How do I stop my manky puppy doing the toilet on her bed!?

Question

Jack Russell ***** puppy, 10 weeks old, in process of trying to toilet train but she is not "grasping" the concept very well!!! Well actually not at all! she is a messy puppy, she pee's and poo's on her bed and sometimes lies in it. She is in a puppy cage at night in my kitchen with loads of room as she is so small but she still persists on messing on the bed?!! My other Jack Russell is a dog, he is now 4, he was extremely quick to learn the "you poo outside ONLY" concept! He didnt do gross things like do it in his bed either. Are bitches generally messier? Do they take longer to train? Is she just thick?! Any advice on how I can stop her doing this would be greatly appreciated!!! She stinks, the house stinks, her bed is washed daily!! Doing my head in! No smart/sarcastic answers please this is a desperately smelly gross habit I need help curing!

Answer 1

Number One - Dont Blame Your Puppy - She's a baby and doesnt know she's doing WRONG

You didn't come TOILET TRAINED either and in my experience HUMANS take a lot longer !

Number Two - Never punish her either.

A ***** is actually cleaner than a male whatever the breed!
And often Quicker to train.
If she's caged at night then you are going to have to teach her two things at once, Make sure she has paper to go on as far from the bed as possible, put her in and then Wait. To teach her you have to be there to stop her misbehaviour she cant learn on her own. If she goes to sleep wait till she wakes and IMMEDIATELY put her on the paper when she does what you want PRAISE her immediatlely. The more fuss the better. Its the same for outside too. Take her where you want her to go wait till she squats and again make a fuss of her.

KINDNESS trains far quicker!

Always take her out dont just let her out, she needs to be told how clever she is when she does right and if you aren't with her she cant know CAN SHE! ALWAYs take her out when she wakes from even the shortest nap It is the time they are most likely to go. When you cant be there make use of the cage again and treat as for night-time. A pup always need a secure place to be if your'e not !
Try to ignore the mess and without looking at her or saying a word remove the offending mess.Make sure you clean up well as any smell left on the bedding will encourage her to go there!

You can buy a spray that will help too. You spray the paper before putting it down and it is supposed to attract them to that area, Does it work, I dont know as I've never needed it. I have used the above method with great success and adapt it for all my early training whether kitten or pup and IT WORKS every time.
Some may take longer than others but they all get there in the end.

Good luck! and try to have a lot of LOVE and PATIENCE!

Answer 2

1) Take the bed away all together so she can't smell her own scent (washing it in a machine doesn't really get rid of the scent to dog's sensitive nose) If she can still smell her scent in a place she will return there to keep doing it.

2) Take her outside everytime she:
Wakes up
Finishes playing
Eats her food
Has a drink
Gets excited
Starts sniffing around

3) When she does a wee or a poo outside make a big fuss of her and give her a little treat.

4) For accidents get some training pads to put by the back door for the times you don't catch her.

P.S. Don't be so hard on her, she's only a baby- and she's an animal- a lot of the behaviour we expect from dogs goes against their instincts so it takes time- she's not stupid, just a really young dog!

Answer 3

The first problem might be that the puppy's space you crate her in is simply too large. Most puppies will not soil on their own bedding, but if the space is too large for the puppy, then there is room to soil. Try reducing the space to just enough room for some movement and resting space. That may help.

Another thing I have heard is that puppies that were raised in puppy mills are very likely to behave in this way (pet shops and internet are places that puppy mills sell from). It has to do with the awful conditions the puppy mills provide for the dogs and pups. They don't know any better but to "lay or sleep" in it because they always have from birth. If this happens to be the case, it will be harder to break as well as overall house train.

Answer 4

Hiya simplyfem
Dont despair hun, help on the way lol
you need to create train you pup, sounds cruel but believe me its not, best thing i got for my Russell's, give her enough room in the create just to turn around, stand, lay down, dont give her toys in the create, or tit-bits just her bed, (look up on the Internet Crate training your dog) and remember Simlpyfem, she is still a baby, she is only 8 weeks old, if she was 16-20 weeks thats diff, but 8 weeks, yes she will pee all over, until she can control her bladder, thats about 6months old, but please, please dont shout at her when she pees or poo's you will make her 10 times worse, take her in your garden every hour, at night every 2-3 hours, yes you have to get out of that lovely warm bed to go pottie your dog, but if YOU dont show her, she will never learn,

Answer 5

The crate area is to large. Make it larger enough to lay in that is all.
At 10 weeks she is a baby and not able to fully contrl her bowels and bladder yet. She most likely can not really hold it yet.
Give her some time. She should be going out about every half hour or more.
Some dogs will poo and lay in it they are the ones that are the harest to housebreak. Most will not but some just do. If she will lay in it and roll in it you have your work cut out for you.

Answer 6

stop washing her bed just bin it. She is trying 2 get her scent in the house but u keep getting rid of it, so she will keep messing it, she has another dog 2 let know she is there hence the messing. Try putting a cat litter tray where her bed was.

Answer 7

get a bigger cage to put her in at night with some news paper in by the side and some by the back door and every time it goes on the bed tel it off but every time it goes on the news paper reward it with some thing it really likes i.e dog treats, pieces of meat etc. in the morning. And as she learns to go on the paper by the dog she should learn to go on the paper in it's cage.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

try giving her last meal of the day earlier so she wont need to go to the toilet during the night

Answer 10

take the bed out and replace it with a training pad.