate they sleep in usually. Kenneling would be your best bet.
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I have a 6 month year old Yorkshire Terrior and it was SO hard to potty train her. She is a lot better now though!
During the day keep an eye on her when she's in the house. If you see her use the bathroom in the house your suppose to rub their nose in it, then smack their butt and put them right outside. It lets them know what they did was wrong.
Also, try letting her out every 20-30 minutes to use the bathroom.
My puppy normally slept with me every night and she was too small to jump off my bed. But when she did get able to jump off my bed in the middle of the night, I kept her in the bathroom with the door shut. That way if she did use the bathroom, it was in the bathroom so it would be easier to clean up.
If you let your puppy out often, she'll learn not to go in the house.
It takes time, so just be patient. But eventually she'll be house broke!
x0*-Bryttnii
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It could be stress. I have a four month old kitten who used one of my beanbag chairs as a litterbox after my friend came over and scared her repeatedly. Just make sure your puppy gets a lot of love before bed so she doesn't feel alone, or even leave your bedroom door open so she can come to you if she wants. My kitten sleeps with me, so I've never had that particular issue.
Has your puppy been okay with going outside before? It could be that she needs to be reminded where her bathroom is, in which case you might take the poop and put it outside, let her check it out with you, and hopefully she'll associate the outside with the bathroom actions. Animals are pretty smart, and they can generally learn to associate two things. Famous example is Pavlov and his dogs, who learned to associate food with a ringing bell - he'd give them food, ring a bell, and they'd salivate. Then eventually they associated salivating with the ringing bell. It's kinda cool.
Anyway.
The couple times my kitten missed the litterbox (and I adopted her already trained), I just wiped everything up, put it in her litterbox, and then put her in it so she'd associate the two things, and we've been pretty mess-free ever since.
Good luck!
-Siren =)
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