Hi all,
I found this forum randomly through Googling and it made me laugh so much with all the problems everyone has with their EB puppies - we have every single one of them also!
But I was hoping for some advice on a toilet training mystery that has cropped up recently.
We have a 5.5 month old EB, Jasper. He is a rescue puppy from a European puppy mill so came to us at approx. 4 months basically completely untrained, he had never even been in a house before.
He is getting on ok with toilet training when we are in the house, as long as you get up literally the second he gets up and goes anywhere near the back door -if he gets to the door before you he will just squat and pee without even waiting. Once he is out in the garden he will pretty much go every time and we give him the 'wee wees' command and praise.
We have a small house with two adjoining downstairs rooms, and when we are not there (nighttime and working) he is confined to the dining room with two baby gates - the door to the garden is also from there. When we leave him alone we leave a puppy pad by the garden door - we have put one there since we first had him to try and stop the 'insta pee' accidents and he was praised for making it to the pad when he was smaller.
He did seem to be getting it and we seemed to be waking up or coming home to accidents only on the pad, rather than scattered around the room - which is fine by me if he can't hold it. But recently he has taken to peeing/pooping when left alone behind the baby gate that divides the two rooms and not using the pad at all. Yesterday he even walked over to that spot while we were both in the room and peed.
I clean the spot with enzyme cleaner and the steam cleaner and don't make a fuss either way of it happening - I just can't work out why this suddenly is happening? What else can I do to stop him deliberately peeing there instead of the pad? We have (mostly) successfully deterred him from furniture chewing with vinegar as he hates the smell, would that help?
Hesitant to crate him as I have no experience of crate training and his other behaviours when left (chewing etc) seem to be reducing now, but if it is the last resort I am open to learning.
Thanks all!
I found this forum randomly through Googling and it made me laugh so much with all the problems everyone has with their EB puppies - we have every single one of them also!
But I was hoping for some advice on a toilet training mystery that has cropped up recently.
We have a 5.5 month old EB, Jasper. He is a rescue puppy from a European puppy mill so came to us at approx. 4 months basically completely untrained, he had never even been in a house before.
He is getting on ok with toilet training when we are in the house, as long as you get up literally the second he gets up and goes anywhere near the back door -if he gets to the door before you he will just squat and pee without even waiting. Once he is out in the garden he will pretty much go every time and we give him the 'wee wees' command and praise.
We have a small house with two adjoining downstairs rooms, and when we are not there (nighttime and working) he is confined to the dining room with two baby gates - the door to the garden is also from there. When we leave him alone we leave a puppy pad by the garden door - we have put one there since we first had him to try and stop the 'insta pee' accidents and he was praised for making it to the pad when he was smaller.
He did seem to be getting it and we seemed to be waking up or coming home to accidents only on the pad, rather than scattered around the room - which is fine by me if he can't hold it. But recently he has taken to peeing/pooping when left alone behind the baby gate that divides the two rooms and not using the pad at all. Yesterday he even walked over to that spot while we were both in the room and peed.
I clean the spot with enzyme cleaner and the steam cleaner and don't make a fuss either way of it happening - I just can't work out why this suddenly is happening? What else can I do to stop him deliberately peeing there instead of the pad? We have (mostly) successfully deterred him from furniture chewing with vinegar as he hates the smell, would that help?
Hesitant to crate him as I have no experience of crate training and his other behaviours when left (chewing etc) seem to be reducing now, but if it is the last resort I am open to learning.
Thanks all!