Potty training - pooping!

Hi all,

I know this has been discussed in detail over various posts but I was wondering if there is anything else I could do to faciliate 100% potty training

Am thinking of permanent indoor potty training as I stay on a high-rise apartment.

Little Paddles is currently 3.5months old, and she is 100% potty-trained in terms of peeing in the pee tray. However every morning when I wake up at 6am, she would walk into the pee-tray to pee (yay good girl!), but when I walk off to say, brush my teeth, she would then step away and poo in her sleeping area. Then throughout the day I would say that she will poop in the correct place 50% of the time.

This is my current setup for her:

any advice as to how I can make her pooping success rate up??

P.S: I had to put the water bowl there temporarily as she keeps chewing on the water-bowl (that pink thingmabob) holder if I put it in her sleeping area, so my puppy trainer suggested that I put it there instead

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Permalink Reply by Melissa and Franklin! on February 8, 2012 at 10:17am

Dog's don't like to pee or poop where they eat, so perhaps try feeding her in her "poop" area to discourage her from going to the bathroom there? I'd also move her water into the "poop" corner. Get a metal bowl with a holder so she can't chew/damage it. I had the hardest time potty training Franklin when I lived in a sort of high rise apartment in downtown San Francisco. He came to me reliably potty trained if I ever went to anybody else's house but never did "get it" at home. When we finally moved to a place where I had a balcony he immediately became 100% reliable, as in the day after we moved. My brother's chihuahua on the other hand, that we had indoor potty trained her whole life, is still not 100% potty trained at 3 years old. She reliably pees on the piddle pads but will sneak off to poop on a bathroom carpet or some other such place. When they block her from a room with a baby gate and attempt to take her outside to potty she will just sneak into another room and do it before they can catch her. So I would look for specific sources/books or ask your trainer. It is quite different potty training them indoor only than teaching them to go outside. If you have a balcony, I recommend using it as the "outside" area because that worked perfectly for me.